Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-15
LEDGER LINES.

W-ANA ~ aN1o0A mo
come.
The City Fathers will meet at the City
Hall again tonight.
Every person is now interested in the
new Court Square fountain.
Best hams and breakfast bacon at
Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
Barbour's strawberries, first of the
season, at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S.
The river fell two and a half inches
during the past tWenty-four hours.
Memphis Degree Lodge No, 8, 1. o. 0.
F., meets this evening at u o'clock.
Solemn services were held in the diff.
fersnt Catholic and Episcopal churches
on yesterday.
The Louisiana Jockey Club races
commenced at New Orleans to day, and
will continue six days.
Workmen are engaged in rebuilding
the east brick wall of the station.house
on Adams street.
AT the matinee to-day the opera emit.
tied Lefty will be reproduced and to-
night an attractive bill will be presented.
The Eckfords and a picked nine of the
Memphis Base Ball Club will play a
match game at Olympic Park to. morrow.
1t was q subject of general remark to.
day that A. T. Stewart, Of New York,
did not leave a nickel to any person re-
siding in this city.
The Holmes Montgomery homicide
ease is on trial in the Criminal Court.
The examination Of witnesses CON
menced this morning.
Lots of gardening is being done in the
suburbs. Every owner of a little patch
is having a few seeds planted with a view
to future vegetables ana flowers.
There are more people in Memphis
who say they are going to the Centennial
and then won't 20, than any place we
know of. 1t is not regarded exactly the
thing to say you are not going.
In the Office of the Clerk of the United
States District Court the following peti.
tons in bankruptcy have been fled: E.
B. Parker, of Paris, Henry county; I.
E. Glass, of Brownsville, Haywood
county.
You can pass from store to store and
dull trade is the significant feature, yet
it would surprise you we're you to call OF
Sol Coleman, at his little house, anG
notice the rush he has for his new branC
OF cigars.
Councilman W. W. Otis, of the Skill
wrad, resigned last night and the vacancy
was filled by the election of Mr.. Thomal
Beasley to the position. The vote stood
as follows: Thomas Beasley, IL; Charley
A. Beehn, 6.
Last night the General Council voted
in favor of purchasing tive new Silsby
rotary engines for $4,000, the mauufac
turers to take the old engines at $500
and the remaining amount to be paiC
within twelve months.
A dispatch received this morning will
reference to an unprecedented rise il
the river at st. Louis last night, ha,
caused no little excitement among those
interested in bottom lands between here
and Vicksburg.
In q suit for $4,000 damages, brought
by a sub'contractor, Mr.. H. N. Smith
against the Memphis and Raleigh rail.
road and tried before the Bartlett Circuit
Court at Chambers, the jury returned a
verdict to-day for the defendant.
Next Thursday week the Julia Math.
ews English Comic Opera Company will
appear at the theater for three nights
and a matinee. During the engagement
the company will give us Giroae- Groaa,
Grand Duchess and La File de Madame
Angot.
Book -keeper, when you begin to sware
Do it in the absence Of the governare.
A three.word cuss for 4 collectare,
A fve-word cuss for a bold beggare,
An eight-wOrd cuss for a gay drummare.
Cuss, brothers, cuss with care,
Cuss in the absence Of the governare.
Iu to-day's LEDGER appears the notice
of the change of the time schedule Of
the Memphis and Charleston railroad,
which road makes close connections for
Nashville by both trains. The change
will take place on tomorrow Sunday
the 18th instant. For particulars see
time table and advertisement.
In another column will be found the
changes in the time schedule Of the
Louisville and Nashville and creat
Southern railroad, which change will
take effect tomorrow Sunday night,
the 10th inst, at 1910 o'clock. For
tickets and further information, apply at
the ticket Office, No. 2S7 Main street,
northwest corner Of Madison,
Last Wednesday evening the steamer
R b. Lee left New Orleans for Louis.
vile, there to be dismautled and re-
modelled, and destined shortly to issue
from the dock bearing the same name
but invested with greater speed and
larger capacity. The Lee will be at the
landing at six o'clock this afternoon.
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