Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-06
LEDGER LINES.
Nothing new in the courts to-day. |

To-Day at the Memphis Club Hall.
The foods continue to interrupt travel
and traffic Oh the Charleston railroad.
The saddest of all men in the city are
those who held coupons in the Louisville
lottery.
Those cheerful but annoying little birds
known as martins have made their APP
pearance.
The arbitration branch of the Supreme
Court for West Tennessee will be held in
Memphis.
Eleanor at the matinee to-day. To
night East Lynne will be the dramatic
attraction.
Burglars and thieves are around
nightly attempting to enter dwellings
and stores.
Billy Lieben has Sunday reading mat.
ter at his Jews depot on Main street;
near Jefferson.
Colonel Leon Trousdale has been ap.
pointed Superintendent Of Public In
struction by Governor Porter.
"A club of workingmen will meet at
the City Hall tonight for the purpose Of
organizing a protective union.
The new organ at St. Mary's (Catho.
lic) Church is pronounced by professors
of music to be the finest and best in the
city.
A rumor is current that our hotels.
like those of Nashville, are about to
hang out the sign, Private Boarding
House"
Colonel Faulkner, of Holly Springs,
and Colonel Sam M. Meeks, Of Column
bus, Miss, are in the city on railroad
business.
The LEDGER is the only daily journal
published in this city on Mondays, a
fact which advertisers should always
recollect.
The Henderson Advocate suggests the
propriety of holding a West Tennessee
Press Convention at jackson on the
9th of April.
A number of Arkansians in town yes.
terday were congratulatirg each other
over the refusal Of Congress to disturb
the present State government.
Mr.. W. T. Stephens has nearly COM
pleted his arrangements for the produc.
ton of the first dog drama" ever pre-
sented at the Memphis Theater.
The Bartlett Circuit Court, Judge Ray
presiding, will convene on Monday next.
The civil docket will be called peremp.
torily Immediately after the organization
OF the Court.
Sol Coleman, the great cigar man Of
Memphis, astonishes everybody by the
low prices which he asks for cigars. He
has received a fresh lot of the choicest
brands from Cuba.
The Swiss Gruetli Society elected Off
GERS last evening as follows: President,
Henry Eshman; Vice President, D. H.
Haessig; Secretary, John Sheibler;
Treasurer, Steve Fransiola.
Our lrish-American fellow. citizens will
celebrate st. Patrick's day, the 18th
instant, by balls at the Memphis Club
Hall and Cochran Hall and a parade of
civic societies during the day.
Several turbulent and thieving negroes
applied for accommodation at the Adams
street sta%tion-house last night, and the
authorities recognizing the provisions of
the c. r. B. locked them up in their
little cells.
The Memphis and Shelby County
Bible Society will meet tomorrow even.
ing at seven and "a half o'clock at the
First Cumberland Presbyterian church.
The exercises will be of a most interest.
ing character.
The negroes Ed Hayden and partner,
who made the first attempt to enter the
dress circle at the theater, are we'll.
known to the police as professional
thieves, and of course were fitting repre-.
%sentatives of the civil rights bill.
A machine run by gas" is the not a
very complimentary a%llusion when as.
piled to our General Council or General
Assembly; but like the rhyme contest
between John Sylvester and Ben Jonson,
1T may not be poetical, but true.
During the fire on Vance street this
morning the Northern Methodist church
and parsonage, across the street from
the burning grocery house, caught fire
several times, but were saved by the ex-
ertions and watchfulness of the Fire
Department.
All the usual morning services will be
observed in the Linden street Christian
church, but in consequence of the ami.
yersary of the Memphis and Shelby
County Bible Society, to be held in the
Court street Cumberland Presbyterian
there will be no night service.
2 Land bid in under the direct tax laws
o. the United States can be redeemed on
or before the 9Th Of June, after which, if
unredeemed, the lands will become the
absolute property of the United States.
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