Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

No election until August next.
The Chancery Court is in session.
Good choice turkeys at Victor D.
Fuchs.
German Casino Club entertainment a,
Cochran Hall tonight.
The popular Wallace Sisters in ia
quette at the theater tonight.
Mortuary report for the past week
Total deaths, ID whites, Z; blacks, I.
A. ]. hurry and William S. Moon arc
candidates for the office Of City EuCi
neer.
Louisville epicures eat raw oysters
with sugar on them instead of salt and
pepper.
Yesterday was a moist Sabbath. Il
rAined steadily from early morn till
dewy eve.
Colonel Mitchell, of St. Louis, for
merly clerk of the Federal courts il
this city, is here on a business visit.
Police and fire scrip now sells at from
VOC to Csc, and in many private trans
actions it has been taken dollar for dol
lar.
Amateur theatricals are all the rage al
present. 1t affords amusement in socia.
circles and cultivates a taste for the
drama.
The School Board meets tonight, wher
the School Visitors elect will take theil
seats and take charge of educationa
matters.
The County Quarterly Court is in SEES
sion to-day pursuant to adjournment, t.
settle questions as to the reduction o
assessments.
1t has been raining steadily for thirty
six hours, and the indications are that i
will Keep on raining for an indefinite pc
Rod Of time.
There is no crooked whisky ring il
Memphis, thank Providence. Our city
has no distillery or rectifying establish
ment within her limits.
In Cincinnati and other::eities trampl
are put to work on the streets. The re
suit is that beggars and station-hous,
dodgers sensibly diminish.
There will be fifty. three Sundays thil
year, so that at a nickel each Sunda,
the church-goer can invest exactly two
dollars and sixty-fve cents.
The January term Of the Circuit Courr
opened up this morning, Judge Heiskel
presiding. Juries were impanelled anC
the regular business commenced.
Blu: few cases came up for hearing be
fore the Recorder this morning. 10,
Wilson, charged with larceny, was com
mitted in default of $1,000 bonds.
Even several League men are appli
cants for appointments under the Flippir
administration. They are willing t.
serve their country for pay under any
regime.
Next Wednesday, the anniversary o.
the birth Of Robert E. Lee, will be cele
brated at Richmond, Va, by a public
meeting, at which Governor Kemper viii
preside.
Memphis has q wretched landing anC
horrible streets, with the exception o
Washington street, which has beer
macadamized by the Charleston railroad
company.
General James R. Chalmers, of thu
Twenty-eightieth Senatorial district o
Mississippi, has filed the notice of con
testing the seat Of NJ. B. Sullivan in the
Mississippi Senate.
Quite a number OF tramps applied a
the station-bouse for lodging last even
ing. The rainy weather made it too dis
agreeable for the tramps to sleep on cot
ton bales or in old rookeries.
Harrigan and Harris celebrated com
bination at the Greenlaw Opera House
tonight under the management of Pa
Short, a well known ex-Memphian, but
now of St. Louis theatrical circles.
Information has been received here
that on Friday night last Charley
Hughes, a storekeeper residing near
Shelby Depot, was killed with an ak by
a negro on account Of some old difficulty.
Messrs. Horrigan and Patterson, well
known attorneys, have left for Cinoin.
natl to defend Mr.. Tighe against the
Smith warrants, charging him (Tighe,
with obtaining goods under false pre-
lenses.
John League did not receive n hun
dred white votes in the recent election
and Of these not fifty were cast by hi,
own Oountrymen. There is a deep mora
in this fact, and it is called-"r~epudiateC
by the whites.
Cairo is in danger Of being made al
island city. The Mississippi river i,
eating its way into the Illinois shore
above the town, so that it ia but a quar-
ter of a mile across the narrow neck o
land to the Ohio river.
Section AZ of the new charter Jays
uNo ,o~uor Hi l. Hill