Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-10
LEDGER LINES.
It rained again last night.


last night.
George D. Chaplin as Enoch Arden"
at the theater tonight.
The General Council will assemble in
adjourned session tonight
Pigeon shooting match and deer chase
at the Fair Grounds tomorrow.
Petit larceny cases are on hearing be-
fore the Criminal Court to-day.
The paving of Beal street, from the
elevator to Shelby street, is about fin
ished.
Mayor League and Chief Athy have
promised the Board of Health all the
assistance necessary.
The city will be invited to pay S35, 900
due last year, and $4,000 due this year,
to the School Board.
Seventeen misdemeanor, but no State
cases, came up for adjudication before
the Recorder this morning.
The Clay street new school building
will be dedicated to educational pur-
poses next Friday afternoon.
The Health Officer, DIR. Frank Rice,
will commence work with fifty men and
a number of street carts tomorrow.
The Matte Stephenson Monumental
Committee will call Immediately on
subscribers for amounts subscribed.
Next week Francis Bangs will appear
at the theater as Jean La Croix in
La Marsellaise, or the Child of the Rev
olution.
Tomorrow evening the eighth annual
soiree Of St. Andrews Society of this
city will come off at the Chickasaw Club
rooms.
The hog and goat ordinance requiring
such animals to be removed from the
city limits will be enforced on and after
the 25th inst.
The Nicolson pavement is in horri-
BILE condition. When will the city gov
eminent start repairing force on the
grand rounds?
The School Board met last evening;
on the LIST instant there were 1858 white
and 933 colored children in attendance
at the public schools.
Meeting of the Bluff City Shooting
Club tonight to arrange for the pigeon
shooting match and deer chase at the
Fair Grounds tomorrow.
The German half-pay school system
has been adopted in the public schools
for the lower grades, by which each child
secures three hours daily training.
Memphis amateur ink-slingers are
just now filling up the Nashville papers
with correspondence on the Bartlett
movement; twenty cents line at home;
dead.head abroad.
The School Board purposes purchas-
ing lot on the extension of Monroe,
between Union and Madison streets, for
high school purposes. The location is
central and convenient.
Prospective candidates at the August
and November elections are making it
cheerful for the voters on the streets. 1t
will soon be time for the candidates to
announce themselves in the LEDGER.
A call will be made on the General
Council by the Board of Health for ten
thousand dollars to defray the expenses
of sanitary measures for the next two
months. The Council should honor the
check.
William M. Mccullough, a carpenter
employed in the planning mill of Eader
& Mellersh, committed suicide last night
by swallowing an overdose of morphine
cause financial troubles, which pro-
duced trouble of mind and its occasional
result, temporary insanity.
The Avalanche of this morning con-
tanned chapter Of that cheerful ro-
nance known as the official proceedings
of the General Council. The thrilling
story will be continued from month to
month for period oftwo years or more.
The LEDGER published the never ending
tale of. lamp-posts and sidewalks, but
now our Jefferson street neighbor takes
up the narrative at lower rate than
the LEDGER could afford to do it.
LEAVE YOUR MEASURE.