Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-12
LEDGER LINES.

The city fathers meet this afternoon.
Dame Mature is securing and washing
our streets and alleys.
The legal strees-car fare is Eve cents.
Do not pay any more.
The Cincinnati excursionists are TAX
log a look at the city to-day.
Memphis has about as Sretehed side.
walks as any other city in the land,
probably more so.
The acts recently parsed by the legis.
lature will be out in book form within
the next ten or fifteen days.
The Cincinnatians attended the thea
ter last night, they being in charge Of
the Memphis committeeman.
The freshet in the river is causing
some uneAsiness down the coast where
the lands are below the overflow during
high waters.
The street-csr railway monopoly is a
"%simulacrum" when it expects to bull
doze passengers and compel them to pay
the illegal ten cents fare.
Fast driving and stringing out drsys sc
as to prevent pedestrians from making
the crossings are permitted hourly by thC
police. Notwithstanding the ordinance
prohibiting such things.
United States Marshal Waldrsu hal
received over two hundred applicants 70,
deputysbips, although he employs bu
eight Of these officials in his department
The thirst for Office is not yet %quenchet
in this latitude.
The Appeal and Avalanche reporter
have taken lessons 10 horse training AM
breaking from Prof. Sample, who figure
on the bluff. They ought to work on th
street car mules and break them int
the habit of pulling a FIVE cents far
load.
Tonight Mr.. Barrett will appear a
Hamlet, the Dane" at the theater. Hi
conception and rendition Of the grea
role are very 6ne-not as idealistic an
attractive as Edwin Booths wonderfI
production, but nevertheless a mo
m~eritorious dramatic representation.
The question is often asked, When wi
: the building of the custom-house |
commenced No oneseems to have Il
slightest idea as to the time. Those wi
: know anything about the thou art
near and yet so fer" government bull
3 ing should rise and explain for the inf
nation OF the public.
3 There is hardly a day passes but tn
some person is not arraigued before t
Z recorder or some magistrate on t
Z charge Of using abusive language.
large number of the persons arrested a
+ generally Of the colored persuasic
n They fell out for the least little disagr,
d ment, and the dispute frequently resu
in blows.
Why is it that strest.car drivers, VIII
il q FIVE cents fare is received on all t
y lines, only gives four tickets for TWEEN
five cents TO passengers who ore not 81
mo piled with nickels2 This is a violati
Of the law and ia d~efrauding the pass,
- ger ost OF FIVE cents. Are the driv
instructed by the officers Of the mon,
3 oly to do this act Of injustice and wror
The Nashville American publishes
challenge given by the Porter Rifles 9
the acceptance of it by "our own Chick
as the ladies' cali them. The comp
, tive drill contest will come of at Hui
b, vile, Ala, on the 18th Of June.
!, Porter Rifles are being drilled by
}. United States army sergeant, but
Chicks" rely on the military knC
edge OF their own officers.
T.. A correspondent insists that betw
III the English phrase Life Insurance
sociation" and its German cousin, "
ben V~ersicherung Gesellschaft," VII
g means the same; there is but little dii
" ence as 10 length-one letter in iii
n three in insurance and one in "a
citation" Some people think hat
@ German phrase is more difficult to !
y, nounce than the English one; try it.