Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-03

Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine for
May, at ~Spangler's, 376 Main street.
Now that Lent is over the fish market
is not so we'll patrc nizsd as heretofore.
Oysters are going out Of fashion at
present, now that the warm weather has
appeared.
The Memphis Maennoechor gave an
interesting entertainment at the hall Of
the society last evening.
Those who pay the bulldozing street.
car monopoly . fare Of ten cents permit
themselves to be swlndlsd.
The north end Of Memphis is inha5
tied by our Irish fellow.citiz and the
south end by the Germans.
Mr.. w. ] Ross has retired from the
position Of superintendent Of the Mem.
phis and Charleston railroad.
The street car lawyers aud j~urists
now make arguments through newspa.
pers instead CT before jurieG.
Ere long we will have a mammoth
brewery in our city, which will furnish
lager to the thirsty multitude.
A true bill of indictment charging
murder was found by the grand jury
yesterday against Levin H. Coe.
Fashionable and questionable mar
riagei are now in order, the Lenten sea.
son of fasting and praying being over.
Captain ]. Harvey Mathes left for
Nashville last evening to attend a meet.
ing Of the Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Honor.
Just received at the LEDGER Office a
lot of the heaviest and finest linen letter
and note paper in the city. Call and
see samples and prices.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
met last night and presented before a
large audience a dramatic entertainment
entitled Time and the Hour.
The street car monopoly, taking tho
hint from the famous eight to seven com
mission, inaugurated an eight to nothing
legal opinion against the public.
Street-begging by professionals is one
of the street n~uisances of Memphis
The police should enforce the ordinance
and run il" the vagrsnt beggars.
B%ulldozing street.car drivers intend tc
drive their cars of the track in order to
annoy aud swindle passengers who insist
on paying the legal fare, five cents.
Tho County Quarterly Court TO day
was engaged in dispensing of regular
business, such as acting on accounts
and questions of roads, bridges, etc.
W~ife-whipping appears as a common
charge on the stat~ion-house docket. Th,
charge Of husband-whipping has neyer
yet been written down upon that record
book.
At the Criminal Court to-day the ju-y
in the case of the State VS.. Moses Johns
indictment Tor larceny, acquitted tn
defendant Of the charge brought agains
him.
" is generally remarked that the LED
GER is the only Memphis paper on tn,
side of the public against the street.car
aristocratic monopoly, composed Of tire.
capitalists.
10 tho Coe.Bsach homicide case a me
ton to fix the bail Of the defendant
Levin H. Coe, will be argued in thI
: Criminal Court this aftersoon befor.
Judge LogwoOd.
|, A ttreet-car driver and thug who al
tempted to car.hook a passenger thi
i, forenoon on Poplar street skunk back (,
his seat on the presentation Of a pisto
at the hands Of the outraged passen ger
| Instead Of ordering the poor and ae
pendent drivers to eject passengers from
1 the street cars, the corporation, com
S posed Of Messrs. Davis, Vredeuburg anc
Barrett, should do the ejecting worl
e themselves.
/, CougrssSman Casey Young says tia
he was assured upon leaving Washing
ton that the supervising architect will b
d in the city to commence work on tn
custom.house during the present month
al obstacles being removed.
The act Of the legislature raising tn,
street-car fare from Eve to ten cents wa
constitutional, Of course, but the act o
the legislature placing the fare back a
FIVE cents was not, you know. At leas
so think the three msp who own til
I monopoly.
United States Marshal Mike Waldran
called by his Irish friends big Mike,
has gone to Knoxville to ssbmit his of
pisl bond to inspection of Judge Trigg o
the United States Court. When be re
turns he will take charge Of the MARSHAL
ship Tor the district Of West Tennessee
The County Court is the only place o
judicial authority in WHICH a citizen i
permitted to do as he pIeases, Ths me
gistrates from the rural districts smskI
their COB pipes during the session Of th
court, an tct which, If committed ia an.