Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-08
LEDGER LINES.


once again.
The days are rapidly growing longer
and the nights shorter.
Alabama is about to adopt the Ten
nessee famous dog law.
Memphis needs a house Of correction
foT bad and vicious boys and girls.
Up-ccuntry ice dealers say that the
snow is spelling the ice for next season.
The rapid melting of the snow makes
it uncomfortable and unpleasant ior pc.
dsstrisns.
II. Lemon, the enemy to smoky chin
neys, as the Avalanche calls him, does
not cure ours.
The Menus club masquerade ball at
Cochran Hall tomorrow night will be an
attractive social affair.
The Educational Board Of the city will
acct at the Odd Fellows Hall tonight
to transact regular business.
Street car passengers complain Of the
~roughness Of the tracks, and The fine ex.
e%rciss caused by humping aud other
rough usage.
Municipal election on Thursday next.
Candidates for Aldermen, Councilmeu
aud School Visitors are appearing in the
different wards.
The Court Square lquirrels, and the
English sparrows hat are ~nest.hiding
around town, are kept busy hunting
something to cot.
This is a week of prayer in Memphis
Daily afternoon prsyer-meetiugs will be
held at the Cumberland Presbyterian
church on Court street.
There are ten times as many bat.1ooms
as churches in Memphis, and the wor.
shippers at these shrines # BaccAus are
numbered by the thousands.
Mr.. Jos. Brooks, manager Of the Mem
pnis Theater, returned to the city yester-
day, after a flying visit to Louisville,
Detroit and other cities North.
A very general desire is felt aud ex.
pressed to have the ChicksSsw Guards
repeat the Romance of a Poor Young
Man at the theater next Friday night.
Piles Of ashes can be found in the
second and third stories of many large
buildings in the city. The ashes causes
many fires that are credited to the incen.
diaries.
judging from tho newspaper para
graphs Memphis has at least one hun.
dred Professors" much to the aston.
ishment Of the faculties of institutions
Of learning.
State Comptroller Gaines has issued
~Dinety-three warrants for the payment Of
the semi-annual s%pportioDment of the
State school money. Shelby county will
receive %, 7O9.4l of the fund.
The Cotton Exchange and the Cham
Der Of Commerce meet this afternoon
for the purpose of protesting against the
proposed repeal Of the ten per cent. in
tsrest law by the Legislature.
At the Criminal Court to-day motions
are on hearing with q view to winding
up the present term Of court. The next
term will on Monday next,
when a new grand jury will be impan.
el.d, etc.
Numerous complaints ore made about
the bal gas throughout the city. The
cause of the matter is water frozen In
the mains and pipes, but the "thaw"
will regulate the affair, as then the mains
can be pumped out.
Recorder Duff has received bis com.
mission as a justice Of the peacs for his
term Of Office from Governor Porter.
This will suthoriz, the Recorder to hear
and determine civil cases and to have s
seat in the County Court.
The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
recently decided 10 a case, wherein an
Israelite attempted to keep q store open
on Sunday, that "Israclites must be held
amensbls to the laws Of the State regu-
lating the observance Of the Sabbath"
Hundreds of people visited the bluff
yesterday aad gazsd at the river, the
snow on the Arkansas shore, the Arctic
scene of desolation in the far.off islands
above aud below the city, and the ice
foes as they sailed down toward the Gull.
There are numbers Of men out OF en-
ployment in this city. There are no soft
places in sight, and from the signs of the
times none will be offering this year; 60
pitch in aud do something toward earning
a living, EVENT. there is no large pro6tin
it.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the
National Bank of Terre Haute, Ind, and
also counterfeit five dollar bills on a
bank in an inland town ia Massachusetts,
are being showed or put 10 circulation
in this city at present. The bills are
new.
TIE chestnut vendors, in order to at
tract the attention Of people, have at
tached whistles - their chestnut %roAsters,