Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-25
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Wednesday last.
Three hundred colored persons belong
to this Episcopal diocese.
W. A. Pinkerton, the Chicago detect
i've, is in the city on business,
Mortuary report for last week, total
deaths, SO; whites, l6i blacks, 20.
Third annual German Protestant Sun
day-school picnic at james Park to day.
A Knight of Pythias lodge will soon
be established at Horn Lake, Mississippi.
The street cars running out to the
cemetery and Poplar street beer gar
dens did well yesterday.
Drinks with strawberries floating ON
top are luxurious just now, pleasing two
of the senses-taste and sight.
The amateur fisherman from Mem
phis achieves three speckled perch in
one days sport over the river.
Lady clerks in Memphis do not carry
lead pencil back of their ear. They
punch it through their back hair.
The Riversides and Empire base ball
Club played match game yesterday.
Score-Riyersides, SO; Empire, 10.
The Mendelssohns will sing The Mes
siah next Friday evening at the Court
Street Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Sympathetic peanut vendors on Main
street keep time with their feet to the
rotary hand-organ motion OF the peanut
rooster.
The Fire Committee will meet this
afternoon and sit on that necessary
appliance known as the Chelsea hose
carriage.
1t is reported that Ed Shaw and P. NJ.
Winters will be candidates before the
colored convention for Barbour Lewis
seat in Congress.
The Chief of the Fire Department
states that the water-works mains and
pipes had no water in them for three
hours this morning.
Mayor League has appointed John j.
Duffy City Treasurer pro tenn, vice Mar
tin Kelly. who leaves in few days on a
pleasure tour to Ireland.
Memphis has larger amount of and
better material for ballet among the
little folks than any city in the States.
So says Professor Mueller.
Captain E. L. Belcher has been con-
fined to his room for three weeks suffer
ing from an attack Of absess of the lungs.
His condition is extremely critical.
Those white men who seek the Radi
cal nominations at the hands of the ne
groes for the August and November
elections are moving around among the
appliances.
The village of Bartlett, which has be-
come so famous in State politics, has a
few hundred inhabitants, three churches,
three Sunday schools, two day schools
and courthouse,
Mississippi planters arriving in Mem
phis who were down in the mouth on
account of the overflow have resurrec-
ted their chins from their shirt-collars
and smile once again.
Spring silks and such, likewise bon
nets, manufactured by the most fashion
able msdistes, appeared to advantage at
the different churches yesterday. Some
Of them. however, stood not the test of
post prandial female criticism.
The station-house docket shows that
the (" necessary appliances are the
chief applicants for admission into
Castle Athy. They get admission with
out appealing to the provisions of the
civil rights bill They steal in.
DIR. d. d. Saunders won the prize sil.
yer pitcher at the Bluff City Shooting
club pigeon match last Saturday even
ing. He has to hold it for six consecu-
tive months, and be subject to a monthly
challenge.
Sermons fifteen minutes in length,
like unto those gems preached by Rev.
Sidney Smith, would be popular among
the non. church-going people during the
hot season; but alas such things cannot
be in this age of eloquence.
Qaite a number Of those who have
been playing for the Radical nomina-
tions are falling into line with the Bart
lett movement. This shows how the po-
litical wind blows among the people.
They snuff the danger afar of.
Ii One Of the astonishing things in
Memphis is that those young men who
have no visible means Of support, no
income, and who toll not, dress better
and live better than the worker. This
is a paradoxical mystery yet unsolved or