Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-21
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ton, at the theater tonight.
Very few transactions in real estate
take place now in Memphis.
Read the MArdi.G rss order Of the
Chief Of Police Published in to-day
LEDGER. f.l
Twenty-one misdemeauor cases we're
disposed Of by the Recorder this morn.
ing by fines.
The Tennessee State Radical Conven.
ton will be held a Nashville on the 18th
Of May next.
Bouquets are being sold throughout the
city, but an untimely frost may yet come
to nip the flowers in the bud and blossom.
Judge Brown. of the Federal Court,
is a graduate of Yale College. and was q
classmate OF Colonel Luke Finiay, Of
u city.
Lumber wal hauled to the Main street
side OF Court Square to-day for the pur.
pose Of erecting a public stand for
Mardi. Gras.
Hundreds Of people visited Elmwosd
Cemetery yesterday. the city of the
dead presenting a charming and vernal
appearance.
The Board Of Health is still after those
signs, apple stands and ether obstruc.
tons to trade, traffic and pedestrianism
on our principal streets.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the total deaths to have been 20
whites s. blacks IL; of which 3 we're &,
the hospital and 2 still born.
There are many bellies who attend our
churches whose experience is that the
sense Of being we'll dressed gives a feel,
ing of inward tranquility which religion
ia powerless TO bestoW.
Every effort should be made blythe
citizens Of our city to accommodate and
entertain the host of strangers who viii
be here on Mardi.G ras SO that Done o.
them will go away dissatisfied.
At the Recorders Court to-day Johr
Keys, John Kenny and William howard
arrested for house-breaking, we're al.
raigned before the court, bot the case
was continued for investigation.
There was a dance at q DeSoto street
den on Saturday night, during which one
OF the ome becoming jealous swal
lowed poison, but abe was pumped out
by a physician and her life saved.
Admiral Storm OF King Momus' fee
has ordered vessels in port to sst theil
Gags and bunting flying at masthead
on Monday next in honor Of the embar
kation Of the King Of the Carnival.
About 8 o'clock yesterday morning I
fire broke out in the kitchen Of a one
story frame dwelling, No. l26 Market
street. The roof was burned off befor.
the fire boys could suppress the flames
Already scores of people are laying il
supplies of masks and costumes to veal
on Mardi-Gras day. Should the weather
be fine, the number Of makers on thu
streets will exceed anything aver before
seen in our city.
At the State Grange Convention il
session at Jackson, Tenn, on last Satur
day, A. B. Haynes, Of Shelby county
was elected W. Master of the order fol
Tennessee, and Fl. B. Clay, Of Hawkins
county, was elected Oyerseer.
One would imagine from the way thu
river reporters Of the LEDGER and Ap
peal compliment each other that they
we're enemies, but yet they are as hard
thick and intimate with each ether 81
paying-stones on the landing.
The custom now so popular in Mem
phis in stores which ladies' frequent, t
have chairs or stools near the counters
for purposes Of rest, originated with A
-
T. Stewart, Of New YORK, aud, as Null
berry Sellers would say, there are mil
lions 10 it,"
Andrew Stewart, negro, arrested il
this city yesterday on the charge Of at
tempting to kill two negroes in TUNES
county, Miss, by shooting at them il
January last, was to-day sent back Il
Tuuica for trial in charge Of 8 negro
deputy sheriff. o.
A negro girl walked into the station
house to-day and asked. as Charity
here2' Yes answered the station
house keeper, Charity has been locked
up as a vag;" and then quoted from The
New Teetament, saying. Charity never
faileth-to be arrested nightly"
1t is dangerous to leave oil lamps Of
any kind, when burning, turned down
low at night, as by 30 doing an exceed
ingly dangerous and explosive gas il
generated which has caused many an
explosion in this city. It is much safer
to leave the lamp burning Of full power.
The Pastors Association has issued q
pronunciamento republiShing the objec.
tionable expressions Of Vic Woodruff,
and then condemning the course of the
secular press of the city in publishing
interviews With aud the lecture of the
femaia raformar Cona;.ton. A. ~