Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-30
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
Monday Evening, april 30. 1877.
LEDGER LINES.
Braids and curla At lauinna,a

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The gentle April showers ore over for
the present.
Horses and buggies and sad lie horses
for hire at Al Court street. ISL
Next Wednesday the general council
will assemble in regular monthly session.
Hon. Sunset Cox, of New York, will
lecture here on next Wednesday night.
The Historical Society of the State
will meet at Nashville te-morrow after.
noon.
The meeting Of the Blood horse Asso-
citation will come of at Jackson, Tenn q,
on the 9th of June next.
The Memphis Reds and the Louisville
League club will play another game this
afternoon at Central Park.
The river is falling at this point to day.
SO far no great damage has taken place
below here in the bottom lands.
The number of deaths which occurred
in the ctr during last week was 9; Of
which 3 were whites and 6 blacks.
McEvoy's Hihernica gave a perform.
succ at the Memphis Theater last even
ing before quite a large audience.
A slight frost occurred last night in
this vicinity and as far south as Grenada,
Miss but not sufficient to injure the
fruit.
The Nashville races commenced to
day. The attendance is large and more
horses and better ones arc present THAI
is usual.
Owing to the European war many
planters are changing crops and are
sowing wheat and planting corn instead
Of cotton.
Rev. Mr.. Thomas delivered an inter
esting lecture last night at the Third
street German Protestant Church on the
subject Life and Times Of Robert
Burns"
The late storm started in Mississippi
and Travelled eastward, passing through
West and Middle Tennessee and doing
very great damage to houses, fences and
forests.
The Mississippi has commenced fall.
ing at this point. The Mississippi is like
Truth, which the poet describes as fol.
lows: Truth crushed to earth will rise
again" etc.
There are more resident physicians"
at Hot Springs, Ark, than in any other
city on the continent. and no wonder, as
"a Hot Springs physician has to attend to
all the ills that flesh is heir to-"
Next Thursday evening a marriage
ceremony will be celebrated at the Lin.
den street Christian church, the con
tracing parties being Mr.. Ike Peters and
Miss Maggie Woodbridge of this city.
The Memphian, a weekly journal pub.
iishsd by a company, is replete with local
and general news. The Office Of the
company is at No. l76 Main street, be.
tween Washington and Poplar streets.
Next Wednesday and Thursday nights
the charming opera entitled Martha will
be rendered at the Memphis Theater BY
the leading amateur vocalistsof the city,
who will be assisted by the Wagner Club
Of musicians, who will perform on the
piano.
Scores OF citizens have gone and are
going to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Many
20 there on account of rheumatism and
other diseases, while Others go there to
have the whisky boiled out of them and
secure an iron coating on their stomachs
for future campaigns.
The extravaganza of many youGg men
is a mystery, from a financial standpoint.
A salary Of eighty or one hundred dol.
lars per month will not admit Of an out.
lay Of twice that amount. The only
reasonable explanation is that they are
stealing or knocking down" from their
employers.
The general council will meet this az
ternoon for the purpose Of e%lecting a
police and fire commissioner, to gil the
vacancy caused by the expiration ct the
term of Office of Commissioner Frank.
An immense amount of elettioneering