Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-21
BREyITIEs.

The Mississippi Supreme Court meets
at jackson on the first Monday in April
next.
The Catholic church at Iuka, Miss,
was blown down during the late storm at
that point.
Lent begins tomorrow This season
is duly respected by Episcopalians and
Catholics.
There are 10000 people in Memphis,
and 300 Lawyers, or one to every l66 in
habitants.
The thermometer at IL m. today indi-
Gated 67o and the barometer 29 2-l0
inches.
Recorder Scales heard twenty-five
cases this morning; $3.50 we're assessed
as fines.
Roller skating is rapidly becoming a
fashionable amusement all through the
Southern States.
Mr. Owen Meriwether, formerly Of this
city, has been appointed by Governor
Alcorn Surveyor Of Pamela county, Miss.
The Circuit Court Clerk of Pamela
county, Miss, issued two hundred and
thirty-nine marriage licenses during the
past year. W
The splendid new building on Madison
street, erected for the Planters Insur-
ance Company, is rapidly approaching
completion. iU e4H 4t4e4h
Under the head of wanted" a gentle
man advertises for a dwelling house,
within FIVE to ten minutes walk from
Court Square
John Petergarton, a reckless driver,
was induced to pay five dollars to the
city to-day for driving at too rapid
pace on the Nicolson.
Taking fancy to 81 20 belonging to
another, caused colored person named
James Trent to go to Jail to-day in de-
fault of $1,000 bonds.
Joe Locke has the parlor and sidewalk
roller skate for sale at his news depot on
Main, near Jefferson; also, all the latest
papers of all kinds and from all points.
Elk Deputy Sheriff G. W. Rogers has
received the appointment of United
States mail agent on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad, vice the negro, Giles
Smith, removed
Messrs A. D. Witherspoon, A. C.
Treadwell and j. j. Rawlings were
elected School Commissioners in the
Fourteenth Civil District yesterday by
an unanimous vote.
Nilsson sang in Cincinnati last night.
Charles Fechter and Miss Leclerq
open at the National tonight The
Cincinnati people are enjoying a feast
of the MUSES. this season.
The arrival of O'Donovan Rosa and
his fellow Irish exiles in New York has
given an impetus to Fenianism, which
has spread to all portions of the United
States, including Memphis.
Go to Mansfords, corner of Second
and Monroe, for the latest daily and
weekly papers from the North, South,
East and West. Pictorials and literary
periodicals from Europe just received.
The Nashville and Chattanooga rail
road fled bond of 500, 1000 with the
Surveyor of Customs at Nashville, last
week, for the faithful performance of the
duties imposed upon it as bonded rail
road.
1t is proposed to build iron boats in
future for the Mississippi and its tribu
taries. Iron boats, with low-pressure
engines, will eventually supercede the
high-pressure wooden boats at present in
use
The authorities should enforce the law
for the proper covering up of
old cisterns. The deplorable accident
yesterday, which resulted in the drown
ing of Master Reed, ought to be warn
ing to all parties.
Neal, of the State Gazette, expresses
that the terrific biggest
" controversy between the
Memphis Avalanche and Appeal has not
as yet had any visible effect upon the
gold and cotton markets.
To-day-Shrove Tuesday-Mardi Gras
will be celebrated in New Orleans in a
manner unequaled throughout the world.
The carnival during the day and the
Of the Mystic Crew of Comus
At night are sights worth seeing.
We understand the Poplar Street Turn
pike Company has made arrangements
With an old Union Pacific railroad con
tractor to grade three miles of their turn
pike. This viii give us a suburban drive
IF FIVE miles over a good road.
1t is said that many persons who fire.
luent Winchester Cemetery on Sunday
evenings desecrate the day and the place
BY their conduct The police should
arrest all such parties and have them
punished by the Recorder.
On Thursday night next a grand sacred
concert will be given at st. Patrick
church, under the direction Of Prof
assisted by several Of our best
amateur voealists. We understand Mrs
Boylan, Mrs. Tomlinson, Miss Sallie