Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-13
LEDGER LINES.

'hS Di"H JosVoiuoy hOrhihB "H~
morning. NJ s-@
Another car load of Texas cotton ha
been shipped for Memphis from Jetfer
son, Texas.
Another belle of Memphis society viii
pass out of single blessedness intC
double happiness tomorrow.
=o;The street cars will be in waiting al
the Calico Ball this evening for the con
venience of those attending.
The entire number of pupils in the
public schools OF the city is as follows
White. 24O8; black, SIC; total, 1884.
Country people begin to crowd into
the city, and the streets begin to present
an active and business like appearance.
General Council meeting tomorrow
night at 7 o'clock to consider the affairs
of the city from a legislative stand
point.
Samson, with Chas. Pope in the title
role, at the theater tonight Tomorrow
night Belphegor will be the dramatic
attraction.
G. M. Nuns was committed without
bail this morning by the Recorder on the
charge of shooting negro woman in
Chelsea last night.
The Exposition will formally open on
Thursday next when grand parade OF
civic and military societies will be one
of the street attractions.
Some wretch has written poem on
the pleasures Of street car travelling He
never rode in q Memphis mule box, as
that would have knocked all the poetry
from his soul.
Crowds of people will visit the Expo
sition on Thursday next. Our business
men, manufacturers and artisans should
secure space at once and fill up such
with their displays.
Judge Flippin, of the Criminal Court,
to-day awarded the custody of the
prisoner Stanly Funderberg to the officer
from Pennsylvania who held requisi.
ton for the prisoner, who is charged with
embezzlement.
Mayor Leagues veto of the railway
connection ordinance is generally ap-
proved throughout the city, the Mayors
reasons for his action in the premises
being sound and looking toward The best
interests of the people.
The new vestrymen of St. Lazarus
church are Messrs. Jefferson Davis, W..
F. Boyle, D. d. Saunders, W. H. Ste
phens, S. Mansfield, r. V. Rambaut, j.
W. Scales, B. Bayliss, R. Allen, H.
Booth and w. A. Goodman.
Wintry weather yesterday and to-day.
The northwest winds blew chilly and
strong along the river bank as if its
breath had passed over the regions of
snow and ice ere it warmed up ia the
sun rays of this Southern land.
Last Saturday night the academy
building at Raleigh was set on fire and
destroyed by an incendiary. The build
ing was new and cost fifteen hundred
dollars. 1t was used as school house
by Professor LoAand who was teaching
over fifty pupils.
Information has been received at
police headquarters that within the past
few weeks over sixty mules have been
stolen from plantations between Austin
and fernando, Mississippi. Sometimes
half dozen mules from one plantation
have been carried of in night.
At the laying of the cornerstone Of
the German Lutheran church on Sun.
day, Rev. DR.. NJ. Gotsch delivered an
address in German, and Rev Mr.. Sleek
delivered one in English. The new
church will be two-story brick struc-
ture, forty by eighty feet, with school
house in the basement
To day a white man weary and hungry
entered the station-house and surren-
dered himself as vagrant. He was
furnished with square meal and was
asked to think the matter over before he
came to so hasty conclusion, as he was
evidently man who was tired of battling
with life for food and clothing.
Yesterday. afternoon Jacob Powers,
bartender of the steamer St. Francis,
was dangerously stabbed by another
steamboatmau named G. G. Griffin, who
was on drunk. The knife was driven
between the shoulder blades of the bar
keeper, inhicting severe and probably
fatal wound. Griffin was arrested and
locked up.
The School Visitors appointed for the
present month are as follows: To Mar
ket street. Mr.. Sullivan; Court street,
Mr.. Mott; Alabama street, Mr.. Frank
land; Chelsea, Mr.. Townsendi Linden
street, Mr.. Kortrecht; Peabody. Mr.. NAL
lon; Clay street, Messrs. Cook and YER
non; Poplar street, Mr.. Pierce; Third
street, Mr.. Fontaine; Washington street,
Mr.. Wiggin.
In answer to a charge made in the
LEDGER, the proprietors Of the odorless
excavating machine state that they haul
Il .4. &c .;,ks ont on ponlar