Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-30
LEDGER LINES.

Nothing of interest in the Courts to
day.
The Mechanics Institute meets to
night.
State Sportsmen's Convention to-mor
row evening.
The Mississippi and its tributaries are
falling slowly.
Pigeon shooting matches at the Fair
Grounds on Saturday.
One hundred and six prisoners are
confined in the county Jail.
Shelby county debt is s445, 473 70,
which is being reduced rapidly.
Bouquets pinned to coat lapels indi-
cate the average Memphian in April and
May,
Professor Mueller's eighth grand Ger
man at Memphis Club Hall tomorrow
evening.
The William Mclean jury in the
Criminal Court has not as yet returned
verdict.
Wading out of the overflow is the
business of the dwellers in the Missis-
sippi bottom at present,
Yesterday Judge Flippin, Of the Grim
inal Court, sent lawyer to Jail for five
days for contempt of court.
Tomorrow night Harry Everett will
take benefit at the theater. Bulwer' s
play of Money will be presented.
Tomorrow evening the Sodality silver
band will give the first May picnic and
entertainment of the season at the Elk
position building.
Memphis amusements consist Of
two good variety shows Whites 0lym-
pic on Washington and the Vaudeville
Theater on Jefferson.
Eighty.one persons occupy the county
poor house. The Grand Jury says about
$4,000 per annum is paid to employees
alone to run the establishment.
The Memphis Theater curtain drop
ped last night for the season; to-day the
few members of the stock company who
remained over leave for the East.
At "a General Chapter, convened for
the purpose in Paris, the Honorable
Brother Jean Olympic was elected Supe-
rior General of the Christian Brothers.
The Mendelssohns and friends acquit-
ted themselves in a most creditable man.
ner in rendering Handeps oratorio, the
Messiah, at St. Peter church last night.
All contributions for the sufferers be-
low will be received at 29S Front street.
Our business men should send in their
subscriptions promptly, as the necessity
is urgent.
Motto Of the Charleston Railroad Di-
rectory-" take it back" The road was
the conundrum Of the Southern Security
Railway Company, and Tom Scott says:
." We give it up"
VIM. Johnston, of Charlotte, N. c., is
acting as chairman of the Charleston
railroad convention, and Messrs. George
Robertson and Darlington Mason are
acting as secretaries.
Not an opera troupe howled in Mem
phis this season, but next season, under
the able theatrical management of Mr..
Thomas W. Davey, we will have our
quota of musical attractions.
Since 1865 the county of Shelby has
paid for courthouse purposes in rents,
repairs, outfits, fuel and lights, about
Sl50, 000-a sufficient amount to have
paid for the 0verton building.
The Register publishes map of the
Knoxville railroad. The map resem-
)les the track OF spider after be had
,rawled through an ink bottle. Our
ieighbors publish pictorial at present
Over sixty horses train every morning
,ver the Chickasaw Jockey Club course
to the races which COM
nence on Monday next The meeting
will be the best and most successful ever
leld in Memphis.
In justice to the policeman who ar
.ested that monkey" few days since,
{ must be stated that he was ordered to
make the arrest by one of his officers,
md had to obey orders. This places
he responsibility of Darwinism on
higher authority.
The rewards offered for the body of
Henry Pulliam in the morning journals
rave been withdrawn since he turned up
The LEDGER was the only
ournal that asserted his safety and
allied to publish soulstirring paragraphs
.bout mysterious murder, etc.