Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-27
LEDGER LINES.

their appearance nightly.
Nothing Of public importance was
transpiring at the Criminal Court to-day.
Tomorrow, the 2Sth inst, will be the
last day Of the month, and then comes
March.
There was a total eclipse Of the moon
to day, but it was invisible 10 the United
States.
Main street is two and a half miles
long from end to end, or from Pinch to
Fort Pickering.
VIM Foster, negro %larcenist, was sent
to Jail by the recorder to-day on the
charge of larceny.
The educational board will have a
meeting to morrow night at the Odd
Fellows building.
Next Monday night Captain ]. Harvey
Mathes will lecture at the Bethel on the
subject OF the Jewish race
The police authorities have com
menced arresting suspicious looking
characters who iufest our city.
Memphis has sixiy-four miles Of streets,
forty miles Of alleys and ten miles Of
stone and wooden pavement.
The city sukptchina will meet tonight
at the courthouse, and will attend to city
affairs from q legislative position.
The Jewish festival Of Purim began
last evening and is being duly celebrated
by the people of that denomination.
Probably on Sunday next the Memphis
Reds aud the St. Louis Browns will opeu
the base ball season at Central Park.
The cases of Martin & Co. against
several insurance companies are on hear.
ing in the United States District Court
to day,
Rev. Mr.. Fish, the Chicago revivaligi
and religious vocalist, attracts crowds
daily and nightly to the Central Baptist
church.
The police docket this morning con.
timed the names Of several persons ar,
rested fer dong business without q
license.
The police and fire commissioned vii
hold "a meeting this afternoon Tor til,
purpose Of looking into the condition q
both departments.
The Lisa Weber burlesque opera troupe
will give a second performance at tb,
theaier tonight, presenting a farce, t
be followed by Ernani.
The we'll known FurDish Fifth Avenut
combination troupe passed up on board
the steamer Charles Morgan last night
en- route for Cincinnati.
Memphis has fifteen miles of what il
politely but ironically called street rail
road, over which thirty five old mule
boxes jolt passengers at d dime a head.
Going to church by moonlight is tn,
pleasant pastime Of young M~emphianI
at present. The other pleasant pastim,
is walking home from church by star
light.
Eighteen miles of water mains supply
Memphians with the means OF washinr
themselves and INDUCING in libatiOns
In the latter case it is usual for them to
take the water mixed.
Preparations are making Throughout,
the city for numberless balls, partio
amateur dramatic entertainments, con
certs, etc, which will come off wher
Lent is over and Easter arrives.
1t ia net true ~politeness when you are
with a lady in a street car or at church
to rise and give your seat to another
lady, 1t may be politeness toward one,
out it is the very opposite as to the other.
Memphis eggs now make happy the
New York people at the rate of ~sixteoa
cents per dozen wholesale. Southern
hen fruit is lin demand in Gotham, the
late severe winter having induced the
Northern hens to retire from the contest.
Very much to the regret OF many, the
interesting newspaper controversy over
the alleged blOsphemy Of Rex Carnival
suddenly subsidized aud ceased. Probably
the armies have only fallen back to Sc.
cure ammunition from libraries and al.
lies for the general engagement.
The Central Baptist church on Second
street was burglarized a few nights since
but the thief found nothing that be
desired to carry away. Probably when
he got into the church his conscience
smote him and be changed his mind frou
evil to good. This is a charitable sup
position but nota very reasonable one
When our Criminal Court Judge sen
fences a prisoner to the peniteutiary i
is usual for him to add, THE sentence
of the court is that you be rendered in
famous and incapable of voting or hold
ing ofice either of trust or profit durlnG
the period Of your natural life" Scores 0
negroes are in this manner disfranchised
but yet when they get u they vote u
usual Notwithstanding the judicial ulti
matum.
Last night at the Bethel Rev. Mr..
Thomas delivered an interesting lecture