Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-09
SUNDAY LOCALS IN BRIEF.


City debt liquidating taxes for the
Snrrent year are now due, and after
the 10th inst, if still unpaid, a penalty
will attach. -t- cas-
Theraees here will commence next
Monday, and twenty. Eve horses are to
come from Greenyille, Miss, where
races come off this week.
The transformation business con-
nected with the Gayoso House IS to
commence as soon as Architect Jones
gets his plans into suitable shape.
The next social reunion in the in
terest of the Strangers church will
be next Friday evening at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Tagg.
The school commissioners meet this
evening, and the county court met
this morning; also the W. Q a., the
latter at their rooms on Jefferson
street.
The opera company to perform here
to night came from Helena yesterday
by the steamer James Lee, and the
audience on Saturday was large and
enthusiastic.
The Somerville accommodation train
now leaves here at quarter past five,
and fifty minutes later than heretofore,
this giving visitors longer time to
tarry in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Golden have
a baby they call "Bettina" out of
fondess for the ideal character so
neatly acted by the young mother,
who is known on the programmes as
Dora Wiley.
Season tickets, with privileges to
occupy the quarter stretch or the
grand stand, are ten dollars for race
week here, and the same may be OBJ
tanned of Secretary Ed Hart at IL
Madison street.
The funeral Of Mr.. Robert Taylor
was largely attended yesterday by the
members of Avery Chapel coDgrega-
ton and the several orders to which
the deceased belonged. The latter
were out in full regalla.
The Colonel Of the late Seventh
Tennessee Cavalry, w. Il. DuckWorth,
calls on his warriors for information,
SO as to enable him to make up
history of the command for publica.
tion in the coming report Of DR..
Lindsey. ~
All rivers in Louisiana, Mississippi
and elsewhere between here and the
Gulf are in booming order, and the
water now coming outsof the Tennes>
see, Cumberland and the Ohio RIVERS
renders valley people south Of this
solioitous. Il
The morluary list in this city last
week was 81, of which IL were white
and q eolOred, and s OF the last we're
children. As usual, pneumonia leads
the list, 5 being carried off by this
malady, and but2 we're set down as
consumptive. w
The funeral of Mr.. Robert L. Steele,
of WOodville, who died Saturday, oc>
CURED this forenoon from st. Mary's
Episcopal church, Poplar street.
William K. Warrington's funeral oe-
CURED from 63 Third street on yester-
day afternoon. -
The Second Presbyterian church on
Main street was the scene of the meet
ing held last night by influential citi.
gems, and the preliminary steps were
taken to arrange Y NJ. Q. A. Good
music and eloquent addresses formed
part of the proceedings.
The Kansas City railway will com
mence to be- laid at this end OF the
line week from to-day, and the work
ing force will move from the bank of
the river directly northwest until they
meet the force coming this way, and
now somewhere south of the boundary
OF Missouri.
Business in New Orleans on Satur-
day was 10 a state OF suspension be-
cause of incessant rain IN that vicini-
ty. Con iderable damage is reported
to young corn, and other crops in
Mississippi, North Louisiana, and
elsewhere, by the drenching rains OF
last week.
brunswick, nineteen miles east OF
here, and formerly known as Shelby
Depot, has shipped 1851 bales of cotton
this season Bonneville has shipped
1905 and $40 less than last year for the
same time. Wythe has shipped 300
bales Brownsville has shipped l,UO0
bales
The Mozarts are working up both
in their practice and their efforts
to draw a crowd here on the
10Th of next month. The opera of
''Iolanthe" is also to be gotten up here
under the auspices Of Mrs. Fits, who
will commence training the children
at once.
A gothic one story brick church is
to be erected at the corner of Linden
and Hernando streets in place Of the
structure now there and which has
done service as church Tor forty
years. The last religious reunion was
held in the old building last night and
the proceedings were very interesting,
The majority OF the workhouse
committee, including esquires Pope
and Quigly, favor working the con-
ViOts in public highways, aud to use
portable houses to cost SO each, with
one guard and superintendent for
each squad. Esq. Winters of the
committee is a minority in favor Of
some othor system.
Suits have been brought in the in
tereSt OF the Tennessee Southern rail-
road for right of way through the
property of Felicity Marshall, who,
with her husband, are non-residents.
and through Mrs. e. q. Mechanics
property, near Kerr avenue, south Of
the city, in the Fourteenth Civil Dis.
trict.
The partial remains Of an unknown
darky were found near MelrOse. on the