Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-10
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the theater tonight in Balfe's latest work
entitled Lefty.
The Jewish celebration Of the Feast Of
the Passover commenced last Saturday
evening at 6 o'clock.
The mortuary report Of the Board Of
Health for the past week gives the total
deaths at 22-whites, 9; blacks, 10.
At the Recorders court to-day James
Smith and Anderson Boyd (negroes)
we're committed to Jail on the charge of
larceny.
The Prussisn Military Band will re.
main here until tomorrow, when they
depart for New Orleans, where they will
give a series of concerts.
Candidates for county Offices are al
ready beginning to crop out aud circu.
late on a hand-shaking raid among the
people, but they do not say anything as
to their candidacy as yet. b.
Horse and buggy men now fly up and
down Washington street, it being the
smoothest and best paved street in the
city. The i~ron-horse is not the only
horse that runs over that track.
The big river and booming tributaries
prevent any great amount Of business
being carried on by our coast packets.
1t is no use to land goods on a river
bank when all the world is 10 a sea.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee on
Friday last decided not to decide the
Bank Of Tennessee case until next term,
Holders of the new issue in Memphis
will have to hold on and take it easy
until that time.
The Criminal Court jury ia the Ger
michael Madigan homicide case had moi
agreed upon a verdict up to | o'clock to
day, and there seems to be little posi-
bility Of an agreement being arrived al
this term Of court.
Those who attenG the Sunday nigh
sacred concerts at the theater are nov
called "heathens." There we're abou
four hundred very respectable male snC
female heathens at the concert givei
last night by the Prussiau Military Band
Miller, the spirituallst. is a good car
penter and has gone to work at his trade
If he had stuck to it all the time MI
Samuel Watson would moi have been IN
der the necessity of passing around tn,
hat so sften for the benefit Of that yer,
poor family,
The Police and Fire Commissioner
will hold another meeting this Afternoon
to consider city matters from a polio
standpoint with reference to Sunda
night concerts, saloons open on Sunda
and other matters Of interest to hui
dreds Of citizens.
Yesterday, the 9th instant, was th
anniversary of the surrender of GeherI
Lee, in 1865, aud the war between ii
States virtually came to an end, and t
day is the anniversary of the murder
General Candy of the United State
army by Captain Jack and his Modoc
in 1873. at the Lava Beds.
The kid.gloved folks will be disguise
at learning that now Connecticut-mad
kid gloves enter into eempstition wit
kid gloves from France and even th
cheap gloves from Italy, often withcr
the knowledge of the purchaser, but il
variably at cheaper p4lces.
Hardly a night passes but what som
bioulous individual walks into the ST.
tion-house, on Adams street, in search
a drink. The colored globe light outsid
and the long counter within fool th
strangers, they installing the place whel
drunken people are locked up for Ii
place where people get drunk,
Many Of our Catholic fellow.citizer
wore palm in their hats yesterday, it beiu
Palm Sunday. 1t recalled the entry
Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. He rod
upon an ass and the multitude strewe
his path with boughs aud branches
the beautiful palm tree. This is know
in the religious world as holy Week, nel
Sunday being Easter Sunday and th
close OF the Lenten season, which wi
h We lasted forty days.
The attention Of the Mayor has bee
call by several citizens to the gross vi
%lation oil the Sunday laws with referent
to keeping places of business open an
upon other subjects, and he has, it is r.
mored, addressed an official note to Il
Police Commissioners asking if sur
violations of the ordinary rules of pr
priety exist, aud if so, why are such thin
permitted. The Commissioners at the
, meeting this afternoon will consider Il
/ contents Of the letter, and oct accor
ingly,
: The Ladies' Benevolent Associatio
I of New Orleans erected a beautif
monument over the graves Of the Co
t federate dead at Greenwood Cemeter
and on the 9th inst, the anniversary
? the battle Of Shiloh, as is their custol
they decorated the graves at the cen
terry with flowers. The heleotrope, 4
/ miguonette, pansy, violet, wild rose al