Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-11
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
Saturday Evening, May II, 1875.
LEDGER LINES.

Ihe matrimonial market is brisk,
Short dresses are not yet popular.
Buy your groceries Of ]. h. vigus 4
Co., LAG Main street.
The benefit to Miss Kate Hartman next
Tuesday night will be a sumner.
There will be a grand regatta on tee
Mississippi to- morroW afternoon. a
Buy Bsrbour's berries. They are
larger boxes and berries than any other.
The LEDGER is now delivered to sub.
scriberS in the city at ten cents a week.
The Riversides and Eagles play base
ball tomorrow afternoon at Central
Park.
D. Il. Allen, indicted for tipping with.
out license, is suing the city for false i'm.
prisonment.
The total abstinence meetings at the
Greenlaw Opera House continue 10 at.
tract the public.
The Circuit Court has adjourned for
present term. The next term begins
the third Monday.
Fifteen hundred workmen are engaged
in rebuilding the burnt districts in
Clarksville. This is enterprise.
During the past thirty days seventy
petitions for bankruptcy have been filed
in the United States District Court.
Charles, alias Henry Smith (colorsd),
was arrested last night on the charge Of
larceny and his bond fixed at $4,000.
Complaint is made at the Adams street
station.houSs that there is a dangerous
tree in front of No. 235 Washington
street.
Much interest is aroused as to The
probable action Of the State Democratic
conve ntion, which meets at Nashvill,
the 18th.
The Chickataw Guards and Bluff City
Grays have a drill on the 24,h at the
Fair Grounds. The contest will doubt
less be close.
The Appeal man has discovered tia.
Elmwood Cemetery is heal the north.
western suburbs OF the city. he is bury.
ing his intellect.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER is one Of
the largest and best papers in the South
The subscription has been put down Il
one dollar per annum
At the theater next Tuesday night Ii,
elegant comedy of the Honeymoon ant
Our Jemimy will be- the last dramatic
attraction Of the season.
Subscribe for the dollar LEDGER anC
your hearthstone will be happy. Speci
men copies will be semitic any applicant
either at home or abroad.
The police this morning arrested Mol
lie Mcdowell (cOlored) on the charge o.
abusive language, and ]. B. Christian
for refusing to lay o sidewalk.
Judge Baxter, Of the United Statel
Court, begins the session the third Mon
day in this month. Judge Trisg opens
court here the fourth Monday.
The jury in the case of Annie Raverly
(colored), indicted for ~infanticide, being
unable to agree on a verdict, has beer
discharged and a mistrial entered.
The approaching elections are devsl
oping new candidates. The Radicals
hope to split the Democratic party by Q
fusing with Independents, Nationals, etc.
Miss Kate Harman's Honeymoon ben
eft at the Memphis Theater, next Tues
day night, will be a decidedly pleasant
entertainment. We hope to see q full
house.
R. Il. Spangler, new dealer at 1885,
Main street, can supply you with your
reading matter; also tobacco. lie hal
the best 81 cigar you ever smoked. Try
it and see.
1t is rumored that some butchers are
buying goats at the city pound and sell
ing the animals for mutton, A lady who
purchased what she thought mutton wal
surprised to learn il was goat.
Sidney s. Dare, committed 10 Jail OF
the charge Of attempting rape on the
person Of a oolored child aged thirteen
has been released from custody. The
grand jury refused to end a true bill
against Dare.
The "IdliuRmen's party" is the mex
political scheme TO be organized. Th,
Southern organization ought to be quite
large, as it would engage idlsrs, loAfsrs
~dead.bsats, political fossils, chronic Ofie'
seekers, etc.
Among the losses by the recent storG
may be mentioned the insids garments
Of a vtlhknown society nan. Th,
! HhirIKind played havoc with his nndrieI