Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-18
LEDGER.
Office, 10 Madison Street.
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
wednesday evening. ApriiIs 1877.
LEDGER LINES.
Shell oysters at FarreIrs. 1856 MAN.

was destroyed by fire yesterday after
noon.
If you want g nice job of business
printing done at a reasonable price, cal
at the LEDGER office.
DR.. Theodore F. Linde, dentist, and g
former Memphiap, has been elected
mayor of Hot Springs, Ark.
Sleeping water will only sell at thre,
quarters of a cent per pound this sum
Ter. This is what our citizens have been
Waiting for.
Five cents fare from a passenger is the
legal price for a ride in the mule boxes,
Let no citizen be bulldozel into paying
q cent more.
The hook and ladder Adams street
boys, under Captain Pat Haley, we're out
yesterday afternoon practicing with their
extension ladders,
Thunder, wind, lightning, rain aud
hail last night. AS a citizen ssid, IF you
call these spring showers, what do you
call fall and winter storms?'
The cry is beginning to go up that We
are having too much rain. The planters
are complaining, the continuous rains
interfering materially with farming ope.
r%ations.
Duprez & Benedict's Ministries will
give a matinee to day, aud performance
to night and to morrow night, which viii
close the engagement of the troupe il
this city.
An overflow is aprehended by thos,
who reside on the low lands along tht
lever coast between here aud Napoleon
Ark, as we'll as along the Arkansas.
White and st. Francis rivers.
Several prominent citizens are spoken
of in connection with the vacancy in the
Office of police and fire commissioner,
next month, caused by the expiration o
the term Of Office OF Mr.. COMMISSIONS
Frank.
The strict enforcement OF the vagran
law by the authorities would prevent th,
commission Of a large amount Of thiev
ing. Memphis is full Of young thieves
and quite a number of old thieves ar
here also.
1t has been decided by Judge Heiskell
OF the Shelby County Circuit Court tina
free delivery wagons used by merchant
and other business men are MOI. liabl
for city license tax, such not coming
under the head of a privilege.
In the Chancery Court Sarah A
Hughes obtained a divorce from p. I
Hughes on the ground Of abandonment
Mr.. Hughes is o residing out in Mon
tana Territory, and when last hear
from was engaged in hotel keeping.
At the Chancery Court to day Thoma
Mansfield filed a petition for divorce
against Honora Mansfield, on tn,
grounds of abandonment, drunkenness
and cruel treatment, threatening his lit
and refusing to cook for him and tbei
two children.
The prize for the competitive drill t,
ceme off between the Rifles and tn
Chicks is a valuable gold medal, t
become the permanent property of tn
victorious company. The presentation
address will be made by Mrs, c. c. Clay
OF Huntsville, Ala.
The Chickasaw Guards refused to &c
cede to the request of the Porter Rifle
to change the place and time of compel
tive drill-Huntsyille. Ala, June 10th
as first proposed by the Porter Rifles
The Nashville ooys got Louisville on tn
brain, but the Memphians couldn't see 1t
During a recent hail storm at For
Smith, Ark, rabbits and birds wer
killed in large numbers, windows wer
smashed into fragments, and a pig and
turkey we've slaughtered by the frozel
water which came down in pieces large
than hen.eggs. So s.ys the Fort SmitI
Herald.
The Avalanche of this morning, b.
authority, says; Mr.. I. P. Chamber
is still confined to his bed, and is too il
to engage in any correspondence. Tn
LEDGER report that be contemplates
duel is not correct. 1t is understood tina
Mr.. Chambers does not approve that reli
OF barbarism known as dueling."
Several able lawyers intenI making
oral arguments before Judge Heiskell
OF the Shelby COUNTY Circuit Court, Of
behalf of the people and in support o
the five cents street.car fare act, whicI
the monopoly is seeking to have declares
unconstitutional. Judge Heiskell i
anxious to hear and determine til
agreed case as soon as possible.
Now is come the time when the va
grant goat and the prowling COW max
raid on flower gardens, thereby destroy
ing in a few minutes many dollars wort