Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-06

and tonight.
Urania Tableau Club exhibition at
the theater matinee on Saturday.
Let the Confederate monument al
Elmwood be completed this year.
But six cases were before the Recorder
to-day, the trial lasting ten minutes.
The Blue and the Grey has become
a popular poem just now in Memphis.
Sweetest Of table butter in five pound
stone crooks at Oliver, Finnis 4 Co.'s.
Mr.. l. Corwin, of the European Res
taurant, died last night of pneumonia
The Irish Literary Association meets
tonight at their hall, 80 Poplar street
to decide whether Republics tend to q
Monarchy.
Corwin's restaurant on the European
plan, opened a few weeks since on Sec
ond street, has been closed, owing tt
financial embarrassment.
The police and FIRE departments are
now under the immediate control Of tht
FIVE commissioners, Messrs. Leath, Va
caro-, Moore, Frank and Magevney.
Boulevarding" is what they call il
now, if you drive out Poplar street OF
Sunday or lounge into q beer garden tC
sip the foamy fluid that costs a nickel q
pint.
The Sodality picnic at James Parl
yesterday and last night, owing to the
rain and GOODNESS of the weather, die
not attract a large crowd of spring pic
nicers.
Remove those exposed cofins from
that city highway which runs through
Winchester Cemetery. The last rain
exposed an additional number of human
remains.
VIM. and Frank Evans, arrested b,
detective McCune on the charge Of rob
bling a store on Front street, were to-da!
committed to Jail without bail by til,
Recorder.
When the vetoes we're being intro
duced by the Mayor yesterday a wei
known Councilman cried out, "Give u
a harder one;'' a spelling school deman,
reversed.
Several little City Hall politician
made the discovery at the General Cour
Gil meeting yesterday that the nev
charter vas in force, and that the oil
one was dead and buried.
Every branch of business is dull, eve
the criminal branch, judging by the fev
arrests that are made and the fe'
offenders hat are carried to the Adam
street station.house at night.
Citizens meeting at the Chamber {
Commerce tomorrow evening at eigh
o'clock for the purpose Of making al
rangements for the M~ecklenburg center
NAL celebration on the Goth instant,
The lady managers Of the Cburc
Home intend giving a spelling-match fc
the benefit of the orphans at the Churc
Home, and have invited Mr.. Kirkland {
take charge Of the entertainment. Du
notice will be given Of the time an
place.
We see by the Houston Telegram
that Captain f. M. Mahan, President {
the National Wator-works Company {
New York, is in the city with a view
building works there. He has been r
markably successful at Kansas City an
elsewhere.
Mr.. S. Toube, a well.known wholesal
boot and shoe merchant, received a
agreeable surprise this morning in Il
shape of q youthful Toube of the ma
%culine gender. Everybody is doing
we'll as could be expected under the CT
cumstances.
Some scamp went around town a mig
or two since sad cut out from the poste
Of Treasurer Brooks benefit the nan
of one of the fair vocalists who tenders
her valuable aid to the concert whit
came off at the theater last night. A
! the posters from Poplar to Beal on Ma.
aud on several other streets were tn