Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-01
LEDGER LINES.

will appear at the ihsatsr on Friday
night.
The General Council will meet again
to morrow night and wrestls with city
Offices.
Mr.. q. A. Lefingwell went on duty to-
day as City Inspector OF weights. meas.
ures, etc.
The Dominican mission at St. Peters
Churchis attended by crowds of devo-
tees nightly.
The case Of Jane Sims Va. the Caro-.
lima Life Insurance Company is on trial
in the Federal Court to-day.
General Tom Thumb and troupe will
give their last performances At the thea
ter this afternoon and tonight.
Violets aud hyacinthes bloom in the
suburbs and sdorn the button-holes Of
the beaux in the form of tiny bouquets.
What is Msrdi. Gras2 shrove Tuesday;
and what is thatH the day before Ash
Wednesday, the first day Of the Lsnten
season.
The argument of counsel ip the case
OF Ogden va. 0yerton ct al. Terry privi-
lege suit) is progressing before Judge
Blown Of the Federal Court to day.
Tie Chief of Police has ordered the
arrest Of all drsy drivers whose drays
are not supplied with the new dray nun.
bers-a red plate with black letters.
The only crooked" whisky couspira.
tors in Memphis are the chaps who
drink It to excess aud who get tangled
up as they weud their crooked way
homeward.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis up
to date this year are 35l,8lS bales, and
up to same date last year 253, 744; the ex.
cess of receipts this year over last being
SO. 074 bales.
A correspondent Of the Hst Springs
paper Gays Of the Memphis and Little
Rock RAILROAD: 1T is avfully traduced.
1t is generally on time, and has never
had a fatal accident"
Our German fellow.citizens OF the
Casino Club, and their friends, will
amuse themselves at Cochran Hall to.
night by INDUCING in a "Fools meet
ing" an affair Of carnival times.
Everybody, even the aspirants for city
offices, is getting in good humor again.
Already men are shaking hands prepar-
atory to becoming candidates in August
next. This is taking time by the fore.
lock.
Bad milk is not unusual 10 this city,
and it Of course spoils coffee and tea.
But could anything else be expected
when 80 many COW are permitted to
prowl around the city at night eating
cotton and chewing old barrel hoops and
staves2
In the United States Court to-day a
petition in bankruptcy was fled by the
Southern Life Insurance Company. The
schedule OF assets and liabilities has moi
as yet been made out. but the liabilities
are alleged in the petition to be about
81, III, 900.
The Appeal and Avalanche are at il
again over the conundrum. Is the party
Of the State the Democratic, or the
Democratic and Conservative Wher
our contemporaries settle this nomiua.
Issue the world will feel easier even if Il
does not bkcome wiser.
The gentle rain from heaven, which
Shakespeare says is twice blessed, like
charity, on him hat gives and him tina
takes" Gang pouring down last night
1t not being anything Of q noYely in thi,
region OF country at present, its adyenl
created no particular sensation.
The wedding celebrations or anniver
saries are as follows Three days, sugar
sixty days, vinegar; fret annual, iron.
fifth, wooden tenth, tin; fifteenth, crys
tai; tweDtienth, china; twenty fifth, sill
YER; thirtieth, cotton; thirty.ffth, linen.
fortY.6fth, silk; Gftieth, gold; seventy
fifth, diamond.
The ice crop ID very short iu the NORTH
owing to the unusually open winter, Thil
will have the effect of increasing thu
price Of ica next summer, and ice is ont
Of those things that the average oitiser
cannot ley up a supply for six month";
ahead ike coal, provisions or other com.
modities Of daily use.
THIS morning Recorder Daft sat on thu
BENCH aud disposed Of the following
cases: j. L. Hart, sFssplt with iDten.
to rob, committed to jail in default o
$25OO bail; james D. Evans, SAM
o%ffense, and same bail Fixed. severs
drunks and dIsorderliaS paid the usus
fine Of FIVE dollars.
T. W. Helnick, music dealer and pub
Usher, 27S West Sixth street, Cincinnati
has issued the following: who's Da
Knocking at de Old Back Gate" uey
song and chorus; Remember Deeds o
Kindness, a new instrumental piece 70
beginners; She's Bright as the Star
in Heaven another new piece of merit
All three pieces will be sent, postpaid
for aixtv cents Nv The nnkl;sLar