Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-06
LINES.

weather on account OF the rains.
The Church Home festival, al 1854
Main street, continues to attract visitors.
The St. Louis Red Sox defeated the
Eckfords, at Olympic Park yesterday af-
terDoon, by a score Of So to 4.
The DR.. d. s. johnson case, on in-
dictment for procuring an abortion and
murder, is on trial to-day in the Criminal
Court.
The city should make arrangements
With General Forrest so that our city can
be rid Of the thieves and Migrants who
infest it at present.
Sol Coleman is out with a new brand
the Australian cigar-par excellence in
favor and quality. He is now recog-
nized as the leading cigar man Of Mem.
pbis.
The Grand Jurors, in their report,
refer to the Adams street station-house
as a dilapidated old building, and suggest
that another station house should be
erected,
Three keepers Of gaming houses we're
arrested to-day for misdemeanors, or
keeping open their establishments. They
eich put up $25 forfeit and we're dis
charged.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the
great battle Of the Wilderness, in 1864,
aud to-day is the anniversary of the
death of Humboldt, the great German
naturalist.
The base.ballers will be out in force in
the suburbs Of the city on tomorrow
unless the rains compel them to keep
the Sabbath or celebrate it in a less mus
cular amer.
A dispatch has been received from
United States Circuit Judge Emmons
from Nashville to the effect that he will
leave hat city for Memphis tonight and
will open the United States District and
Circuit Court here on next Monday
morning.
The adjourned regular meeting Of the
General Council will be held at the City
Hall on next Monday afternoon. On
Tuesday afternoon the great impeach-
ment trial will again be considered by the
General Council, sitting as a municipal
high court.
The statue Of Hebe, life size, was
placed en- the top Of the Court Square
fountain yesterday afternoon. Water
was turned on as q test, and the jets
shot upward around the goddess, who
poured water from a pitcher into a cup
held in the other hand. The eject was
charming.
Mr.. j. A. Simmons has resigned the
!; position of Secretary Of the Peoples In
s%urance Company, Of Memphis, and has
. gone into business on his own account
The vacancy has been filed by the cleo
ton of Mr.. Darlington Mason, the we'll
: known insurance agent, to the position
/. Of Secretary.
Mr.. Frank Gray, the efficient treasu,
= rer of the Memphis Theater the past two
seasons, and the ever accommodating
ushers, Harry Alexander and John H.
Robb, will be the recipients Of a compli'
mentary benefit next Wednesday even.
ing. The Bluff City Minstrels, whose
performances heretofore have pleased
the public, will furnish the entertainment
with a carefully rehesrsed programme,
Some months since there appeared 10
many of the Tennessee journals, and in
= the LEDGER, what %purposed to be an &C,
count of the killing Of a Texas sheriff
by Buffalo Bill wv. F. Cody. This
turns out to be a canard, and has been
. corrected by the Rochester IN. ~
Democrat, Buffalo Bill being a resident
: of that city, and resided there at the
time this affair in Texas was supposed
J to have taken place,
The Court Square drinking fountain
is the individual property Of Colone
Elder, he having purchased it cut Of biz
own private purse, and he intends plac
ing it in the square, near the great foun
tain. He says if the city puts a like
drinking fountain on the sidewalk at the
other three gates Of the square he vii
: put this one outside the west gate. Tht
drinking fountain cost nearly three hun
bred dollars, les finish and design being
very elegant.
Charles Fl. Ames, the white man who
robbed the poor white Toman, Mrs. Ben
nett, of her beds and bedding, at th'
levee, on Thursday night last, was, OF
yesterday, indicted, convicted and sen
fenced to three years in the penitentiar!
by the Criminal Court, Ames left a por
ton of the goods at the well.known Ar
Z kansas House, on Washington street
h and another portion at the equally fam
Gus establishment known as the Bor
l. Ton" on Center alley, near Washington
= street, where they we're found by Ser
y geant Arrata Of the police.
The picnic season has been postponed
for the present, owing to the weather, bu
Il next week the epidemic will break fortl
A in its usual annual form. OF late year
~nicpioo bava haan chan0ad Eormarly