Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-21
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Races over the Chickasaw Jockey Club
course on Monday next.
Race horses continue to arrive in the
city with a view to next weeks canters
over the track.
Lawyers continue to T" come and go "
daily from Jackson, where the Supreme
Court is in session.
The embezzlement case of the State
vs.. Bill Mclean is progressing slowly in
the Criminal Court.
Troupes Of singers and hand-organists
from Alsace and Savoy awake the echoes
on every street corner.
Sacred concert at St. Peters church
to morrow evening. The Messiah will
be the musical attraction.
A rural exchange has it that Mr.. Sum-
ner has been delivering posthumous
speech but does not locate the place.
The Towards have appropriated $4,000
to the sufferers by the floods in Louisi-
ana. At least so it is reported on the
streets.
The Clerk and Master of the Second
Chancery Court has forwarded to the
Supreme Court all transcripts of ap-
pealed cases.
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Getting change warrants for Nicol-
son pavement certificates forms the chief
amusement for scrip holders at present
when they visit the city building.
Tennessee since its organization as
State has had sixteen Governors, COM
mencing with John Sewer, an able man,
and ending with John c. Brown.
Mrs. S. A. Thompson will lecture on
the subject of knowledge is Power
before the Young Colored Mems Library
Association on Beal street tonight.
The advocates of the Memphis and
Knoxville railroad will meet in conven-
ton in this city tomorrow, but where in
Memphis has OF as yet been published.
Justice Bartlett has been sworn in as
Poor House Commissioner. The COM
mittee or commission is now composed
of Justices Bartlett, Hammontree and
Hoist.
Last evening Justice Miller sent A.
W. Davis to Jail in default of $4,000
bonds, on the charge of horse stealing
from Mrs. Carroll who resides near the
Fair Grounds.
The jewellers of the Mississippi bottom
and adjacent low lands can now put in
practice and test that assertion of Shaks-
peare: There is tide in the affairs
of men which taken at its food leads on
to fortune"
The attention of the sanitary officers
is called to dead COW floating in Bayou
Gayoso near the bridge on the Raleigh
road. Like Ophelia, she sank into the
muddy brook where the willow grows
aslant. Take her out.
Spring, with its flowers, has come
again, but then it brings with it mosqui-
toes and other insects, and fills the ave-
rage Memphian with disinclination to
engage in laborious occupations. Spring
has even brought book beer to the bluffs.
The Chamber of Commerce committee
on lunatic asylums, which left for Hum
boldt to meet Governor Brown, returned
without performing their mission, the
Governor not being able to wade
through the high water between Nash
vile and Humboldt.
A gentleman from Little Rock last
evening says that less feeling prevails in
the City of Roses over the coup d'etat
than in Memphis or Hopefeld. Both
parties laugh, talk and drink over what
they understand as merely a political
dodge not unusual in poor Arkansas.
A city official and well known attor-
ney Engaged in prize fight about poll
ties and city affairs last Saturday even
ing on the corner of Second and Union
streets. The pugilists took two rounds,
and then the crowd interfering, sepa-
rated them. The fight resulted in black
eyes, etc.
Again a deluge of Congressional
speeches and reports float in upon the
average Tennessee elector from the
silent Congressman, B. Lewis. 1t was
the opinion of his hackers that when he
took his seat the echoes of Washington
rookeries would resound with his burn.
ing eloquence.
General Council meeting tomorrow
night to settle local politics and wind
up unfinished business. There is a
" negro in the wood pile of the city
government, and what to do with him
seems to be the question with the
average city legislator, Our advice is
to let him stay there severely alone.