Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
LARGEST CITY OIROULATIo.
THE CITY.
Thursday Evening, May Is. 1873.
LINES.
Buy coal oil of Ike Chase.

buy coal oil OF Ike Chase.
There was a sprinkle of rain this
morning.
There we're indications Of rain this
morning.
Everybody will be at Clio festival to.
night at Buntyn station.
james Flaherty, of this city, has Oh.
tanned a patent for a corpse preseryer.
onehundred crOquet sets just received,
very cheap. Wheeler, Pickens & Co.
Last night DR.. D. 7. Porter was elect
ed an honorary member Of the Chicks,
saw Guards.
General NJ. I. Williamson, of this city,
was yesterday confirmed as United
States marshal for the Western district
of Tennessee.
The rink will lot be open to- might.
Tomorrow night will be given the grand
closing carnival and hop, with Arnold's
band in attendance.
Justice Spsllman held an inquest this
morning on the body of a cOlored child
which died in Chelsea from the effects OF
being accidentally scalded,
The jury in the case of Abbey Chill.
dress and Dick Taylor, indicted FOR as
sault and battery, yesterday afternoon
returned a verdict of not guilty"
The Press Association Of Mississippi
will hold its annual convention at Vicks-
burg on the 9th Of June. By invitation,
Mrs. Lide Meriwether, Of Memphis, will
read a poem.
The next number Of Professor Barney
Hughes Railway Record will coutsip a
biographical sketch of James Speed, Of
the Louisville, Nashville and Great
Southern railroad,
A veritable case Of a boy with a tin
horn is to be seen at a fasbinable board.
ing.house on Adams street. Persons
who have heard the horn at miduight's
holy hour say they do not desire to see
the boy.
Mr.. VIM. NJ, Mcintyre, the clerk Of the
steamer G. B. Church, reports seeing a
aoater in a drift pile at the mouth of st
Francis river this morning, but the body
was so decomposed as t prevent any
Identification.
g. W. Burrows commenced a damage
suit for ten thousand dollars in the
Shelby county Circuit Court, yesterday,
against the city of Memphis, mayor aud
aldermen, general council and John r
Flippin, mayor.
A number Of gentlemen well. known in
musical circles, have rendered a compli
mentary benefit to Mr.. Morris Soufeld
at Cochran Hall, Friday evening, the
Oath. Due notice will be given Of this
entertainment, which will be of a dra.
matte and musical character.
The following petitions in bankruptcy
have been fled with the clerk of the
United States Court: Marcus Frank,
Shelby county; W. t. Woods, Dyer
county; G. A. 4 s. s. Woodward, Shelby
county; ]. L. Verssr, Shelby county;
John W. Harris, Gibson county.
DR.. Mary Walker had better retire and
take a back seat. A constable a Scran.
ton, Pennsylvania, has seized Fanny
Davenports baggage. The constable
even seized Davenports "Rosalind "
trousers. No constable has yet dared to
seize Mrs. DR.. Walkers trousers.
At the total abstinence meeting last
night Mr.. johnson arose and announced
that the difference heretofore existing
between orator and singers and others
had been amicably arranged, and that
fine talent in music and %eloquence
would grace the meetings hereafter.
Yesterday Sheriff Driver. of Osceola,
Mississippi county, Ara, passed through
the city, en- route for Little Rock, having
in charge a nero prisoner named Henry
Taylor, who was convicted of house.
breaking and larceny Of a store at Osoe-
ola, and sentenced to two years impris.
onment in the peniteutiary.
The Louisville Courier-Journal of the
l4th inst, says: Memphis is disposed
to recognize Miss Kate Hartman in the
light Of auothar Mary Anderson" Very
much disposed, for Miss Harman pos
sesse unusual dramatic and lyric talent,
and is indeed a deserving lady whose
merits are recognized and appreciated by
the public.
la the Shelby County Circuit Court
yesterday twenty.three suits on the pen.
slties of hoods vers commenced by
Attorney General Wright, Ia the name
of the State Of Tennessee, against ner-
chants who were doing business without
complying with the terms Of the law by
failing to make a report Ct stock on
hand at The time 81 ecih d,
Tomorrow night will be given the last
dramatic performances Of the season at