Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-18
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The Memphis Centennial bale Of cot
ton has safely reached Philadelphia.
Base ball will be INDUCED in by the
Riversides and Memphis clubs al 0lym-
pic Park this afternoon.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
will appear in RObertson's play, entitled
Caste, on Friday evening next.
A few DRINKS and disorderlies and sew
eral negro thieves we're arrested BY the
police, and locked up in the station.
house last Right.
Mr.. John P. Samuels, OF the Circuit
Court office, on yesterday was made the
recipient of a bran new girl baby, a
youthful centennialite.
The jury de lunatico inquirendo sum.
moned by Sheriff Anderson to determine
the sanity or insanity of Mr.. Thomas G.
White, is in session at the County Court.
room to-day.
The General Council adjourned last
night to the first Wednesday in Nav
when the Council will meet at 8 o'clock
in the afternoon, according to the sum.
mer schedule.
Spring dresses are rather backward in
coming forward, owing TO the cool
weather, so the bellies are unable to sing,
Pin backward, pin backward, oh, skirts
in thy fight" etc.
Mr.. S. S. Davis, Supreme Chancellor
of the Knights Of Pythias of the world,
will arrive here from Little Rock to-mor.
row, and will be received by his brethren
with proper honors.
The Julia Mathews Comic Opera
Troupe, composed Of twenty artists, will
appear at the Memphis Theater next
Thursday week, for four nights, the
opening performance being the famed
Giroae- GiroAa.
At the General Council meeting last
night our i~tem-hunting reporter observed
Captain Lefingwell, the Inspector Of
Weights and Measures, present. he
must have been there for the purpose Of
testing the scales of justice.
Aldermen Dent and Grant and Coun.
cilmen Boyle, Weller and Gibson were
appointed by the General Council last
night to prepare and present articles Of
impeachment against Recorder Duff, so
that a speedy trial of the case eau be
had.
A few nights since q number of belts,
brass buckles and other warlike gear
were stolen from the Chickasaw Guards
armory, or Adams street. Yesterday
detective McCune recovered the property
at the place where the thief had disposed
of it.
Tomorrow evening at the Memphis
Club Hall the Bornemsnn benefit will
take place, when the Italian opera, Don
Giovanni, and the German comic opera
entitled Mordgrundbruck, will be pre-
scented by our leading professional anG
amateur artists.
A lady member of the Women's Chris
tan Association proposes to suppress to
baeco chewing and smoking, and asks
the chewers and smokers to quit and
send the money they are in the habit o.
spending for these luxuries to the Office
of the association on Main street.
The Common Council adopted a resolu.
ton last night authorizing the Mayor to
sign the contract for the purchase of the
two new Silsby rotary engines, but the
Board of Aldermen refused to cencur
and the matter remains in a tangle for
the present from a water-squirtiug stand
point. sis
In the Waddy Thompson case, on ap.
plication fer a change of venue, on the
grounds Of undue excitement and preju.
dice against him in Shelby county, Judge
Ray, Of the Bartlett Circuit Court, to.
day, after hearing the testimony and ar
guments, refused the application for the
change of venue. .Hl.
The excavation for the Court Square
fountain is completed, and work has
been suspended for a day or two until a
set Of iron pipe elbows arrive from the
East, SO that the water main at present
running through the fountain site can
be changed SO as to go around the foun.
tain instead Of under it.
At o'clock last evening the Osceola
Belle on her upward trip, while Skirting
the willows near Bradley's Landing, IF.
teen miles above here, ran into a planta.
ton and got wedged between the trees,
owing to the mistake Of the pilot who
missed the river and took to the over
flow. The particulars will be found in
another column.
At the Recorders Court this morning
Mayor Flippin held court. A number
of misdemeanor cases were disposed Of
by fines. Henry Piner, la~rcenist, was
committed in default of $500 bail. Geo.
Houston, arrested for committing an as.
sault and battery with intent to kill, was
taken out on a warrant sworn out before
Esquire Spelman.
Two gentlemen met on Main street
yesterday afternoon and q third man