Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-27
THE CITY.
M Il M PHIS,
saturday Evening. March 81. 1879
LEDGER LINES.


Easter eggs Will suffer tomorrow.
This is the last day of Lent; tomorrow
Easter Sunday or Resurrection Day.
ONE dollar aud a half for a box Of
fresh oranges at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s
To day Professor Mueller will give a
matineee dansante at the Memphis Club
Hall.
The Knights of Innisfail will indulge
IN a grand hop at the Peabody next Mon.
day night.
The West Tennessee Arbitration Court
was not in session to-day, but will meet
on Monday next.
The rite of confirmation will be ad-
miniStered at Grace Episcopal church
tomorrow afternoon.
Charity calico ball at the Peabody. for
the benefit of the orphans of the Church
Home, next Thursday night.
Look out for the Easter fashions, espe-
cially the Easter bonnet, which will
adorn the heads of the fair at church to-
morrow.
The Quorum Courts of the State are
abolished, and the powers of the same
are vested in the Chairman of the
Quarterly Court.
Mansfofd, on the corner of Second
and Monroe, has all the latest daily pa
pers, pictorials and periodicals, as well
as foreign journals.
The official copy of the city charter
will reach the city this afternoon, it
being in the possession of Mr.. Overton,
one of the mine"
Out of S5l bills introduced before the
General Assembly, l43 we're passed into
laws, and II resolutions we're adopted
on divers and sundry subjects.
Sol Coleman, the great cigar man on
Main, near Washington, has received a
fresh supply of the best brands from
Cuba, which brands are sold at the low
est rates.
Among the latest music just out are
Resting" words by Acheson, music by
Winter; and Now or Never" music by
Mack; published by Ludden & Bates, Sa-
vannah, Georgia.
Next Tuesday evening there will be a
grand masquerade ball at the Exposition
building. A full string band will be pre-
sent and play for the dances, and the
s%trictest order will be enforced by the
committees.
In the Recorders Court to-day Jack
son Williams, (negrO), who entered a
house near Central Point last night and
carried off u lot Of plumber, was sent to
Jail without bail to await a trial before
the Criminal Court.
This forenoon Mayor League observed
a burly negro beating a white boy on
Main street, neal Monroe. The Mayor
collared the negro and blew his
whistle, which brought up the patrolmen
who carried the fellow to Jail.
Monday night next Robert McWade
and the Gilbert Sisters will appear at the
theater. The Sisters we're raised in this
city ana resided here a few years ago,
when Miss Katie Gilbert was a member
Of the Memphis Theater stock company.
South Memphis is worried over the
disappearance of Mrs. Kimbro, whose
hat and shawl were found on the. river
bank yesterday morning, and the ques-
tion now is, was it a case of suicide, or
a ruse to puzzle everybody by a mysteri-
GUS disappearance
The marriage licenses executed and
returned to the County Court Clerk dur
ing the past week are &c follows: Sam
Rogers and Miss lisa N. Smith; II. W.
Dewitt and Miss May A, Sullivan; F. S.
and Mrs. A. 7. Herring; W. D.
Tucker and Mrs. G. M. Harding.
In Philadelphia on Sunday last the
police made a raid upon a lot of young
men found loafng around church doors
in order to gaze at the fair ones as they
made their exit. The well-dressed nui.
sanoes were imprisoned and 6ned. This
is a hint for Memphis authorities.
The presence Of spring in whose lap
winter has fingered is thus announced