Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-22
LEDGER LINES.
Cloudy weather once more.

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moth circus.
Odd Fellows anniversary parade and
celebration on Sunday next
The Quarterly Court stands adjourned
over to the first Monday in July.
Pools for next Mondays races will be
sold at the Peabody on Saturday night.
Oysters, which have been SO popular,
have ceased to be eaten in this latitude.
Memphis and Knoxville railroad con-
vention at Chancery Courtroom to-day.
At Little Rock they are having balls
in the streets-not masked, but musket
balls.
The Mclean embezzlement case drags
its slow length along in the Criminal
Court.
Thanks to Hon. Barbour Lewis for
the Congressional Record, as well as
other documents.
City fathers will assemble AROUND the
municipal board this evening and en-
deavor to wind up unfinished business.
The street water squirt is at it again,
making it disagreeable for pedestrians
The watering business should be in
dulged in early in the morning.
Bartlett wants the insane asylum.
Every village in West Tennessee wants
it, but Memphis can fill it with defeated
and disappointed Office seekers this fall.
Captain J. C. Fleming, Treasurer Of
the city railway, rendered his resigna-
ton yesterday, but the board refused to
accept it for the present.
Revivals in religion are all the 60 in
Memphis. Many of the churches are
crowded nightly and sinners are con-
verted from their wandering and evil
ways through the efficacy of prayer.
If the gentleman in an open-top bug
gy, who had conversation with Henry
Pulliam at ten o'clock last Monday in
front of j. F. Franks store, will call
there again he will oblige Mr.. Frank.
Mr.. O'Sullivan, reporter on the Little
Rock Republican, was shot through the
thigh in the fight at the City of Roses
last evening while taking notes. Little
Rock reporters now carry pair of navy
skies and a shot gun.
Tonight week the oratorio Of the Mes
siah will be rendered at St. Peters
church, and will be Handled in a most
musical manner by chorus of sixty
voices, with Professor Perring presiding
at the organ as musical director.
A revival of religion is in progress at
the First Methodist church, corner Pop
lar and Second street, Rev. S. B. Surratt
pastor. Its influence is being felt among
many christian people Of various de.
nominations. All are cordially invited.
Those piscatorially inclined are await
ing the fall of the river to go over to
Arkansas and catch perch while fight
ing mosquitoes. 1t is rather dangerous
to fool around Arkansas brooks just
now.
Mr.. Jonathan Rice and Miss Amelia
Silk, were married at the Plum st. (Cin-
cinnati) Jewish Temple Thursday last
The bride is the daughter of Mr.. Henry
Silk, of our city. The happy couple
have departed on European tour.
The blasts of war blow in our ears
from the State of Arkansas, where the
colored troops are fighting nobly on
both sides for something they do not
understand Memphians are eager to
engage in the fight by reading the tele-
egraphic news from the front.
Mrs. S. A. Thompson (colored), de.
livered an excellent lecture on the
" Power OF knowledge" last evening
before the Colored Mems Library Asso.
citation on Beal street. Mrs E. A. Mer-
iwether has been invited to deliver the
next lecture of the course.
You can board by the meal, day or
week at many places in the city. A
meal can be procured at from ten cents
to one dollar. The former consists of a
glass of beer, sandwich or hard
boiled egg, and the latter of everything
calculated to appease the appetite of a
gourmand.
The smoking-in-the-s treetcar fend is
the latest affection which ladies com
plain of. Some gentlemen complain of
the smoke, but their loud conversation
is quite as Objectionable to others. The
question of good breeding takes in talk
ers, smokers, bundle carriers, and others
who ride in mule boxes.
A fight between the clown and an
acrobat in the circus ring last night
varied the entertainment in a most
amusing manner, but nothing extra was