Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-20
BREYITIES.

When you want fine waffles and fan
mel cakes use Oliver, Finnie & Cos. self
rising -four.
The Dolly Warden ball at the Pea
body realized the sum of $lO2 II for th,
orphans.
Skiff q Gaylord's Ministries will occu
| py the boards of the Memphis Theatel
next week.
Dolly Warden drinks, now so popular
in Memphis, have superseded the time
honored matutinal whisky cocktail.
Congressional candidates linger arounC
Chambers drug store, practicing for
Washington by drinking Congress water
The Recorder disposed Of thirty cases
by fine this morning. Not single State
case of importance appeared on the
docket.
The handsome gold watch and chair
raffied off on Court street last evening
was won by Mr.. Tobias Wolf, of the
house of D. A. Clark & Co.
The Memphis Water-works pipes will
arrive in this port from Cincinnati next
week, when the work of laying then
down will be commenced.
Files of the city journals have beer
placed in the halls ofthe four courts, fol
the benefit of the public by Colone
Lanier, of the Real Estate Bulletin.
Luscious strawberries, from the New
Orleans market, have been brought tC
the city by CASTOR, the Court Square
restaurateur. The delicacies only cost
dollar quart.
Runaway horses, with wagon and
buggy attachments, and man following
several squares in the rear, attracted
considerable attention on Main and
other streets yesterday.
What has become of Mrs. Green, who
disappeared SO mysteriously in this city
some months SINGER is a cheerful conun
drum propounded for the ex-Metropoli-
tan detectives Of our city to unravel
The Dolly Warden sensation has ere.
ated large demand for Barnaby Rudge
and other works of the late Charles
Dickens. 1t is an i'll wind that blows
nobody good" say the newsmen of our
city.
The cases of Early j. Eason, the slayer
of Ed Lyles, and Dave Smith, the muir
derer of Mr.. Merriwether, will be deci-
ded in the Supreme Court to-day, and
the judges settle the question whether
or not the people of Memphis will be
treated to double hanging match.
A lively fight took place on Main, near
Madison street, yesterday afternoon, be-
tween two citizens. Another combat
enlivened the vicinity of Alabama street,
near Poplar. The fights we're entirely
pugilistic, no deadly weapons being in
troduced during the exercises.
Some mathematical chap has calcu-
lated that the twelve thousand five hun
bred signatures of Esquire Becky to
be attached to the Selma railroad cou-
pons would fill one hundred and sixty
six pages of legal cap, and that it would
take five days work, at ten hours per
day, to wind up the job.
The feat of signing his name twelve
thousand Eye hundred times will be un-
dertaken by Chairman Bleckley, of the
County Court, who has to perform this
important but onerous duty on the
Selma railroad coupons. No bets can
be made on the matter, as no time has
been set for the performance Of the task.
The steam FIRE engine was unable to
wash the face of the bluff yesterday, and
the Susie Bigley failed in like manper,
although the little steam tug threw a
powerful stream through a two and a
half inch nozzle. The only method left
is to remove the bluffs at a cost of
twenty-five cents per yard, or $4,000
the City Engineers estimate.
Our Appeal friend states this morning
that the thermometer at IL m. last night
stood at ffty-seven degrees-thirty-six
degrees lower than on Thursday at 3
O clock. At the latter hour it must have
ranged up about niuety-three in the
shade. Our friend must possess a Gu
sious thermometer. 1t must have been
out of order on Thursday last.
The great trouble about ferreting out
disappearanees and murders
in Memphis is that no fund has been
provided for the purpose Of defraying