Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-24
LEDGER LINES.

the police docket this morning.
Sergeant Arrata, of the police force,
has been made the recipient Of a Gem
t%ennial boy baby.
The union depot" question is attract
ing considerable attention, and is devel-
oping no little discussion.
The day aud night police patrol forces
will change service fer three months on
Saturday week-April lst.
Nature will not give US volumes Of
fruit this season, although it may pre-.
face the failure with flowers.
Places OF amusement we're not well
patronized last night, owing to the
heavy and continuous rain.
The Peak Family of BelLRingers and
combination at the theater again to.
night and matinee to. morrow.
The backwater from creeks and bay.
GUS is spreading over the various bot.
toms in this and adjoining counties.
This time last year Civil Rights Bill
was attempting to force his way into the
dress circle of the Memphis Theater.
Josh Billings the humorist, will lee.
ture in this city some night next week.
If Billings lectures as funny as he writes,
he will draw a big house.
Quite a number of prisoners have es.
capped lrem the County Work.house on
Presidents Island Of late by taking a
skif.ride to the main land.
A meeting Of merchants will be held
at the cotton Exchange this afternoon
with reference to that Nicolson ave.
menttax on merchants capital.
The survey Of the river front will be
made at once by Major Benyaurd,
United States engineer, in accordance
with the resolution adopted by the Gen.
eral Council.
The ordinance levyiug the mandsmus
tax Of fifty-four cents on the 800 Of
merchants capital was passed on its
final reading by the General Council last
night.
X. H Spangler, news dealer, S7s Main
street, has scribner for April, as we'll as
all the other illustrated and story papers.
He sells the New York Sun for FIVE cents
per copy.
Solar eclipse to morrow. The Greek
word elipSe means a failure, and that
the elipse will be to. morrow afternoon so
far as observers are concerned unless
the weather clears up.
Smallpox has become an epidemic at
Columbia, Tennessee. On Wednesday Of.
teen new cases were reported. Many
houses are guaranteed and the courts
have adjourned in consequence.
In the Criminal Court to-day Kate
Jackson (black) is on trial on indict.
ment for setting a stable on ERE and
burning to death two mules, belonging
to a negro man, in November last.
A red light appeared in North Mem.
phis at 8 o'clock last evening, caused BY
the partial burning Of a frame shanty on
the corner of Auction and Second
streets. The roof was burned of the
building, causing a damage of about
800.
Signal Service Sergeant Ludwig in.
forms US that from ten o'clock last night
upto six o clock this morning the rain fall
was 2.20 inches, and that the rain fall
during the past twenty four hours up to
six o'clock this morning was over three
inches.
Deep holes and floating sections Of
wood are making their appearance in the
Nicolson pavement, especially on Main
street. Mud lakes are developing rap.
idly, into which the dray mules plunge
with that recklessness worthy Of a better
cause.
Early this morning it was raining at
Memphis, Indianapolis, Ind, Keokuk,
Iowa, Louisville, KY, Nashville, New
Orleans, st. Louis and Vicksburg. 1t
was cloudy at Chicago, Cincinnati, In.
dianola, Texas, Omaha aud Shreveport;
AID it was fair at Galveston.
The introduction of evidence in the
Cicalla SANDER suit on trial in the Cir
cult Court closed this morning and
court adjourned out Of respect to the
memory Of the late Chief Justice A, 0
P. Nicholson, of this State. In the
Cicalla case the argument of counsel
will be heard on Monday next
At 6:45 this morning the barometer
stood at 1856, aud falling; the Their.
mometer stood at so, and rising; the
relative humidity Of the atmosphere was
SO per cent; the direction Of the wind
was s. E.; its velocity IL miles per hour;
and the general condition Of the atmos-
phere might be considered rather damp.
The verses, To Ny Sweetheart" are
to be sent to the Centennial Exposition
in connection with linear maps gotten up
by Superintendent Pickett, Of the public
schools. The author Of the verses, al.
though unknown, will, it is rumored, also
attend the Exposition at Philadelphia in
order to be crowned Poet Laureate Of