Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-10
LEDGER LINES.
rhs croqust season has opened.

the lunar eclipse last night.
The School Board will meet in monthly
~conclave next Monday evening.
6eneral Council meeting at City Hall
tonight at half-psst seven o'clock.
Sneak thieves continue their deprsda-
tons throughout the city. Police ~
MisdemesuOr and light felony cases
are on trial in the Criminal Court to-
day.
Read the notice in Want" column Of
piano-shaped mslodeon 10 exchange for
az orgaB.
The sale Of seats Tor the Maggie Mitch
ell engagement at The tbester began at
the b~ox'ofice this morning.
Flies aud mosquitoes have made their
appearance already, so as to aid citizens
10 enjoying the spring season.
The suit for forty thousand dollars
damages between Cicalls, jr., and Cicslla,
ST.. is on hearing in the Circuit Court.
Katie Putnam will appear as Little
Barefoot at the theater tonight. At the
matinee tomorrow Jane Eyre will be the
attraction.
Recorder DuH disposed Of sixteen
cases Of misdemeanor this morning,
Nothing of public interest appeared on
the docket.
The question Of creating a board Of
public works for the city will come up
before the ueneral Council meeting to.
morrow night. q
General Marcus J. Wright, formerly
of the Memphis press, is preparing a
magazine article on the Life and Death
Of General Zollicofer. /,
Colonel Enoch Ensley. of our city, has
written a column letter on finances,
which was published in the Nashville
American of yesterday.
Last night a bale of cotton was stolen
from the EnOch Ensley plantation, a few
miles down the river, The thieves have
no: as yet been arrested.
WithiR two weeks the markets will be
stocked with a bountiful supply of vege,
tables raised in the suburbs OF the city,
owing to the early spring.
The river is falling rapidly at this
point, but it will rise rapidly ia a few
days, as big waters are coming down
from all the up-country rivers.
Hop Johnson, city editor Of the Ap.
peal, has been confined to his room for
several days, caused by an attack Of
pneumonia, but he is recovering rapidly.
Rev. MIR. Esten, Of St. Lazarus church,
has resigned his rectorship. In this
connection it is rumored that Rev. J. I.
Wheat will be recalled to the rectorshir.
Charles Fame, a black l%arcenist oil
wearing apparel, drew a prize Of seven
months at Presidents Island work.house
at the Criminal Court matinee yester
day.
The ordinances aud laws Of the city
have been revised and arranged by Z
special committee aud will be published
in a digestin accordance with the proyis
ions Of the new charter.
The portion Of Leath Orphan Asylum
erected by the Odd Fellows vas formally
taken possession Of to-day by that order,
the building being completed ard ready
for occupancy by the orphans.
Seven arrests for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct we're made By the
police last night. The prisoners offered
as an excuse for being out go late that
they were watching for the eclipse.
A reunion Of the differen. lodges Of
Odd-Fellows in the city will take place
at the meeting Of Banner Lodge te.night,
it being the t~wenty-6fth anniversary Of
the occupation Of 0dd.Fellows' Hall by
the order.
Thirty couples Of young people par.
ticipated in a hop on board the steamer
Vint Shinkle, Cincinnati packet, last
sight. Captain Remission ind clerk
Billy Mcintyre gave the hop, and also
furnished an elegant supper for the
guests. ay.m
DR., D. s. johnson. who was indicted
some weeks since by the Grand Jury on
the charge Of procuring death by abor.
ton, appeared in the Criminal Court yes
terday aud gave bond in the sun Of three
thousand dollars for his appearance to
answer the Indictment,
Fort Sill, the scene Of the Belkuap
troubles, is situated in the Indian Terri
tory, a little south of the thirty-6ith par
allel Of latitude. The boundary line be.
tween Mississippi and Tennessee is the
thirty-6hh parallel and Memphis is stu
ated eight minutes north Of said line.
Tall signs IN posts we're removed from
Main street, but small signs attached to
door'posts, etc., hang so low on Main
street that you are in danger of having
your spring hat or your head knocked
of. There is an ordinance providing
that all signs shall hang at a certain
hight, but it is not enforced by the au.
thorities.