Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-06
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Soon will come the season of ice-cream
and STRAWBERRIES.
The number Of street.beggars in this
city is rapidly increasing.
The legal street-car fare Is Eve cents,
aud citizens should pay no more.
Lawrence Barrett is meeting with quite
an ovation this week at Indianapolis.
The big annual Maifest on May day
will probably be the first picnic Of the
season.
An ice dealers wal is to be inaugu.
rated the present spring aud coming
summer.
Quite a heavy hail storm occurred in
the upper portions Of this county this
morning.
The Reds beat the Riversides at Cen.
trail Park on yesterday afternoon by a
score of IL to 8.
The Lawrence Barrett engagement a.
the theater next week will be quite at.
tractive and will draw crowded houses.
The General Council will assemble at
the courthouse again tonight in order
to progress with municipal business for
the month.
The State and county tax rate last year
amounted to 81 So, but this year It bat
9Oc., thanks to the action of the last
Legislature.
People who love good eating should
leave their orders for meats, poultry or
vegetables at Seessel's, corner Jefferson
and Second.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
fled by James s, Smith, Of Trenton,
Madison county, with tho clerk Of the
United States Court.
George Eliot says marriage is promo.
ton, but at present in Memphis it is com.
motion, because many more divorces
than marriages take place.
1t is asserted that the g~rasshoppsrs are
marching from the great West toward
the Mississippi river. and are destroying
crops as they 60 hopping on.
The County Quarterly Court having
gotten through with the regular GUINNESS,
adjourned yesterday afternoon to court
in course, the first Monday of July next
A very large crowd Of citizens is in
attendance at the Criminal Courtroom
to-day listening to the testimony intro
ddced in the Coe-Beach homicide case.
TIE new and elegant steamer Hard
Cash, Of which Captain R. W. Light.
burne is agent, will continue in White
river as an independent packet, Leaving
on Wednesday next.
Marshal Waldrsn has taken charge Of
his Office. for the district of West Tennes-
see. All the of,rmer deputies are still
acting, no changes having as yet been
made by the marehal.
The April showers, which are said to
bring forth May flowers, are falling to
day. The present weather is described
by a poet wherein Sunshine and shadow
are chasing each other"
The divorce season seems to have come,
it the numerous petitions for divorces on
nile and being fled in the Chancery and
Shelby County Circuit Courts can be
taken as a proof Of the assertion.
DR.. B. M. Avent, of our city, has been
elected President of the State Medicsl
Society now 10 session at Nashville, aud
DR.. Heber Jones has been elected the
West Tennessee vice president of the
society.
The river is in fne boating condition
at present. Hatchie river continues to
pour out its yellow food, laden with drift
Of all kinds. 1t has gotten over its
banks, and the adjoining lowlands are
submerged.
The Avalanchian wit insists that the
members Of the street car ring are like
Packard, Of Louisiana, because they are
opposed to accepting "nickels;" but there
ara other resemblanees between them
than the above.
The State and county rate of taxation
for 1877 is as follows: State tax 10 cents.
county general purposes) IS cents
Judgments 20 cents, NJ. and o. railroad {
cents, poor.house and p%est-heuse 5 cents.
schools Is cests; total 30 cents.
Quite an interesting revival OF religion
is progressing at Asbury chapel (Metho
dist on the corner of Linden aud Her
nando streets. Quite a number oil
converts have been made during the
meetings, which are held daily and
nightly,
Colonel Butler P. Anderson, of oul
city, has been appointed by Governor
Porter one of the trustees of the hospital
3 for the insane, to serve four years, anC
: Colonel W. W, Mcdowell has been ap
pointed one of the fish commissioners o
! the State.
Sol Coleman has baseball tickets for
sale at his house. he is also ready t.
distribute, on application, his unique