Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-24
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Examinations for positions as teachers
in the city schools will be held tomorrow
morning.
Police drill yesterday afternoon. The
patrolmen were taught how to turn cor
ners rapidly. a 8e
False alarm of fire last night. The
engines moved to the front rapidly. and
fell back slowly.
Rev. j. j. StallardS of Stockwell, Ind,
will preach atthe First Methodist Church
tonight at 8 o'clock.
The meeting over the Nashville Blood
Horse Association has been postponed
from the 9th until the 10Th Of May.
The argument of counsel in the en-
bezzlement case of VIM. Mclean is pro-
crossing in the Criminal Court to-day.
Arrangements are making by the
German societies for the great Maifest
which comes off on Monday week, the
4th prox.
Next Monday evening the compli-
mentary benefit rendered by the Garrick
Club to Harry Everett will come off at
the theater
The Overton Hotel must now be called
the courthouse, as the purchase was
made yesterday by the County Court
COMMITTEES
The river rose one and half inches
since yesterday morning. Hopefeld
Lake, over the river, can plainly be seen
from the bluffs.
The mule and dray lost by Mrs. Hack
EFT last Monday was recovered by detec-
tive Hanson three miles from the city,
on the Pigeon Roost road.
The Avalanche reporter gives military
titles to every delegate and orator at the
Railroad Convention yesterday. They
were either Majors, Colonels or Generals.
The Memphis and Knoxville railroad
convention adjourned yesterday sine
die, and appointed committee to can
vass Memphis to get up $4,000 sub
scription.
A colored groomsman and a white
bride, from Sardis, Miss, were objects of
interest to the other passengers on the
Mississippi and Tennessee train this
morning. m
No longer does public attention direct
its ear westward toward Arkansas. The
wars of the City Of Roses are over,
and the occupation Of the warrior with
his trusty shotgun is gone.
Charley White will take a benefit to-
morrow night at his Jefferson street
Opera House. Next Monday he will
move his troupe into the Varieties The
aterIon Washington street.
b William Il. Bingham, who stabbed
James W. villines last Wednesday night
at the Bay Horse saloen, was admitted
to bail last evening in the sum of $3l0O
by Judge Flippin, of the Criminal Court.
The alarm Of fire last night was caused
by the partial burning of a boarding
house on Poplar street, near Second.
The Adams street fire boys put the
flames out in a few minutes. No dam
age done.
Winter fingers in the lap Of spring at
present. Since spring is depicted by
poets and painters as a gushing young
maiden, no average Memphian will con-
denim winter for lingering with us SO
long.
The average Memphian has weak
ness for "punning," forgetting that years
ago pun was defined to be the lowest
order of wit, and therefore the FONDA
ton of all wit" replied chap not a
punster.
Henry Pulliem, whose mysterious dis
appearance from the city last Monday
created no little anxiety among his rela-
tives, went to St. Louis by steamboat.
His whereabouts has been discovered.
So the sensation is over.
Owing to the high water, which will
prevent many horses from reaching
until the middle of next week,
the races over the Chickasaw Jockey
Club Course have been postponed from
Monday next, the 9th, until Monday
week, May 4th.
Professor Mueller's German at the
Memphis Club Hall tonight. The news
paper artistes whose Terpsichorean edu-
cation had been neglected in childhood,
will appear in force and rattle their bro
gans on the waxed floor to the seductive
music of Strauss waltz.
The committee appointed to raise the
$50 900 for the Knoxville railroad is
composed of Messrs. L. NJ. Apperson,