Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-24
THE CITY.
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Monday BveninR, Jan. "a, 1876.
LINES.

teers.
The County Quarterly Court is in SEES.
sion to-day, engaged in winding up BUSH
ness for thelterm.
A special train runs to Raleigh on
Wednesday night to carry persons going
to the ball at the hotel.
The detectives have secured a black
beaver overcoat with velvet binding, for
which an owner is wanted.
After Mardi. Gras, the 10Th of Feb
ruary, comes Ash Wednesday, the begin
ming of the Lenten season.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary of
the birth Of Robert Burns in 1859, near
the town Of Air, Scotland.
The theater remains closed until next
Thursday evening, when Callender's
Georgia Minstrels open up an engage
ment.
we learn, by a dispatch from New
York, that one of the greatest of living
humorists will be in our city early in
February.
The Waddy Thompson habeas corpus
case has been set for hearing on the 9TH
of February by Judge Brown Of the
Federal Court.
Attend the sale of furniture and house
hold goods at the residence of the late
VIM. E. Dill, 342 Monroe street, Tues.
day, 18th, at 10 am.
An advertisement says railroad con
ductors should wear Elmwood collars"
The street-car drivers or conductors of
the fernando street line should do so.
The Board Of Health mortuary report
for the past week shows the total deaths
to have been IS; whites, 7; blacks, IL
OF whom 10 were males and 8 females.
Grass is growing rapidly in the suburbs
Of the city and early spring flowers are
making their appearance. The wild
violets laugh at you as you look down at
them.
Suburban people have already com
menced making vegetable and flower
gardens and the farmers have com.
menced breaking up land for corn and
cotton.
To-day being motion day in the Fed.
eral Court, Judge Brown is hearing
motions and admiralty cases. The M.
Combs, jr, case will be taken up to-mor.
row morning,
The ordinances creating city officers,
fixing bonds and salaries, will be passed
on their second and final readings at the
General Council meeting to be held to
morrow night.
Promenade concert and ball for the
benefit Of the Church Orphans Home,
next Wednesday night, at the Peabody,
instead of on Thursday night, as hereto
fore published.
Sixteen arrests, all drunks and dis.
orderlies, we're made by the police on
Saturday night. Not an arrest was
made yesterday, ahd but two we're made
last night-all for misdemeapors.
On the Sd day of May, 1857, the
Charleston railroad was opened through
and several hogsheads of Atlantic ocean
water were tumbled into the middle of
the Mississippi river in front of Memphis.
Many citizens follow the stage rule
and pronounce it "dep-o," but Webster
says, 'de'po," with the accent long and
on the last syllable, The popular way is
to call it "de-po,' with the accent on the
first syllable.
The street car tracks are becoming
dreadfully rough, but riding in the cars
at a mule trot is good exercise for dys.
peptics or those whs pursue a ~sedentary
life. We knew that the mule boxes we're
good for something at last.
The C%srrollton Miss Conservative
deserves the medal for its leading edito.
rial Of TIE 22d instant, in which brain
result appears the original remark:
Flippin, Of Mempbis, has been a Zip.
pin into the Mayors chair of that city"
A troupe Of singers, Italian, German,
French or English opera would draw
large houses in this city at present. An
opera boufe troupe would gather in the
dollars equally as well. Our theatrical
managers should take the hint, as there's
millions in it at present.
Some foreign musician says that,
owing to the climate or some other
cause, the voices OF American women
are the thinnest in the world. If that
professor would visit the Memphis sta
tion.hOuse at midnight he would change
bis mind, The assertion is too thin.
Since the salary of the City Treasurer
has been fixed at Fifty cents per annum,
and the bond fixed at one hundred thou,
sand dollars per annum, the number of
applicants for the Office has run down
from twenty TO zero, and 40 longer is
the office a bone Of contention as a sine
cure.
The new rules and regulations Of the
General Council prohibit smoking either
In tha Cnnpo;l ~. AIIow-. ~