Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-26
LEDGER LINES.


Fritz" matinee at the theaser to.
morrow.
Fritz, Our Cousin German, at the the
alter again tonight.
Yesterday, in the Fifteenth Civil Dis
trict, G. R. Egnew was elected magis.
trate.
Mrs. Bowers will an en-
gagement at the theater next Monday
evening.
1t is once more the spring custom to
carry a miniature flower garden in your
button-hole.
Thursday next will be the 4th of March,
a very important day to Senators and
Congressman at Washington.
Dizziness reigns in the different courts
of record, and even the Police Court
failed to pan out a single item to-day.
Monday next will be the LIST of March,
and on Wednesday next the General
Council will meet in solemn e~onclave.
To-morrowthe Louisville library draw
ing comes off, an event which is awaited
with anxiety by several hundreds of
Memphians.
Esquire Miller varies his employment
by painting portraits in the intervals
between holding court and committing
criminals to Jail.
There was a fox hunt in town yester-
day afternoon. Reynard got loose and
ran through Court Square, up Second
street and at last was chased by the dogs
into a store where he was recaptured.
The Police Board removed three
policemen yesterday and will remove
five others within the next sixty days,
for the purpose Of reducing the force to
the minimum number during the spring
ana summer months.
Professor Mueller will give a matinee
dansante tomorrow afternoon, and not
a soiree d~ansaate, as our young friend
on the Appeal calls it, yet he would
have been correct we're the affair to
come off in the evening.
The Mayor refuses to accept orders
from the police and 6remen, saying that
he intends paying wages in money in
future. This is certainly the best plan,
provided it is carried out literally and
with business like regularity.
Chas. F. Brodowsky, a Pole, was ar
rested by detective Cranmer last night
on the charge Of passing counterfeit
coin at Little Rock and other points in
Arkansas. He was locked up to await
a requisition from the Governor of Ar
kansas.
Thirty "vags'' were captured in an
unoccupied dwelling in Chelsea yester-
day morning. Having been regular ap-
plicants for lodging at the station-house
for some time, they feared the chain
gang and concluded to establish a lodging
house OF their own.
A negro boy, aged twelve years, was
arrested last night near Central Point
while in the act of setting a house on
fire. Coal oil had been poured around
in a liberal manner. The youthful
would.be incendiary will have a hearing
before the Recorder to morrow morning.
The blackboards of the Cotton Ex-
change to day show the following items
of news: Receipts Of cotton for the
week, 66l6 bales; since September l.,
1874, 2S2,483; shipments for the week,
IL, 800; for the season, 229,872; stock on
hand, 5S,442; sales for the week, l4,3OO;
market stiff.
The blowing of Of steam at the cotton
COMPRISING establishments can be heard
every few inmates throughout the day
and night. Those who reside in the
vicinity Of one of these steam monsters
have a delightful time at night endeavor.
ing to court tired natures sweet re.
storer, balmy sleep"
The police were drilled and bored
yesterday afternoon. The men marched
and countermarched with the steadiness
of veterans and skirmished around in a
lively manner when the drill ceased.
The force needs a drum to give them
the time Of the step and q yardstick to
give them the distance.
A young man named Frank Henry
(alias Colonel Bunions), who some years
since was connected with a Memphis
journal, now d%efunet, pines in grief
at the Jefferson (Missouri) %penitentiary,
on account of lis not being able to dis.
cover the difference between meum and
tuum as to personal property.
Colonel Casey Young, Congressman
elect, left for Washington yesterday in or.
der to be in time to see BarbourLewi step
down and out from the position he les
disgraced. Civil rights Barbour will not
receive an ovation when he returns to
Memphis from the people whom he has
misrepresented in Congress.
1t is rumored that seats will be pro
vided on Sunday next for those young
swells who remain outside Calvary
church on the pavements, awaiting the
breaking up of the services and the ap
pearance Of the bellies. The young men
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