Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-27
LEDGER LINES.

The General Council will assemble at
the City Hall tonight to wind up unin-
ished monthly business.
The country roads are in what. might
be called a muddy condition-almost
impossible for cotton wagons.
Little Katie Graham was awarded the
first prize at Miss Cora Ashes Market
street school for perfect lessons.
The Board of Health mortuary reports
for the past week show the total deaths
to have been l6; whites, 10; blacks, 6.
The Buffalo Bill Scout Combination
left yesterday for Nashville, where they
will open in Scouts of the Plains to-
night.
Large numbers of emigrants for Texas
pass over the Little Rock railroad daily.
They follow the setting sun in search Of
Eldorado..
AT the last meeting Of the Knights Of
Honor in this city there we're several
limitations and thirteen applications for
membership.
A negro roustabout named Dan Ander.
son fell overheard from the steamer A.
]. White on Saturday night at Terrene,
and was drowned.
The boy, Wiley Galloway, who was SO
severely wounded on Madison street by
the bursting of q small iron cannon on
Christmas day, is recovering.
Barry Sullivan, the best of Shakspe.
rean actors, will appear at the theater
next Monday evening in Richard III, to
be followed on Tuesday night by Hamlet.
Miss Minnie Book was awarded an ele-
CANT bouquet as the most popular young
lady at the German Benevolent Society
ball at Cochran Hall, Christmas night.
A gallows is being erected by Sheriff
Anderson in the county Jail yard. Some.
body will get the hang Of the thing
about the 7th of January, next Friday
week.
On Christmas day and night twenty
eight arrests were made by the police, of
which twenty-five were made on the
charge of drunkenness and d~isorderly
conduct.
The German Casino Club INDUCED in
a Christmas hop at Cochran Hall last
night. A Christmas-tree was illuminated
and adorned with gifts for the entertain
ment of the children.
Next Thursday night ALT Burnett, the
elocutienist and humorist, will com
mence an engagement at the theater.
The theater will be closed during the
fore part of the present week.
One Of our State courts has decided
that a school teacher has the same right
to enforce obedience from a child that a
parent has, and can therefore inhict cor
poral punishment when necessary.
In the case Of Catherine O'Gara VI
The Piedmont and Arlington Insurance
Company, on hearing in the United
States Court, the jury rendered a verdic.
for the plaintiff in the sum Of 1926.
A drunken white man was conveyed t.
the police station last night in a wheel
barrow. He was so drunk that he wal
unable to give his name, but $9l. 55 wert
found On his person by turnkey Torrey
Professor Tice, of st. Louis, having
predicted rain or snow for Christmas day
must have relented or postponed tht
brain storm until yesterday, when it came
accompanied by thunder and lightning
Captain Stack Lee, Of the packet Idle
wild, had to refuse 1900 bales of Memphil
cotton IN Saturday at Chicot City, tht
terminus Of the Chicot and Pine Bluff
railroad, he being unable to bring it W
for want of room.
The press.gang will in a few days bt
invited by DR.. Watson to attend q Miller
seance and report what they see. Yes
we will report what we see, hear, smell.
and feel in the ghostly regions of the
Greenlsw building.
Steele McDavitt, a %burglariously dis
posed African, was arrested on Saturday
night on the charge of entering a negro
dwelling on the bayou in South Memphis.
he was committed to Jail this morning
in default of bail.
Yesterday was the anniversary Of the
rout of the Hessians at Trenton, N. j., in
l776, by the troops under Washington.
II was also the anniversary Of the taking
possession of Fort Sumter by Major
Anderson and Federal forces in 1860.
Rumor has it that the opposition, in.
GLIDING Radicalism and other objection.
able "isms," will offer a nomination fol-
the Mayoralty to Captain A. T. Lacey,
but the truest friends Of Captain Lacey
say that he will not accept the question.
able compliment.
The day and night police patrols
change time at IL m. on Saturday next,
Captain Weatherford and Sergeant
Arrats will have charge of the night
force for the ensuing three months, and
the day force will be in charge Of Captain
Braun and Sergeant McElroy. The day
patrol force at present numbers thirteen
man and the night .fnnr mon