Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-05
LEDGER LINES.


Hall tonight.
Police and Fire Commissioners meet
ing this afternoon.
Prussian military bend concert at the
theater tomorrow eveaing.
Dan Rice still holds the bluff with his
wonderful trained animal show.
The Howard Association has a fund or
assets in hand amounting to SAG, 49,, AZ,
with liabilities-none.
The PomerOyal baking powders have
become so popular in this city that it is
almost impossible to gil the orders.
Colonel TEN Avery is acting as Spe-
cial Judge of the Criminal Court, trying
the Carmichael aoigan killing case.
The new Mayor of Collierville is Mr..
John Lynch. The town has also a Re-
cOrder, Treasurer. Constable and FIVE
Aldermen.
The jury in the Oicalla SANDER suit
has not been able to agree upon a YER
dict, and the probabilities are that they
will agree.
The German opera, entitled Mord
grundbruck, will be rendered by the
Casino Club singing corps at Cochran
Hall tonight. Admission fifty cents.
A few cases Of misdemeanor appeared
on the Recorders docket this morning.
Stephen Leftwich (negro) arrested or
the charge Of larceny, was committed to
jail.
Match baseball game between the
professional nine" Of Memphis and
that OF Louisville, at the Olympic Park.
this afternoon.
Owing to the high waters and the
damage done to the track, trains be.
tween here and Madison, Ark, over the
Little Rock railroad, have been tempo
rarily suspended.
Very little real estate is changing
hands in Memphis this season. Quite
large amount Of personally is changing
hands, however, owing to the ~extensiv,
sneak.thieving going on.
Sneak-thieving is again becoming
charmingly frequent. There are a largl
number Of suspicious characters prowl
ing around town. They should b
pulled in" by the police authorities.
The black National Radical Conver
ton is in session at Nashville, Dele
gates from the different States and Tel
%ritories to the number Of 337 have bee.
invited. Tennessee has sixteen delegates
including the Memphis gang.
In the Criminal Court to-day patro
man 7. Carmichael is on trial for th
killing Of Pat Madigan, which unfortr
nate event took place some months sine
while officer Carmichael was attemptin
to arrest Madigan on q warrant, an
which arrest he resisted.
Buffalo gnats made their first appea
ance here on Sunday last. They hay
increased rapidly since then and are
great and dangerous annoyance
horses. They generally remain for
week or two, until the hot weather Sc
in, then they disappear, going we knO
not where.
The police are looking for a your
man named Liege Howell, who q fe
: days since dangerously wounded one 1
j. Walker in Pamela county, Mississippi
because Walker politely said to Howe.
you're a liar" and chOked him a lit:
for amusement. We have known mt
/. killed for much lighter offenses.
To-day, fourteen years ago with Il
. exception that at that time the day vi
Sunday, April 9th, the battle of ShilC
! commenced. Numbers of Memphial
, were killed and wounded in that terrib
fight. 1t was the opening contest in Il
Mississippi valley, the battle Of Be!mo
! fought previously, being only a comb
Of outposts in comparison.
D This is how a well known depu
! Sheriff, not a thousand miles from her
takes a forfeiture in open court: Kat
Schonesl Katie Schonesl you was to
, to cum right away, quick, by das cOul
ven you vas to answer dot State OIL d
charge of stealing some dings, and
you don't cum right away quick, as
told you, by goodness, you vas got III
vorviture by dot bonds, NIT dot vot
dold you"