Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29
The frat Of MAY next Friday.

Nothing of interest to day either at
the Recorders court or the courts of
record.
The oratorio of the Messiah will be the
musical attraction tonight at St. Peter
church.
Memphis and Charleston railroad
stockholders meeting at the Assembly
Hall to-day.
Christian Brothers festival commences
on the evening of May 9TH at the Expo
stion building
Races over the Chickasaw Jockey Club
Course commences on Monday next, and
will continue FIVE days.
Stables OF fast horses are coming in
daily for the purpose of participating in
the field sports next week.
A festival in Chelsea last evening,
given for the benefit of the Episcopal
church, was well attended.
The William Mclean embezzlement
case is still in the hands Of the jury.
No verdict up 10 one o'clock to day.
Since the almost general suspension
of the free lunch system by saloon
keepers many citizens have had to 60 to
work.
The free pew church movement re-
Gently inaugurated IN this city gives
promise of becoming generally popular.
Ne reserved seats.
A thirsty chap was arrested in North
Memphis to day on the charge of at
tempting to steal keg of lager beer.
He was crusader.
The charter members of the Ceur de
Leon Lodge, No. II, Knights Of
Pythias, will meet at Leidy's, No. PCS
Main street, tomorrow evening for en-
rollment.
A State convention of druggists will
be held at Nashville on the 9th of May
for the purpose of memorializing the
Legislature to regulate the drug business
in Tennessee.
But little interest is felt by Mem
phians in the Baxter-BIooks war; but
the general opinion is that Arkansas
could well afford to lose both of them
they being arcades ambo.
The suburban streets are in wretched
condition-almost impassible-yet the
city authorities never do any work upor
them, bat the residents on these streets
are invited to pay taxes promptly.
The police have been instructed not t.
arrest performing monkeys for shoot
ing within the. corporation" Some hu
man being may yet escape punishment
by strict enforcement of this order.
At the Chamber of Commerce anC
Cotton Exchange meeting yesterday at
ternoon committees we're appointed t.
canvass the city for aid for the sufferers
by the foods on the Mississippi and trib
utaries.
Candidates for office at the August
election are somewhat shy in coming
forward and announcing themselves.
Yet hundreds of citizens are spoken OF
on the streets in connection with the fat
Offices.
Who shall be our next Governors is a
conundrum at present. Each county il
the State has its aspiring candidate. Il
is more than probable that the coming
man" has not been mentioned as yet
but remains tied out in the bushes.
At Walkers dress ball at Assembly
Hall, on Monday night last, Mrs. Oscar
App took the nice gold medal for the
best Walter in the house. Mrs. Thomas
Randolph took the bouquet as the prize
offered for the most popular and best
dressed lady in the room.
The Memphis Theater, after the Harry
Everett benefit on Friday evening, viii
close for the season, and the remaining
members of the stock company will dis.
band. The present season has been only
tolerably successful as a paying one
and but few genuine attractions were
presented.
Decoration Day this year has passed
by. unnoticed and unobserved. The
custom of decorating. Confederate
graves, beautiful and patriotic as it was
has, it seems, fallen into disuse, but our
dead heroes sleep as sweetly beneath the
green sod with the wild flowers smiling
above their graves.
A Ledger Line yesterday stated that
the cost of prosecuting the Mclean en-
bezzlement case in the Criminal Court
will not he less than $4,000. The