Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-18
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nan tonight.
Harrigan and Hart at the Greenlaw
Opera House tonight.
The elephant Bolivar at Myers Opera
House every night this week.
The Wallace Sisters in ~Jaquette, or
In the Tolls, at the theater tonight.
Charley Locke and Fred Schaper are
leading candidates for the office of City
Tax Collector.
The County Quarterly Court is still at
work on the petitions asking a reduction
oil assessments.
Henry Randel black was committed
by the Recorder to-day on the charge of
shooting with intent to kill.
A number of Aldermen and Council
men held a little caucus yesterday.
Mayor Flippin did not attend.
Secretary Cairnes, ofthe SchoolBoard,
will receive sixty dollars per month, and
the bond of the Treasurer has been fixed
at twenty thousand dollars.
Areas Of rain appear in Old Prob's
dispatches during the past few days. He
will soon be able to announc the COM
mencement Of the second deluge in the
Mississippi valley.
James A. Chastaine has been dis.
charged from custody, the indictments
found against him in the Criminal
Court having been mol pressed" by
agreement Of counsel and prosecutors.
At the reorganization of the School
Board last night DR.. R. W. Mitchell was
reelected President and Hosea Town.
send Vice President. Mr.. j. G. Cairnes
was selected as Secretary and S. P. Read
Treasurer.
Tom 0. Sullivan, the we'll known
liquor importer on the corner of Second
and Washington streets, has received
another Remington Creedmoor rife of
elegant make and finish. 1t is a beauty
and worth examining.
The concert and operate entertain.
ment given by the German Casino Club
at Cochran Hall last night under the di
rection of Professor Schultze was largely
attended and may be put down as a mu-
steal success in every respect.
Tweuty-eight specimens of humanity
were stuffed like sardines in a box into a
Beal street mule car last evening on an
outgoing trip. The little overloaded
mule worked hard and pulled the terrible
load. This is cruelty to animals-we
mean both bipeds and quadrupeds.
Candidates for municipal appoint.
ments are increasing in numbers as the
night of appointments approaches. Each
man thinks his claims to the office which
he seeks is better than the claims of any
other man, and the other fellow has the
opposite opinion or a like opinion with
reference to himself.
Sam Letcher, the colored janitor of
the City Hall, is the most polite and af.
fable man connected with the building.
Indeed, he is Chesterfield in tints, and
he also possesses a vast amount of infor.
nation concerning persons aud things,
he having travelled not only in this coun.
try bat in foreign lands-with the Letch.
ers ofNKentpcky.
Six courts Of record-the Recorders
Court and. any number of magistrates
courts--are attending to the legal status
of persons and things in the city at pre-
sent. Justice is duplicating herself con-
siderable and her scales are continually
tipping up on enc end or the other, and
the bandage which covers her eyes is no
doubt becoming a nuisance, just as it
would be to any person engaged in play
ing Blind Mans Buff"
United States Consul l.. E. Dyer, sta.
toned at Odessa, Russia, has sent his
friends here his New Years card printed
in the Russian language. If Colonel
Dyer speaks by the card" he will not
be understood in Memphis. The Colonel
was a leader Of the black hosts while
here apd is now located on the shore Of
the Black sea; a poetical analogy worth
to him three thousand dollars per an.
mum, with perquisites attached.
A leading minister of a popular church
in this city has announced q new rule in
church matters. 1t is that the church
will sustain itself, and no boxes, bags or
baskets will be poked under the noses of
visitors for dimes during the services.
Boxes will be put up in the church near
the doors, into which the members are
expected to put their Sunday donations,
and if strangers so desire they also can
voluntarily follow the example, but.no
seductive invitation at the end Of a pole,
in the shape Of q basket, bag, or plate,
will be seen again in that church. This
is en- innovation worthy of being adopted
by every ohursh in the City,
RUBBERS RUBBERS! RUBBERSl
500 Pairs Ladies', Ovor.