Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
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Chamber Of Commerce meeting at
four o'clock this afternoon.
Dan Rice will make his grand circus
entry into the city on Friday morning.
g Lou Leubrie will give grand prone
made concert at his Dollar Store to night.
The School Board meets again to.
night in order to settle the Central High
School question.
Ten jurors in the Bill Mclean case !;
two more needed before the trial of the
embezzlement case can progress.
Mrs. Josephine Bloom fled her petit
ton for divorce to-day in the First Cir
cult Court against Peter Bloom (col.
ored).
The chief topic of conversation yes
terday and to-day was the rainy weather.
The Bayou Gayoso became navigable
stream last night.
Owing to the inclement weather last
evening, the theatrical benefit rendered
to Mr.. T. j. Nolan had to be postponed
until Friday evening next.
Occasionally wild driver is arrested
for turning corners at a murderous pace,
but in the majority of cases the flyer is
not interrupted by the police.
The Quarterly Court has under con-
sideration the propriety of appointing a
practical bridge builder commissioner
of public bridges in Shelby county.
All the streams and rivers within a
circle of one hundred miles from Mem
phis are out of banks, and the planting
interest is thereby retarded and dam
aged.
Spring meeting o. Chickasaw Jockey
Club commences on the 9th Monday
and continues FIVE days. The meeting
promises to be the best had in this city
for years.
The directors of the Bank of Com
merce elected officers yesterday-Presi-
dent, John T. Fargason; Vice President,
John Overton, jr.; Cashier, R. A.
Parker.
Two ladies were struck by lightning
on Court street yesterday during the
thunder storm; the electric fluid shock
ed them severely but did no serious
damage.
Several faro banks have been closed,
owing to the vigorous action of Judge
Flippin of the Criminal Court. Keno,
which some time since was the popular
and fashionable game, no longer lives.
Nearly three inches of rain have
fallen within the last two days. A Sec
ond deluge is threatened, but forty days
rain would be only sixty inches, or FIVE
feet of water, through which the six
footer could wade ashore.
The Mechanics Institute will meet at
the Exposition building tonight, when
an important paper or treatise on sewer
age will be read The change of place of
meeting is caused by the meeting of the
School Board this evening
The cremationists can burn the bodies
of their friends and use the ashes as a
by sprinkling around the
premises. In this manner you can be
made useful after death, even if during
life you failed to be of benefit to any
person.
The Memphis Theater viii be con-
lucted next season by Manager T. W.
Davey, gentleman who understands
theatrical matters, and who will pre-
lent attractions worthy of public patron
lge. We can predict brilliant theatri-
,al season for the public.
The Avalanchian says the moon has
ipent her last quarter, and early this
morning she starts out anew" What
orr to borrow another quarter? We
would like to know where that quarter
vas spent and what for. Did she treat
he Avalanche man to beer2
The cheerful mosquito sang and bored
Ileepers last night. To have one of
hem come singing and sailing down
1pon you from the ceiling is we'll calcu-
ated to disturb tired natures sweet
-estorer, balmy sleep" The little cru
'ader can be stopped by a bar.
Hon. Barbour Lewis, our Congress.
nan, favors many of his constituents
With the speeches of other legislators,
put as yet no Memphian has had the
pleasure of reading speech from the
Judge on any financial or other vexed
question of national interest.
W. F. Johnston, the Brownsville tele-
graphic operator who was shot by class
leader Sam Oldham in bagnio, has but
little chance of recovery. Drs. Nuttall
and Rogers, who visited him, say the
ball passed through his lungs, and his