Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-07
LEDGER LINES.

THIS evening"
Jowls and beef tongues at Oliver,
Finnie & Co.'S.
Red snappers and choice Baltimore
oysters at v. D. Fuchs.
Prussian band concert at tae theater
tonight and at matinee tomorrow.
Dan Rice pulled up his stakes last
night, struck his tents and departed.
Next week we will have the Richings-
Bernard English opera troupe at the
theater.
Grand dry goods and millinery open
ings are all the vogue in Memphis at
present.
The necessary work for preparing
Court Square for the public fountain
began yesterday.
The Chickasaw Guards purpose com
peting at the prize drill to be given at
Nashville on the 10th.
The Louisville club and the Riversides
will play a match baseball game at the
Olympic Park on Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Hop Johnston, city editor of the
Appeal. appeared on the streets today,
he having recovered from his late severe
attack OF sickness,
But few cases appeared on the Recor.
der's Court docket this morning. Julia
Blew, a black lareenist, was committed
in default Of bonds.
Numbers Of new buildings are in pro-
gresS of erection in the suburbs of the
city, Notwithstanding the comparatively
dull times and the high waters.
The Vicksburg Herald Of the 9th says
the break in the Milligan Bend levee is
about l5O feet wide and two feet deep.
1t will probably be closed to-day.
The Carmichael. Madigan homicide
case still occupies the attention Of the
Criminal Court and jury, Witnesses
were being examined this afternoon.
People continue to predict the effects
of the Devils Elbow cutoff upon our
landing, but the entire matter is one of
the widest speculation or conjecture.
Tomorrow afternoon the final game of
baseball will be played at the Olympic
Park between the Memphis and Louis
vile clubs. It will no doubt be the best
game played between these clubs.
The baseball match at Olympic Park
on yesterday was well attended. The
result was that the Memphis club ,7as
terribly beaten by the Louisville profes-
sional nine, the score being thirteen to
one.
The County Quarterly Court stands
adjourned over to Monday morning
On Monday it is expected that the quar-
terly business will be finished and an
adjournment Of Court had to the next
term.
|. The stony bust OF Andrew Jackson
was removed on yesterday from the cen
ter Of Court Square for the purpose Of
placing it in as equally q desirable
spot and for the purpose Of locating the
fountain, which will be here in a few
days.
. Tomorrow and on Sunday morning.
the John 0verton will 60 on excursions
up the river to the Devils Elbow and the
bends. These who desire to visit the
important cut off had better be at the
landing in time. The trips will be pleas
ant and we'll worth taking in.
Robert F. Long, who shotgunned and
severely wounded Joe Martin on Orleans
street a few days since, was released
without bonds by the Recorder yesterday
afterPoon, it having appeared in evidence
, that the shooting was done in selfde'
: Tense. The shooting was about a woman,
, the divorced wife of Martin.
/: DR.. Frank L. James, Of 0sceola, Ark,
!. is in the city at present. he gives gloT'
ing accounts of the rapid draining Of
> thousands Of acres of lands in Missis
sippi county, Ark, in consequence o.
B the cutoff at Devils Elbow, which left
; the planters around the bends high and
dry and far above the present and any
2 future overflow. -f
The little furry and contest over vot
ing the Greenlaw stock in the election
of directors Of the Peoples Insurance
: Company created considerable CONVEX
sation on Madison street yesterday. i
was generally regarded as an amusing
affair, in which there was some quich
work done with mandatory injunction!
:, from the Chancery Court. lo]
This forenoon Esquire Miller was in
vestigating the case Of an old negro
r named Dawson Baily, who was arrested
upon the charge Of committing a nefari
GUS outrage upon the person Of a little
n negro girl aged eleven years, near the ole
4 fair grounds on yesterday. The CIR
! was outraged and injured and charges
that the prisoner Baily committed thu
deed. 9ai