Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-06
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masquerade Dali AT HUMBOLDT Park 70"
night.
Choice venison hams at v. D. Fuchs,
Al Jefferson street.
Eleven arrests were made on Saturday
and FIVE on Sunday by the police.
The steamer Mary Bell was not a good
boat for brides who had wardrobes.
Nearly every person is suffering from
q March or Mardi Gras cold at present.
This morning VIM. Anderson, a lar.
%cenist, was committed to jail by the Re-
corder.
Next week will bring Maggie Mitchell
with Fanchon, Pearl Of Savoy, Little
Barefoot, etc.
All fears of an overflow have subsidized
down the coast since the Mississippi be-
gan to subside.
Katie Putnam, as Little Nell' and
the "Marchioness," in Old Curiosity
Shop, at the theater tonight.
The Board of Health mortuary report
for last week shows the total deaths to
have been 26-whites II, blacks ID
Quite a large aud fashionable audi
ence attended Prof. Pepper lecture on
Ghosts and Light" at the theater last
night.
The German Casino Club concert and
opera for the benefit of Leath Orphan
Asylum at the Greenlaw Opera House
tonight.
County Trustee Rawlings was taken
suddenly and seriously i'll last night at
his residence. He was no better this
morning.
CouldOck and the Abbey Dramatic
Company, who appeared in this city last
week, are now deliehting the people of
Little Rock.
The packet steamer White. which ar
rived in port yesterday, picked up a snag
down the river, but dropped IL again after
it ripped her forward starboard guard a
little.
The suits for damages brought by Paul
Cicalla against several citizens Of Mem.
phis, Oh alleged SANDERS, will be called
up for trial in the Circuit Court to.mor-
row morning.
Wild cattle are now permitted to gallop
through the streets, to the great danger
Of pedestrians. The police should pre-.
vent such occurrences by arresting the
cattle drovers.
The Mardi-Grss Graphic arrived yes.
terday afternoon and was generally pc
rused by citizens. The pictures or plates
do not show up as we'll as those of the
Graphic of last year.
The Nashville American Of the 4tt
says the Mississippi and Tennessee Rail
road Company paid over Friday to thu
Comptroller S66, 200 in bonds on account
of interest and the sinking fund.
The Knoxville Chronicle Of the 3,
says that Bill Williams, who vas recent,
committed in that town for the burglar,
of a store, is an ex-penitentiary Mem
phis convict who wa sent up to the peni
Tertiary from this city for horse stealing
-Four o~vercoats stolen in this city wer,
captured, with the thief a few days ago
in the country. Yesterday sixteen gen
tlemen who had recently lost o%vercoat
visited the police headquarters 10 orde
to lnpect the garments and claim thei
own.
The late row in police circles will
reference to power and authority is oveI
for the present. All seem satisfied, bui
yet the old GROWERS discuss the late issu,
and unpleassntness with feeling. A
squabble for a little brief authority is
terrible thing when future offices are il
view.
Those mailing the Mardt Gras Graphic
will recollect that the postage thereon
is four cents. Hundreds Of copies o.
the Graphic are nov in the postoficC
without the proper postage stamps hav
ing been placed thereon, and in eonse
quence the papers will not reach theii
destinations soon.
The bagpiper has been bowling around
the Appeal Office at night, and in the
morning the Appeal men howled for thu
police. 1t is said that music hath
charms to sooth the savage breast, etc
but our lively ~neighbors do not enjoy it
or look at it in that light, when it is pro
PEELED through the bsgpipes at midnight
There is no accounting for taste; som,
people don't like music.
Vic Woodruff lectured at Houston
Texas, on the lst, and next day tn,
Houston Age came out in a glowing edi
toriul and a poem seven stanzas il
length written by the editor. The poetic
! editor, taking his figure Of speech from
the surrounding country, thus break
forth in melody and song;
Since l have from virtue wandered,
Far into tho swamp of shame;
Since l have my moments squandered
Doing deeds Of awful name"
Northern exchanges dwell c~onsiderabl.
on the fact hat Mrs. Belknap, wife 0
the disgracei Secretary'of War, bad ib
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