Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-19

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number Of Mardi.Gras invitations ready
for the public, who can get them free of
charge.
Past Grand Sire Z. d. Farnsworth of
the |. o. 0. f., delivered an address ON
Odd-Fellowship at the Chickasaw Lodge
last night.
On Thursday, the 2Sth instant, a mag
istrate will be elected in the Fifth civil
district. Already a dozen candidates
are in the field.
Msrdi. Gras in Memphis will attract
twenty thousand strangers to the city,
now that the New Orleans celebration
has been abandoned.
The Sublime 0uro of the Memph has
box at the p~ostoiice so that the out.
side world eau communicate with him
or Msrdi- Gras affairs.
The thermometers now indicate the
weather as above freezing point, the
thermometers having given up the zero
business in this latitude.
On the 18th instapt there will be an
election for Constable in the Fifth civil
district, which is composed of the First,
Second, Third and Eighth wards of the
,sity.
The Memphis delegation in the Gene.
raj Assembly is said to be the best look.
ing and has less to say on the United
StateV Senatorial question thaE any
other.
For , He same ofense Mayor League,
who is uow playing Recorder, always
fines a woman a greater amount than q
man. The reverse rule is the proper
one to follow.
In the CRIMINAL Court to-day H. !.
Denton was placed on trial on indict
ment for killing d man named Weber
about two years ago, near Baskerville in
this county.
Billiard playing is. growing in popu.
larity in this city, and the advanced
players are inaulging in the three.ball
French carom game, the most scientific
of all billiard gaines.
During the past cold snap at zero
saloon whisky in this city was found
frozen, and now those saloon keepers
insist that they are mediums" having
succeeded in materializing spirits.
A large number of sturdy and inso-
lent beggnrs prowl around through the
suburbs and almost demand food FROM
the female inmates of households when
the male head of the family is away.
Many persons in this city seem 10
forget that harboring an escaped crimi-
nal and aiding in his escape is a peni-
Tertiary o%tTense. The Grand Jury will
enlighten a few ofthem on this important
subject.
Charles Buntall, who drew a pistol on
the enraged bull on Union street yester-
day, was fined fifty dollars by Mayor
League, Recorder pro tenn, this morning
on the charge of carrying deadly weap-
ons. The bull was not arrested or fined.
During the past few weeks'spiritual
circles in Memphis have been very ac.
tive in the naturalization business. The
other world was heard from several
times, and the departed spirits we're
getting along in about the same style as
they did here on earth.
The sentence of Angelo Marie has
been commuted by Governor Brown to
six months imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary, so that Angelo will be set at
liberty in August next. Marie was SEN
fenced to four years and had served out
nearly one-half the time.
In accordance with a resolution of the
General Council, Mayor League has
ordered Police Clerk. Barinds to give
certificates Of identity to those fined
during the past few months for fast
driving so that they can have the fines re-
mitted and the money refunded. The
law is, however still in force.
What has become of the bloated bond.
holders st. Nicholas Hotel Convention
which has been holding little sessions at
the Mayors office? The Convention was
an amusing farce, and even those attend.
ing it got ashamed Of it and say nothing
about it. 1t was another of Mayor
Leagues follies and little pet schemes.
General Council meeting tonight.
The standing committees will be ap.
pointed. Il Is to be hoped that the Fire
Committee will be Of srch . character
that the Fire Department will be sus-
taiuod instead Of an effort being made
to ruiz it, So was done by the Mayor and
certain members Of last years Fire
Committee.
Yesterday Sheriff Anderson sue
cseded in rec apturing Henry Bender