Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-03
LEDGER LINES.

theater tonight.
Judge Adams opened the Criminal
Court this morning.
The Quarterly County Court met at
the Courthouse this morning
All hail to the new born year. and now
let all go to work with renewed vigor.
MOrtuary report for the past week
total deaths, Is; whites, IL; blacks, IA.
When you date your letters or other
communications, do not forget the fig
ures 1876.
Madame Rentz' Female Minstrels and
Can-Can Troupe at the Assembly Hall
tomorrow night.
The famous Londonderry ring" will
play out on Thursday. the 18th instant,
Mayoralty election day.
At several of the Methodist churches
was held the time-honored watch meet
ing" on New Years eve night.
Many a young man enjoyed a head.
ache yesterday morning as a memento
Of New Years calls at saloons.
Several church bells rang out the old
year and ran in the new or Fridav
night, at the witching hour of twelve.
The Changers of Tennessee Humber
over eleven hundred. The constitution
limits each Grange to a territory FIVE
miles square.
Big sleeve buttons, once the style, is
50 no longer, but a breast pin chrome
1.-THE larger the better is now the agony
among the ladies.
In social circles people sometimes kiss
other peoples wives, and they know it,
but in spiritual circles, at the Miller
seances, people kiss other peoples wives
and don't know it.
At the next General Council meeting
on Monday night, some arrangement
should be made to. select judges and
clerks of the msyOralty election for mex
Thursday week.
In the United States District CourI
to-day petitioners fled q petition il
bankruptcy against N. II. & T. G. Cor
by, merchants doing business at York
vile, Gibson county.
No arrests have been made on BIZ
Creek iu consequence of the killing o
W. Carroll Bolton and Jack Stinson-a
nobody has yet been found to swear GU
a warrant before a magistrate.
1t was about as moist a New Year
morning as ever presented itself on tn
Memphis bluffs. The young year cam
into the world in tears; a proper tribut
Of respect. however, to the dead year @
1875.
Ed johnson, who robbed Express Mes
senger Brady in this city, has escape
from the Nashville penitentiary b
means of bribery. Escapes from tn
States prison arc becoming too con
mon to be wondered at.
Overlooking poor dray mules is b.
coming a thing Of common occurrenc
notwithstanding the ordinance and til
law preventing cruelty to animals. TIL
police authorities should interfere an
protect the dumb brutes from the humaI
brutes.
1t is now rumored hal the oppositior
ring" not being able to get a white ma.
to act as their nominee for the Mayor
atty, has offered it to Wharfmaster E
Shaw, but even he is rather shy of th
pro(fered honor, and has taken time
consider the matter.
At a stated meeting Of Memphis Lodge
No. 6, K. Of p, the following officer
were elected: R. Creighton, C. c.; 10,
s. Leon, V. c.; John Wood, Prelate
Felix P. Bath, X. Of R. and s.; B. +
Smith, M. Of F.. F. W. Vigus, M. of Elk.
L. L. Moore, NJ. at A.; F. W. News, I
C.
There was considerable complain
among the young callers on New Year
day, that after paying twenty or NOR
visits they had not received q glass {
champagne, but were rendered coffee an
lemonade. For some OF them mil
would have been the appropriate be'
erage.
On Vance, at the east end Of th
bayou bridge, the sidewalk has caved il
presenting an immense and deep crate
to the gaze of pedestrians. 1t is a MOI
dangerous place aud should be filled a
Immediately or fenced around BY th
City Engineer, whose attention is calle
to it.
In the Chancery Court to-day in tn
case of N. j. Andrews ct al, an iujunt
ton was issued to prevent the sale {
property by the city, the property b,
longing to persons who hold and offere
past due Nicolson pavement scrip ft
back taxes. The city refused to receiy
the scrip, claiming that it was not a cit
indebtedness.
The Avalanche Of yesterday says: g
looks as if the contest will be betwee
two candidates, both of the Democrat
and Conservative party" We we're nj