Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-08
LEDGER LINES.

A NUoi o'"hSt Ah SHNASA
choir is o called the prima donna Of
the church.
At the caucus last Saturday evening
Mayor Fllppin only nominated Schaper
for Tax Collector.
The United States tax title or eject.
ment suits will be heard by Judge
Brown, of the Federal Court, on Thurs.
day next.
DR.. d. s. johnson has been indicted
by the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court
for murder in the second degree in caus.
iOg the death of Katie Mccormick by
abortion.
A white man named Pat Dooley was
arrested this morning on the charge Of
snatchiug a watch and pOcket-bOok from
a drunken man last night on the corner
Of Exchange and Main streets.
Paul Boynton, who swan from Calais
to Dover in a suit Of life saving armor,
has been giving exhibitions in the Mis-.
Sissippi river at St. Louis. He is coming
to Memphis and will take a look at the
landing from a mid. stream position.
RecorderD Duff held court yesterday until
three o'clock in the afternoon. A mum.
Der Of continued State cases had to be
disposed Of. aud the Recorder believes in
conducting trials according to the usual
course Of practice in criminal courts.
The strong-minded women of the city
have gone wild over Mrs. Woodruff lee
ture. They regard her as a prophecies
aud priestess Of the new dispensation,
which will change society and make We.
men men, and men women, BY way Of
r%eiributiye justice.
At the thester tonight Edwin Adams
will appear in that charming role,
Euoch Arden, the hero OF Tennyson's
be lutiful sea idylic poem. 1t has been
asserted that "Enoch Arden was an
a~uctioneer as well as sailor, because be
says, mo sail! no sail! from day to
day"
Every citizen ia coughing and growl-
ing about a cold in the head. The I'M.
romantic and Vulgar cold is no respecter
OF persons, aud attacks the elite as well
as the lever strata Of society. The
belle coughs and sOeezes quite as often
and with as much vigor as the outcast
Magdalen.
There will be a meeting OF the sub.
scriOers to the Court Square fountain
and all others friendly to the enterprise
at the Cotton Exchange mex Thursday
night. Plans and estimates will be cub
mitted and the design Of the fountain
selected. Let there be a large attend
anee OF this meeting.
The irrepressible NJ. Combs, ir,, is. up
again in the United States Court, this
time on a motion for a new trial in his
cases wherein be was found guilty Of en-.
gagiug in the fraudulent bounty business,
Crooked men are beiEg punished all
around the circle at present. That's the
only way to keep crooked people
straight.
Another man was killed at Browns.
vile oil Saturday, that being four men
killed in that village within the past
eight months, at a rate Of hall a man a
month. The row on Saturday last re-
suited in the killing Of Deputy United
States Marshal Sam Boyd by H. NJ
Clark, n Of the editors Of the Browns
vile Democrat.
1t took Mrs. Woodruff forty six min
utes to say good night to the audience
at the Theater on Sunday night. Had
she attempted to say good morning"
the lecture would not have closed before
sun-up. From the lecture dellYered at
the tbeOter, it is evident that Mrs. Wood.
hall has materially modified her views on
social relations.
Damon and Pythias will be produced
Friday night next, with Edwin Adams
and c. W. Couldock in the title roles.
The order Of Knights Of Pythias, Of which
thereare three lodges in this city, we hear
it rumored, are making arrangements to
attend ina body. Mr.. Adams, we learn,
5 an honored member Of the popular or.
der, as is u majority Ct his profession.
At St. Peters Church, tonight, Father
McKenna, of New York, will lecture on
The Altar and Sacrifice" from a
heather, JudAistic and Christian stand.
point. Last Sunday evening, BY > sin.
gular coincidence, while Mrs. Woodruff
was leCturing on social science at the
theater, the learned and eloquent Do.
minican father was delivering q lecture
on q like subject at St. Peters Church
Selsre a very large audience Of ladies
and gentlemen, fhe reverend gentle.
man ~discoursed on ~debsucbery and it's
terrible results in Christian lands.
The attention Of our reporter is called
daily by cores Of r~itigeus to siDk,holes,
or mRle'traPs, in our principal streets.
Nicolson pavement blocks Aost about IN
these little but deep lakes. To call the
attention Of the authorities to each and
every crater ia the pavement would be