Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-18
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Thursday Evening, April is, 1878.
LEDGER LiSnS.

Label: Renandin, BolliDger & Co.
The Bluff City Artillery drills tonight.
There was a heavy rain this morning.
The Maifest will be celebrated the 9Th
of next month.
Elegant rooms in the Planters insu-
rance building, Madison street, for rent.
Counterfeit five dollar bills on the
Bank of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, are in
circulation.
The Memphis Rife Club will meet at
the Office of 2. ]. Quigley, on Adams
street, tonight at s o'clock.
silaS Carter was yesterday convicted
of malicious shooting, and his punish.
ment fixed at two years Imprisonment.
The Jewish Passover is being observed.
Rev, DR.. Ssmfeld delivered an interest.
ing lecture in the synagogue this morn.
ing.
The scandal relative to Bishop Allan
McCroskey, of the Episcopal church OIL
Michigan, excites some comment in this
city.
The Avalanche is SO very angry be
cause the Appeal has been awarded the
city printing. 1t is too late to gcievt
now.
Last night Judge John D. Adams was
elected president and D. A. McOmber
vice president Of Shelby Lodge, No. Al,
l. 0. W. M.
There was q large total abstinence
meeting last night. A collection was
taken up and the meeting decided thai
the total abstinence cause should be con.
tinued.
A grand ball, to be given at the Pea
body Hotel the 18th for the benefit of St.
Lazarus and Grace Church, will be one
Of the most brilliant entertainments o.
the season.
Among the total abstinence orators
in this city is q lawyer named Black,
who stated that he consumed forty.two
barrels of whisky in ten years, and that
this cost him ST. 600. he averaged ten
drinks a day.
Martin McMahon, a laborer who was
crushed by a train at the Louisville
Depot, Saturday, died yesterday from
the effects Of bis injuries. Justice
Spellman held an inquest on the body Of
the deceased.
The skating. rink continues to draw
large crowds of our young people every
day and night. The exercise is health.
ful, and recommended by physicians. A
ine band furnishes music every night
and Saturday afternoon.
The Moonlight S~erenaders is the name
Of new vocal and instrumental band,
composed Of Morris Son6eld, Leo White,
W. Woodward, Wills Firth and Lee Dick
sen, who make nightly raids upon the
slumbsrs Of citizens, but only to awake
them to the enjoyment Of excellent
music.
The impressive ceremonies apperiAin-
ing to Holy Tor Maunday) Thursday are
being performed in ell the Catholic
churches Of the city to-day, and attract
vast throngs of the faithful as we'll as
very many strangers. At St. Peters es.
pecially the decorations of the reposi-
tory aud the " procession of the blessed
sacrament" were exquisitely beautiful,
and witnessed by a crowded congrega.
ton.
The cases against e. N. Sherman, for.
merly Of Milwaukee, for larceny, are as
follows: Sherman came into court and
pleaded guilty to the larceny Of a
watch belonging to one of V. B.
Thayer's customers. The jury fixed
his punishment at one year in the
%penitentiary. The conrt passed sen
tence upon him, but suspended the exc
cution Of the judgment on condition Of
the future good behavior of Sherman,
and that he would leave the State and
remain absent, The other cases against
Sherman we're then dismissed without
jury or trial.
Choice Red SnaDDers,