Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-02
LEDGER LINES.

- 1851 ~ oAAASA Q8ys
barry RObinsOn's MinstreIs at the
GreenlaW Opera House tonight.
Victor D. Fuchs has received another
foe lot Of shsd. Call and get one.
Judge Brown will adjourn the United
States District Court for the term this
afternoon.
The ordinance creating q Board Of
Pablo Works was defeated in the Gene
raj Council last night.
According to the old adAge. buster.
ing March has come in like a lion, but
will go out like q lamb"
The Lenten season commenced yes
terday-Ash Wednesday-and will con
tinue forty days, until Faster.
Sandy Anderson, a black %larcenist,
was committed by the Recorder this
morning on the charge of larceny.
That peculiar amendment offered to
the Board Of Health ordinances was re-
jected by the General Council last night.
The c%hain-gang. under the direction
OF the City Engineer, will make tho nee
essary excavation for that Court Square
fountain.
Couldock ia Uncle Pills Birthday at
the theater tonight. The entertain.
ment will conclude with a farce entitled
Milky White.
Victor Fuchs, on Jefferson street, has
on hand a iue supply of game. and also
a lot Of fish from the great lakes and the
Gulf Of Mexico.
Those who fail to pay their city taxes
by Tuesday next, March 7tb, will have
distress warrants issued against them by
City Tax Collector Schaper.
The monthly bill collectors we're out
10 force to-day eudesvoring to gather in
the nickels. bu: no astonishing amount
Of success crowned their Industrious ei-
forts.
The street sprinkling tends should
have been at work to-day in order to set
tie the clouds OF dust that swept around
corners and into the eyes of sll pedes-
TRANS.
Not since one year ago did 80 many
citizens 20 to rest 80 early as on last
night. They sought their coaches to
court tired natures sweet r~esLorer,
balmy sleep"
The bust of Andrew jackson, which is
in the center Of Court Square, is to be
removed to give place to the public
fountain donated to the city by a mum.
Der of liberal citizens.
Mr.. Ed ]. Wendell, of No. 9 Union
street, advertises for a valuable diamond
ring lost Monday, the 18th. he offers
the handsome reward Of one hundred
dollars Tor its recovery.
Several noted amateur vocalists will
appear in the German comic opera to be
given at the Greeulsw Opera House
next Monday night for the benefit Of the
Leath Orphan Asylum.
Next week at the theater we will have
the Katie Putnam trorpe, and the week
after, Maggie Mitchell with her Fanchon,
Little Barefoot, etc, which will close the
dramatic season in this city.
The beautiful decorations put up by
the Memphi at the theater yet remain to
adorn the house, and these floral decora.
tons add no little to the general appear
ance of the dress and family circles.
Captain George l. Nowitzky, the elo-
quent street orator, leaves for Cincinnati
to day OIL the steamer Parker. He goes
East to publish his sensational book on
"Strest-men aad People Generally"
The Memphis Gaslight Company
elected q Board Of Directors yesterday,
consisting Of Messrs. Bnoch Ensley,
Sam Pritchard, W.. s. Bruce, Henry
Graft, j. NJ. Williamson, j. W. billiard
aud n. n. Jones.
Several persons were arrested yester.
day and last night for being drunk, or
for not having held mp on their Msrdi.
Gras drunk. They we're tapering of on
the big end, but the Recorder pu, a veto
os the matter.
The card OF W. l. Cameron, of the
Water Company eiice. Published else.
where, is deserving Of attention. He an
noauces to delinquent water consumers
that water will be cut OF il bills are not
paid by the 10th inst.
Ia the Criminal Court to-day Monroe
Gibbs (uegro) was placed on trial on the
charge of numbering Isaac Walker in De-
cember last on account of jealousy, that
greeu'eysd monster that doth furnish
forth the meat it feeds on,
Why do not the police break up the
low negro dens throughout the city and
oil other places where crime abounds
and in which thieves are harbored2
Here is a 8ns, healthy Geld for any
amount of legitimate police work.
Quite a number Of strangers wero in
the city last night, remaining over to
rest after The fatigue Of the Mardi-GraS
celebration. The theater last night was
we'll SLED by strangers, aud but few