Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-01
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The theatrical season of the Memphis
Theater closed on Saturday night.
The German Protestant Sunday
school will give a picnic ct James Park
Monday, June 9th.
The General Council will assemble
this afternoon to consider the proposed
impeachment Of the Recorder.
People 10 the country and throughout
the city are using tar aud grease in order
to keep the buffalo gnats from killing
their stock.
Thomas Johnson (neGfo) was arrested
by the police this forenoon on the charge
Of stealing a hat from Cohen's store on
Main street.
Sergeant-at-Arms Droescher has adopt.
ed a good plan in notifying the different
newspaper Offices when meetings will be
had Of the General Council.
This spring and summer Memphis will
be lively in the matter of out field sports,
such as trotting matches, base ball, long
range rifle shooting and pigeon shooting
contests.
The Nashville people have selected a
committee to make arrangements for
Decoration Day. Memphis hasn't moved
in that direction as yet. What the
matter2
The German Maifest is postponed on
account of the weather until Wednesday.
May 8, when the programme will be
carried out as advertised in another
column.
Mayor Flippip, acting Recorder, dis.
posed Of t%wenty-four cases this morning
by imposing fines for misdemeanors.
Dick Hill, a black larcenist, was COM
mitted to jail.
The Raleighites will indulge in a May.
Day hop tonight. Quite a number of
Memphians intend visiting the ancient
capital of the county upon that festive
and Te%rpsichorean occasion.
The Board Of Health mortuary report
for the past week gives the total deaths
as twenty-two-whites, thirteen; blacks,
nine, including FIVE deaths at the City
Hospital and one premature birth.
There is plenty of money in Memphis
in the banks, but it cannot be got out Of
there unless with g~iltedge paper, first.
class collateral, and paying iu addition
a heavy rate of interest on short time.
Dead animals now make it rather dis
agreeable for those who reside along the
banks of bayou Gayoso. AS the waters
in the bayou recede the putrid carcasses
of animals come in vieR and smell to
heaven.
The RAIDS" will hold a Convention
at the Assembly Hall on Wednesday for
the purpose Of selecting delegates to the
State Convention to be held at Nash.
vile on the 18th inst, for Presidential
purposes.
The treasurer and ushers of the Mem
phis Theater will be rendered a compli-
mentary benefit by their friends next
Wednesday night, the 10th instant. The
Bluff City Minstrels will furnish the en-
tertainmest.
Those desiring to rent the theater for
any purpose during the summer months
can do so by applying to Messrs. L. & E.
Lehman, No. 20 Madison street, Mana.
ger Brooks having left the city and gone
to Detroit for the summer season.
But little sickness prevails a present
in the counties adjoining Memphis,
either in this State, Arkansas or Missis-
sippi, and consequently physicians com
plain of hard times from a professionel
standpoint.
The merchants have been invited by
the City Tax-Collector to step up and
pay that 6fty.four cents on the one hun
dred dollars capital, of Nicolson pave
ment tax, in accordance with the recent
decision of United States Circuit Judge
Emmons, delivered at Nashville.
The city public schools will close in
June next, and in q few weeks there
after the Educational Board will have to
select a superintendent ia the place of
the present incumbent, who has given
almost universal dissatisfaction to the
public during his curious management of
school matters.
A long-range rife range is about to be
established at Olympic Park, so that the
boys who have Creedmoor rifles can 20
into training for the Centennial rife
matches at Philadelphia, There are
many excellent rife shots in Memphis,
and several gentlemen are Supplied With
Remington Creedmore rifles as we'll as
l~ong.rsnge rifles of other makes and
patterns.
The Democracy and Conservatives Of
Shelby county assembled at the EXPOSE
ton to-day to select delegates to the
State Convention. Democracy and Con-
serYative include all who are opposed to
the Radical party, and who will support
the Democratic and Conservative nomi.
nee for the Presidency as against the
nominee for the same Office of the Radi-
cal or Republican party in 1876.