Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-19
LEDGER LINES.


Red snappers at Victor D. Fuchs to-
day.
Plenty Of good butter at Oliver, Fin
ME 4 Co.'s.
The different societies Of the city are
making arrangements for the spring pic
mic season.
The river has fallen fourteen inches at
this point, but another rise is expected
by tomorrow.
Evening prayers in Calvary Church
this evening at 8 o'clock. Full musical
service BY the choir.
The competitive drill between the mil.
itary companies Of the State will come
of on Friday at Nashville.
The Criminal Court Grand Jury visited
the Adams street station.house to-day
and inspected the premises.
All processes from the United States
Court made returnable at the May term
Of court must be served this week.
The 0sceola Belle still remains in the
woods where she ran ashore, near Brad
ley's landing, sixteen miles up the river.
The Ladies Christian Association will
meet this afternoon at four o'clock at the
Court street Cumberland Presbyterian
church.
EightJ.iix years ago from last Mon.
day (l79O), Benjamin Franklin, the
American patriot. philosopher and print
er, died.
The new steamer Grand Republic,
which everybody wants to see will ar
rive here from St. Louis at 6 o'clock this
afternoon.
The Knights of Pythias will hold q
meeting tonight in honor of the Supreme
Chancellor, Mr.. S. S. Davis, who arrived
in ths city yesterday.
st. Bridget's Dramatic Society will
give their second entertainment tonight
in their hall on Third street, between
jackson and 0verton.
The work Of erecting Court Square
fountain progresses rapidly. Hundreds
OF people visit the square daily to in
spect the site and watch the workmen.
Hundreds of people visited the bluffs
last evening to gaze across the big river
at Hopeield, the Arkansas Venice, and
watch the coast packets steam Out Of
port.
Some unknown skipper stole a full
rugged clipper ship from the Hook and
Ladder boys, on Adams street, yester-
day, and the boys have offered a liberal
reward for its recovery.
In the Chancery Court a petition for
divorce has been filed by Ma. laret
Thompson against Plea SAINT Thompson,
on the grounds Of abandonment and
failure to support her and family.
From a letter just received here from
Los Angeles, CAL, by Captain G. NJ. Col.
lier, we learn with pleasure that Captain
George W. Gift is out OF danger, and il
in a fair way of speedy recovery from his
late dangerous illness.
At the base ball contest at Olympic
Park, yesterday afternoon, the Memphi,
club beat the Riversides badly, the score
being fifteen to nothing. Quite a large
number Of citizens was in attendance on
the ground during the game.
Memphis exhibitors, if there are any,
will recollect hat the rules for the Phil
adelphia Exposition provide that all oh.
jects for exhibition will be admitted ur
to the first Of May, but heavy and bulky
machinery must be set up by the goth Of
April.
No attractions at the theater this week,
but next week, on Thursday night, we
will have the Julia Mathews Opera
Boufe Company, and will enjoy La
Grande Duchesse, GiroAe.G iroAs, La
File de Madame Angot and the Bohe.
milan Girl.
Mayor Flippin now holds Recorders
Court, and deals out even. handed justice
to all applicants, be they white or black,
or of either sex. AS a rule the fines be
imposes are OF the minimum order, the
offenses committed being almost exclu.
sively misdemesnors.
The BornemAnn benefit comes of at
the Memphis Club Hsllto.night, on which
musical occasion two operas will be pro.
duced, Don Giovanni and M~ordgrund-
bruck, by the leading amateur vocalists
Of the city, a fact which will attract q
large and fashionable audience.
Are you going to the C%entennial2 is a
social con1ndrum in Memphis circles not
easily answered, but at a rough guess
people generally ana r~ecklessly answer
in the affirmative, leaving it to time to
pan out q solution of the financial prob.
lem involved in the question and answer.
There is a good deal of quiet work
going on among the professional ward
politicians with reference to the August
election. The boys may meet in caucus
in beer saloons and other out.ofthe-way
places, but our political reporter keeps
posted as to the signs of the times as