Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-03
LEDGER LINES.

The poor people are more impecunious
than usual.
Dressed turkeys and rabbits Of Victor
D. Fuchs to-day.
In these snswy days a quail on toast
is worth two in the bush.
The General Council will assemble at
the Courthouse tonight.
The telegraphic wires we're eucased in
ice one inch thick this morning.
Nearly n hundred dodgers sous hit
shelter at the station.house last night.
The wicked, as well as the good, con.
tinue to salute the earth in slippery
places.
Misdemsanor aud light felony cases
are on hearing before The Criminal Court
to day.
The School Teachers Convention at
Nashville will not be held until the 18th
instant.
AT the County Court to-day the Magis-
trstes were engaged in passing OF &C.
counts, etc.
The river was frozen over at this point
early this morning, the first time Tor ever
thirty years.
old Probs" promises clearer and
warmer weather, with southerly winds of
a cold character.
A nan who was arrested for wife. beat
ing by the police yesterday claimed to
be a "home-ruler."
Next Tuesday we will fad out who will
be our next United States Senators for
the next few years.
Those who swore off on New Years
day are taking medicinal drinks, pre-
scribed by some NJ. D.
Overshoes of all kinds are in brisk
demand. They may be quoted as brisk,
with an upward tendency.
The station house authorities could
furnish a regiment Of tramps to the
United States Army every week.
Everybody wants to witness the Chick
asaws in the Romance Of a Poor Young
Man 1.-THE theater next Friday night.
Street a r slide all over the streets,
regardless of the fact that iron rails exist
somewhere beneath the beautiful suow
Sleigh riders are taking in the last Of
the snow. They work at it with an in
dustry worthy Of a greater and better
cause. =
A gentleman who was born exactly al
the stroke of twelve, many years ago,
claims that yesterday and to-day are his
birthdays.
A squad of sixteen negroes left this
morning for the Rio Graude to join the
Eighteenth cavalry. The negroes were
enlisted in this city by the recruiting
officers.
AT the Recorders Court this morning
Joe Johnson, negro lsrcenist and gam
bier, was mmitted to jail, as wa also
CaroliHa Styles, negroes, on the charge
Of lunacy.
Since the cold weather set in a politi
cal conspiracy, With a view to dethrone
the Bourbon, has cropped out, but the
conspirators generally wind up in thu
station-house.
1t is a singular fact that many Of the
ladies appear &c 30 le~ft-handed, but an
old bachelor insists that the phenomenon
was all right; that it was only a left
handed way of displaying jewelry.
The heavy frost and ice which ap
peared on everything this morning in
the suburbs presented a charming sight.
1t looked as if the trees were covered
with diamonds and Other precious stones.
The Bethel lecture by Major 10 Bar
biere has been postponed on account Of
the ipclement weather. Major Bsrbiere
leaves for Nashville to-day to enter upon
his canvass for the office of Secretary OF
State.
1t is said that in the old rookery known
as the Gayoso House, which is now and
has been filled with hundreds OF poor
people, great destitution prevails. The
building is in a very filthy condition, and
is the laFgsst tenement house in the city
1t may be stated as a fact that Arkan.
sas has more 'possums than she knows
what to do with, and yet she don't grow
many gum trees either. The Memphis
markets have been well furnished with
'posspps from our sister republic during
the holidays.
Those who profess to be acquainted
With such statistics insist that the So
looms of the city reaped a smaller bar
vest durint the past holiday season than
in any other Aince the war. But little
inebriety prevailed among the better
class Of the community.
A dispatch wa, received here to-day
from Gairo, to tho effect that the ferry
crossing yer the Ohio Of the Illinois
Central aud Mississippi Central rail
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