Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-30
LEDGER LINES.


White and colored Easter eggs are for
sale throughout the city.
Ere loug the picnic season will open
up IN a brisk manner as a rival Of base
ball.
Numbers of citizens are living on fish
and vegetables to-day, it being good
Friday, a noted fast day.
The ETHEREAL mildness" is upon US
again, and to such an extent that rose
geraniums and other spring flowers are
10 bloom.
Merchants complain Of dulluess in
business, but yet numbers Of country
people and other strangers arrive in the
city daily.
Meteoric displays occur nightly. The
FIRE rock shoots athwart the heavens, but
as the poet sings, "~'txere past ere you
can point its place"
The hVe-cent street car fare law, when
it takes effect, will be the law until the
Supreme Court of the State decides it to
be unconstitutional.
1t is now the law that members Of FIRE
companies in any corporate city or town
are exempt from military duty ia times
of peace, and from serving on juries.
To-Day is Good Friday, the anniver-
sary Of the cruc'fxion of our Savior. 1t
is called Good Friday in allusion to the
benefits conferred on the world by his
de nth.
Tonight the John E. Owens comedy
company will present Scion Shiugle and
The Victims, ard at the matinee on to.
morrow Our Boys will be the humorous
attraction,
Everybody is anxious for Receiver
Bill to arrive in town. He will be given
a banquet by his friends, and will be in
dorsed at a mass meeting Of solid men
when be comes.
Among the prettiest and most attrac.
tive ladies Of Memphis may be counted
several widows who rival the maiden
bslles Of society in intelligence, in man.
n4rs and in dress.
The people Of Somerville had a hot.air
balloon ascension on Saturday last, on
which occasion Prof. Hedley gave a
series of trapeze performances while
some six hundred feet up in the air.
The courthouse to-day did not present
a liv ,ly appearance. no courts being in
session except the Criminal and Shelby
County Circuit Court. The Chancery
and United States courts have adjourned
sine die.
"Lemme hold your boss, boss" said a
bootblack to a citiz,n this morning as he
hitshed his nag in front of the LEDGER
Office; but the answer came positive and
rapidly: mo, sir; l lost a horse that
way once"
The street car 6ve-cent fare law was
signed by Governor Porter Monday az
t%arnoon and went into effect at that time,
so that now the legal fare is five cents,
Notwithstanding the option of a few
lawyers to the contrary.
The Office of Tenabra will be chanted
at the different Catholic churches to-
night. The Tenabre Tor darkness) con-
sists merely of the Mathis and Lauds of
the Office proper to this day, and are ia.
ken from different parts of the scrip.
lures.
Silver has become 8 drug ia the mar
ket audis worth less than paper money
as a matter OF convenience. We have
come to q silver basis at last. OF course
the i%mpecunious man feels no interest
in the change from paper to silver cur.
rency.
Laurence Barrett's theatrical engage
meut in this city will commence on the
night OF the 18th proximo, mex Thurs
day week. Richelieu will be the open.
ing piece, and will be followed during
the remainder Of the week by a round Of
classical dramas.
City Sergeant.at-Arms Droescher was
appointed a receiver" yesterday, be
having been presented with a fourteen
pound specimen Of male humanity BY
his better half. The youthful official
hal not been many hours in the world
before he commenced calling the roll. "
The Nashville Banner of the 18th inst.
says; The Porter Rifles have ebal.
lenged the Chickasaw Guards to a com.
pstitive drill, TO take place on the 9Th oil
May next, and the Rifles are willing Ia
drill on neutral ground. The judges for
the ocolsioa are to be selected from non.
residents Of Nashville and Memphis"
The amount of ingenuity, diplomacy
and labor expended by impecuniouu
topers in this city in negotiating fol
drinks would, if properly devoted, pay Of
the city deb, or at least secure a most
favorable compromise with the bondhold