Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-01
LEDGER LINES.
Races on Monday.


Spring dresses on gay looking ladies
now sweep the sidewalks. &
st. Peters Sunday-school picnic at
James Park next Tuesday. ~
Professor Mueller's German at Mem
phis Club Hall this evening. Isl
Sodality Silver Band concert and pic
mic at the Exposition Building tonight
The embezzlement case of Thomas B.
Mcdonald is on trial in the Criminal
Court. ~
The masquerade ball at the Grand
Central Hotel last night was well at
tended. l-r
The familiar quotation has been
changed to ITS better to marry than
cremate" s ~ a
A hurdle race and two mile dash will
be the attractions on the Jockey Club
course on Monday.
Tuesday evening next the Christian
Brothers festival will commence at the
Exposition Building.
Harry Everett benefit tonight at the
theater. Bulwer's comedy Money will
be presented by the Garrick Club. :
The overflow gives the wet end edi-
tors of the morning press chance to
spread themselves like the Mississippi.
Smells and religious prejadices are
rather strong in Memphis. The Board
Of Health is making an effort to remov,
the smells.
The Chamber OF Commerce commit.
tee, on selecting site for Union Depot,
recommend Promenade street to the
General Council
At a meeting of the Charleston rail
road Board Of Directors held yesterday
the old officers were retained. John D.
Rather is President. '.,.
Trains run again to New Orleans via
Mississippi and Tennessee and Great
jackson route, all breaks having been
repaired along the line. ~ s
Chief Athy received from the St.
Louis authorities to-day watch which
was stolen from T. S. Johnston on
Mardi Gras night in this city. s
Quite large number of spiritual and
mediumistic circles are in full blast in
our city. 1t is said the amateur me-
diums do the most wonderful things.
All the local coast packets have been
generously placed at the disposal of the
Relief Commit for the distribution Of
supplies among the sufferers by overflow.
The Chelsea Rolling Mills were sold
yesterday at public auction for $4,000
to R. c. Daniel, and the Wicks residence
near ellis station for $500 to John
G. Fizer.
Pigeon shooting tournament to.mor-
row at the Fair Grounds for prizes
offered by the Bluff City Shooting club.
The contest for the club silver pitcher
will also come off.
Persons desiring to contribute grain,
hay or provisions of any kind for the
relief of the sufferers by the overflow are
requested to send the same to 29S Front
street Immediately.
This is May day, about which SO much
good and bad poetry of an amatory
character has been written from the
days of Robert Herrick down to the
days of Memphis rhyme strangers.
Two candidates were seen shaking
hands on Main street yesterday. That
is right" remarked a wag, shake; you
must shake each others hand if you
shake at all, for all Memphians are can
didates at present"
Barbour Lewis has made his maiden
speech in Congress on the Bureau of
Education. 1t was Of higher order of
oratory than Barbour INDUCED in when
harsnguing colored meetings in Mem
phis, but not much higher
The attention Of the police authorities
is called to the shameful fact that per-
sons enter Winchester Cemetery at night
and plumber the green graves of flowers
and plants, which are dug up and car
ried OF. These villains should be ar
rested and punished to the extent Of the
law. Several instances Of robbery have
been reported within few days,
In Maryland the Legislature has
passed an act preventing managers
from marking seats reserved, unless they
were sold before the entertainment
opened, under penalty Of FIVE dollars
for each seat so marked. This would be
a good law for Tennessee theatrical
managers who have been INDUCING too
freely in the marked seat business.
In our notice of the removal of the
office Of the st. Bernard Coal Company
in yesterdays LEDGER, it was errone-
ously stated that this time last year coal
was selling in Memphis at 81 80 per bar.