Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-14
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laying colored eggs. h d
The young Hebrews propose to give q
picnic early in May. ana- OIL ri iba
Go to Spaugler's, 37S Main street for
Harpers new monthly for May.
A general complaint is made as to the
wretched condition of the sidewalks.
This is Good Friday, one of the most
memorable fast days in the Christian
calendar.
A little white girl fell from a window
on Market street, near Market Square,
this morning and was severely injured.
Eighteen hundred and forty three
years ago to-day Jesus Christ, the Savior,
was cruciGed on Mount Calvary between
two thieves. Is
Business in this city keeps moderately
well up this spring, but when the summer
season comes dullness is predicted in all
business circles,
That prize bale of cotton has at last
gone from our gaze, n'er more to return.
II was sent to Philadelphia via Barney
Hughes air line.
The German Building and Loan Asso.
citation Of this city received the sigua.
ture of the State officials at Nashville,
yesterday, and was duly incorporated.
At the theater tonight the Richings-
Bernard troupe will presentLe Brasseur,
or the Brewer Of Preston. At the matt.
nee tomorrow Lefty will be the attrae-
ton. fs.
To-day is the anniversary Of the assas.
siuation Of President Abraham Lincoln
in Ford's Opera House, Washington, BY
John Wilkes Booth, which event took
place in 1865. WOO :.
State superintendent rousdale, says
the Nashville American of yesterday,
goes to Memphis tomorrow for the pur.
pose of delivering a lecture on educs
ton OIL Friday night"
The Knoxville Tribune says: "a
small island just south Of Memphis has
been rapidly disappearing for sometime
past and forming another one lowel
down" This is news in Memphis.
In the Chancery Court to-day Judg,
Nor gan rendered a decision in favor o
George Cheek and against the Memphil
Oil Company for twenty-five shares o
stock, valued ut about four thousan,
dollars. b.
The Memphis bar is one Of the best
in fact the very best, in this or any othe,
State, but as John G.. SAKE said, "thr
profession is so full Of profession" tina.
on the part of many Of the member
there is more profession than practice
The committee on the steam engin,
trial test on yesterday afternoon, afte
due consideration, made a report recon
mending the Silsby rotary engine will
improved heater as the best engin
for extir gushing fires, and as less liabl
to get out of order, 1t was capable {
throwing more water under less steaI
pressure than the Ahrens.L atta engine
The General Council meets to-nigh
when the Council Committee on Stear
Fire Test will recommend the purchas
of two SilsbY rotary engines. The term
proposed by the Silsby rotary mauufat
turers are to furnish two second clas
engines for ten thousand dollars, t
receive the two old engines at thirty.fv
hundred dollars, and to make the remain
ing sum payable in one, two, three, fou
and five years.
Colonel Tom Avery is acting as sp,
cial Judge Of the Criminal Court to-day
presiding over the trial Of John Holmes
who stands indicted for the murder {
Thomas Montgomery. Judge Adams
incompetent to sit as Judge in the cas-
by reason Of interest, he having bee
one of the counsel employed in the cas-
when the killing took place. To-day th
lawyers are fighting over the i~mpanelin
of the jury-a matter Of no little impo
lance in a criminal case.
/. The Southern Dental Associate
which met in Nashville previous to a.
journment, elected the following officers
President W. G. Redman, Louisvill
Ky; Vice-Presidents, G. c. Sandusl ? l
Russell and E. s.. Chisholm; Correspon.
. ing Secretary, W. Il Dismukes; RecorI
ing Secretary, H. E. Beach; Treasure
S. j. Cobb. Drs. Samuel Rambo, L. I
2 Chisholm and Arthur Ford we're elects
as an Executive Committee. The co
v%ention adjourned until the second Tue
day in April, 1877.
The German American Building al
Loan Association held its first meetir
o last evening. A great many of Il
shareholders were present. The follo1
ing were elected officers Of the Associ
ton: L. Iglauer, President; Jot
4 Scheibler, Vice President; F. 8. Davi
Treasurer; a.. Bensdorf, Secretary;
! aud E. Lehman, Solicitors. Board
Directors: N. M. Jones, Gus Reder,
P. Hoffman, J.. N. Snowden, Lou
!. Hanauer, NJ. Marx, J. Schilling, O. Y
Metcalf, W. o. Hoskins.
In view of the dull times a ~conventit