Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-12
LEDGER LINES.
Board Of Education meets tonight.


The picnic season is about to break
out.
The churches were well attended yes.
terday.
Policeman John Huber was welded
last night to on estimable lady.
McWade and the Gilbert Sisters had
good houses last week at Jackson, Tenn.
The special investigating committee is
expected to report to the General Council
tonight.
Mr.. Fred Brennan, city editor Of the
LEDGER, is confined to his room seri-
ously sick.
Look out The immortal philosopher
]. N. is loose, and his voice is again
heard in the land.
The report that Colonel w. B Green
law was very i'll yesterday proved to be a
mistake. He is out to day.
The leaves and foliage of spring put
forth rapidly last week, but will be set
back a little by the slight cool change
of last night.
Attorney General Luke E Wright was
in Brownsville last week. 1t was under
stood there that he would have some con-
nection with the trial Of the Bonds.
VIM M. Randolph's house was robbed
last night. The robbers entered through
a window and got into the pantry, carry
ing of goods to the amount Of City dol
lars.
Mortuary for last week; Total deaths,
2%l-whites, ID; blacks, Z. Males, IL;
females, 10. Adults, IL; minors, 10.
Under one year of age, 3. From the
hospital, 2.
The State, county and municipal tax
on saloons in Knoxville now amounts to
$3.50, and yet the business goes on. Pro
hibitory laws in disguise seldom work
well for society.
Mrs. John G Kimbrough, who com
mitted suicide recently on the bluff BY
shutting off her mortal coil of back hal
and turned up in St Louis, returned
Saturday with her husband.
Officer McGrath arrested a negro thi
morning named Abraham johnson Will
two sacks containing eleven chickens
supposed to have been stolen in Chelse'
or North Memphis The chickens ar
at the station.house awaiting identified
ton,
DeMursks and her company of artist
left to day for Nashville to play a shor
engagement there. This was her frs
visit here, but there are hundreds Of GU
people who hope it will not be the last
No one on the lyric stage has eve
created more enthusiasm and NOR
fairly and honestly won the plaudits of
critical public.
We learn that public feeling, whic'
ran high on the day that Medlin wa
killed at Brownsville, has greatly mod
fed in favor OF the Bonds. The exam.
nation is set for to day. Meantime the,
have been at home under a close guar,
from the Sheriff. Office. There is none.
and influence on both sides to contes
the ease closely.
We have just heard of a sad acc'den
to one of our oldest and most worth
' citizens, DR.. S. G. Snyder, Will,
Z descending a stairway in the cellar c
the Walker Block, from which a ste
had been removed, the doctor fell int
the opening and fractured the large bon
! of the left leg. Although theiujury is
, painful one and sometimes serious at h
: time of life, we are glad to learn tbs
9 the doctor is doing we'll and Cheerful
and hopes are entertained that in du
time he will recover from this sore a
Fiction.
J A county superintendent in this Stat
not long since visited a small schot
) taught by a lady. The teacher calle
5 up the class, but was much perplexed 8
! the absence Of one OF the boys. B
could not be found, and she proceeded
: Teacher" Who made your Ito boy
head Of the class Boy-"Ad4m
: Oh, no; | asked you who mad
! you; be quick B with renewed col
fdence) Adam, marn." 7 (ccl
] fused)-0h, no! God made you"
, (triumphantly)-"O Oh, You git out; Ii
! boy God made has gone to the spring,
E Exit teacher.