Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-04
LEDGER LINES.
This is the last day of Lent.

dray Jehus.
To-day, Holy Saturday; tomorrow,
Easter Sunday.
Peach and apple trees are in full
bloom in the suburbs.
Rip Van Wrinkle matinee this after
noon, and again tonight.
The County Quarterly Court will be
in session on Monday next.
The April terms of the Chancery
Courts commence on Monday next.
The local of the Register hunts items
in an open buggy behind slow trotting
horse.
Rumor has it that two Of the morning
journals will cease issuing a Monday
paper.
Mr.. Pink Bryson has been elected
Vice President of the Bluff City Shoot
ing Club.
The Memphis Bethel has five thou
sand dollar fund wherewith to build a
Home for the waits.
The Change Warrants" for pavement
duplicates are ready to be issued to
those desiring such notes.
Alderman Andrew Davis is confined
to his room on account of severe at
tack Of inAammatory rheumatism.
Hon. B. Lewis, our representative, has
distinguished himself by introducing
three bills into the Hall OF Congress.
Next Monday evening the theatrical
attraction will be the 0ctoroon, for the
benefit of Harry Moreland.
The woods over the river present a
green appearance from the bluffs, dis
lance of three-fourths of mile.
High water has closed connections on
two Arkansas railroads, the Pine Bluff
and Chcot and the 0uachita roads.
Captain Woodbridge, the blind ex-
Confederate soldier, lectures tonight at
the Assembly Hall. Subject: Light
and the Eyes.
Next Tuesday the second pigeon
shooting match for the Bluff City Club
silver pitcher comes off at the old Her
nando Trotting Park.
One hundred and seven new members
have been secured by the Chamber of
Commerce, making the muster roll two
hundred and thirty.two.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis was in
London on the 18th of March, aad is at
present at Paris; so says letter received
from him by Bronson Bayliss, Esq.
Big buckles, crosses, anchors, arrows,
etc., appear in the rear portion of ladies
dresses at present as aiders and abettors
in supporting the patent Grecian bend.
Next Monday at II o'clock the Shelby
County Conservative Committee, which
was organized at Bartlett, will meet at
the Office of Hosea Townsend in the
Ayers Block.
In the homicide case of Mohatt-Hall,
on trial in the Criminal Court, the jury
returned verdict of not guilty last
evening, and Mr.. Moffatt was discharged
from custody.
But little business was transacted in
commercial or financial circles yester-
day, it being Good Friday, holiday gen.
orally observed throughout Christendom,
including Memphis.
The average male Memphian is doing
his level best at present endeavoring to
learn how to trip the light fantastic by
way of preparing for the summer pic
MICS, when he will throw himself away
in the shade,
That dead infant which was found like
little Moses in a wicker basket, but not
in the Nile, yesterday, was not taken
out of a vault in Chelsea as stated in
last evenings LEDGER, but vault in
rear of the old Postofice and Library
Building on Jefferson street.
Judgment was given yesterday in the
Second Circuit Court against the county
for $4,000 due judges OF courts as extra
salary, but which amounts were recently
locked from them by the Quarterly
Court. This case goes to the Supreme
Court on appeal by the county.
Judge nalsey, of the Second Circuit
Court, has decided that magistrates are
entitled to the extra three dollars per
diem when sitting in County or Quar-
terly Court, and gave judgment against
the county for the amount. The case
was appealed to the Supreme Court.
Tomorrow being Easter day, the SER
vices in St. Mary's Cathedral will be
more than usually attractive. The floral
decorations, as symbolizing the Re sur
rection, will be very beautiful, while the
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