Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-07
LEDGER LINES.

ter tonight.
Adjourned meeting of the General
Council tomorrow evening
Happy Hollow is submerged by the
overflow from the Mississippi.
The Chamber of Commerce has petit
toned Congress in faver of Southern
Pacific railroad
The bal masque at the Assembly Hail
last night was well attended. The best
order was preserved.
The Shelby County Conservative Elk.
ecutive Committee viii meet again on
Tuesday, the 9Th of May.
Professor Curr will address the Sunday
Schools at three o'clock this afternoon,
at the First Baptist Church.
The steamer Laura lost her fan.tail or
Grecian bend by colliding with the City
of Quincy yesterday morning.
The sacred concert at St. Peters
Church. last evening, was largely atten-
ded. The music was excellent.
The male and female masqueraders
waded through mud and rain last night
when vending their festive way home
ward.
The membership fee of the Chamber
Of Commerce for the current year is Sl2
for individuals, $40 for firms, and no
initiation fee.
A FIRE broke out in frame shanty on
DeSoto street last night Cause, over
turning of a lamp. No damage done to
lamp or shanty.
The average Memphian now whites
away few afternoon hours in Court
Square playing with the squirrels and
oGling the ladies'
The Chamber of Commerce has a mus
ter.roll Of 237 members, including me--
chants, bankers, office-holders, private
citizens, newspaper men, etc.
The crawling caterpillar has again
made its appearance in the woods, and
will ere long, as last season, interfere
with railroad business by stopping trains.
The Holland and ushers benefit at the
Memphis Theater tomorrow evening.
There will be a crowded house present,
and an attractive programme presented.
Professor Mueller has dancing exer-
cises tonight for ladies and gentlemen.
On Friday evening next the grand Ger
man will be the Terpsiehorean attrac-
ton.
The Memphis belle now wears her hair
parted on one side. With the present
style of hat so jauntily worn, this style
of parting the hair is not unbecoming to
a-boy.
The burnt district of Brownsville has
been photographed on the spot by some
artist. The usual amount of charred
timbers and ashes can be seen in the
perspective.
Rumor has it that a well known ex-
banker of this city quietly holds the
unknown two-tenths of the capital prize
of the Louisville Lottery = amount,
thirty-six thousand dollars.
President Pettigrew thanks the LEDGER,
Avalanche and Appeal for their aid in
behalf of the Chamber of Commerce.
We can only say to the popular and
worthy president, You are another.
Rain, thunder and lightning made it
unpleasant for belated pedestrians at ten
o'clock last night Even the unfortunate
newspaper reporters had to face the
storm while in search of late items.
The Radicals and their ofice-seeking
allies are scared up on the Bartlett
movement since the Conservative Elk
ecutive Committee organized. 1t means
business next August and November.
In the Criminal Court to-day Theodore
Lott, colored, was tried on an Indictment
for fraudulent breach of trust, and was
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary. Theodore has hard lot at best.
Since the late Louisville drawing the
rattle fever" has broken out in this
city. Everything is put up at rattle"
at present, and the rafting of dice is
heard throughout the ten wards of the
city.
M. P. Jarnigan, Thomas Boyle, P. NJ.
Winters, Thomas Fisher, j. j. Steele, j.
Patterson and H. A.. Montgomery were
yesterday elected Board of Directors
of the Shelby County Turnpike Com
pany,
Grace Church has elected vestrymen:
Messrs. J. D. Darden, R. M. Bradford,
J. G. Alexander, j. A. Omberg, G. V.
Rambaut, Hans Lemon and NJ. B. Treze-
want. The rector is the Rev. DR.. Car
michael