Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-04
LEDGER LINES.

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will adorn Court Square.
Choice %venisOn ham at fifteen cents
per pound at Victor Fuchs.
The City Fathers will hold another
Seance next Friday evening.
Memphis Degree Lodge, No. s,I.o c. o.
f., meets tonight. See notice elsewhere.
Robinson's Minstrels at Assembly
Hall this afternoon aud this evening.
Prot. Pepper will exhibit his wonder
iul ghosts at the theater tomorrow night.
Professor Pepper will deliver his Ghost
lecture at the theater tomorrow night.
Several hemphians stood up before
the parsons this week and muttered, 81
do"
Wild geese can be heard nightly, boRk-
ing high, as they fly northward to the
la~ke-feediug grounds.
Couldock matinee at the tboater this
afternoon, and performance tonight.
when the Willow Copse will be presented.
Our utility man returns thanks for a
beautiful aud fragrant bouquet from
VIM. sledge's residence, Rayburn ave.
nue..
As the poet puts it: Mature is put
tiug on her green robes" or pin-back, al
around in the suburbs aud over the river
in Arkansas.
The wine bibbers' of Memphis can
rejoice; the wine crop Of France last
year was the largest eyer made, and was
one of the best.
A strong petition was sent into the
General Council last light protesting
against any isteriereoee with the Board
Of Health ordinance.
Alfred Tanner, a negro pocket.book
snatcher, was arrested on board a river
packet this morning on the charge Of
robbing deck passengers.
The assignment Of Messrs. O'Bannop
& Morris, late Peabody Hotel proprie.
tors, to Z. P. Phillips was filed in the
County Registers office yesterday.
We are obliged to Jimmy Corwin. Of
the Bethel block news store, for late New
Orleans papers. He has a full supply
o dailies and other popular readisg.
One of the walls of the old Shelby
street engine house tumbled in yester,
day while some workmen were engaged
Ia excavatiDg a cellar underneath; but
NJ n was injured.
A negro was arrested by the police
tlls morning on the charge Of murder.
* another negro in Mississippi aboul
70 months since. He slaughtered bis
black brother with an iron bar in a cir
house.
The concert and German opera by the
German Casino Club, for the benefit O
the Leath Orphan Asylum, to be given
at the Greenlaw Opera House on Mon
day evening, promises to be very at
tractive.
The Knights of Honor meet this ever
log. The order is rapidly increasing
One OF the lodges in this city number
already nearly one hundred members
representing the beat elements of tn,
Community.
During the last month February tn,
number of fires which occurred in III,
city was FIVE, and in addition two falls,
alarms were sounded. The total loss BY
the fires amounted to 1890, with al
insurance OF $500.
In the Criminal Court yesterday after
noon the jury in the murder case O
Monroe Gibbs (negro) found the prisoner
guilty of murder in the second degre,
and fixed the penalty at ten years i'm
prlaonment in the %penitentiary,
An effort was made in the Genera
Council LAST night to employ an assist
ant Se-gean;-9t.Arms at u salary o
$1,000 per annum, but t was not success
full. Many Of the Councilmen were op
posed to the creation of a new Office fol
any person.
t Twenty-fopr lottery ageats we're ar
rested yesterday. They put up an ag
gregate amount Of two hundred and sew
enty.Gve dollars in %forfeits eud failed, Al
usual, to appear before the Recorder thil
| morning. So the amount WAS f~orfeite,
to the city.
a white man named Henley killed ,
negro a few days since at Eudora, D,
Soto county, Mississippi. Henley wa
arrested, but escaped from the officer
who were escorting him to the Hernand,
Jail. 1t is believed that Henley came I,
, this city after escaping.
Between five and six o'clock yesterds,
afternoon the Gre department was callet
out to suppress a FIRE which had broker
out in the cooper shop Of Leffel & Akel
S situated in rear of the Shelby street en-
gine-houss. 1t wss a staying Ere 70
some time, during which a lot Of slaves
hoop-poleS, etc, was destroyed.
4 In addition to the bust of jackson
which now stands in Court Square, th,
D busts Of other great TennesseeAus shout,
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