Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-18
to be united in the bonds of we'd.

lock.
The ceremony of the feast Of
weeks" and the confirmation Of seve-
raj new candidates to the Hebrew
faith, we're very beautiful and i'm
pressive on Sunday last.
The Helping Hand club go on a
river excursion by the steamer Virgie
Lee tonight, and the ladies of St.
Peters church will manage one of the
same sort next Thursday night.
There is fairsprospeet Of the Ma
sonic temple being used at an early
day for the school board to meet in,
and the secretary and the school SUI
perintendent to have Office in.
A new hearing is to be applied for
before the supreme court in the case
of the revivor granted John O'Connor,
making the present city government a
defendant as the successor of the old
government.
This evening at half-past seven, at
the residence Of the brides mother,
No. s. Exchange street, Miss Esther
Harris, of this city, is to be married
to Mr.. Harry ~Silverman, Of Indian
Bay, Arkansas.
The Railway Age says President
Allen, of the Iron Mountain, confirms
the report Of the purchase of the
Memphis and Little Rock road, and
says it will be operated under a sep
crate management"
The colored folks are to have a
picnic at Alexander park next Mon
day, the Sunday schools of st. An
drews, Avery, Collins, Zion, and Prov
idence chapels being the leading pro-
posed participants.
The sun Of $50 was appropriated by
the school board at its meeting last
night to defray the expenses of the
graduating class exercises in the pub
lie schools to come off near the close
of the present month.
Rev. A. Il. Jones, pastor Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, left
on the steamer Gaf with his family
yesterday evening for Evansville to
attend the general assembly Of his
church, which meets there this week.
The city schools are $4,000 in debt,
and the present months pay roll will
increase the liabilities to over Sl4, 600.
Arrangements have been made to Dor
row a sum necessary to cover this,
anticipated school tax receipts
as security.
p. G. Rogers made six centers yes
terday at St. Joseph'S picnic. This
was full ninety-all that could be
made The prize was an elegant
meerschaum pipe. His many friends
congratulate him in his district on
making SO many good shots,
Fifty.slx Ohickasaws, and so gentle
and lady friends, So of the lattef.
left for Nashville last night. The
drill comes off tomorrow after
noon, and company K, Of St. Louis,
it is thought, will run the Chicks very
close for the centennial prize.
Bad boys about the corner of Court
and Third streets have been tying
strings across the pavement after
dark. A lady was thrown by the mis-.
chief and her arm dislocated or
broken. The police have a sharp eye
after the boys and one is spotted.
D. Goldsmith, of Germania lodge,
F. Schultze; of Unity lodge, and III
Schoss, of Memphis lodge No. 1876.
Knights of Honor, are a committee
appointed to provide music for the
dedication Of the Knights of Honor
hall, on Wednesday, the End of June
The breakers Of the law are often
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alluded to, but a shrewd manipulation
can tramp through their i~ntricacies,
many instances unframed. In one
Of his speeches, Henry Clay n c said
there could be no law framed that a
coach and six could not be driven
through.
A poetess of merit, and once
Of this city. died near Nashville
last Thursday in the person of Miss
A. Mcintosh. She was a lady
Of high literary culture and acute in
as is evidenced by numerous
compositions which have appeared in
the public press from time to time.
The proposed turnpike to the fair
grounds, three or more miles from the
city, when completed, will furnish a
ine drive to those who wish to trip it
out of the city a short hour or two.
The Poplar boulevard, as the return
will make it a turnpike all the
way except the crossing over, which
it is not far.
Competition between steamboat
lines Of the Ohio river trade from
Cincinnati to this point and on to
New Orleans has caused a great re.
duction in passenger rates and freight
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