Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-02
SUNDAY LOCALS IN BRIEF.


weeks there.
The dinner festival Of the W. G. A,
netted $903 81. and the expenses sum
med up S287.59 A debt OF nearly s2OO
remains to be provided for.
The potato buyers and growers are
called to meet tomorrow at the Mer-
chants Exchange to decide upon what
a barrel oil loose potatoes shall weigh.
The Catholic Bishop Of Tennessee
is the Rev. Joseph RodemScher, OF
Fcrt Wayne, Ind, the Pope Of Rome
having recently clothed him with the
purple.
The Cain fund amounts to $l4937O,
including $40 collected in the Louis
vile and Nashville depot and machine
shops in this city last week, by bag
gagemaster John Colbert.
A lot Is by 80 feet on Mccall street
sold to Mr.. John. League on Saturday
at $50 per front foot, and Mr. John
Nc Brooks bought the Finnie place
near Bartlett at the rate of Sl6 per
acre.
A colored woman named Frances
Ray, living on Bradford street, had
her leg broken on Saturday evening
while getting off wagon, and she was
sent to the city hospital for surgical
treatment,
A thirty mile stretch of the new
Memphis and Vicksburg railway, lying
between 0. X. Landing and Clarks-
dale, on the Sunhower, is to be built
by George Arnold & Co., the con-
tract having been awarded to the firm.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Quintard
oficiated at the Church Of the Good
Shepherd last evening. The new YES
try of the church includes John Cub
bins, G. T. Bassett, j. R. Friedel, ).
i Guyole, +, j. Atwood, W. K.
Kendall aud f. Donnelly,
A solemn high mass is to be rendered
at the St. Joseph's church, Georgia
street, tomorrow, in honor Of st.
Joseph, and panegyric will be deliv-
cred by Father Dinahan, Of st. Peters
church. The Christian Brothers and
their pupils, with others, will particle
pate in the musical exercises.
The net receipts Of an Easter egg
entertainment at the Tabernacle Bap-
fist church, of which Rev. Mr.. Coun
tee is pastor was 1903, and the amount
has been APT lied toward paying off the
debt Of the church. The Tabernacle
is brick structure, and is comforts
able, capacious and ornamental.
The mortuary list of this city last
week numbered thirty.four. of which
twenty-one were colored and thirteen
white. 4 Seven died Of pneumonii, l
three of consumption, three of con-
gestion and the rest were scattering.
Ten were children and twenty-tbree
were from twenty to seventy six years
Of age.
Thegeneral impression is that the
best way out Of the trouble regarding
the Cavalry Cemetery is to raise the
money and pay off the debt. Persons
having lots 10 the cemetery, as we'll as
many who have no interest, will con-
tribute freely to fund to have that
cross fence removed, by paying the
claimants to do it,
At st. Peters Catholic church yes
terday Haydns second mass was rem
dered by the choir, and at Calvary
church a grand musical service was
given. The newly chosen assistant
rector. David Sessums, delivered an
eloquent sermon on the occasion,
taking his text from Christ's injunc-
ton, Be thou perfect"
The drsymen are to meet to morrow
night at the Knights of Innisfail Hall,
and it is understood that the propriety
OF appointing a man to ride around
among the drays to see that mules are
not abused by the drivers will be dis
cussed 1t is also rumored that an
effort is to be made to raise fund
with view Of contrasting in legal
form the right of the s. 2. q. A. to
stop their badly abused stock on the
highways before they fall down from
actual exhaustion.
The cane presented to Mr.. j. T..
Petit on Saturday afternoon by the
mercantile brokers, was a handsome
specimen Of stick work, with golden
trimmings. The presentation speech
of Col. B. Hughes was better than
gold, and the hat given to him as a
compliment for his eloquenee, wit and
dry humor, is fit emblem of adorn-
ment. The Colonel needed the hat
nearly as bad as Mr.. Petit needed the
cane. The latter, however, is likely
to wear the longest.
A man named Chadowiu, Who killed
DR.. Bell and a sick soldier named
Reid. whom the doctor was attending
away back in 1862, at Stanford, Ky :,
has been captured in Mississippi
county by Sheriff Haskins, and he
was delivered to the authorities at
Stanford last Thursday. Tho muir
derer is hard looking customer, and
the witnesses of the tragic affair are
all living, therefore it is believed the
man will be punished Tor his cruelty.
The Calvary Cemetery plat Of eighty
acres was purchased fifteen or sixteen
years ago ago at about $4,000 aud in.
terest; legal fees and costs have
swollen the outlay to about 100000.
The present Indebtedness is not over
$1,000, and may be settled for consid-
erably less than that. The land was
bought in the days when lands were
high and money abundant, but the
latter is much cheaper now than it
was at the time OF the purchase.
Lands are cheaper also. The easiest
way out Of the cemetery tSDgle is to
pay out.
Inspector Lane, Of the S. P. G. A.,
reports his operations during March
and shows 100 cases attended to. an
average Of over day, not counting
the Sabbath. OF the number 80 were