Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-20
LEDGER LINES.

meanest month of the year.
Sleigh bells, tangled, out Of tune and
harsh, are heard all over town to-day.
This is the FIRST day of the spring
season, according to almanac makers.
The question Of the hour: Did the
snow and frost last night kill the fruit2
1t is proposed TO introduce new varie-
ties Of fish into the waters Of the Arkan-
sas.
The adjourned called meeting Of the
General Council will be held tomorrow
night.
Two carloads of negro soldiers passed
Little Rock a day or two since bound
for Texas.
The s~nOw-balling to-day caused several
irate citizens to draw pistols and threaten
10 kill SOMEBODY.
Barrstt's ~mule.boxes we're not running
this morning, the railway tracks being
~blockaded with snow.
Thursday last the hotel at Bon Aqua
Station, on the Northwestern road, was
burned to the ground.
A number Of base ball clubs are being
organized throughout West and the other
divisions Of Tennessee.
An anuular eclipse of the sun will
take place about 4 o'clock next Satur-
day afternoon, the 25th inst.
A submarine diver and a wrscking
boat r taking cotton out of the hold Of
the Inflated Mary Bell at V~icksburg.
In the United States District Court to-
day a petition 10 bankruptcy was fled
By Joseph o. Thwest, of this county.
The mOrtuary report for the past week
shows the total number of deaths to
have been 32-whites, Ia; blacks, Is.
Memphis is about to be relieved of
some of its surplus population; an ex.
petition to the Black Hills is organic.
ing,
Wild geese few and honked over the
city last night as they passed on in tri.
angular array to the happy feeding
grounds.
On Saturday text the motion made in
the Waddy Thompson cases for a change
of venue from the Criminal Court will
be on hearing.
Improvised sleighs, cutters, Jumpers,
sleds, everything hat could be built upon
a pair Of unners wkirled over the beau.
tiful SNOW to-day.
Those who are called the Sabbath
breakers" by so.called Christians were
out IN sieighs enjoying themselves will
the n last night.
The Court Square fountain will be in
operation within sixty days. A fine
drawing Of the fountain can be Q 9 a
the Bank Of Commerce.
In the Chancery Court Mollie Robin
son has fled a petition for divorce
against Harry X. Robinson on tn,
ground of abandonment.
Memphis amateur fishermen are pre-.
pairing their tackle for the approaching
fishing season, when confding perch anC
cat will nibble at the bats.
The ordinance directing a levy Of City
four cents on the 800 Of merchants
capital, to satisfy the Nicolson pavement
Judgment, has passed its first reading.
The Memphian with the broad .buckled
and belted Ulster overcoat was in hi
glory yesterday as he gloatingly and con
t%emptuously gszed and smiled at hil
freezing brother whose overcoat was too
thin.
The suit for forty thousand dollars
damages for alleged Islander brought b.
Paul Cicalls, jr., against Paul Cicslla
sr., his uncle, is on hearing in the Cir
cult Court to-day.
The Memphis Base Ball Club intended
to visit their grounds on to morrow anC
play a match game, but they have de
cided not to do so unless they reorganiz,
into a SNOWFALL club.
Since the arrest of Memphis birt
hunters by the authorities Of Atoks, tia
Indisnnamed village is known along
the line Of the Paducah railroad a
"Woodpeckertown."
On the 18th Of next month q fast tim,
schedule will go into effect between New
York aud New Orleans via Nashville
The distance is nearly two thousand
miles; time dfty.four hours.
Snow ballingi is progressing at a iuriou
rate on many FREDERICKSBURG to-day
Everybody was pslted, from the aristo
crat occupant of a bell-ringing cutter Il
the plebeiau pedestrians, both white an,
black.
Workmen have been employed ell tn
forenoon clearing the street railwa,
tracks Of the snow. This morning subul
ban c~itizeus had to walk to their place
Of business, as no cars we're running o.
any Of the lines.
The telegraph wires between here an
Grenada, Miss, along the line Of tn
Mississippi aud Tennessee railroad, ar
down in ~anverai nlacas-thav havin