Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-07
LEDGER LINES.


No fire disturbed the slumbers of Mem
phians last night.
The Chapman Sisters at the theater
on Monday evening.
Butchers Union ball next Monday
evening at Cochran Hall.
In the Probate Court today, Richard
II. Harris appeared as Deputy Sheriff.
John Clifford, charged with burglary,
is on trial before the Criminal Court to-
day.
The different civic societies Of the
city are preparing to celebrate Mardi-
Gras.
Hereafter all wharfboats are to be
charged the same wharfage as steam
boats.
Duprez & Benedicts minstrels on
Monday evening at the Greenlaw Opera
House.
No nominations for untitled city Offices
were made by the Mayor at the General
Council meeting last evening.
Darling, with Miss Mordaunt in. the
leading role, at the matinee to-day and
the closing performance tonight.
Pigeon shooting match next Tuesday
at the Memphis Trotting Park, and at
double birds, eighteen yards rise, open
to all bird shots.
The Aldermanic resolutions to donate
Market Square to courthouse purposes
was badly defeated in the Common
Council last night.
The argument of Council in the Pat
ton Loewenstine case, ON motion for a
new trial, is progressing in the First
Circuit Court to-day.
Rev. Father Rotchford, Provincial OF
the Dominican Order Of Priests in the
United States, is on visit of inspection
to the branch house Of the Order in this
city.
Low broad heels and soles on ladies'
shoes and boots have superseded the
French pointed heel and narrow coles,
so that now women can walk without
falling down.
John McCarty, the man who set fire
to the Louisville railroad shops, will be
tried before Esquire Caldwell at his
Office on Front street this afternoon at
two o'clock.
The custem-house location committee
of citizens met yesterday and recon-
mended as a site the property on Third
between Court and Madison streets, east
side of Third street.
A sneak-thief was captured in gen.
tleman's sleeping room over the DcSoto
Bank, on Madison street, yesterday. He
was preparing to carry off valuable
lot of clothing when arrested.
A wandering bug-bear and naturalist,
toting beetles and bugs which hang to a
stick, promenades the principal streets
daily. The bugs are manufactured by
the naturalist, and are sold at five cents
a piece.
John McCarty, the incendiary who
fred the Louisville railroad shops and
destroyed over 100000 worth of prop.
erty, was brought to this city last even
ing by his captor, Mr.. j. T. Goolsby, of
Sardis, Mississippi.
1t is essential, as will be seen by call
in another column. that every member of
Tennessee Lodge No. s, Knights of
Pythias. be in attendance this evening
at their drill.room, as business of special
Importance will be transacted.
If, " said a witty Memphian, the
gentleman who took fancy to my over
coat was Influenced by the weather, then
all is serene, but if he did so from COM
mercial considerations, | am ready to
enter into financial negotiations for its
return"
The Rev. W. W. Faucet, Of the Mem
phis Annual Conference, having eloped
with Agnes Pyrtle and leaving wife
and seven children, has been suspended
from clerical functions by his church.
To be drawn off by Faucet is not new
in this world of ours.
The City Engineer is of the opinion
that it will not be many years before the
will burst through into
Hatchie lake and come rolling down
Loosa Hatchie and Wolf rivers. This
will either place the channel close under
the bluffs or leave a sand bar in front
of the city.
Tomorrow the remains OF H. l..
Hester who died of yellow fever in
this city during the epidemic, will be
carried to Nashville by Messrs T. S.
Jukes and W. H. Moyston. The re-
mains will be escorted TO the Louisville !
depot by the Knights of Pythias in uni
form, headed by baud Of music.
In turning street corners drivers Of
vehicles of all kinds go around in
swinging trot. The law is to go around |
street corners in walk, yet We never
hear Of an arrest made by the patrol
men for this everlasting and dangerous
nuisance. II is the rule in Memphis
that pedestrians have no rights except
to get run over.
Nancy Williams, a highly respected