Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-08
LEDGER LINES.


Baseball clubs are being organized
throughout the city.
GrRd masquerade ball ct Humboldt
Park tomorrow night.
At the theatsr tonight Katie Putnam
will appear as Jane Eyre"
Concert and opera Of the German
Casino Singing Club at the Greenlaw
Opers.house tonight.
At the Recorders Court this morning
Vim. Gibson, negro %larcsnist, was com.
mitted in default of bail.
The case of Cicalla VS.. Cicalla, SANDER
suit for forty thousand dsllars damages.
is progressing in the Circuit Court.
Already the mysterious Memphi ia
making initiatory preparations for the
next Mardi-Gras carnival, in 1877.
Our Irish fellow.citizens are making
preparations for the celebration of St.
Patrick's day, Friday. the 18th inst.
Councilman John Donovan, of the
Second ward, appeared on the streets to.
day, he having recovered from q severe
attack Of pneumonia and bronchitis.
In the Criminal Court to-day Oscar
Turner (negro) was found guilty of in.
voluntary ma~nslaughter. and vas sen.
fenced to Imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary for one year.
George Mitchell (neGrO), who stole
Mike Blessings watch, was convicted Of
larceny in the Criminal Court to-day
aud sentenced to three years imprison-
ment in the pe%nitentiary.
The Chickasaw Guards gave a dress
drill and hop at their srmory, on Adams
street, last night. The Chicks" and
the bellies who are not celebrating Lent
INDUCED in a delightful dance at the
close Of the exhibition drill,
Coroner Spelusu held an inquest this
forenoon on the body Of a negro named
George Ingram. who died suddenly on
Talbot street, near Mulberry. last night.
The jury Of inquest returned a verdict
OF death from natural causes"
The Chicago Sporting Gazette, a vile
sheet Of the most vulgar description
which has had considerable circulation
in this city, is no longer delivered
through the Memphis p~ostoHice, it's cir.
culatiOn being suppressed by the post
Office authorities.
The oyster season is winding up new
that the warm weather is ~approachinp
rapidly. There we're more oysters eaten
here this season than during any previ.
Gus season in the history of Memphis
and the cause Of that was the oyster wal
competition, which reduced the price
per dozen Of the bivalves.
Mayor Flippin. City Engineer Meigs
the Russian Engineer Michaelof, and 8
number Of others, including our OWL
commissioners. ven up Wolf river Il
Hatchie Lake on q steam tug to-dsy fol
the purpose Of making a preliminary
survey of the Mississippi at a poin.
where it threatens to break into HATCH,
Lake.
The swells are not 80 heavy on tb,
river to-day as they have been for day
past, but the ''swells" are getting heavier
each afternoon on Main street. The dill
ierence between the swells is that the
former are raised by the wind and tn,
latter are trying to raise the wind" in 4
social point Of view. You can see then
any foe afternoon saunteriug or loung
ing on Main between Monroe and Jefer.
son streets.
Captain John Deninger, formerly q
ward politician Of some influence, died
in this city yesterday Of pneumonia. HI
was a captain in the l54th regiment and
a most gallant soldier. Subsequently be
was q member Of the FIRE department
and more recently, during Mayor John
sons first term. ives usrketmaster OF
Poplar street. He vas originally a mem
Der OF the Crockett Rangers. Since the
war he has been a member OF the Fire
mems Relief Association. The diseas,
Of which he died was contracted about {
week ago.
A gentleman who has seer the Mardi
GraS pageants at Florence, Rome ant
Venice. in Italy, says that he never wit
hessed 10 any Of those cities anything t.
compare 10 poetic beauty, design or pre-
seDtetiOn with the Msmphi pageant o
shrove Tuesday night. tits rumOred tina
it is to the scholarly attainments and ar
tistie taste Of Gen. Cotton Greene that ",
owe the sensuous feast as presented b,
the Memphi in its depletion Of the theme
Poetry. OF it we can truly say
Thou vert q beautiful thought,
And softly bodied forth"
Two well.known young beer saloor
barkeepers engaged in a controversy oil
Monday last and agreed to visit the blui
at the foot Of Linden street that eveniny
and 6ght q duel, but whether with pistol
or brass beer-faucets is not known. On
Of the principals and bis second, a fash
ionable hsir-dresser, appeared on th,