Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-12
LEDGER LINES.
The river is falling rapidly.

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Cochran Hall tonight.
Seventy prisoners are confined in the
Adams street station-house. .
There are eleven candidates for the
Office Of Sheriff spoken Of on the streets.
The day after tomorrow st. Valentine
will indite amorous missives to the bellies
and beaux.
Duprez & Benedict gave their last
performance at the Greenlaw Opera
House last night.
Elmwood Cemetry, the City Of the
Dead, is twenty-four years old, and con-
tains 10000 residents.
The Police Board has ordered the
suppression of all houses of ill.fame
and places of assignation.
Go to Bartlett on Saturday next and
attend the mass-meeting of the conser-
vative element Of Shelby county.
Sacred concert at Memphis CLUB Hall
tomorrow evening for the benefit of
the German Protestant church.
The ugliest set of newspaper men in
Memphis are the river reporters, or wet
end men of the daily journals-our own
Adonis excepted, OF course.
The good-looking local of the Appeal
will appear as Diana, the warlike Ava
lanche man as Mars, and the Register
man as Adonis on Mardi-Gras day.
Last night at nine o'clock the Colored
Baptist church on Henry avenue, Chel.
sea, and four shanties occupied by col.
ored people, were destroyed by fire.
On the LIST prox. Superintendent An
derson, of the city railway, will give
way to Superintendent Barrett, who will
again take charge of the street cars.
The motion against Woodward, County
Trustee, and Messrs. Folwell and Busby,
his sureties on school bonds for $40 900,
is being heard in the First Circuit Court
Brace up your awnings for Mardi
Gras if you do not, the police will COM
pei you to do so, if you permit spectators
to occupy these high yet dangerous loca-
tons.
Bands of youthful Carbonari harp
upon their harps nightly at our princi-
pal hotels, and then pass around the hat
for subscription in behalf of the Goddess
Euterpe.
The sanitary police are to wear a
uniform-blue pants and coat, regula-
ton cap and gilt buttons. They should
be furnished also with an extra nose of
forty-stench power.
Sale Of reserved seats at the theater
for Barrett's Richeieu on Monday night,
and for seats on Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights, commenced at the ticket
Office this morning.
The decision of the County Court
setting aside the late election for con-
stable in the Fifth Civil District leaves
Frank Brannen as constable holding
over until the next election.
The Chapman Sisters will appear in
Aladdin, burlesque opera, and in farce
entitled Jenny Lind, at the theater
tonight. Tomorrow night Fra Diavolo,"
a pleasing comic opera, will be the at
traction.
The police have not as yet stopped
drays and other vehicles from being
driven around corners at rapid trot.
To-day several children on Main street
came very near being run over by dray
conductor.
1t is contemplated by the city author
tiles to place few seats and shade trees
on the bluffs at the foot. of Madison
street for the benefit of our citizens who
wish to admire the great river and the |
scenery in Arkansas. The idea should
be carried out practically,
Messrs. d. D. Sanders and Arthur
Merriman, who made a tie Of seven
birds at the Bluff City Shooting Club
pigeon shooting match on Tuesday last,
will shoot off this afternoon at the Her
nando Trotting Park and settle the
question as to the ownership ofthe prize
silver goblet.
A lively William goat attacked child
in North Memphis yesterday, and tossed
It high in the air several times. The
paternal ancestor of the child armed
himself with shot gun, but William lost
his identity among herd Of goats brous-
ing not far away Goats seem 10 be a
dangerous nuisance in Pinch.
A Nashville journal in noticing the
arrival of Sheriff Doyle and deputies,
who had charge of delegation Of peni-
Tertiary convicts from our city, heads
It's article Batch Of Zebras from Mem
phis," and adds, during the month
Shelby county has sent forty-seven fel'
ons to the peniten tiary."
The Police Board at their meeting
yesterday appointed seveAty-two special
who go on duty on Saturday
next, the l4th, and act until next
18th. These specials should
wear some uniform. One man in uni
form as a preserver of the peace is worth
A dozen dressed in citizens dress.
800 po..-J-, L;oL.r hoe