Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-25
LEDGER LINES.
See order of Chickasaw Guards.

The case Of the State VS.. Curtin, in
dictment tor COW stealing, is still on trial
in the Criminal Court.
Professor Mueller will give a soiree
dansante at his academy tonight for the
amusement of his pupils and patrons.
A dozen candidates have appeared as
claimants for the vacancy in the Fifth
District, caused by the death Of constable
Tom Quinn.
Riding in the street cars is a luxury,
with several attendant inconvenience,
the principal Of which is dirt; the next,
tobacco juice.
The weather was summerish yesterday,
and is winterish oday; but such is the
condition of things in this latitude at
this season of the year.
In the Fifteenth Civil District to-day
the sovereigns are selecting a Justice of
the Peace TO fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Esquire Hoist.
s~uburbanites are raking away the
dead leaves, and are planting peas, po-
tatoes and other seeds, which in due
time will produce vegetables.
The county Jail is the best looking
and most aristocratic in appearance of
any building in Memphis, a fact which
does not speak well for civilization.
1t is understood that all our cigar box
Representatives favored the passage OF
the bill abolishing the Chancery and
Circuit Courts, and voted for it on its
several readings.
Joseph R. Moseby of Fayette and
jerome Hill Of Memphis have been com
missioned by Governor Porter as Direc-
tors of the Memphis and Charlest on
Railroad Company.
The suburbs aud country adjacent to
the city are suffering from the depreda.
tons of COW and horse stealers, aud the
chicken thief continues to make it lively
for would-be poultry %raisers.
The Elliott block on the levee, viii oh
was burned down some months since,
and which building was owned by the
county of Shelby at the time, is being
built up again for business purposes.
One Of the causes of fire is the PERM.
cious habit INDUCED in of depositing
Goals in ash boxes in buildings. The live
Goals soon break out into a fame and the
ash box or barrel starts a frst-class fire.
Mr.. r. M. Mansford having purchased
the news stand and Catholic Book Store
on the orne of Second and Monroe
street, invites his friends and the general
public to call and examine his stock oil
news goods, literature and notions.
The acknowledged leader Of the Ger
man in our burg is q newspaper man
who has become so proficient in the
T~erpsichorean art that he is now prac
ticing the ballet with a view to turning
out orthe stage and becoming a chande
lier kicker.
1t is rumored that another city oficia.
will publish his negroized Radical part,
recantation in Sundays Appeal, anC
prove to the gullible Democracy that b,
was sound all the time, even when b,
associated with negroes upon terms O
familiar intimacy.
We understand hal Mayor Loagu,
in several instances deducted accepted
orders from the fifty dollars which he
proposed to pay to the police, ever
though the policemen had several hun.
dred dollars to their credit in the city
Golfers. This was done in a few cases
but why is the c%onundrum.
In no city Of modern times are the
streets so full Of valleys and hills as are
ours. Main street is marred by the
smallpox; Second is nearly used up
DeSoto is p%aralyzed; Madison is far
from being convalescent; Jefferson is
played GU, and Adams is rotting away,
and yet the pavement is not paid for.
1t was enormously stated in the Ava.
lanche of this morning that the Home
of Memphis suffered q loss in insurance
by the burning of the steamer Cora
Belle near P~ocahontas, Arkansas, last
Monday night, The Home did not
lose a dollar by the destruction Of either
the boat or its freight, and did not have
any risk on the same.
The at the junction Of Main
and Jefferson are the places where the
sports do most congregate to admire
those coming from the matinee, but the
southwest corner of Main and Madison
is the place where all politicians as.
semble to discuss great political and
moral subjects, as well as to admire the
beauties Of the city as they hop by.
Barney Hughes, the comical humorist
of Memphis, will deliver q lecture ere
long on the subject of the Beecher-T ilton
scandal, the Louisiana outrages, the
causes of Mayor Leagues r~ecantation oil
Radicalism, the effect of Lent upon the
Memphis marriage season, or some other
equally interesting theme, to which
Judge Hughes will do complete justice.
Tea is the f%avorite beverage Of the
ladies of Memphis. Its powers are
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