Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-29
LEDGER LINES.

certainty has greatly stimulated thieviug
in Memphis.
The Memphis Theater will be reopened
on next Thursday hight. when Mrs.
ChanfIau will appear 10 a society drama.
The cheapest and most elegant hats in
the city a be found at Leidy 4 Co.'S,
on Main street, opposite Court Square.
Several attempts to burglsrizs and rob
dwellings have been made on Shelby and
adjoining streets during the past few
nights.
Numbers Of citizens of other States
have ~telegraphed and written here to
secure quarters during the Mardi-Gras
C arrival.
Yesterday apd to-day we're spring days.
A few more such days and the grass will
be appearing aud the aowers will be
blooming as Of yore.
Tonight a lecture will be delivered at
the Bethel on the Romantic aud the
Resl" by Rev. Mr.. Parsons, rector Of ST..
Lazarus (~EpiscOpal) church.
The California papers are warning peo-
pie Of the Eastern and Southern States
from coming to that State, as every
avenue Of employment is over.erowded.
The proposed repeal of the dog law
reminds the classical scholar Of the
lines,
Thus runs the world away"
The board of health mortuary report
for the past week shows the total number
Of deaths to have been tw~enty-nine, Of
which thirteen were whites aud sixteen
blacks.
Counterfeit fifty cent and other frae
tiousl currency notes are extensively
circulated throughout the city at present.
Our readers should be careful to guard
against being victimized.
A very large snake, about three feet in
length and four inches in diameter, was
seen crawling on the sidewalk on Main
near the corner Of Linden street last
evening 1t escaped into an adjoining
LOT,
The Christian church on Linden street
was densely crowded last night, and hun.
dreds had GO to away, being unable to gain
admittance and hear the preaching and
singing Of the Chicago evangelist, Elder
Shaw.
An exchange says Bishop Charles 7.
Qiintard, DID L LID has accepted the
call to the rectorship Of the Church oil
the Advent at Nashville, and will assume
charge Of that parish in the early part OF
February.
Our Legislators have returned to their
homes to bask in the sunshine of domes
tic happiness and converse with theil
constituents as to their past and future
course, the legislature having adjourned
until to-day week. the 9th Of February
II is rumored that the wild and tamt
animals of the m~enagerie and circu.
now winteriug here will be used in tn,
great Mardi.Gras pageant al night to ait
in illustrating some Eastern tale which
has been selected as the theme to be pre-
scented.
The remains Of the late Sheriff Martin
j.. Manning, of Tunica county, Miss.
were inferred on Saturday last at tn.
Catholic cemetery zeal this city, anC
wsre not sent to New Jersey for inter
ment as had been intended, aud as be
desired ere he died.
Tennessee has 3l56 schooLhouses anC
a scholastic population Of 434,l 3l; tbs
total number Of enrolled school children
being only 1874, 1870. From the scholastic
population must of course be deducted
the number of children taught at private
institutions or schools.
To day is motion day in the United
States Court. The case of Calhoun VS.
the Paducah railroad is on hearing Thu
case on trial Saturday, the United States
vs. Tom Drury, indictment for passing
counterfeit money in Carroll county. viii
be again taken up to morrow,
Hundreds of children played and
frolicked with each other and the SOUR
rels in Court Square yesterday. The
bright sunshine and the spring : like
weather induced hundreds of people tc
visit the beautiful little park and admire
he falling waters of the fountain.
Tom Paine (colored) was fined five
dollars by the Recorder on Saturday fol
beating his neighbours dusky son. Ton
should have recollected all the insessayI
he wrote in the days Of l776 advocating
the rights Of man and human liberty anC
against the oppression Of the weak b!
the strong. .
Robert Drury, the murderer of BIZ
uncle, Albert Gibson, is % years of age
5 feet s inches in hight, weighs about IA
: pounds, has brown hair and a mustacht
much lighter than his hair. His face i
, oval in shape and presents a "dished'
appearance. He was dressed in g dArl
; stripped suit of clothing.
; A white wiie-wbipper was arrested las
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