Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-16
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Lsnteu services are held daily in the
Episcopal aud Catholic churches Of the
city.
The Medical Society Of this county
will meet tonight at the rooms Of the
Educational Board 10 Odd Fellows Hall.
On tomorrow night the .theater will be
crowded. because Cbi'peric wilt be the
musical and kicking operate attraction.
The No. ? Ere steamer o on Second
%stceet, near Beal, will shortly be msved
into its new house on Main street, near
South.
William Gilstone, arrested by tie pO-
lice on the charge OF malicioul cutting,
will have hearing before tie Recorder
this afternoon.
Why the rain cometh no! is a puzzle
for the weather.wise who have been pre-
dieting such q damp re.ult ever since
before Mardi-Gras.
The temperance and temperate citi-
zens # many counties in this Safe have
petitioned the legislature for the passage
Of a local option law.
The Louisville Courier Journal pu6-
fishes a three. column account of the
Memphis Mardi Gras, and particularly Of
the Memph pageant.
At the Criminal Court to-day the rtgu
lar business is being transacted, notwith.
standing the hitch in the progress Of the
trial of the League case.
The dog law was repealed by the legis-
lature on yestaiday, and now there is no
dog tax and the canine race can bite
their neighbor's sheep with %impunity.
Tne ordinance closing up tipping
houses at II o'clock at night yet remains
a dead letter upon the statute book, the
police having ceased to enforce it as
heretofore.
Tie lire.boys Of the No. 2 engine will
give. a ball at their hall, No 594 Maia
street, on Thursday right next. The
proceeds Of the ball to be devoted to
fitting up their hall.
Making gardens is the Arcadian OF
Bucolic-like employment of suburban
citizens at present. In after years SOM
Virgil Or Theocritus may em5alm these
pastoral efforts in song aud verse.
D3;e,tive W, g. Pryde, who was shot
by a negro thief a pie Of weeks since
is out IN the streets looking tolerably
well, but he has not as yet fully recoy
cred from tie effect of his wound.
The last vestiges of the late c~arniya
are disappearing rapidly. The public
and private stands have been removed
) and those who lad headaches begin t
lack brighi and cheerful once again.
The Chancery Court was not in sessio,
to-day in consequence Of a telegram re
ceiv9d by Judge Morgan from Lagrange
Ga, aud Containing the news that hi
mother was dying. Judge Morgan leave.
for Georgia to-day,
Judge Trigg, Of the United State
Court, sentenced Tom Drury to imprison
ment in the penitentiary for three year.
and a halt, he having been convicted o.
the charge Of passing counterfeit none
in Carroll county.
At the theater to-nigh. the Soldent
: troupe will present Genevieve de Bra
baut with Soldene as "Drogau f" ant
Rosa Stella as "Geneyieye." At tbl
matinee on to morrow Poulet aud Pou
lette will be rendered.
The renowned Colonel Simondson VIII,
bull1oz.d the tvercoats of The LEDGER
stat, bad two tue bills OF iDdic,men
charging lrceny found against him ny
the grand jury Of the Criminal Court o
day. Such is retribu,ivs %istic,.
Bat few Nemphiaus celebrate he Leu
ten season in q rigid manner Tbos,
who fast and pray DO it in lhs least 90
jectionable manner possibl indeed, il
may be said tia, Lanteu RULES are ob
served merely in a nominal manner ex
cept by q few ascetic3.
Mr.. Hamilton S. Wicks, who attendeu
our Msrdi.Gras as correspondent o
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, leave.
to day for New York, he takes witt
: him "a number Of street scenes taken b.
a special artist, which scenes will BIT
published in due time.
; The Criminal Courtroom has beer
: undergoing general repairs and has baer
, m materially changed in appearance. Al
/ present it is arranged with a view to tht
convenience of lawyers, judges, clerks
etc. 1t also may be convenient for Grim
inals, but we have not heard from then
on that point as yet.
| H. c. Moore, one of the young mel
who sometime since stole two horse
from Bracket, the livery stable man
was convicted in the Criminal Court OF
yesterday and sentenced to fifteen years
imprisonment in the %penitentiary
Moore's brother, who assisted in tht
horse stealing, is on trial today.
On Mardi Gras the Sisters Of the Goo
r GhaDbard tho pantisf oburob and Al.