Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-23
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Co.'S.
Not ar alarm Of FIRE has been heard
for a week.
Jack and Jill matinee to day and per.
Torrance tonight.
The Probate Court stands adjourned
over TO Monday next.
The General Council stands adjourned
until next Tuesday evening.
But three cases appeared on the
station. house docket to-day.
The General Council met last evening
to wind up unfinished business.
The County Quarterly Court stands
adjourned over to the July term.
The recent rains have brought into
view collins and skeletons in Winchester
Cemetery.
The water-squirting fends are busy
once again s%prinkling streets, sidewalks
and pedestrians.
The police patrol force was put through
a semi-weekly drill on Adams street YES.
terday afternoon.
The poll tax of Shelby county to be
collected for the benefit Of schools is es-
timated at $l726 As.
Grace Church strawberry festival
under the Peabody Hotel attracts num-
bers of visitors daily and nightly.
Il dreamed l was at a spelling match
and never missed a word" said a young
belle of Memphis on awakening from a
siesta yesterday.
The personal property of the citizens
Of Memphis and liable to taxation, ac.
cording to the Board of Equalization,
amounts to $9,2O7, 1924.
At the musical soiree of the Mendels-
sohns last night the vocalism was excel
lent, and especially the solo, "Oh, We
Tears" rendered by Miss Ennis.
Mr.. John Mulroy, day station-house
keeper, retired from the responsible posi-.
ton yesterday, and his place is tempe
rarily filed by patrolman Sheppard.
A Tuscumbia (Alabams) journal an
nouuces the fact that the workshops of
the Charleston railroad are to be re.
moved from Memphis to that village.
In Scotland and vicinity the h~en.roosts
suffer nightly from the raids of negro
thieves. Between the negro and the
h%en.roost there ever has been some
strange affinity.
In the Criminal Court the case of the
four negroes charged with the murder of
W. Jack Smith was given to the jury
last evening, and up to IL m. to-day no
verdict was rendered.
Spelling school at the theater next
Monday night. The best male speller
will receive a dictionary, and the best
lady speller will receive in addition to
the above a silver goblet.
The military companies of the State,
forming the militia, will soon be supplied
with government arms, as Tennessee
will receive her quota of guns from the
United States in a few days.
The five Police and Fire Commission
ers, Messrs. Leath, Vaccaro, Moore,
Frank and M%agevney, formally accepted
the position before the General Council
last night and reported for duty.
From the dizziness which pervades
business circles at present it is fair to
predict that during the summer months,
called hy.time, the d%ullness will increase
rapidly and give business men a chance
to go fishing or play billiards.
As Shylock puts it on the bond ques.
ton, if the bond is not paid in due time,
Let the danger light upon your charter
and your city's freedom" but Shyloek
does not state whether Venice was then
working under an old or new charter.
In the Cicalla VS.. Cicalla damage suit,
wherein the jury was discharged by the
judge of the Circuit Court owing to the
serious illness of the family of one of
the jurors, the jury stood seven for Civ.
ing a verdict of $4,000 to five dissent
ing.
The two juries of the First Circuit
Court were discharged yesterday, as the
new jury law is in force. The business
mar who was a juror was glad to escape,
but the professional INDUCED ia a series
of "damns' at the turn of Dame For.
tunes wheel.
The word "diarrhea' became an or
biographical epidemic at a spelling
match at a Court street school yesterday
when forty pupils went down before the
quadrisyllabic expression. The Board
of Health sho uld take charge of all
spelling matches.
A st. Louis scientist named Tice ac-
counts for the recent cold snap and
afirms that the frigorific wind of the
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