Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-02
LEDGER LINES.

riailze well IN memphis.
The bells rang out a false alarm of fire
at eleven o'clock last night.
Memphis needs a work-house for white
and black mackerels.
The streets Of Memphis are like Mrs.
Tilton. "So-so," dear father.
The monthly meeting Of the Chamber
OF Commerce will be held next Monday.
March came in like a lion, and accord.
ing to the old saying, will go out like a
lamb.
The Ida Cerito troupe Of female min.
strels and can-can dancers at the Green.
law Opera House this evening.
Owing to a wash out in Hatchie river
bottom the train over the Paducah rail.
road failed to make a trip yesterday.
The coapon-holding Memphian now
smiles grimly when he finds that he is
entitled to an approximation Of nineteen
dollars for a whole ticket.
Sheriff Anderson left for Nashville to-
day and carried with him fifteen citi.
zens, who will reside for a few years in
the State penitentiary.!
Under the civil rights bill the Indian,
the negro and the Chiuamen, but not the
white man, are authorized to intrude
upon other people.
There was no performance at the
theater last night in consequence Of the
Bowers party falling to make railroad
connection between St. Louis and this
point.
Do Murska has taken New Orleans
by storm in Lucia de Lammermoor at the
French Opera House, and will not be
able to appear in this city until the last
Of next week.
Chief Athy desires information OF
Samuel Beavers, said to be sick in a pri-
vate house neal the Charleston railroad
depot. His father resides in Talladega,
Alabama.
The next Christian anniversary will
occur on the 18th inst. St. Patrick's day.
and the next Hebrew feast will be that
of We Adar ID, 4635, feast Of Esther, on
the 2lst instant.
In the Criminal Court today John ?.
Grace was placed on trial on indictment
for the killing Of q man named Taylor
last December on the corner of Oyertou
and Third streets.
The civil rights bill having been signed
by President Grant yesterday. is now the
law of the lard, and If Memphis Radi
Gals are to be believed, a white man is as
good as a Niger" if he behaves him.
self.
Miss Adelaide Phillips, who sang in
this city a few weeks since, has beer
obliged to give up all her Western en-
gagements in consequence Of the seriou.
illness Of Mr.. Tom Karl, the tenor o.
the troupe.
Those who hold a pocketful of cou
pons which drew blanks in the Louisville
lottery are now repeating the lines
Will Fortune never come with botl
hands fullP But write her fair words still
in foulest figures2'
The citizens of the First, Second
Third and Eighth wards of the city
which wards compose the Fifth civil dis
trict, will rally around the polls and Sc
lect a constable On Thursday next from
the crowd of candidates in the field.
S%eventy-6ve feet of sprinkling hos,
was found by Sergeant Pryde this morn
ing near a junk shop. The hose was
no doubt, stolen from some front lot
The owner can recover his property b,
calling at the Adams street station.house
Tom Neal, Of the Dyersburg Gazette
is in town exhibiting a self.acting rail
road switch by which q running trail
switches and unswitches itself if desira
Bile. Tom believes he has secured BIZ
bonanza by the invention.
The face Of the County Clerk is over
Swallowed by a cloud of disappointment
since it proves true that the season o
Lent is somewhat unpropitious to mar
riages and for those OF the faithful who
desire to be united in the holy bonds o
wedlock.
Last night a negro barber, Jane.
Morton, shaved and shampooned 6
country darby, and then in a friendl,
manner took charge of S74 belonging /,
him, promising to return it in the NOR
ming, but he only returned $64, for whicl
failure he vas arrested and locked up il
the Adams street station-house.
The stockholders of the Selma rail
road will meet in this city tomorrow
The road is to be sold by the bondhold
ers to any one who desires to purchase
an elephant. There is no chance t,
secure any more subscriptions from
Shelby county. AT present the roat
bed is washing away rapidly.
So many little robberies have beer
perpetrated of late by young thieve.
that the police are turning their atten
ton to certain junk shops that are vel
known fence houses" their proprietor
being always ready TO purchase th.
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