Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-13

shown at the entrance door.
Yesterday afternoon at the Criminal
Court three men, Calhoun, Sharp and
were found guilty of throwing
Isadore Bach into No%nconnah creek, and
were fined fifty dollars each for the
amusement.
John Maloney, whose conviction for
voting by the United States Court
was mentioned by the LEDGER of yester-
day afternoon, was fined five dollars and
costs by Judge Trigg as q penalty for
the ofenss.
Twelve-pounder babies are all the rage
among Memphians during the Centen-
NAL year, and male children seem to
have the preference; but, as Dundreary
says, after the body is born it is too late
to argue the point"
For several days a black negro, named
Jonas Davis, and a white girl. Hattie
Lynch, have been on trial before Esquire
Caldwell on the charge Of illega cohabit-
ing, or living together as man and vile
without legal or other authority.
That Dundrearyism, that's one OIL
those things that no fellsh can find out
can well be applied to the prospective
result Of the Presidential election. Those
who are always asking as to the result
should imprint the above saying upor
the pages Of their memory.
Memphis is pronounced by stranger.
to be a sinful city, wherein gambling
drinking aud other naughty things arr
INDUCED in too literally. But it is al
open question whether or not it is an!
more sinful than any other city Of it
size aud cosmopolitan style.
Two divorce suits are on hearing ia
day before Chancellor Morgan, On th
ground floor Of the Courthouse Count
Clerk Reilly issues marriage license
and on the upper floors the Judges ant
C~hancellors grant divorces. Between
these two extremes marriage is Away
found.
The hummer weather we are at prel
ent enjoying is peculiar to this latitude
Some years ago we had a spell Of sue
charming weather, which continued u.
to the day before Christmas, when th
barometer descended rapidly belor
freezing point and a snow storm Of cor
siderable msgu ituds occurred on Chris
mas eve night.
Dog s~tealers will have to look cut no.
that the Supreme Court Of the State ba
decided that stealing a dog is larceny
The man who pays twenty-five dollar
for q pointer or aptter purp, and Pay
City or a hundred to haze it trained, b
sides taking care Of and feeding the an
nal, does not like to have the dog stole
and then have no Legal remedy again.
the thief.
, In one Of the scenes of our America
Cousin at the theater last night a nur
= Der of the attaches of the theater had
be pressed into service to take part
the dance given In the dairy. Amor
/. those attaches who distinguished thel
> selves as a stage dancer, or high kicke
wasi Mr.. John R Stanley, the polite a
~sistsnt ticket seller and opera glass fl
nisher. What he lost in the back ste
be made up 10 the shuties'
' The extremely dry weather which
q have been enjoying during the pa
{ week has caused nearly oil the cister
in the city to almost run dry. I
drouth is causing no little inconyenien
, and trouble to many citizens. Ev
wells are beginning to fail, q fact viii
proves that the wells in this vicinity g
supplied from local surface drainage
filtration, aud not from subterrsne
J. streams that have their heads in upr
~ sections of the country.
AT tho theater last night, just belt
the curtain dropped upon the last seel
Is the bulldozers who wished to be count
@ out" rose up suddenly from their sea
d pulled on their overeoats and made
rush for the door, to the great annoyar
of those who desired to see and hear
play to the end. Last night they rsceiv
so general a Kissing from the dre's cir
aud parquotte that a repetition Of
rude act will not again be INDUCED
{ by them during the present week,
We have been officially Informed {
N, the Police and Fire Commissioner
n their MEETING on Saturday last se'ec
as o committee to examine the buildil
d of the city where people c%ongregate,
ct following named gentlemen Comm
tiouers james I. Lestb, Michael Mas