Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-05
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
nj EN- HIS
Wednesday Evening. May 8, 1875.
LEDGER LINES.

OOuCert at tne Jneater tonight.
Extra table butter at Oliver, Finnie &
Co.'s.
German Maifest at James Park to.
morrow.
The Baptist festival is progressing un-
der the Peabody.
Urania Tableau Club matinee at the
theater next Saturday.
The Knights Of Pythias picnic comes
Oft on Tuesday, the 18th instant.
April showers bring forth May flowers,
but in Memphis a picnic brings forth the
showers.
In Memphis it is now understood that
a man who is bound for no other place
that he is spell bound.
Many articles of fruit in this latitude
have postponed coming forward so long
as spring IS backward.
The remains OF Captain j. Yves Sneed
will be inferred at Elmwood tomorrow
morning at ten o'clock.
The Probate Court stands adjourned
until Saturday next, Judge Ray having
g 'ne to the Bartlett Court.
Eight representatives to the Peniten-
tiary al Nashville left here yesterday un-
der charge of Sheriff Anderson.
a mad dog was slaughtered near the
Charleston depot yesterday; at least it
WAS rumored that the dog was mad.
A spelling match, not for the benefit
OF all the orphans, but for the benefit of
the Church Orphans Home, will come
of next week.
In the pring the blithe street sprink.
Ter begins to ruin vernal pants. In the
spring the landlords fancy turns to
thoughts Of an advance:
Major s. R. Wilson, President, and
Colonel c. M. McGhee, Manager of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, are
registered at the Peabody.
The new law empowering justices to
send criminals to the work-house in de.
fault of payment of fines is being en-.
forced by our magistrates.
1t is quite ~consoling to elderly Mem
phians to have their barber confirm
previous impressions by the statement
that their hair is getting thin.
As Captain Tom johnson truly said at
the Confederate meeting last night.
The sight of that unfinished monument
at Elmwood always makes an ex-Confed.
crate soldier feel ashamed"
School Board meeting next Monday
night when a spelling match may be in.
du'ged in by superintendent Picket,
Principal Barnum and other celebrated
orthographlsts and orthoepists.
Judge Frazier, of the Criminal Court
at Nashville, charged the Jury very
strictly to endeavcr to find out and bring
to justice the leaders of the recent mob
which killed a negro in that city.
There are over three hundred physi.
clans from the different States Of the
Union in attendance at Louisville at the
meeting of the American Medical Asso.
citation, but not one from Memphis.
An Appeal correspondent this morn
ing truly describes the City Hall gang
p" as narrow, as selfish and as violent a
ring as even ruined the fortunes of a city
or sacrificed the rights Of the people,"
To-day Chancellor Walker, of the Sec.
ond Chancery Court, took the place of
Judge McKisick in the Arbitration Court,
the latter being incompetent to sit in
hearing in the case on trial by reason of
he being an attorney in the cause.
Last Monday night the residence of
Mr., Madden, corner of Front and Elk.
change streets, was entered by burglars
who carried off a lot of bacon, provis-
ions, etc. To-day detective McCune ar.