Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-25

ceeds oil their benett on the 10th OF
April to the ervan girls of the Peabody
who lost their all in the late FIRE.
DR.. D. F. Goodyear, deputy supreme
master workman, leaves this afternoon
for Helena to institute q lodge Of the
Ancient Order Of United Workmen.
This will be the frat lodge of the order
in Arkansas.
Officer Kunhalt this morning arrested
Maggie Sprouls ~(eolored) for stealing S.
from a trunk in the house of a colored
man named Courtney. who lives on AL.
Inns avenue. The officer arrested Mag.
gle Sproule at her residence on Herman.
de street, near South.
J. & ]. Steele & Co., we'll known Gem.
mission and cotton merchants Of Front
street, corner Of Poplar, made an assign.
mert today. From inquiry we learn
that the firm will be able to pay of its
Indebtedness and will doubtless resume
business in a short time.
This morning officer Elliott arrested
VIM. Green, a colored boy, who tapped
the till at Voorhees, drug store, corner
Of Vance and Lauderdale streets, and
stole 81 so. The thief ran, but was pur.
sued by officer Elliott out to the Her.
nando road, where a citizen collared the
fugitive and held him until the police
man arrived.
This morning Albert johnson (ctI.
ored) and Miss Narcissa Harris (colored)
we're united in marriage by Recorder
Quigley. The man had been arrested
Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff Brad
ley, who found him and the woman to.
gether at a house on Jefferson street.
The arrest of the parties led to their
marriage, the credit Of which is due to
Deputy Sheriff Bradley.
AT ii o'clock last night Otto 0lsen's
shoe shop, at No. Alb Main street, was
fred by an incendiary, but no material
damage resulted. The burning mattress
was taken out OF the building by hremen
The damage was not more than $40 or
$l2, on which there is a full insurance.
The North American Insurance Com
pany has a policy of 800 on the house.
hold and kitchen furniture, 800 on tools
and $500 oil stock and material.
The wicked Grenada Sentinel has the
%impudeuce to say; I'VE overheard a
married lady say the other day, who was
in attendance at Mardi. Gras, that the
boys here when waltzing, did not squeeze
girls half as hard as they do in Memphis.
Perhaps not, but we have seen some Of
them Rugged up pretty tight hero" 1t
is generally believed that the Sentinel
man is the masked individual that did
the squeezing. 1t is said that he squeezes
harder in Memphis than in Grenada.
He is fond Of hops, but goes far s.miss
etc, y,
Saturday night Teutonia Lodge Of
Knights and Ladies Of Honor was organ.
lied with sixty.two charter members,
thirty.three being ladies. The following
officers were installed by Deputy-Su.
preme Protector w. E, Ladd; protector,
Phil Maurer; vice protector, Mrs. Henri
eta Saupe; post protector, Joe Brown;
secretary, Max Herman; treasurer,
Charles Heppil; chaplain, Joe Brown;
guide, Mrs. Francis Mayors; guardian,
Mrs. Mary Herman; sentinel, Charles Il.
Meyers; trustees, joe Emmerich, John
MerGle. 7. j. Bowman.
The Memphis and Little Rock railroad
company, as recognized. R. q. Dow,
Watson Mathews and William s. Surson,
Saturday fled an injunction bill in the
Chaueery Court to eDjoin the sale to
have been made on the 3Ist inst, by the
clerk of the Supreme Court Of this State,
of its depot-buildings, track, right of way,
and other properties aud franchises.
The company, as now organized, claim
ing to hold under older and superior
titles to NJ. M. Buck, the beneficiary
under the sale alluded to, aver that ire.
parable injury will be done them and the
public we're they deprived of the posses
sion of their property, and the same re.
movad and daatrnvad