Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-01
THE CITY.
Tues Ing Evening, May 1, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

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The general council meets tomorrow
afternoon.
Wheat and q~uinine are going up to
famine figures.
Horses and buggies and sad lie horses
for hire at Al Court street. [57]
Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine for
June, at Spangler's, 376 Main street.
The board Of education will meet en-
the second Monday in May, the l4th
inst.
To-day is May day, the first OF May
a day embalmed in verse by the poets Of
all ages,
Coles big circus passed through here
yesterday and went westward via the Lit
tie Rock railroad.
The general council on yesterday at.
%ternoon reelected j. F. Frank as a police
and fire commissioner.
Down the river fears are entertained
about the overflow. Many persons will
have to plant ver again.
Decoration day for The Federal dead
vii be celebrated on the Both of May al
all the national cemeteries.
The anniversary exercises Of the Odd
Fellows at the Greenlaw Opera House
last night, we're largely attended.
On the corner of Madison and Main,
where Oliver, Finnie & Co. formerly did
business, a two story brick building is to
be erected as rapidly as possible.
The baseball contest between the
Louisville League Club and the Memphis
Reds closed yesterday afternoon at the
Central Park by a score of 5 to O.
At the Shelby county Circuit Court to
day a divorce petition was fled by Mrs.
Mollie Lester against James W. Lester
on the grcund Of abandonment, etc.
The announcement in to.day's LEDGER
Of the death Of Senator Brownlow, which
event took place at Knoxville on last
Sunday, will astonish numbers of people.
On tomorrow night a lecture will be
delivered at the Greenlaw Opera House,
by the Hon. "Sunset" Cox of New
York, aud for the benefit Of the Ladies'
Christian Association.
The well-known opera entitled Mar.
tina will be presented at the theater on
to. morrow night, with Mrs. Czapski as
Lady Harriet Durham, and Miss Hat.
tie Collins as Nancy"
At the Chancery Court on yesterday a
bill of divorce was filed by Julia Logan
against Samuel Logan on the grounds oil
abandonment, lack of affection, want Of
affinity, failure to support, etc.
At IL m. yesterday a fire broke cut in
the kitchen in rear Of the residence OF
Mr.. Cook, No. $40 Laudordale street.
The fire was accidental, and the damage
done amounted to fifty dollars.
The seven ages OF man are now counted
up as follows: First, image (of his
father, of course); second, homage;
third, ofage; fourth, marriage; fifth,
parentage; sixth, anecdotage; seventh,
dotage.
Judge Heiskell, of the Shelby county
Circuit Court, Tomorrow morning will
announce his opinion in the case Of the
street Railroad company with reference
to the constitutionality Of the law repeal.
ing the ten cent fare act.
The conclave of Knights Templar in
this city on Thursday next promises to
be a grand affair. The visiting Sir
Knights will be entertained in a hospit.
able manner, and among other things
will be treated 10 q river excursion on
board the steamer Coahona.
To-day Mr., s.. L, Reneau, who has a
smsll-lrait farm about four mile. east Of
the city, presented the LEDGER Office with
q basket Of delicious strawberries. Mr..
Reneau expects to supply the strAwber.
~ market this String, he having Ave
acres of a strawberry bed in an advance
state Of PERFECTION.
This morning the jury in the case of
the Mary Burton rioters not being able
to agree, and one OF the jurors being go
sick for a day or two as not to be able to
attend as a juror, q mistrial was entered