Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-13
LEDGER LINES.

The city fathers will meet in solemn
session at the courthouse tonight.
Pneumonia seems to prevail at present
in this city aRd surrounding country.
The Legislature will adjourn sine die
on the 26th instant-next Monday week.
Nothing of Importance trapspired in
the Criminal or Chancery courts to-day.
: Whitewashing and gsrden.mAking are
beirg INDUCED in largely in the city and
suburbs.
The Brownsville Bee says that peaches
are not killed on the south side Of
Hatchie river.
Now that spring is approaching sani-
tary measures and regulations should
net be forgotten.
The Supreme Court for the district Of
West Tennessee will meet at Jackson on
the first Monday in April next.
Rabbi Samfeld's lecture at the Mem
phis Bethel on Shylock has been post.
poned until next Monday night.
President Hayes gets $96l "a q week
salary. So says a Memphis arithmeti.
clan who has been figuring in the matter.
AT the theater tonight Professor and
Madame Philippe will give a novelty
entertainment and will distribute pres.
ents among the audience.
The New York journals Of Saturday
morning appeared at the LEDGER edito-
rial rooms this morning, through the po-
likeness Of the Southern Express officials
at this point.
John Z. Owens and Lawrence Barrett
have been engaged to appear at the
Memphis Theater during the present
season, the former on the 26th inst, and
tn latter in April.
Gather Shells from the Sea Shore"
a new song and chorus by Will l..
Thompson. Published by W. L. Thomp.
son d Co., East Liverpool, Ohio. For
sale by all music dealers.
Should the receiver bill" be passed By
the Legislature the question is, who is
to be the receiver and who his two co.
commissioners to govern the city, and
what compensation are they to receiver
1t is now said on change, by way of a
Ike, that the cotton men who attended
the semi.political meeting held on last
Saturday and voted to indorse Hayes
and Key, we're "speculating in political
futures"
1t is asserted that the success Of the
Semi.political nesting held at the cotton
exchange on Saturday last is due almost
exclusively to the energetic efforts of
Mr.. Thompson, Of the Avalanche, and
the secretary oil the exchange.
The secretary of the cotton exchange
should daily put on the black-boards the
grade aud quotations Of the Republican
party now headed by President Hayes;
for instance, low niddling, or dcgtail,
8 to taken only by spectators.
Theodore Tilton has been lecturing on
the "Problemn Of Life" in Arkansas
and Middle and East Tennessee, but he
gave Memphis the "gO.by," probably
thinking that the subject was not sufi
GENTLY interesting for the people o.
Memphis.
A new design of a postal card is to b:
issued, one which will make il impossi.
BILE for persons 10 write more than the
address on the proper side. Many people
still persist in writing the message, ad
dress and signature on the same side
With the stamp.
1t may be interesting information t.
many to learn that President Hayes il
55 years OF age, and Vice PresidenI
, Wheeler, 81; VIM. NJ. Evarts, So; Johr
Sherman, ST. Carl Schurz, As; Georg,
W, McCrary, AZ; Richard W. Thompson
6S; Charles Devins, 81; D. M, Key, "a
+ Yesterday tho coroner held an inquest
90 Bette Doyle, a house servant wht
d had committed suicide BY taking laud
D anum, at the residence of Mr.. Brook,
t Peasants, on the corner OF Elliott anC
a Avery streets. The cauue Of the suicid,
r was unrequited love and being weary o
D life.
4 A numsrously signed petition was sen.
. up to the legislature on yesterday pray
ing for the passage Of a law making The
playing of baseball on Sundays a misde
neanor, punishable by fine not les:
than FIVE nor more than fifty dollars and
imprisonment in the county jail for mol
4, less than ten nor more than thirty days
ets
Numbers of Radicals aud Republican,
1 land it is asserted there is a difference OIL
meaning In the words have left Memphis
and have gon: to Washington to see
father Rutherford about the gover.menI
d offices ~hereabOuts. Those who have no
left for Washington City as yet are Q;ns
2 Ing
I we'ro coming. Father Rutherford,
About two hundred strong"
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