Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-09
LEDGER LINES.
Sen orater. II FArreIra. les Mann.

The trade in mint julsps is increasing
rapidly throughout the city.
The city fathers will hold another
seancs on tomorrow evening.
AT the Bethel to night Mr. D. S. Ross
will deliver a lecture on Novel Read
ing and Its Effects"
The Little Rock Gazette insists that
"Menphians drink lager beer enough
weekly to float a steamboat"
The opera of Martha will be produced
at the Memphis Thea!er Wednesday and
Thursday, the I'd and Sd of May.
Suburban vegetable gardens are COM
Jog on nicely since the late c%opious
rains. As an exchange says: Let tuce
rejoice"
The total number OF deaths which CO.
Cured in the city during last week was
twenty Que, of which twelve we're whites
aud nine blacks.
The Helena World says: There is no
town in the South that boasts of more
no-account, low white and black couu-
drels than Helena"
Now is the time when venerable fowls
are transformed into spring chickens at
a
the hands of that wonderful metamor.
phoser, the poultry dealer.
Arthur Gibson valuable pointer slut,
Lille, aged ten years, died on yesterday,
and was decently buried to day in an
imposing and proper style.
The adjourned nesting of the Confed.
crate Monumental Association will take
place tomorrow night AZ the Planters
Insurance building on Madison street.
Some six hundred reserved seats,
Treasurer Frank Gray informs us, we're
sold this morning for Lawrence Barret:is
engagement, which commences Wednes-
day night next.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
vii! entertain their friends at their Wash.
ington street hall on tomorrow night, on
which occasion a ine dramatic entertain
meut will be given.
The amateur disciples of Isaac Walton
are gathering up their fishing tackle
preparatory to taking trips to the ArkAn-
SIS aud Mississippi bayous and lakes in
search Of the fnny tribe.
The attention Of the police is called to
the rapid driving Of drays around cor.
nsrs and past crossings to the great dan.
ger and inconvenience of pedestrians,
who by law have the right of way.
During the past few days, beneath the
subtle Influence of spring sunshine and
showers, the trees have become green
throughout the city and suburbs. Court
SQUARE and the Arkansas forests now
present a charming appearance.
The sellers Of meat look more cheerful
nov that Lent has ceased to act az an
injunction on their business, and the fuh
dealers lock as If they would like for G
mandamus to issue to compel Lent to
remain in force during the summer.
The opinion seems to gain ground
throughout the city that Mr.. Thompson,
Of the Avalanche, is the lucky man who
will get the postmastership of Memphis.
He will soon put his name with a "p" on
the d~oor-plate Of that public institution.
Last Saturday q negro thief who had
stolen n lot Of tools from a carpenter
employed at one of the oil works, and
being chased by the police, ran into
Welt river and hid under the end of a
aatboat. He was ished ont and sent to
Jail.
Miss Susie Hindman, daughter Of the
late General 7. c. Hindmas, is canvass
ing Arkansas for subscribers to two
books, viz; Women Of the Century, and
Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, the former
by Phoebe Hanaford and the latter BY
Mark Twain.
To-day omDibuseS will run to the
baseball grounds at Central Park every
twenty minutes from the Peabody Hotel
and Court Square in opposition to the
strest-car monopoly. Fare only ten
cents and the time much faster than that
made by an old mule-box.
New Orleans, Louisville and other
cities have lonG-range rife clubs, but
Memphis has none, yet there are a mum
Der Of good long.range shots in the city.
An effort is making, however, to organize
a lonR-fange rife club, to work under the
Creeduloor rules during the spring, sum.
mer and fall months.
Black chicken thieves continue to en-.
gage in business throughout the suburbs,
One of these worthless burglarizsd the
chicken coop of Sergeant HagGerty, Of
the police force, aud played the deuce
With his pullets and ROSTERS. The ser.
geant caught the thief, however, and now
be rests in the county Jail.
The Memphis Reds and St. Louis
Browns were unable to play at Central
Park on yesterday, owing to the rains.
Both clubs we're washed" the score
being Dame Natures club, 9; Reds and
Browns, 0. The crowd who went out to