Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-20
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Odd Fellows anniversary celebration
next Sunday.
The mails come in with grea. irregu-
larity since the floods.
Dan Rices circus on the bluffs this
afternoon and night.
Narrow gauge railroad convention in
this city on Wednesday.
The Quarterly Court is on its last legs,
aud will wind up suddenly for the April
term.
WEEKLY LEDGER at the countiug.room
and leading news stands tomorrow
morning.
Buffalo gnats, caterpillars and mos.
quitoes form the suburban attractions
just now.
The Supreme Lodge of the World
Knights of Pythias convenes at Pitts
burg tomorrow.
The spring martins have come, and
are looking out for building sites
throughout the city.
Spring races over the Chickasaw
Jockey Club course will commence on
Monday next and continue five days.
Within the last two weeks nearly seven
inches Of rain fall was indicated at this
point by the Signal Service Observer.
Whites Opera House (varieties) on
Jefferson street, is the only place of
amusement open in the city at present.
The Shelby county Criminal Court
docket will be taken up on Wednesday
morning by the jackson Supreme Court.
The Memphis Gas Light Company
will move to the old Carolina Insurance
Company Office on Madison street on
the LIST prox.
The friends of Major viii o. Woodson
will regret to learn of the death of his
little daughter Hope" who departed
this life last evening.
Rural exchanges insist that peaches
are not all killed yet, and that the mock
ing bird sitteth in the magnolia tree and
singeth far and near.
Sacred Concert at St. Peters church
next Wednesday evening; the oratoria
Of the Messiah will be rendered by the
chorous and orchestra.
Our racing reporter is under obliga-
tons to the Chickasaw Jockey Club for
an invitation to attend the weeks rae
ing, commencing next Monday.
The Board of Health proclaims the
health of the city excellent. Total
deaths during the past week, 20; males,
II; females, 8; whites, 10; blacks, Z.
Clerk and Master NJ. d.. L. Stewart
will sell at public auction large dia-
mond cross and ring, near the cerner of
Monroe and Main streets, at IL m. to-
morrow.
All the bottoms in the Mississippi
Valley are under water; the rivers are
up and rising, to the great damage of
planting interests; the railroad trains
are detained and travel impeded.
Total rain fall at Memphis yesterday,
l.52 inches; at Vicks6urg, 2 Sc. Heavy
rains have fallen throughout Mississippi,
Ohio and the Missouri valleys; also over
the Northwest and upper lake regions,
81 says signal service officer Rhode.
The Arkansaw war is between Elisha
and Joseph, and between the two noto-
rious politicians the great State suffers
untold wrongs and miseries. The State
can say with Mercutio, "A plague on
both your Radical houses; am sped.
A Memphis witinsists that the weather
is the cause of the Arkansas troubles;
the rains have raised the Brooks up to
an overlooking point and Baxter S plan
tation is in as much danger as that Of
hoy other man. We should say more so.
A reward has been offered for man
who understands the Arkansas muddle,
aud can give a clear explanation of the
rue causes Of the late revolution in the
Rackensack State. He would be an in
aid to Memphis journalism just
nov.
In the First Circuit Court a suit was
,ommenced by the county Of Shelby to
recover one hundred thousand dollars
rom the Selma, Marion and Memphis
railroad, N. B. Forrest, VIM. NJ Forrest,
q. 7. Bulkley, George W. Gift, H. B.
EdrinSton and Jacob Thompson.
at is pretty fashion" says a hyper
critical contemporary, just as if he had |
several Memphis bellies in his minds
eve, "but there is not modest-minded |
,irl in the world but would blush celes-
.ial rosy red if she dared to stop and |
,naIvza the reason wby she pins the |