Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-24
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The weather yesterday was rather sui.
try and summary for April.
The R. A. R. Mystic society is increas-
ing in members rapidly in this city.
Market and private gardening is pro.
crossing and aourishing in the suburbs
Of the city.
On Wednesday next the Odd Fellows
of the city will celebrate the anniversary
Of their order.
st. Georges Benevolent Association
will celebrate St. Georges Day with a
banquet tonight.
20 why should the spirit OF mortal he
proud2" is q popular conundrum in
Memphis at present.
Summer dresses and hats appeared in
profusion at the different fashionable
churches on yesterday.
The Christian Brothers College Cen.
tennial Exposition will commence to-
morrow evening at the Exposition build.
ing.
Girohe Giroda will be presented at the
theater next Thursday evening by the
Julia Mathews English Opera Boufe
Company.
The total deaths in the city, according
to the mortuary report Of the Board Of
Health, amounted to nine-whites six,
blacks three.
The theater box Office opened this
morning for the sale of seats for the en-.
gagement of the Julia Mathews English
Opera Boufe Company.
Next Monday will be the first Of May,
and on that day the sanitary force Of the
Board of Health will begin to enforce
strict sanitary regulations.
Next Wednesday afternoon there will
be an amateur pigeon shooting match at
the fernando Trotting Park, il which
contest a number of our best shots will
engage.
To-day is the anniversary Of the com
mencement of war between the United
States and Mexico in 1886, the difficulty
having grown out of the annexation of
Texas.
The river is falling all the way down
to Vicksburg and consequently planters
down the coasts and bends are jubilant.
A speedy and rapid decline Of water is
sure to take place.
jackson, Tenn, will celebrate Memo
rial Day on the 18th of May. Memphis
has not as yet selected a memorial day
for Elmwood and the heroes who sleep
within that charming spot.
The young people are arranging 10
start the German" again, now that
Lent is over, and in consequence the
rival leaders Of the German are discuss
ing the subject daily and nightly.
The man Of business who wants the
public to know where he is and what be
is doing should put his small change
where it will do him the most good, by
advertising in the columns of the LEDGER
For the first time in many years no
politics can be discovered around the
City Hall. Up there at present it is all
business, and ward politicians now fire.
quent back offices and the dark corners
of beer saloons.
The Clarksville Chronicle heralds the
arrival of Hop johnson, city editor of
the Appeal, in that village by saying:
The McGregor is on his native heath,
and we hope will soon be restored to
health" which latter hope we echo re-
sponsively.
The Nicolson pavement now affords
the finest exercise for those who ride in
bugeies, hacks or in the street cars. The
jolting is quite as good as a sea voyage,
as you are pitched up from yonr seat
easily and let down hard. The streets
are sadly in need of repair.
Our amateur musicians and vocslists
deserve no little commendation for the
generous manner in which they voIun-
teer to appear in aid of almost every
public enterprise. 1t is very self-sacri-
fcing on their part and is worthy of
public recognition and approval.
Little knots of ward politicians now
get together and settle the election Of
the next Police and Fire Commissioner
to suit themselves. THE best laid
schemes Of mice and men, aft gang
aglee," and there's many a gun which
will be spiked ere this matter is settled.
The Chickssaw Guards, if they did
not win that cup from the Porter Rifles,
got away with the Nashville boys at the
ball, for, as Shakespeare says
"Grim-yisaged war hath smooth'd his wrin-
killed. front;
And now. instend Of mounting barbed steeds
10 fright the souls Of fearful adversaries,
He oapers nimbly in q lady's chamber,
10 the lascivious pleasings ef a lute."
Isn't Senator Key getting things a
little mixed when he says in his letter,
believe that the South was right in
the war, but the war decided that it was
in the wrong etc.P The exact distinc
ton between right and wrong is not very
logically stated in the above sentence
but let that pass"
At the baseball game on yesterday, at