Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-05

be nlpped by a stray pistol Dali, ana .
child to be slightly hurt in the leg.
The bazaar tonight at Casino hall
is to open with a grand tab
leaux and a national chorus. The
young ladies TO take part are requested
to be prompt in the time Of their at
tendance.
Arrangements are in progress to
give General Grant a cordial recep-
ton, and there is talk Of sending a
steamer down the river to meet and
escort the distinguished traveller up
to this city.
Mr.. w. s. Armistead, ofthe Boil
var Bulletin, who has been on duty in
the postal service in Washington city
for several months, has arrived in the
city, having been transferred to a
position on one of the mail river
steamers.
The grand coronation extrava-
ganza," in course of preparation for
public performance on the Sd of next
month for the benefit of the Church
Home orphans, promises to be a fine
spectacular, te~rpsichorean and mytho-
logical success.
The latest nautical opera of Gill
bert and Sullivan, the authors Of
"Pinafore," will be presented at the
theater here a week from tomorrow.
1t is entitled THE Pirates of Pen
zanee," aud it has been received with
marked favor wherever performed.
DIR. W. K. Bowling, of Nashville,
one of Tennessee's most distinguished
members of the medical faculty, is
now on a visit to our city, a guest Of
Col. Euoch Ensly. Although the
doctor has passed his three score and
ten years, he is yet hale and vigor-
GUS.
st. Bridget's church fair closed
Saturday night,after awarding by high
est vote a gold-headed cane to Attor-
ney-General G. P. Nj. Turner, a cane
to policeman Thomas Mccormick and
a silver set to Thomas Walsh, of the
Louisville and Nashville road, as the
most popular master mechanic.
Our cotton men and merchants
generally will send a resolution to
Hon. Isham G. Harris and Casey
Young, requesting them to learn and
promulgate the true cause of the sus-
pension of work on our custom house.
A dozen or more of the stone cutters
lately at work on the structure have
left the city, and others will go as
soon as they can get away.
The LEDGER office book. bindery
Is Madison street, is in the same
building as the newspaper and job
printing establishment is owned by
the same proprietor, embraces all
machines and material used in a first
class book bindery, and is conducted
by competent workmAn capable of
executing work in as good and sub
stantial a style as can be done any.
where.
Mr.. P. Sidney Jones will leave
Thursday night for Nashville, where
he will probably take up his residence.
He is a representative from Memphis
lodge 1876, knights of Honor, to the
grand lodge of the state, which meets
on the 18th inst, and will be in at.
tendance unless called away from
Nashville on business. We commend
him to his new friends as a worthy and
highly esteemed gentleman.
Five, and perhaps six military com
panies of the city arc expected to turn
out to greet aud honor ex-President
Grant, upon his arrival here. 1t is
meet and proper that all sectional and
political feeling be forgotten for the
nonce, to extend hospitality and cour-
tesy to the distinguished traveller and
soldier. 1t may not be in the minds
Of all, but it is fact that General
Grant is the only living e~x-president
of this nation.
-Swarms Of mosquitoes invaded
every part of our city yesterday and
last night, catching many a sleeper
without protecting bars. They we're
waited from the green forests Of the
Arkansas swamps on the southwesterly
breeze. Grasshoppers also roamcd
abroad and out of their usual range,
one at the theater soaring a young
actress out Of several years growth
by merely alighting on her left shout
der.
The Arrival of General Grant.
This event is looked for about the
18th Of the present month, and the
Taxing District will turn out en- masse
to give him a rousing welcome, as he