Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-05
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riety hall.
Mrs. Bowers in Lady Audley's Secret
at the theater to-Eight.
Nothing new in the Courts of Record
or Police Court to-day.
The river is rising rapidly at this
point, it being on a swell.
There is an ordinance against fast
driving, but it is not enforced.
I'm the spring a young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love" says
the poet.
Prot. Mueller gave a very charming
soiree dansante at the Memphis Club
Hall last night.
Mrs. Bowers will appear in Eleanor at
the matinee tomorrow, and in Ingomar
tomorrow night.
The City Hall ring candidate for con-
stable was beaten in the Fifth civil dis
trict yesterday.
The Memphis Maennoechor will give
an entertainment at Cochran Hall on
Sunday afternoon.
AT a meeting Of stockholders held yes.
terday the old Directory of the Memphis
Gas-Light Company was reelected.
The Jefferson Street Variety Opera
House has closed its doors once more on
account of lack of public patronage.
A new police order prohibits patrol
men from entering saloons except on
duty, or two patrolmen on the same beat
entering a place of amusement together.
Senators Haynes and 0verton, of this
county, insisted upon an investigation
of the charge oil bribery made by the
New Orleans Times in reference to the
election of A. j.
This forenoon Esquire Spelman COM
mitted a negro to Jail on the charge of
amusing himself by bouncing rocks on
the head Of his wife. He was introdu-
cling civil rights at home.
There are a number of negroes in this
city who desire to force themselves upon
the society of the white people-a very
dangerous experiment we take it, if we
understand the temper of the white race.
In the Fifth civil district yesterday
John W. Walker was elected constable,
his vote being 745, and that of his oppo.
nents being as follows. B. r. Henderson,
1903; j. BUTLER, 295; P. c. Rogers, 1872;
M. Conner, 553; Kirk Allen, So.
-Four %impudent negroes were admitted
to the theater dress-circle last night, all
of which created no little disgust and in
dignation among the audience. The
black cloud will probably hang around
on the ragged edge of the dress-circle
again tonight.
The Cerito troupe Of can-can dancers
and Female Minstrels took in over nine
hundred dollars on Tuesday night and
over five hundred dollars on Wednesday
night, a fact which goes far to point out
the prevailing dramatic taste of a large
class of our citizens.
Civil rights is the talk Of the town at
present, and it has created i'll feeling
between the white and black races, but
this is what the Radicals desire, and the
thing that the negroes should avoid, as
their interests here are identical with
those of the dominant and superior
race-called white.
On account of the storm last Sunday
night DR.. Walk was persuaded to post
pone the delivery of his sermon on the
Good Confession" involving the Lord
ship, the Sonship, the Divinity Of Jesus
of Nazareth. 1t will be presented next
Sunday night, and Linden Street Chris.
tian Church ought to be crowded.
The Nashville journals state that the
general impression seems to be that the
Legislature will not repeal the act Of
last session for the erection of insane
asylums in East and West Tennessee,
but will, by making no appropriations,
simply suspend the operation OF the act
until the State Treasury can better
afford such an outlay.
1t costs fifty dollars by way of a fine
for a woman to don male attire when the
same is brought to the notice of the Re.
corder. Why this is so is a mystery.
If a female, masculine in appearance
and nature, wishes to wear mans garb
aud work at mans labor instead of the
light and unremunerative work of a fe.
male, no objection should be offered and
certainly no penalty should be attached.
Life, liberty and the pursuits of happi.
ness so much landed in that old parch.
ment called the Constitution reads we'll,
but that's all.
Sol COleman'S TrabucO