Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-22
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week were 26-whites, II; blacks, Ia.
Several of the cigar box represent
atives are in town On a flying visit from
Nashville.
To morrow night Emmett will appear
as Fritz" at the theater. There will be
no performance tonight.
Lent does not prevent crowds Of peo-
Bile from attending theater matinees or
the Friday night performance.
The LEGAL option temperance law and
the conventional interest question are
the Legislative elephants at present.
There are a large number Of loafers
and thieves in the city at present, and
they commit little depredations nightly.
At an election held in the Second civil
district Captain E. d. Hunter was
elected magistrate aud David Strayhorn
constable.
The anniversary Of the Memphis
Bethel was held in the City Hall building
yesterday. The exercises we're of an
interesting character.
The Legislature stands adjourned un-
til tomorrow Tuesday, morning, so
that the law makers could celebrate the
birth of the Father of his Country.
Sheriff Anderson will in a few days
select a day to elect a constable in the
Fifth civil district, TO fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Constable
Tom Quinn.
Our exchanges come to us freighted
down with the disgusting particulars of
the Beecher-T ilton trial, but in Memphis
the topic has ceased to be one of interest
or a subject of conversation.
What is a newspaper is a onnun
drum that was long since answered by
Bulwer, who said, that 1T was a common
reservoir into which every stream pours
its living waters, and at which every man
may come and drink"
A new organ has been put up in St.
Mary's church Catholic on the corner
of Third and Market streets. The organ
will be tested during Easter, as during
the solemn season Of Lent no music is
heard in Catholic churches. =.
The members of the bar will meet at
the bar library rooms at ten o'clock to.
morrow morning, for the purpose of pro-
testing against the proposed Legislative
enactment abolishing the Second Chan.
Gerry and Second Circuit Courts.
Cows and hogs disappear from the
suburbs of the city in a most mysterious
manner, and too often the plundered
resident has to purchase his own beef
and hog meat at retail, and eats such
without recognizing his lost property.
Major George Gibson, discussing off
Ger Of the United States, stationed at
this point, went to Little Rock on Satur-
day last for the purpose of settling
claims due TO negro soldiers. Major
Gibson will return to Memphis to-day.
The Nashville Union and American
says that engine No. lO4. on the Mem
phis and Louisville railroad, has been
named Andy johnson" by the engineer,
aud in consequence of the thing having
a strange habit Of running of the track.
The "Aycops" (detectives) are still
working away, endeavoring to trace up
Johnson and Morris, the escaped express
robbers, 1t is now believed that these
notorious villains secured nearly twenty
thousand dollars by the robbery of ex.
press messenger Brady.
The slim audiences at the theater on
Saturday nights is due to the fact that
the regular or fashionable theater-goers
do not attend on the last night of the
week, but nevertheless, the house could
be crowded il the management would
put down the price Of dress circle and
parquette to fifty cents, aud family
circle to twenty FIVE cents.
Stamp your bank checks, drafts, etc.,
or you will have 10 pay a fine of fifty
dollars for the neglect. The late act
provides that every check or paper used
as "a voucher upon which money is drawn
from a hank, either on time or on demand,
must be adorned with a two cent stamp,
which stamp shall be cancelled with the
date Of the voucher and initials Of the
signer.
A citizen living in the suburbs bought
two COWS from a negro on Saturday, and
promised TO pay for them when he re-
ceived a regular bill of sale proving the
ownership. The negro left, but failed to
return, thus showing that he had stolen
the COWS. The gentleman sent them 10
the Chelsea stock yard, subject to the
Identification Of the parties owning
them.
The workingmen met at the City Hall
on Saturday night and adopted a memo
rial to the General Assembly OF the
State, suggesting reforms for the city
government, as well as the State and
county. A permanent organization was
effected, and the meeting adjourned over
to next Saturday evening. The perma-
rent organization is called the Working
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