Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-28
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Potomac shRd at Victor D. Fuchs.
The last spelling match at the theater
to might.
Silver Moon" -four at Oliver, Fin
ME & Co.'s.
The General Council will meet again
on Friday next.
The streets and alleys are to be cleaned
up by the chain.gsng.
Festival fends are awaiting the com
ing Of the strawberry season.
Uurania Tableau Club exhibition at
the theater tomorrow evening.
Now is the time to strain at a buffalo
gnat even if you have to swallow a camel.
At the spelling school last night Mr..
7. M. S. Rhstt was the victorious
speller.
L The fish market is well supplied at
present from the sea coast and lakes of
the North.
Several horses and mules we're killed
in the suburbs of the city by buffalo
guats last night.
The northwest breeze watts myriads of
gnats into the city from the Arkansas
swamps every afternoon.
The icy fingers of Jack Frost have
been playing sad havoc with buds and
blossoms in suburban gardens.
Tonight the ladies' class of spoilers
will appear at the theater and struggle
for the prize-a silver goblet and die
tionary.
Our floating representative, j. NJ.
Galloway, can now claim the position of
the champion letter-writer Of Tennessee.
He is an epistolary bore.
Yesterday squads of business men
could be seen at the Chamber of Com
MERGE, in stores and on Madison street
indulging in the spelling mania.
No decisions were rendered in the
Arbitration Court this morning. The
list Of cases set for hearing to-day will
also be taken up tomorrow morning.
A well known newspaper man is
whispered around in City Hall circles as
the prospective candidate for Mayor,
provided John" cannot secure a second
term.
Reports come into the city to the effect
that hundreds of mules and horses have
died in this and adjoining counties from
the war made upon them by the buffalo
gnats.
The body Of Mr.. Joplin has not as yet
been recovered, although the closest
watch is kept all along the shores of the
river from the elevator to Presidents
Island.
The ring" men are urging each
other to file bills of injunction against
the Fire Commissioners. How hard it
is to surrender an Office either of profit
or influenced
To-day in the Recorders Court Isaac
Gamer and James Garrett, charged with
larceny, were each placed under bonds
of one thousand dollars to appear before
the Criminal Court.
A speller was ruled ont last night be-
cause he spelled "gnaw," "k.n,a,w."
But the judges forgot that the latter
method, although obsolete, is a correct
way, and is given in the dictionary.
Manager Tracy, when organizing his
classes last night exclaimed, Three
misses 60 off the stage" This ungal-
liant speech wa greeted with laughter,
but the misses did not go off" except
into fits Of cachinnation.
On the 8h Of May the citizens Of por-
tons of Fayette, Hardeman and Nc
Marry will vote on the question of organ
izing the new county of Bell. Those
who fail to vote on that day will be con-
sidered as voting against it.
1t may be well enough to call the at
tention of the police in due time to the
picnic season which is approaching, and
the correction Of that which last season
developed into midnight orgies most dis.
reputable at many picnics.
The Helena authorities have tele.
graphed to Chief of Police Athy to hold
the negro, ]. G. Cleburne, as he is
wanted in Helena, where he stabbed a
man and carried of eighteen hundred
dollars belonging to the school fund.
There has not been a wedding in Mem
phis fashionable circles for sometime
but an immense amount Of preliminary
counting is in progress which may de-
velop into marriages in due course Of
time, just as the bud develops into a bios
sou.
When you see a man approaching
you, his face wearing q cross, examining
Ink Won NOV safaIy bot tboA ill i