Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-17
LEDGER LINES.


Justices of the peace complain that
legal business is feariully dull at present.
Quite a large amount of petty stealing !
of cotton is going on throughout the
city.
At the theater matinee to-day Poulet
and Poulette will be the musical attrsc-
ton.
Chilperic, with the kicking solo in
cluded, will be presented by the SOldene
troupe tonight.
Next Monday night Captain I. B.
Edgington will deliver a lecture at the
Memphis Bethel.
Mr.. Geo. F. Markham is happy. 1t is
a boy and named after its grandfather,
Colonel j. 7, Petit.
Simmons & Slocum's minstrel troupe
at the theater next Monday night and
each night during next week.
Nineteen GEOGRAPHICALLY druuks and
disorderlies, were disposed Of by fines at
the recorders matinee to-day.
The petition in bankruptcy of ClAi.
borne McCuller, Of McNairy cou uty, has
been filed in the United States District
Court.
"You didn't know me at the Exposition
building2" and Tell me what you
woreH' are still prominent questions in
social circles.
Since the carnival closed, and since
J the big crowd left the city, business has
fallen back into iA old channel, and all
is quiet once again.
R. Il, Spangler, news dealer, 376 Main
street, has a good supply of late illus
trated weeklies, d%ailies, magazines, etc
for Sunday reading.
Farris Whitesides, negro. was arrestei
. this morning BY patrolman MCFARLAND
4 on the charge Of stealing clothing OIL
Jefferson street last night.
The faces Of dogs wear a Hcre cheer
full appearance now that the dog law ha
been repealed. They can now whispe
to each other, "Revenons a o mou
tons"
In religious circles that observe tb
, Lenten rules all the faithful who hav
completed their twenty.irst year, unles
> legitimately dispensed, are bound to Of
az serve the regulations.
: The bulldozers can beat us in Wash
~ ington by a vote of eight to seven, but !
our copmon council, and in conteste
election cases, we beat the bulldozers b
a vote Of eight to three.
!. The Criminal Court grand jury wer
down to the Presidents Island workhous
to-day on q voyage of inspection
g with q view to reporting as to the col
dition, ETC., of the same.
The Memphis oustom.house bill ha
g passed both the house Of representative
and the senate at Washington. Now fc
the appropriation and the commences
ES. ment Of work on the bluff site.
Free sciopticon exhibition to.nigl
,.s BY Simmons& Slocum's Minstrels, at Il
southwest corner Of Court Square al
Main. Next week this splendid cont
HH nation appears at the theater.
- William Walsh and Peter Hardin
negroes charged with larceny, were ea'
bouLd over in the sum of $1,000 th
morning by the recorder, and in defar
of giving bonds we're committed to ia
~ A. F. Seymour, the chap who, wi
L his brother, stole two horses from BraC
ett's livery stable, was sentenced to ser
ten years in the penitentiary by I
Criminal Court jury yesterday afternoc
Louisiana having been given to c
Hayes by a vote Of eight to seven, I
hopes Of Democrats who hungered Of
the government offices in Memphis ha
n faded away like a mirage Of the desc
In the United States Circuit Court
. day, in the case OF Eiseman VS.. Judah
al, a contest over a policy Of life ms
!, ance, Judge Trigg rendered al opiui
AND granting to defendants two.6fths Of
wnod s
lam insurance.
Notwithstanding the predictions
ST. the weather prophets no rain has fol
r for several days, aud from appearan
~. at present the STORM has blown over
we will have another spell of w'
spring weather.
ON Somebody has been sending the cou
coroner a Valentine in which it is dar
; limited that a crime has been peFpetrs
o and a body buried, which latter
should have exhumed and examineI
the post morteH style:
W. The hackpen rsaped a rich hsrves.
Mardt Gras night from those who ha
az attend the Memph ball at the thea
-. From fifteen to twenty-five dollars
,eann hack vas demanded and received,
yithstsHdiRg the back fare oFdiRsaG
The mayor is paying the police
FIRST Gremsn forty per cent on the dolO
SGT 1.-The wages due them up 10 Jauua