Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-18
LEDGER LINES.

The rains Of last night settled the dust
problem for a time.
Helena, Ark, is trying to organize q
Cotton Exchange.
December is said to be the last ember
Of the dying year.
Every citizen can gather his own ice
harvest at present.
Notwithstanding the freezes the whest
crop is said to be Furnishing
To-day in the year 1893, George Wash
%incton was buried at Mount Vernon.
Mr.. Sothern will introduce "Dun.
dreary to the Nashville folks this even.
ing.
This is a cold world just now, but no
oRe would be willing to fee to the hotter
one.
The loss caused by the FIRE at Bolivar
on. Friday last, is estimated at $500, 900;
insurance, $l7, 900.
The Little Rock FIRE foots up a loss of
$3.50, 00O-about one-sixth Of which was
covered by insurance.
The opera Mariana will be sang at the
theater tonight by the Richinzs-Bernar
English Opera Company.
Wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer,
squirrels, perch, red snapper and sheep
head, at Victor D. Fuchs.
The total number of deaths which oc-
Cured in the city during the past week
was l2-whites 6, blacks 6.
At the Bethel building tonight Mr.. W.
H. Foute will deliver a lecture OF
Genius and Application"
The usual number OF drunk and dis
orderly persons were arrested By the pc
lice yesterday and last night.
/, The Methodist church and Masoni,
Hall at Wildcat, on Plum Bayou, Ark.
we're destroyed by fire last week.
City subscribers to the LEDGER are re
, qlested to notify the Office promptly
when the carriers fail to deliver their
! papers regularly.
The people of Brownsville rejoice owe
their narrow-gauge railroad, by which
Brownsville is sought to be connected
with Holly Springs, Mississippi.
: Next Friday night Harry Robinson
Minstrels will appear at the Greeulay
opera-house, and will ALEC give a matine,
and night performance on Saturday.
+, The Supreme Court ct its recent tern
' decided that Bell county was unconstitu
tional and void, consequently Bell count.
is as dead as a corporation can be.
The billiard players Of the city ar
excited over the arrival Of the billiardisti
= champion, Mr.. Louis Shaw, who make
some wonderful fancy shots upon tb.
green cloth.
The barge loaded with fire brick whic.
was sunk by the steamer Coal b i'll in h
bend at Presidents Island, lies in th
: channel, and has become a serious o.
struction to navigation.
Two Tennessee ~ex-convicts are no
pastors Of Methodist churches out Yves
They reformed while in the p~enitentiar
and became teachers Of the convict
!, Sundsy-school.
= TIE Executive Committee Of the Tel
nessee Club authorizes US to state chi
an informal opening Of the club room
at which members and stockholders wi
be present, will take place.to.night
Up to II M. to-day 10 the CriminI
= Court ten jurors we're secured to try Il
Reesenoyer-Ellis homicide case. I'll
remaining two jurors will probably be o
tanned this afternoon.
nj Celery lie said to be most beneficial
people with weak nerves, and those VII
have that kind Of nerves are reeOr
d mended 10 use this vegetable daily,
being a nervous tonic of rsrs propertieI
: A Memphis street-car engineer wi
had been discharged recently, slandert
his road by saying that there was not
D ing left of the track but two streaks
rust and the right of way" The mul
y box engineer told the truth, however.
! The illegal cohabiting case of joins
Davis (negro) and Hattie Lynch whit,
= was deaided by Justice E. W. Caldwt
on Saturday by committing both parti'
to Jail in default Of one thousand dollar
y bonds each.
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock a g.
" broke out in a frame grocery house &
- the corner of Union and WellingtC
streets. The root was partially damage
but the fire was suppressed BY the fl
brigade with water buckets, etc
n Tramps complain tb0t the people
y Memphis do not seat breakfast ear
enough to suit them. A ten o'clot
breakfast is too fashionable for a ms
= who sleeps nightly out Of doors or at Il
statiop.houss.
The police made twenty three srres
from Saturday morning to this rornin
Mt when the criminals we're brought bsfo