Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

eA-COulcucIaOCoi anu NOSOAobAoh NoJ
BY the ex-federals, a distinction, and
perhaps a difference, but obtuse peo-
pie don't see it.
1t is as quiet as a graveyard about
the site of the new customhouse. The
stone cutters chisel is idle, and the
marble blocks wear a silent, m%ournful
sort of an air.
The Memphis City fire and general
insurance company, which could well
afford to divide its lame in the mid
die, has made a dividend of 8 per cent
on its capital stock.
Nail rates have dropped to 50 %, or
about half as much as they sold for
three months ago. They are still
about twenty-five per cent higher than
they were a year ago.
At twelve o'clock tomorrow at
Hol!enberg's music store, all who are
to participate in the musical servicesat
ElmwOod on Sunday next, are called
to meet for rehearsal.
Services will be held tonight
and tomorrow, at the First PreSby-
terrain church. DR.. Hoyte, who has
accomplished so much good, will
preach Sunday and take his leave.
missy" by the author of Rutledge;
odds or Even," by Mrs. Whitney;
IA Yirginian Bohemian" by John
Esten Cooke, and large line of other
new novels, at Mansford's, 298 Main
street.
Six sacks of cotton, stolen from a
Court street shed, were discovered in
an alley near there by the police at IN
early hour this morning before the
d~epredators had an opportunity to
take it away.
The cotton exchanges of Liverpool
and New York are to be closed on
Monday next, owing to the usual
Whitsuntide holidays, so said dis
patches to the cotton exchange here
this forenoon.
The best pavement ever known to
the inhabitants of this city, is that
now in course of being laid on Madi-
sou street. 1t should satisfy even old
chronics, but there are people who
would grumble, even if they were
going to be hung,
1t is best TO touch tenderly when
eriticising concealed weapon carriers,
because that class of solid citizens
generally dislike nonsense of any kind
and just now they have the governor
aud state supreme judge on their side
by a large majority.
At the st Patrick's church picnic,
evening before last, a fine basket bOu.
quet was won as a prize by Miss Lizzie
L. Winters. There were four competi-
tors, and this d~eservedly popular
young lady receiving the greatest
number of votes, carried off the prize.
The judge Of the criminal court
has ordered a list of persons at the
Presidents Island work house, with
the time for which they are incarcer-
ated, to be ready for the term which
opens next Monday, also q list of the
same kind to be made out on the first
of each month.
The ex-sherif of Lee county Ark .,
w. H. Kurdish, who has been under
a sentence of eleven months in prison,
for shooting and wounding Robert
Church, in a quarrel concerning a
loose woman, some months ago, has
been pardoned by Governor A. s.
Marks.
The first pardon under the conceal
ed weapon law arrived yesterday from
Governor Marks, and relieves Mr..
Thos. B. Coffey of a sentence Of fine
and Imprisonment pronounced some
months ago by thejudge Of the Grim.
inal court. In a financial sense the
pardon is a costly document.
Wayfarers complain hat the ga
lamps were as dark as Erebus as the,
strolled out Adams street on thei
way home from church last Sunda,
night. The rubbish scattered alonI
the pavement Of that thoroughfar
rendered locomotion decidedly diff
cult on the occasion.
Halt a dozen badly mixed an,
homeless wanderers were found sleep
ing in an old clubhouse by Patrolma
Cook last night and given a bette
lodging at the station house. All Q
them we're discharged except 10
Wallace, who was fined two dollar
for resisting the strong arm of tn
law.
At his own expense, the dilapidate
8 verandah in front Of Sol Coleman's, o
Main street has been leveled to th
q earth. This is characteristic of h
liberality, forethought and humanit,
4 He had no desire to see a wayfarC
/ crippled, nor get hurt himself. Thel
are other shabby looking verandal
n and awnings scattered about, and it