Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-06
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Sacred concert at St. Peters Catholic
Church tonight.
McWade has gone to fulfill an engage
ment at St. Louis.
Four fast drivers we're fined ten dollars
each by the Recorder to-day
Harry Morelands benefit at the thea.
ter tonight. The Octoroon will be the
play.
The General Council will meet again
on Wednesday evening to wind up I'M
finished business
The fast driving ordinance is to be en-
forced at last, but to what extent re-
mains to be seen.
The Catholic and Episcopal churches
were elegantly decorated yesterday, and
attracted large audiences.
Shelby County Conservative Commit
tee meets to-day to arrange programme
for the ensuing elections.
Temperance organizations in Mem
phis are stirring on account Of the moral
female cyclone raging north of the Ohio
river.
A Memphis woman, after reading the
morning journals, insists that thou
sand reporters souls could dance Oh the
point OF needle.
The Nicolson pavement, between the
rails and tracks, is being repaired with
new blocks by street railroad superin-
tendent Barrett.
John Franklin, the negro waiter who
was stabbed by Sam Finlay at the Wor-
sham House some days since, is still in
a most critical condition.
The Avalanche and Appeal, by agree
ment, have ceased publishing Monday
edition. The evening LEDGER will be
the only Monday journal published in
this city.
What Sodom. was to Lots wife so is
the rear portion Of females dress to
another woman; yet no Memphis woman
has been turned into a pillar of salt for
looking back.
A Memphis philosopher out Of money
has remarked that the men of Memphis
rush around street corners trying to
make money, and the women are float
ing around trying to spend it.
Dan Tracey, Dudley Dare, and a me-
gro named Hall, were killed at Fort
Pickering last Saturday evening by the
caving in of a gravel pit. Their bodies
have not been as yet recovered.
Court Square was crowded with ladies
and children yesterday. The police
should prevent men from stretching out
at full length on the seats, and thereby
prevent others from occupying them.
The regular dramatic season of the
Memphis Theater closed last Saturday
evening. This will be benefit week. aud
hereafter combinations" will be the at
fractions whenever they roll around
this way.
The lucky men who drew the missing
two .tenths of the Louisville capital prize
keep quiet in order to keep out of the
papers. The entire ticket was sold in
this city, and yet but eighttenths can SO
far be accounted for.
Bluff City Club shooting match at
fernando Trotting Park tomorrow at
two o'clock sharp for the prize silver
pitcher. Terms, five dollars fee for
birds Ito be paid before the match
commences), Is yards rise, 100 yards
boundary, 5 double birds.
1t has been truly remarked that the
average hotel clerk is of naughty, re-
served, selfabsorbed caste, who has be-
careful how-you-address me sort of man
ner and far away Moses expression
of countenance. There are a few of
them even in Memphis.
1t is rumored that ex-President Jeffer-
son Davis, who is at present in Europe,
has a war book written, and that it will
be published in England This work,
with that of General Johnson's " Nara
tive Of the War" will form valuable
literary acquisition to war history from
a Southern standpoint.
The Criminal, Circuit and Chancery
Courts adjourned to-day out of respect
to the memory of the late Walter Cole.
man, a member of the bar, who died
yesterday morning. A bar meeting was
held in the First Chancery Court this
morning and committee appointed to
draft suitable resolutions with respect to
the memory of the deceased.
Brownsville has organized a fire
company, and will purchase an engine,
hook and ladder outfit. Colonel Tom