Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-16
LEDGER LINES.

The Bluff City Shooting Club will
elect officers next Tuesday evening.
The Appeal local is still singing the
/" Song of the Shirt" with variations.
The Patton Lowenstine case, on trial
before the First Circuit Court. is on ar
gument to-day
The County Court was engaged to-day
in passing bills and appropriations for
county affairs.
San Francisco Minstrels at the Green
law Opera House tonight and at the
matinee to morrow.
Ed Shaw took charge of the Wharf
masters office yesterday, and gave a ten
thousand dollar bond.
The Memphis Mardi-Gras celebration
on the 18th proximo will attract thous-
ands Of visitors to our city.
Mr.. G. w. Goyer has been elected
President of the Union and Planters
Bank, vice W. M. Harrington, resigned.
Mr.. &. S. Davis has again been elected
President of the First National Bank,
and John T. Fargason Vice-President.
Our judges and chancellors are at
Nashville in convention endeavoring to
arrange bills of costs in criminal cases.
Zip, or Point Lynde Light, with Lolita
in the leading role, at the Memphis
Theater tonight and at the matinee to-
morrow.
Petitions continue to pour in by the
hundred to Mayor League. AT least
fifteen hdndred citizens are applicants
for office.
The German Casino elected officers
yesterday, and appointed committee to
propose a programme for the Mardi'
Glas festival.
" Pips" MRS. O'Byrne) will give
ano ther series of readings and recita-
tons at the Assembly Hall next Wednes'
day evening.
Frod G. Schaper was indicted into the
office of City Tax Collector yesterday,
and gave an official bond of one hundred
thousand dollars.
1t is rumored that an Irish Catholic
weekly paper will soon be published in
this city. Memphis affords fine field
for journalists who have capital.
Members of the County Court have to
exhaust all their learning and oratory in
FIVE minute speeches, unless further
time is granted by special permission Of
majority Of the members.
But three unfortunates appeared be-
fore the Recorder to-day, the lightest
/ docket that has appeared in court fol
many day. Memphis is the quetest
atty on the continent at present.
The Wall-Soenker troubles as to the
lons of FIVE hundred dollars and the rem
ditfou and requisition of Wall from St
Louis was am;cably settled yesterday by
the marriage of she parties in the Pro
bate Court.
Messrs II. c. Bigelow and W. B
Hood have placed on our desk an en-
grayed schedule of the arrival and de
parture of the mails from the postofiice
The diagram will be found inGespensi
BILE by business men.
The judges, in convention at Nash
vile, propose that prisoners convicteC
Of crime be sent to the penitentiary, in
stead of remaining in the county Jail OF
being permitted to be out on bail during
the progress of the trial of the appeal ia
the Supreme Court.
The County Court has authorized the
County Clerk to purchase set of books
for the purpose of keeping a correct
record of the indebtedness Of the county,
so that balance can be produced at a
moments notice. The magistrates are
keeping q close watch on county affairs.
The managers of the theater say that
hereafter the reserved seat business will
be all right, as competent men have been
secured and will take charge Of the seat.
selling. Last evening no trouble was
had in this respect, and hereafter no
trouble need be apprehended by theater-
goers.
A special trian of sixty visitors for the
Memphis Theater, and under charge OF
Conductor Charley LoAand, came up
over the Mississippi and Tennessee rail
road last night. When the performance
closed Conductor LoAand carried his
party back over the road as safely as he
carried the Kurdish Combination ia
Grenada 900 miles) in three hours and
five minutes.