Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-27
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Shooting Club meeting Tonight.

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Courts or offices to-day.
WEEKLY LEDGER at the counting.
room and news stands to-day.
Mrs. General Haskell, State Librarian,
is in the city visiting her friends.
Thursday evening Cal Wagner's min
strels will appear at the Greenlaw Opera
House.
The Mendelssohn concert was largely
attended last evening by critical and
fashionable audience.
Tomorrow week the General Council
will again meet and struggle over the
Chief Of Police appointment.
Should we have fine weather on Mardi-
Gras, there will be twenty thousand
strangers in Memphis on that day.
The Citizens Relief feed from four to
five hundred people with soup daily.
This relieves the hunger of the poor,
The recent war in the Aldermanic
Board has been dramatized, and is pro.
duced nightly at Whites Opera House.
The grand masquerade ball of the
Confederate Relief Association at the
Exposition building tomorrow evening.
There is man on trial in the Crimi.
nal Court charged with stealing his
wife's watch. The prosecutor is another
man.
Justices Miller and Walker, County
Court Committee, are at work canceling
bonds and warrants in the Trustee s
office.
During the year 1873 there were
seventy-seven business failures in Ten.
nessee, the amount of liabilities being
$l,636, 900.
Dozens Of thieves and confidence
chaps are run in " daily by the police.
A few days in the station-hou Sc and an
order to leave the city settles them.
Sergeant B. F. Arrata, the only Ital'
ian on the police force, and one of the
most efficient members of the same, has
to retire by order of the Police Board.
The habeas corpus case of the State
ex rel. Renaud VS.. the Howard Associa-
ton, will be heard this afternoon before
Judge Flippin, of the Criminal Court.
Thieves from the upper country are
floating into Memphis daily. The
troubles in police circles is the cause,
and probably few of the thieves want
office.
Free fights on the levee among the
colored roustabouts take place by the
dozen daily. When fight is in pro-
gress all hands quit work and become
spectators.
1t is understood that the present
police force excepting the detective de-
partment) will remain intact until to-
] morrow morning, when the elect will
wear the uniform.
A merchants police and detective
agency is about to be established in this
city, to be independent of the lately ap-
pointed city force which does not give
satisfaction to the people.
Those who attended the Mendclssohn
Concert last night had to engage in the
hack business literally. The gentle
rain from heaven fell not lightly but lib
orally on the just and the unjust.
To-day, the 9th inst, is the anniver.
| sary of Rome being declared the capital
of Italy by Victor Emmanuel in 1871;
also, of the death of Mozart, the great
composer, which event took place in
1856.
The motions against the securities Of
A. Woodward, County Trustee, on
school fund and other bonds, will come
up for hearing on Monday next before
Judge Heiskell, of the First Circuit
Court.
The Democratic Executive Committee
is to be called together. These of the
committee who are on the other side
with the combination should send in
their designations, or else they should
be invited to do so,
The Fire Committee paid visit to
the engine houses yesterday. 1t is in
the programme to turn the Hook and
Ladder Company over to the negroes.
Is civilization a failure, aad has the
Caucasian played out in Memphis2
A countryman at the theater last night
was disguised with the cantata. He had
purchased front seat imagining that
he would witness the can.can," which
he believed the cantata to be, although
obscured in the polite phrases Of speech.
1t is authoritatively announced that
about thirty negroes will wear the star
and baton of patrolmen. This will
ruin the efficiency of the force and
cause trouble. And all this is done for
political and vile purposes looking to-
ward the August elections.
Personal L. Waterman has
lost locket, for which be offers a lib