Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-27

lhe tramp says gimme q dimel
So does the street railroad monopoly,
but five cents are sufficient for sll honest
purposes.
Next Friday hight the Office Of Tene.
brea, or darkness, will be cbanted in a
solemn manner 10 the Catholic churches
Of the city.
Let our sleepy city officials enforce
the vagrant law vigorously, and then
burglaries and robberies will diminish
accordingly.
The Arkansas forests are putting on
their robes Of green rapidly; at least SO
they appear from the Memphis bluff,
waen you look at them through an opera
glass.
The following bankrupt petitions have
be,n fled with the clerk of the United
S ates Court: WIN F. Boyle, Of Shelby
county, and j. Z. Warner, Of Shelby
county.
The sodality Dramatic Association
will present Time and the Hour, at their
hall on Washington street next Monday
night, and for the benefit of st. Peters
choir association.
I've a Little Secret IN Ny Heart to
Tell You" is a beautiful new song and
chorus, published by h. G. Hollenberg,
the vel. known music dealer. Every
one should have a copy.
The lecture delivered at the Bsthcl
last night by Major Joe BArbiere on the
subject of Woman and the Centennial
Exposition, was well received, and was
Q ljoyed by the audience present.
Private parties given on board steam
boats in port are becoming popular. The
river men seem to be fond Of music and
d dancing, and many of them are terpsi-
chorean artists Of a high kicking order.
Ten years in the peniteutiary for horse
stealing is the penalty paid by G. W.
Wheeler at the Criminal Court on yester.
day afternoon. Loving your ~neigbbors'
horses is becoming a dangerous affection
in this vicinity,
Numbers of citizens are hanging on
the ragged edge of despair, because it
has not been officially announced who
will be the incumbents of the Federal
offices in this city, including the much
coveted postofice.
Governor Brown has reappointed Leon
Trousdale as superintendent Of public
instruction, j. B. Killebrew commits
sioner of the bureau Of agriculture, and
B. f. Cheatbam superintendent Of the
penitentiary or prisons,
The young men Of the period now dis
play their weakness for boutonnieres or
button-hole bouquets. AS they prone
male the streets the perfume Of the VIC.
lit and the fragrance of the rose gera.
mum ell the air around them.
The burglar and thief who robbed Tom
0'Sullivsn's saloon on Saturday night
has not as yet been arrested, unless it
was the negro Tom JOnes,w who burglarized
and robbed the store of Mcdonald &
Woodwork on Sunday night.
Lawrence Barrett and troupe will be
at the Memphis Theater sometime during
next month, and will PLAY a weeks en-.
gagement, during which be will appear
in Richelieu, Hamlet, Merchant of We.
nice, David Garrick, Money and Richard
III.
French society etiquette says that a
gentleman escortiug a lady into an eat
ing should invariably pass in at the
door first, without, however, letting go
her arm, by way of delicately insinuat
ing that she doesn't care much for eating
herself.
Two colored females catered a street.
car yesterday afternoon and refused to
pay more than FIVE cents fare. The driver
of the monopoly car threatened 10 eject
them, but they threatened a suit for
damages and dared him to do it. He
did cot do it.
The winter which invaded the lap Of
sprng Saturday and Sunday last has left
for the frozsA north, and nov we will
have pleasant weather for some time-at
least so say the local weather prophets
who have been studying the goose.bone
and the horns Of the moon.
A Jail escape occurred at Grenada,
Miss, a few nights since. Several
negroes who bad been arrested for
placing obstruotions on The railroad
track managed to secure liberty. 1t is
supposed that several of the criminals
are hiding away in this city.
1t is generally circulated around town
that superintendent Barrett, Of the street
car monopoly, says that he always advo.
Gated the reduction Of fare to five cents,
but that the president, F. s. Davis, and
the secretary aud treasurer, Dick Yre-
denburgbl bitterly opposed The PROPOSE.