Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-26
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Nios 10 LAOAl WSSAs
The mo~ckiDgbirds have commenced
singing in the suburbs.
Leave orders for fish With H. Ssessel,
Sr & Son, for Pesach.
Burglars and thieves are making raids
again on dark and rainy nights.
To-day week Coles big circus will
hang out its banners on the bluff.
Friday next Good Friday, Sunday next
Elster Sunday and the first Of April.
A aourishing lodge Of Knights of
Honor has been started at Jonesboro,
Tenn.
The number Of deaths which occurred
in the city during last week was II, Of
which II were whites and 5 blacks.
Some LEGAL agriculturist says that Irish
p~otates should be planted On the las. day
Of March, which will be next Saturday.
Major Barbiere will lecture tonight at
the Bethel on the subject OF woman
and the Centennial Exposition Work"
The Tennessee Post German organ.
published at Nashville b. Henry Trauer-
NIGHT, has suspended for want of patron.
age.
A we'll known local politician and pun
s.er Gays that az to the office of United
States marshal he knsw I'VE would have
Waldrsn or Num-"
Many Of those who a week ago, in this
city Endorsed President Hayes are nov
unable to see what the WOW, wiot or
wumpus" was all about.
Tae opera of Martha by amateur vo
%calists, and the Pickwick Damage Suit
by members of the Law Library Associa
ton, will be the attractions after Lent
Before the theatrical season closes 10
this city we will have Lawrence Barrett,
Miss Mary Anderson and the DAILY
Fifth Avenue Combination, all in the
month Of April.
Quite a number Of enthusiastic Irish
citizensintend banqueting United States
Marshal Mike Waldran sometime next
week. The banquet will be coIlatitious,
or gotten up by subscription.
Hereafter judges of all inferior courts
and all special judges will receive only
$4,000 salary per annum should Governor
Porter afiz his official autograph to ii g
bill providing for such reduction.
The Arkansas legislature, following in
the wake Of the Tennessee boys, has re.
pealed the Law for encouraging the rails.
ing Of sheep, because such 3 law was
discouraRing to the dogs Of the State.
That fine comedian John Il. Owens,
supported By a strong company, will
commence an engagement at the Mem.
phis Theater next Wednesday night,
when Our Boys will be the dramatic at.
traction.
When Soldene was in this city her hus
band, quite 40 old Englishman, was
travelling with her. They have severa.
children living at their home in England
Miss Clara Vesey, the fair plaintiff in
the Trial by Jury, is the sister of Sol
dens,
Last Saturday night a big FIRE al
Friar's Point, Miss, destroyed a numbe
OF business houses, and at Helena, Ark.
the brick oil mill owned by Judge Ben
nett was destroyed by FIRE. The par
t%iculars as to the fires have not been re
ceived.
The light snowfall and the wind.storn
from the northwest on Saturday nigh
and on yesterday does not indicate tina
March intends to be counted out like
lamb. The storm has had a bad effec
upen the blooming fruit crop and th.
early vegetable crop in this vicinity.
The decoration OF the graves Of th
dead Confederate soldiers this year vii
be celebrated in May in many Of th
Southern States. 1t is proposed to deco
rate the graves Of the dead ct Elmwoo
Cemetery during hat month, and t
complete, if possible, the unfnishe
monument during the present year.
Owing to the very cod and dam,
weather yesterday baseball did no
flourish 10 the suburbs of the city. TIL
gamina from the Happy Hollow club
orEsuizsd a game in the afternoon, a
did the African boys Of tbs period VII
play along the banks Of the Bsyor
Gayoso on Sundays.
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, a de.
celebrated with unusual ceremony in tn
Catholic churches Of the city. Palm i
solemaly blessed by the priests on thi
day, snd is given to the votsries VIII
/ carry it through the churches in memoir
of the triumphsl entry of Christ int
Jerusalem q few days previous to hi
! cruoifxioa.
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