Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-12
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THIS point.
Choice venison hams at v. D. Fuchs,
Al Jefferson.
A grand ball at Humboldt Park to-
morrow night.
United States tax title cases are up for
hearing today in the Federal Court.
Edwin Adams will close his engage.
ment at the theater tonight in Enoch
Arden.
The market hours have been changed
from afternoon to morning. from s to IL
o'clock.
As the Danbury Newsman says, the
biggest thing on ice next summer will
be the price.
The City Fathers will assemble at the
City Hall once again and hold a seance
on Monday night.
Sneak thieves entered the residence OF
Rev. W. E. BoGgs last night and carried
OF two ~overcoats.
Mr.. Raymond will appear in his great
specially, Colonel Mulberry Sellers"
at the theater on Monday evening.
To-day is the anniversary of the birth
OF Abraham Lincoln, which event took
place in Hardin county, KY, in 1909.
A New York journal says that DR.. J.
". Rogers has concluded to settle down
again at Memphis and begin the practice
of law. p
The case Of Blum VS.. the Pullman
Sleeping Car Company has not as yet
been decided by the jury of the United
States Court.
The Furnish Fifth Avenue Combina.
ton will follow j. T. Raymond at the
Memphis Theater, commencing the 2lst,
for one week.
The msndamuses from the Federal
Court on the subject Of paying coupons
were served on the General Coupcil last
evening by the Sheriff.
The city budget has been signed by
Mayor Flippin aud has become an ordi-
nance of the city. Ito regulates the
expenditures for 1876,
The argument Of counsel is progress.
ing in the Criminal Court to-day in the
case Of the State VS. Joe Chase, indict.
ment for the murder Of Leon Cohupe.
The young sensational star, j. Holmes
Grover, jr., in the great sensational
drama, % U, at the Theater Comique,
commencing Wednesday, February 10th.
The ofices of foreman of the street
force and chain-gang have been abolished
so that the street work can be carried on
under the instructions Of the City En-
gineer.
It's unnecessary to rice up and ex.
plain what lie tae definition Of Mardi.
Gras, By waiting until the 29th inst.
everybody will know what it means
without instruction.
The Cotton Exchange and Chamber Of
Commerce met yesterday afternoon and
protested against the change sought to
be made by the General Council in the
Board Of Health ordinances.
An ordinance authorizing the Recorder
and Chief Of Police to remit fines i'm.
posed upon those tried at the Recorders
Court passed its first reading before the
General Council last evening.
President Galbreath, Of the Cotton
Exchange, has been authorized to send
delegates to the Southern and Southwes
tern Immigration Convention, to be held
at New Orleans ia February next.
A chain-gang prisoner broke for lib.
erty on Second street yesterday after,
noon, but was recaptured by the remorse.
less guards, who seem TO cara not for
this centennial year wherein will DO eel.
ebrated the anniversary OF liberty.
Quite a number of people visited one
OF our well.known CHURCHES a lev even,
ings since to witness a marriage that did
not come off for some reason or other.
Ladies during leap year have a right to
refuse as well as to ask a hand in mar.
risge.
Sol Coleman is determined to come
out ahead. His latest achievement is
his new brand, the PiccadOrs, a cigar
fully worth fifteen cents, which he sells
for five cent?. Call on Sol and try him,
but don't mistake the hopse-2OO Main
street.
Vie WoOdhull in her Nashville lecture
said: In large cities / always found
the most intelligent and cultured people
ready to listen to discussions on any i'm.
portant question. At Memphis | was
greeted with as highly enlightened and
intelligent an audience as ! ever mel"
In the Circuit Court SAllie Behr has
filed a petition against the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company, Of
Connecticut. claiming damages in the
sum of $4,000 on a policy Of insurance
on the life Of Der husband, 10 Behr, who
was drowned in Wolf river some months
since.
The Board Of Trade met yesterday
afternoon and adopted a resolution pro.
hibiting the Offering Of goods for sale BY