Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-25
LEDGER LINES.


posed. at Thester COmique. jefferson
street.
The bankrupt case Of ]. d. Williams is
set for hearing tomorrow in the Federal
Court.
Lucy and Martha Lane (nigs) were ar
rested this forenoon on the charge of
stealing lumber from Bohlen & Huse. ice
dealers.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed to-
day in the United States Court by G.. Il
Becker. Of this city.
The Memphis Theater, the Greeulaw
House and Cochran Hall are be.
ing decorated for the Mardi-Gras balls.
Three palace car loads OF excursion
lists have left Chicago for New Orleans;
numbers of %Chiaagoans ara coming TO
The present leap year indications are
there will be a good deal of atten-
ton without any intention among the
beaux and bellies of Memphis
MAR and Wife" will be the dramatic
attraction at the theater tonight. AT
the matinee to.morrow the Two Or.
phsns" will be presented.
Colonel Leon Trousdale, State Super
intendent of Public instruction, is in the
city attending the meeting of the West
Tennessee Teachers Institute.
The members Of the West Tennessee
Teachers Institute ate in session at the
Court street Presbyterian Church. To-.
tsresting exercises will be had this after
noon.
Ell Watson, charged with having bur.
glars tools in his possession, was sen.
fenced to three years confinement in the
p~enitentiary at the Criminal Court yes.
terday afternoon.
The lively COST packet Idlewild will
leave port this afternoon. 20 up to the
islands, and turning around come
screaming down under foil Roadway
past the 'snding.
The Memphis Custom-bouse bill is
passing through the Congressional or.
de j. The bill provided tor an appro.
priation of $500, geo, but was amended
BY a vote Of 1871 to 100 so as to read
$4OO, 600.
General BAbcock was acquitted at St,
Louis yesterday afternoon. Several bets
we're made in THIS city on the result OIL
the trial, aud to-day the losers are paying
up; yet they insist that BAbcock oughr
to have been found guilty,
Mr.. George b. Fleece, superintendent
Of the Shelby county schools, is presid.
ing over the meetings of the West Ten
nessee Teachers Institute. Mr.. W. +
Shropshire, superintendent of 0biou
coanty schools, is acting as secretary.
The number of individual enterprises
in the disappearing line on Mardi-Grs
day next will far excel and outnumbel
tlosa of former celebrations. Nam
well-tnown public persons aud thing
will be b~urlesqued By the fun.loviuG
m queraders during the day.
Toe 6~re-eugines we're called out or
yesterday afternoon to suppress a FRI
which broke out in an old two-story
frame tenement on Carroll avenue, neat
Alabama street. The old rookery burned
do w, but the adjoining buildings wert
sa red. The building burned was of bu
little value.
The iron letter-box on the corner o
Second and Washington streets is in
dilapiiatel condition, so much so tina
any person can lift off the top end TAX
out the contents Of the box. 1t ha
been in this condition for some time
and q new u should be put in it
place rs soon ne possible.
The Nashvil e American of the 24tl
contains = paragraph which will startl,
tax payers in these days Of getting GU.
petitions to reduce assessments Comp
%troller Gaines yesterday received a lis
OF tsx corrections for Knoxville. L
contains an application from Mrs, II. C
Luttrell to have the assessment of he
property raised from $500 to $1,000"
This morning the rockaway belongini
to John CASTOR was wrecked ip front o
the Central Baptist Church on Second
near Beal. The workmen engaged il
the building have left a stake sticking
up out on the Nicolson pavement whicl
catches buggies and rockaways in tn
sxles and brings about wrecks in a few
minutes, The dangerous stake SHOULD
be renewed.
VIM. Il. Todd and Sam Owens, boil
sports, engaged in o 6ght this morning
up town. Todd drew a knife and CAV
Owens a heavy aud dangerous cut witt
it on the left cheek. Had the ksif
struck a little lower, on the neck wher
il was intended, the subsequent proceed
ings would have troubled Mr.. Ovens n
more. Todi was arrested BY the polio
and locked up to await an examination
before the Recorder.
10 the ejectment or United States tai