Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-07
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has become law.
General Council will meet again on
Tuesday afternoon.
Christian Brothers festival at the Ex-
position building tonight.
The incendiary failed to swing his
trusty torch last night.
St. Georges Society will picnic at
James Park on the Goth.
But four fires last month; total loss,
$1,000; cause incendiarism.
First Baptist church strawberry festi-
val to night at the church on Second
street, near Adams.
Professor Mueller's soiree dansante
and grand German tomorrow evening
at Memphis Club Hall.
Hereafter no masquerade balls can be
held unless by the permission of the
Mayor and Chief of Police.
Tomorrow morning Billy Lieben will
have Norfolk papers, containing full list
of drawing in late Masonic lottery.
A meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee will be held at
Nashville on Thursday, the 2lst inst.
Sea.gulls float over the big and broad
Mississippi in front of Memphis, having
followed the course of the river from the
gulf.
There will be call meeting of the
Knights of Innisfail on Friday evening
at 8 o'clock, at their hall, for very i'm
portant business.
Charley Beehn sent in his resignation
last evening as Councilman of the Third
ward, and s. j. Camp was elected to ell
the vacancy.
Runaway horses continue to make it
lively for pedestrians on Main street.
In the spring of the year animals seem
to be on the lope and elope.
Since the picnic and festival season
set in button hole and coat lapel bou-
quets have come into fashion. Many
Memphians carry flower garden.
A fire broke out last evening at the
residence of E. T. Keel, Third street,
Chelsea, but was extinguished before it
had chance to spread. Incendiary.
In the Second Circuit Court to-day a
divorce bill was filed by Georgiana Stors
vs.. John Randolph Sters, on the grounds
OF cruel treatment and abandonment.
Petit larceny in Arkansas now in
cludes the offense of stealing Supreme
Court Judges. Grand larceny is steal
ing property of ten dollars or more in
value.
Mayor League vetoed the resolution
appropriating 100000 aid in purcha-
sing a site for the Western Lunatc Asy.
lum, on the grounds that the property is
only valued at $4,000, but the price
asked for the same by the owners was
SIS, 00Ol
Sandy Merrill and Mike Gallagher,
larcenists, were committed in default Of
bail by the Recorder to-day. William
Shine, watch robber, was sent up; no
bail. Shine stole watch at the race
track and was arrested by detectives
McCune and Smith.
Amateur performance at Memphis
Theater next Monday evening in aid of
the sufferers by overflow. The. Lanca-
shire Lass will be presented to the pub
lie under the auspices of a Chamber of
Commerce committee, composed of l.
M. Hill, Louis Hanauer, Clarence P.
Hunt and F. S. Davis.
The body of VIM. D. Dare, who was
drowned on the 4th ult. by sand bank
caviDg into the river at Fort Pickering,
was recovered ten miles below the city.
Coroner Caldwell held the inquest yes
terday. The body, although it had been
in the water month, was but slightly
decomposed.
The General Council passed the ordi-
nance making the German National or
Union and Planters Bank the deposit
tory for the city's moneys, for the benefit
of City Treasurer Kelly. This will re-
lieve the Treasurer and his bondsmen of
considerable responsibility.
The Board of Underwriters, in a COM
munication to Mayor League, charge
that the city was almost entirely without
water in the mains Of the Water Com
pany for three or four hours on the morn
ing of April 9th, when the Pamela Oil
Works we're on FIRE, and that the mains
had been found in that condition several
times before.
The Banner of yesterday has this item:
The cost Of criminal prosecutions in the
Criminal Court of Shelby County, at
the September, 1873, term, amounted to
81, 995, 60 net revenue paid into the
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