Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-23
THE CITY.
.
Wednesday Evening, Feb. 20, 1876
LEDGER LINES.

The General Council will meet again
tonight at the City Hall.
On tomorrow night the Furnish COM
bination will appear in the Two Orphans.
The Recorders Court docket did not
pan out any sensational items this morL-
ing.
The National Democratic Convention
will be held at st. Louis on the 9th Il
June next.
Tickets to the sacred concert at St.
Peters church to. morrow night are SELL
ing rapidly.
Edwin Booth will play At Nashville
next week. The price Of reserved seats
is two dollars.
Next Monday night the bal mssque
given by the Original Ulks" will come
OF at Cochran Hall.
Ia the United States Court t today q
petition in bankruptcy was fled by Nor.
man Dewar, of this city.
Abill has passed the Mississippi Legis.
lAturs allowing persons 10 travel on
freight trains at their own risk.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
will give another entertainment next Fri
day night ct their Washington street
hall.
Those who desire to wear elegant
clothing should call and see Goodman,
the merchant tailor, whose card appears
elsewhere.
Sol Coleman has turned cigar philoso'
pher, as can be seen by q glorious "ad."
from him this evening. Read it; it will
do you good,
People from the country are coming
to the city daily in large numbers to pur
erase supplies aud make arrangements
tJr Marul-draS.
At the Thester matinee to day Lee
A'tray will be reproduced, and tonight
the dramatic attractions will be Davit
GArrick and Romeo Jafier jenkins.
At the General Council called meetint
held at the City Hall last night an ordi
nance passed on its fret reading provid
Jag that in cases tried by the Recorder
the Mayor shall have power to remit fine
and pardon offenders at his discretion.
The United States flag was thrown Il
the breeze over the Custom house anC
other public buildings in the city, yester
day, in honor Of Washington's birthday
The city wore somewhat OF a holiday as
pect, but nopublic celebration took place
1t is charged that at several OF thu
public schools the children have beer
cent home and are left untaught the or
binary branches of learning, so that Su
O~erintendent Pickett's new hobby, tn,
Centennial classes of msp-drswers, car
10 instructed by the teachers.
A new digest Of the laws aud ordi
uances Of the city will soon be gotter
ont, as provided for in the new charter
We hope that the digest will be properly
and carefully indexed this time, as tn,
index to Bridges Digest is one Of those
puzzles or cypbers almost impossible t.
make out.
Taere are two wash-outs on the Chico
ra lroad, the largest six miles frou
Chicot and the other nine miles. Thl
track ia under water at Watson's
!. T genty miles of track cannot be uset
until the Mississippi river recedes, as il
some places the water is two feet dec
ou the roadbed.
Memphi tickets are not transferable
and if an attempt is made to secure ad
mission to the Memphi entertainment
on q transferred ticket it will not sue
coed, and both the transferor and th,
trsnsfere will not be honored will
/; tickets to any future entertainment givel
! by the Memphi, the invitations beiur
personal compliments.
Our reporters are in a qusndary as Il
the Chamber Of Commerce, which guam
Diary can only be solved by Secretary
Toof designating on the black.bOOrds o
the Chamber exactly what items o
news are held back for the exclusive usI
Of the Avalanche and Appeal, aud wha
crumbs dropped from the news.tabl
may be picked up by the LEDGER com
missioners for publication. To this IA
vor has it come at last. WI
The ordnance passed in October, 1875
providing that the Leftwich bonds cou
pons would only be received by the Cit
Tax Collector for indebtedness, at q rat
not exceeding sixty cents on the dollar
was repealed by the General Council las
=, night, the United States Court havin
decided repeatedly that the city wa
liable for the face value Of these couponI
Hereafter these coupons will be receive
at the;g face value for back taxes.
\ A stand for Mardi.Gras reception
King Menus is beipg srected over Il
pavement on the corner Of Main an
West Court streets. At this point Kir
Menus, on next Monday afternoon. wi
receive the Keys Of the city from May
Sippiu and thsIGonerl Council, Oh