Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-20
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Office, 1S Madison Street.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
TIE CITY.
Friday Evening, april 30, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

Ieiony ana misdemeapor cases were OF
hearing.
Sneak thieves continue to work" al
over town, but with them stealing i
called work"
Duprez & Benedicts Miustrels close,
their engagement at the theater last righ
before a large and well'pleased audience
Next Monday night Days Fiji
Avenue Combination will appear at tb,
theater and present Lemons to tt.
public.
Since the rainy season set in the mum
Der of applicants for lodging at the sta
tion-house nightly has been increasing
rapidly.
The funeral of the late NJ J. McKeol
will take place at 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning from the residence, corner 0
Beal aud Main streets.
Next Friday and Saturday McEyoy'I
Grand Hibernica will exhibit at the Mem
phis Theater, and give sketches Of Irish
character and specimens Of Irish music
There will be a match game Of base
bal played at 9 o'clock to morrow morn
ing on the Zephyrs' grounds between tn,
Chickasaw and Zephyr base ball clubs
Yesterday, one hundred and two year
ago, our lorefatbers had a little rumpu.
with the British red coats al Lexington
but the affair was subsequently settled
al Yorktown.
George Washington cut down tree.
with his little Ratchet, but Governor Por
ter has been planting trees on tn,
grounds in front of the executive win
dow at Nashville and at his own expense
Mr.. Hop" johnson, OF the Appeal
who has been so dangerously i'll for SOM
days past from an attack Of erysipelas
is much better to-day, and now his ply
s%icians have strong hopes Of his ultinal.
recovery.
What's the use aud where's the sens,
in a mule-box driver following out parrot
like the instructions and saying to TIL
passenger who puts in a nickel, thu
fare is ten cents, sir" when nobody pay
the wished-for dime2
Mr.. II. N. Stickney, Of the busines
Office Of the Avalanche, is lying very 10,
at the Worsbsm House, from a danger
GUS attack of consumption. Colonel I
S. Ayers is also in a critical condition
from an attack Of paralysis
Several cases of drunk and disorder
were disposed Of by the Recorder thi
morning. Henry Reid (negro) contrit
uted S. for drunkenness and James Mar
shall handed wei a flyer for disorder,
conduct, mixed with drunkenness.
AS the Avalanche severely but With
said, some days ago, the street car folk
are like the followers of Packard at New
Orleans they don't like to take 'nicl
els" But then they have to take then
whether they will or no, nickels beinI
the legal fare.
John A. Thomas, negro, was ARRESTED
last night by patrolman Mcconnell, oil
suspicion of chicken stealing, be haviuI
a couple of chickens in a sack and be
ing unable to account for the possession
of the same. He will have a hearin.
this afternoon.
The Chickasaw Guards are rapidly re
eeiving accessions to their ranks. The,
elected Mr.. James Brent as a membe.
last evening. The company will soor
have 100 members, and will then, as now
be regarded at the crack military com
pany Of the State.
In one of CaldwelIs Tenn Report
there is on obituary notice Of a dis
tinguiahed jurist of the State, Of whom
the author Of the Reports says; N,
had but few equals but no peers" Thi
is q bull of a most amusing description
because peer" means an equal in ex
ceIlence or endowments.
In the second game Of base ball o
Louisville on Wednesday, 1.-THE close o
the third inniHg tie indianapolis Blue
had scored three runs 10 none for th,
Louisvilles, with every prospect for Q
victory, when a heavy rain coming "
closed the game. They play the return
games today and tomorrow at Iudian
apolis.
Memphis should have a fre.alarm tele
graph Every well regulated city haI
one except our own. Forty boxes ant
Gften miles Of wire are needed, and thiI
would cost between seven and eigh.
thousand dollars. There are nearly 1
dozen patents on 6re.alarm telegraph
and should the city advertise it's wan
the agents of the different companies
would quickly come here.
The gay Coahoma, the belle Of thu
coast pscsels, Captain Stacker Lee com