Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-19
LEDGER ZINES.

Co.'s.
General Marcus ]. Wright and Mr..
Upshaw propose to start a new paper at
Columbia, Tenn, about the FIRST Of May.
Great preparations are being made in
this city to celebrate the ffty-sixth ami
versary of Odd Fellowship, which occurs
on Monday, the 26th Of April.
DR.. A. A. East, for eleven years as
sistsnt physician Of the Lunatic Asylum
at Nashville, has resigned, and DR.. Mi.
chael Campbell is appointed in bis place.
Miss Lacy Mcclure, one Of the most
charming young ladies Of Memphis, &C.
companIed by her cousin. Miss Moore,
has retained from New Orleans, where
she has been visiting her friends for
many weeks.
While the workmen engaged on the
sixteen-'oot sewer back Of Menken's
store we're a. dinner to-day, the bank
ceved in and filled it up. They made a
a narrow escape with their lives,
IL is reported that Mt. O. H. P. Ben
nett, of Columbia, Tenn, proposes to
drain 5000 acres Of ReelfootL Lake. The
land was entered sixty years ago and
shortly afterward depressed by an earth
quake.
The meeting at the County Court
room, appointed for to. night, to receive
the report of the committee appointed
to raise funds for the Christian Broth.
ers' College, has been postponed, subject
to the call of The chairman.
A welpknown sportsman of thiv city
was arrested one afternoon last week for
blowing a whistle to call his dog. The
arrest was an arbitrary assumption of
power. The police authorities recog.
nized this and discharged the prisoner
after he'tad beenlocked up a few min.
utes.
Divine services for Passover Will be
held this.evening& ct halfpast six and to-
morrow ct 8 a. m in the Temple, corner
Main and Exchange streets. At the
morning service Religion in Freedom
aud Freedom in Religion-lectuFe by
Rev. DR.. Sam6eld, Rabbi of the Congre-
CATION.
A certain minister not two thousand
miles of has an uncomfortable way Of
going into a certain saloon and sitting
down to see how many of his flock drop
in, %just'to see what time it is or if Eohn
Smith has been there lately. Very few
Of them call for drinks, which convinces
the pastor that his is an exceptionally
temperate congregation. That clergy.
man lives in Troy.
The Nashville papers mention that
the County Court Clerk Of Davidson
county reported collections Of privilege
taxes for the State amounting to $685.
$40 So for the quarter ending April l,
1875, and that the Clerk of Shelby county
reported emily $2l, 467 68 for the same
period. There must be some mistake
about this. The collections in Shelby
county Of State revenue for the same
period in R74 amounted to $3O,O4 80
exclusive Of tax Oh marriage licenses,
conveyances, etc., and the rate Of taxa
ton has not been changed. Davidson
county is surely not that much ahead of
Shelby. The difference would be ST.
342 81.
Colonel Sam ireland, a distinguished
eolored politician, formerly of this city,
who is proctor, treasurer and superin.
tendent of the klcorn University of Mis-.
sissippi, has written a beautiful letter to
the editor Of the Wicksburg Herald, or
dering him to desist from publishing
them letters" The spelling is equal
to Josh Billings, but the grammar is
not. 1t is a rich document, full Of threats
and boasts. He spells college "colledge,"
crying, "cryon," wOrst, " wusst," again,
agin," any, emmy" associate, " soci-
ate" bowling, howlin," s%coundrel,
scounderel," a~bolishing, "abolishih,"
etc., etc. The Herald man thinks there
is no hereafter, doubtless, and refers to
an expected picture from the rogues'
gallery in New York, and to Samuel as
a late convict from Sing Sing. ro' a2i.
Sol COleman's " Break on Truth.
So from the time we first begin to know,