Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-29
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at present By planters.
The Recorders Court failed to pre- I
sent a single item of news this morning.
Rev. A. Thomas will deliver the ora
ton in German at the Maifest on next
Monday.
Frank Leslie Of this week has an ex.
cellent illustration Of the recent Colored
Convention Of Nashville.
Should Don or Dom Pedro, Of Brazil,
come TO Memphis he would find that his
game Of Pedro is quite popular.
Jimmy Corwin has Frank Leslie's H.
Illustrated News, Harper's Weekly-very
interesting numbers, by the way, and
other popular papers.
The steamer Rosa Miller from Arkan-
sas river arrived at the landing to day
with a big cargo Of cotton. She leaves
for Little Rock this evening.
The citizens of Raleigh will indulge in
aMay day hop on next Monday evening.
Trains to carry out visitors will leave
the Louisville depot at 8 and 10 p.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary Of
the day when George Washington was
insugurated first President of the United
States of America, at New York, in
1889.
Mr.. Bob EdmondsoD, formerly Deputy
Sheriff of this county, died at his resi-
dence in the southern portion of the
county, of pneumonia, yesterday after
noon.
A negro prisoner at the station.heuoe,
named Wesley Polk, escaped early yes.
terday morning by %springing the cell
door and dropping into the alley from
the top of the outer wall.
A North Carolina journal has discov
cred that the great Tennesseean, Andrew
Jackson, derived the soubriquet "0ld
Hickory" from the use of a walking
stick made Of that kind of wood.
Cigarettes are smoked by the young
bloods of Memphis now instead of
cigars. Smoking cigarettes is a Spanish
and French custom, and a very delicate
one when regarded from a tobacco
standpoint.
Mr.. James Craft, of this city, died at
his residence on Market street this morn
ing of consumption. Mr.. Craft was a
member of the Bluff City Grays from
this city at the time Of the close of the
late war between the States.
The Radicals, or Republicans, as the
Avalanche calls them, will assemble in
convention at the Assembly Hall, on
next Wednesday, for the purpose Of
sending delegates to a State convention
. to be held at Nashville in May.
The Julia Mathews English Opers
: Bouffe Company will present the Bohe.
0 milan Girl at the theater matinee to-day
and will close their engagement to.nigh'
by presenting La Grande Dachesse, ont
of OHenbach's %jOlliest and most pOpulai
productions.
Music hath charms to soothe thl
savage breast" says the poet, and h
!. says truly, because last evening our mu
steal critic observed a man in the theate
dress circle sound asleep from the effec
of those lively airs found in La File d.
Madame Angot.
A petition was filed in the UniteI
: States District Court to-day by mer
chants of this city and creditors of JohI
Webb & Co., of Bells station, in thi
3 county, to force the firm into bank
ruptcy. The petition for i~nyoluntar!
bankruptcy is resisted by other creditors
The Brownsville States says that o.
= next Monday and Tuesday nights lee
lures will be delivered in that village il
aid Of the Presbyterian Church, by Rev
DR.. Boggs, of this city. The subjects Q
: the lectures are, The Relation Of Womsl
to the Church and Religion and Science
Boutonniers or button-hole bouquets
are sold on the streets by flower girls an
boys at prices ranging from five II
twenty five cents; consequently th
4 poorest citizens who love flowers, tn
summer glories, as they are poeticall
called, can indulge in his or her sent
ment OF a very moderate cost.
Father Tom Burke, the celebrate
At Dominican orator AMI controyersalist
ls who became SO popular in Memphis a
ID in other cities Of this republic, has gon
e. to Italy in order to accelerate the retur
is Of complete health. So the reports i
le circulation as to bis reyisiting this eour
IN try this year are improbable and III
Is founded.
One great essential for the puri6c'
IS ton of elections and the body polite i
er Memphis is t9 get the better classes
a people interested in caucuses and wal
meetings. For some time they have nc
e. always been run by the above class
people; but the Democratic and Conse
81 vative committees Of each ward shouI
at attend to these matters.
be Mrs. E. A. Meriwether, of our city, i
u tends delivering a public lecture ere lor
~. on the Social Condition Of Womenkir
lis in the United States" and will endesv