Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-11
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
M EM HIS,
Thursday Evening, March III. Ia76.
LEDGER

Maple syrup at Oliver, Finuie & Co.'S
General Council meeting tonight.
Fest Lynne at the theater tonight.
The river is within five feet of high
water mark.
The fire bells rang out a false alarm of
fire last night.
Snow yet remains in many of tine
streets and alleys.
Joe Murphy, the Irish comedian, at
the theater next week.
Professor Mueller will give a German
at the Club Hall tonight.
Fifteen regular dodgers at the Adams
street station-house were arrested last
night on the charge of vagrancy.
Look out for burglars and robbers and
keep your firearms in good order.
The Mississippi is nearly over the
Arkansas bank, and is still rising.
The young ladies will give a festival at
the First Baptist Church on Second
street, near Adams, this evening.
j. j. Day, n of the county jail
breakers, was yesterday sentenced to
one years imprisonment on the charge
of larceny.
Phil Sheridan left New Orleans on
Sunday, went around Memphis and
reached Nashville on Monday en- route
for Washington.
John Bremen, who was found out in
the snow storm on last Sunday morning
on Poplar street, died yesterday from
the effect Of the exposure.
A masked and fancy dress Purim ball
will be given at the Memphis Club Hall
by the Society A. j. o. K. S. B., on the
evening Of the 22d instant.
Company A, Irish Volunteers, will
celebrated St. Patrick's day, the 18th
instant, by a parade and a grand ball in
the evening at the Memphis Club Hall.
Ex.Sherif A. P. Curry Of Shelby
county is now a fat mail contractor in
Arkansas, having secured nine routes
from the Grant government at Washing
ton.
Esquire Spelman held an inquest this
morning Oh the body of a negro, John
Estes, found dead on board the steamer
Illinois. The man resided at BENEFITS
Landing, and died of dropsy,
On the 25th the residents of Wytbe
Depot, near Haysville, will indulge in
an election, in order to decide whether or
not they will permit themselves to be in
c~orporated and be town folks instead of
country folks.
The Arbitration Court will meet in
this city on Tuesday next. Attorneys
are invited to advise the Clerk Of the
Supreme Court at Jackson as to what
causes will be submitted from Shelby, so
that transcripts may be brought down.
Monday evening next Professor Bar
ney Hughes will deliver a lecture at the
theater, be having been prevailed upol
by friends to thus sacrifice himself upon
the rostrum. The subject has not vet
been announced, but will be in due time.
In Cincinnati negroes we're refused &C
c~ommodation at the st. James Hotel and
were also refused admission to the dress
circles Of the Grand Opera House and
Woods Theater. and in consequence
suits under the civil rights bill have been
commenced.
Sam Hood, the man charged with
stealing two mules from ]. S. Matthews,
Of Wythe Depot, arrived in the city to-
day in charge Of constable HAMLET
from Helena, Arkansas, where Hood
had been arrested on kilograms from
Chief OF Police Athy.
The excitement over the passage OF
the civil rights bill has passed away.
The decent negroes of Memphis can get
along without it, and the mean, thieving
negroes have found out that it is not a
bonanza. Society always regulates
itself, and no penal laws can change it's
rules.
The attention Of Christians, owing to
late revelations, as we'll es former ones,
has been called to the moral condition
Of the county p%oor-house. Heretofore
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