Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-26
LEDGER LINES.

The weather is eight to seven to-day.
Grand masquerade ball at Humboldt
Park tonight.
Manufactured butter is being sold in
large quantities in this city.
Simmons & slecum's minstrels left on
yesterday for Vicksburg, Miss.
The Lisa Weber burlesque opera
troupe at the theater tonight in Ernsni.
Gentlemen of epieurean habits aud
spring tastes now call loudly for bacon
and greens.
Tomorrow night the city fathers will
INDULGE in asemi'monthly meeting at the
courthouse.
Colds, chills and diptheria are prevail.
ing in the city at present, owing to the
ehangeable weather.
Tweutysix persons died 10 this city
during last week, of which number IA
we're whites and IL blacks.
Sexton and Slossen, the billiardistic
champions, will give an exhibition at the
Peabody billiad rooms this evening.
Rev. Mr.. Thomas, of the German Luth
eran church, will lecture at the Bethel
tonight on "Sscial Life in Germany"
Those who reside in the suburbs of the
city complain that some unknown per.
sons are stealing their cattle and hogs.
The members Of the Deutschen Bruder
Bund celebrate their eighth stiftung
~festes' with a ball at Cochran Hall to
night.
At the Criminal Court to-day the mis-
demeanor and light felony list Of cases
as heretofore published, we're called fol
trial.
Centenuialites will remember that &C
cordiDg to DR.. Farr the probabilities o.
living to be 100 years old are 22S il
1000, 900.
To day ex.Alderman McCloy wal
sworn in add admitted as a member o.
the bar of the different courts Of record
ia this city.
W. @. Pitman and j. W. PitmGn vert
committed to Jail without bail by the re
corder this morning on the charge o
horse stealing.
Soldene and her lilies OF the valley
charmed the people Of St. Louis las
week, just as they did the men Of Mem
phis the week previous.
Some local critic obi acts to the use o
the word matinee for an afternoon thea
ter performance, and says it should prop
erly be called a Soiree.
To-day James Cronan, of Lake county
and W. D. Reedy, of Shelby county, OBJ
tanned their discharges in bankruptcy
before the United States Court.
The celebrated inquiry, "Amla vassa
or a peer?' made by Louisiana Wells, il
rendered by the Memphis river men a
follows: Am l a vessel or q pier2"
mi
The members Of the German Manner
Choir and their friends enjoyed a concer
last night at the hall of the association
on the corner of Second and Jefferson
The mortality Of Memphis per on,
thousand inhabitants, annually, for th,
month of January, according to the San
i%tarian for March, was 1906. ut is ratet
healthier than either New Orleans o
Nashville.
There is a bill before the legislature tt
repeal all taxes on marriage licenses. 1
was introduced by an unmarried mar
and if passed it will have the effect t,
greatly increase the number Of wedding
throughout the State.
Yesterday Ed Wilson, negro, brok,
into Mr.. Godwin's cotton Office, OF
Unoin street, for the purpose Of stealing
and was captured by patrolman Scott
The prisoner was sent to Jail withou
bail by the recorder to-day.
At the United States Court to-day mo
tons we're on hearing. Tomorrow the
cases Of Martin & Co. VS. several insur
ance companies will be called up fol-
bearing. Quite a large amount of money
is involved in the above cases.
Hundreds Of people took advantage o
the fine weather on yesterday and at.
tended churches, visited Elmwood Gem.
etery, and walked out on the bluff tc
watch the incoming packets and grow
sentimental while gazing at Nature over
in Arkansas.
When Aimee was in this city she had
a diminutive black and tan purp, and al
meals she kept the purp in her lap AND
fed it from the plate out of which she
picked her " dinner, and at the SAINT
time. Aimee was opposed to the repes'
Of the dog law.
Ia olden times the Lenten season wal
noted for the abstemiousress Of the OBJ
servers, but the saints and sinners of the
present generation are seldom hungry
provided they have the wherewith t.
purchase the necessaries as we'll as th,
little Injuries Of life.
The cool and murky weather is prob
ably the true cause why an increasin,
number of drunken men can be seen OF