Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-09
LEDGER LINES.

Mrs. Bowers will appear at the theater
tonight in Loves Sacrifice.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been elected
an honorary member Of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Thursday night next the "City Dad
dies" will indulge in an oratorical dis
play at the City Hall.
Judge Emmons arrived yesterday and
opened the United States District and
Circuit Courts to-day.
All over the State hotel keepers are
surrendering their licenses, and are now
keeping private boarding houses.
The young ladies of the First Baptist
Church will give a festival on Thursday
evening next. Everybody is invited.
1t has been decided that the civil
rights bill does not apply to saloons, so
the white man can take his drink as
usual.
The Little Rock Republican of the 9Th
says: tom Tate, superintendent Of the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad, has
resigned"
Yesterday several Cinnamon INDUCED
in snow balling. The heathens are ex.
ceedingly awkward in hurling praiec-
tiles, and cannot throw a ball thirty feet.
A mysterious ard horrible scandal is
in circulation with reference TO the
county poor house. Let it come to light;
the suppressing business is not popular.
The case of the State VS.. Day, indict-
ment for burglary, is on trial in the
Criminal Court to-day. Day was one Of
the gang who broke Jail with Captain
White.
The snow still remains on all streets
running east and west, becausethe suns
rays fail to pierce the shade cast by the
buildings on the south side Of said
streets.
Last Monday night a white man was
halted near Whites Station on the
Charleston road, was compelled to dis
mount and then was robbed by two
negro highwaymen.
The School Board met last night and
went into secret session over the
Thompson-Ba Clay street school
row, from which secret and nonsensical
meeting the reporters were excluded.
A ten-year old negro maokerel was
brought into the station-house last night,
having been caught in the act of carry
ing off four boxes of figs from the con.
fectioLery store of j. Storz, on Second
street, near Monroe.
Several Memphis girls now wear the
banditti hat, which is nothing more than
a mans hat, one side of the rim pinned
up and sporting a feather. 1t makes a
young lady look saucy and probably
attractive, but this latter is doubtful.
Not a she'll oyster has reached here
from Baltimore or Norfolk for the past
ten days, owing to the floods. There are
some shell oysters from Mobile in the
city, but they cannot be compared to the
bivalves from the more northerly coast.
The grand report made by the com
mittee of investigation, selected by the
School Board, has been whitfield down
to nothing and has been washed out
OF existence. 1t did not materialize
well, and was killed just where it origi-
nated-in the School Board.
The policemen and fremen got a little
money or back pay yesterday. Many of
the men have to their credit at the City
Hall four or more months pay, but it is
creditable to the Mayor that he is max
ing an effort to pay off the working men.
The b~ondholders are able to take care of
themselves.
A snow ball six feet in diameter was
rolled up by the Jefferson street boys
yesterday. An amateur artist attempted
to carve the figure of A. j. out of it, but
failed to give the ball the stamp of hu.
manity, the figure resembling a Chinese
deity more than it did the deity of the
immortal nine.
Members of the General Council are
Wandering around in their respective
wards soliciting signatures to a petition
asking the Legislature to pass the pro.
posed new charter, which no man has
ever yet been able to see except the little
City Hall ring, to whom it gives a six
months additional lease of official life.
Where do the gentlemen of the period,
who consider it the proper thing to bur
den themselves with n bit OF bamboo or
other wood, find their warrant for relig-
iously keeping their canes under their
arms and with the points at angles well
calculated to punch out the eyes of
pedestrians who attempt to flank the
cane cArriersP
A fire was discovered in the dwelling
of Mrs. Stewart, No. CT Vance street,
last night, but the flames were suppressed
by the fremen ere much damage was
done. The fire was the work of an in
c%endiary, Or was caused by spontaneous
combustion. The fire boys played on
the piano with the nozzle for a few min
utes.