Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-29
LEDGER LINES.

OF mind, are beginning TO set onions and
hens.
Heavy frost last night as usual; this
morning the hosr-frost covered the earth
like q shroud.
In Memphis many are paying taxes,
others resisting them, aud all are grumb.
ling over them.
Billings will talk to Memphians at the
theater on Friday night from a "pensive
cockroach" standpoint.
The jury in the Cicslla Islander case
had not returned q verdict to the Circuit
Court up to l o'clock to-day.
The trotting races which we're to have
GENE of over the Chickasaw jockey
Club course on yesterday had to be post
poned until tomorrow afternoon, owing
to the rain.
The stable adjoining the station-house
on Adams street is about tumbling down
1t is a desth-ttap, and should be torn
down by the authorities as a prevention
against serious accident.
The Chamber of Commerce received a
telegram ct 2 o'clock this evening saying
that the Thompson Dean passed up
through the new cutoff 10 eight minutes.
Time to Cairo, against rising river and
gale of wind, twenty-one hours.
Old Boreas has been on a rampage for
several days, and has left his mark upon
all kinds of vegetation, which now pre-.
sents a dropping and sickly appearance,
Old Boreas and Jack Frost can, like
Jsques Frochard in the Two Orphans,
say truly, I'VE com of a family that
kills"
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, which was organized here by
Mrs. W~ittenmeyer, Of Philadelphia, as.
sembles every Wednesday afternoon at
the German Lutheran Church on Third
street, near Jefferson, for the purpose Of
engaging in prayer meetings and other
religious exercises.
Planters down the river apprehend a
dangerous overflow. The water gauges
here indicate that the river is within
fourteen inches of high water mark.
Last night the proprietors Of the oil
mills in the navy yard removed tons o.
cotton seed from the ground. floors, al
the back-waters we're surrounding them
in a suSpicious-looking manner.
Our friend on the Appeal is vibrating
between winter and spring, not knowing
which to turn to. BE is in the condi
ton Of Mshomed's coffin, which, tradi
ton asserts, hung suspended in the al
without support, and between earth ant
. heaven. His gnrdes truck has beef
frost.bitten, and in his disgust he ha
, gone back on spring for q season.
+. Frank Evenson, a negro, who is sul
' pected of committing a highway robber
at Fort Pickering yesterday, was thi
morning committed to Jail by the R,
d corder, no bail being taken in his cast
D The robbery was committed by two M
Q groes upon the person Of q young ma
named ]. W. Baggett, whom they plur
! dered Of eighteen dollars after maxim
threats to take his life.
Sunday night next Prof. Arnold wi
give a sacred concert at the theater. Il
will be assisted by a number of our leac
ing musicians and vocalists, anon
j Others Prot. Harsh, Mr.. Emile Levy an
Mr.. BorenemAnn. The programme
exercises is being made out and will /
|, published in due time, but it will be
collection of musical gems. The theatt
: will be crowded upon that occasion.
Many of the city ordinances renal
,a as dead letters on the statute book, esp
d cially those ordinances regulatiu
t morals. Officials become lax often an
for many reasons in the enforcement
~ ordinances. The only remedy for tn
is in the new charter, section So, whiC
says; The Mayor hal have generI
% supervision OF all officers Of the city oil
,e shall see that the ordinances are e
r. forced" etc.
" Game birds, such as quail and snip
d are becoming plentiful in the markt
!" The name quail is the popular name 4
w certain gallinaceous birds closely ALI,
st to the partridge, aud is applied to wen
es different species and Of more than o.
is genus. Its application throughout d
rs United States varies within short d
e. tsuces. The ruflsd grouse is not call
be quail, however, except by those ignora
of the species.
ng During the combat between Mess
Turner and Ramey, which took place
of the Office Of the Criminal Court CleI
on Saturday last, an inkstand was hurl
&C. with inaccurate aim and filed itself
.er an exhibit on the clerks desk, but a pl
in bar followed Immediately in the sha
ue of an india,rubber spittoon, which a
a fled itself. The only damage done d
lie, ing the lively contest was to the inkstar
ng spittoon and clerks desk.
Two express wagon drivers, Geor
Jerome and D. R. Myers, both viii
nd engaged in a row about carrying q tru
/; for a stranger, on Second street nj