Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-15
LEDGER LINES.
City Council meets tonight.


The people Of Nashville afe delighted
with DeMurska.
Microscopic Society meets to night at
2lS Main street.
Grand German Maifest at james Park
on the 10th proximo.
First Chancery Court met in session
to-day. Tomorrow is motion day.
L. 0. Riyes, one Of our w~eil-knowu
attorneys, has located at Trinidad, Col
orado.
Grand concert by the Old Memphis
Brass Band at Brownsville on the I'd
prox.
Major T. c. Park, of the firm Of Guy,
Mcclellan & Co, has returned from a
trip to Arkansas.
The weather is becoming delightfully."-
spring-like, and the vertical rays of a
tropical sun will bring out vegetation
aud p%icnics.
Charles Trotter, concerned in the muir
der of James Hyatt last February, was
sentenced yesterday to eight years in
the penitentiary.
The absence Of the simmeriug tea
kettle in Dot last night was not even
compensated by the simpering of the
dress circle hend.
Much business was transacted by our
worthy magistrates Of the Quarterly
Court Tuesday, but nothing Of special
Importance to the public.
Major Rhea has appointed Mr.. A. L..
Duval Deputy Coal Oil Inspector. A
more worthy and popular young mar
could not have been found Tor the posi-
ton.
One OF the most pleasant social events
of the season was a party given by Mr..
0. Il. P. Piper and his accomplished
wife last night at their residence on
Vance street.
Captain John P. Murphy, of Pine
Bluff, who recently married Miss Mollie
Jones, of New Gascony, Arkansas, is in
the city with his bride, the guests of our
fellow-citizen, Mr.. P. G. Bigley.
The Irish Literary Association meets
tonight at the hall on Poplar street,
near Main. Subject for discussion; Re.
solved, That the tendency Of a republi.
can government is toward a monarchy.
0'Mara, who raised a check on Thos.
Fl. Allen & Co. from 1923 to 1923 and
received the money on it last Saturday
has been arrested in St. Louis, and vii
be remanded to Memphis to explain tina
little transaction.
The Louisville CourierJ ournal Of yes
terday announces the death in that city
of Charles P. Sengstack, who was fol
several years after the war engaged il
the drug business in Memphis, and wal
well known here.
a grand ball aud supper will be giver
in the courthouse at Ripley, Miss, oil
Monday night, April 18th inst, for tn,
benefit of the sufferers from the late dis
astrous tornado which swept over UHiol
and Tippah counties.
Somebody broke into Captain Light
burne's dog-house last night and stol,
his valuable pointer dog Sandy. H.
|, will pay five dollars for the return of tn,
dog and twenty-five dollars for the re
turn of the thief, under arrest.
The many friends Of Major Hugh an,
Mrs. Jennie Gywnn, of Nashville, vii
be panied tolearn that they lost thei
: only surviving child, Mary, a bright
sweet child of FIVE summers, on the l3t
t instant. She died Of scarlet fever.
Delinquent taxpayers will remembe
that they are charged and liable for 81
per cent. on taxes due since Novembe
. 1874, and will be at hal rate until ne1
. November. Those owing poll and do
tax will save costs and fees by payin
without delay.
Ex-Governor James 4. English an
son, Of Connecticut, after remaining
i day and a half in the city, left yesterda
=. by the one o'clock train for the Eas
They go to Europe next year. Tb
young man has recently completed b
=, collegiate studies, and is travelling wit
his father to see something of the worlC
A well-known lawyer brought suit j
the First Circuit Court to collect a del
/ Of sixteen hundred dollars, and made
. speech before the jury this morning
/. The counsel for the defendant claimed
credit of two hundred dollars. Lawyt
No. / said he had nothing to submit
reply, and would cheerfully leave IL
case to the jury. The jury was abser
t about two minutes and forty seconds an
returned a verdict for the defendant
full. The jury is o great institution.