Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-02
LEDGER LINES.


The General Council will hold a seance
at the Courthouse tomorrow night.
New Years calling was not INDUCED
in to any great extent on yesterday.
Several residences we're b~urglarized on
yesterday and last nightby sneak thieves.
Sneak-thieving continues to increase
to an alarming extent throughout the
city,
The argument of counsel in the Rees-
nOver-Ellis homicide case closed on yes
terdey.
The school-teachers of the Stats will
meet in convention at Nashville on the
18th inst.
John johnson, a negro larcenss and
gambler, was arrested this forenoon by
the police.
The ice gorge at Randolph is described
as being some four or FIVE miles in length
and quite solid.
Business throughout the city is un
usually dull, owing to the partial stop
page of navigation,
A fourth, hand sleigh and a tandem
team made their appearance Cd the
streets on yesterday.
The total number of deaths, which oc.
Cured in the city last week, was 24-or
whites IL and blacks IL.
The beaux made New Years calls on
the bellies yesterday. The calls we're
made in sleighs by the boys.
The oleigh-riderS and the horses are
about played out; the snow will follow
the same course in a day or two.
The railroad travel and general bust
ness have increased wonderfully since
the freezing of the rivers occurred.
Christmss-tree at the Linden street
Christian church Sundsy-school tonight
at 1880. All are cordially invited.
The Mississippi Legislature meets at
jackson to-day, aud the Tennessee Legis.
lature met at Nashville yesterday.
The Centennial year kicked the bucket
at IL o'clock last Sunday night and
travelled with leap year into the past.
The street railroad force was kept busy
all day yesterday in driving a snow.plow
over the tracks and breaking the way fer
the mule.boxes.
Sheriff NJ. j. Manning, of Austin,
Miss, who murdered james B. Harvey,
has been admitted to bail in the sum Of
ten thousand dollars.
Blessed is the man Who has his pave
meht brushed clear Of snow. The atten.
ton Of many has been called to it and
but few have answered until TO- day.
The courthouse nov presents its usual
business appearance, the judges. lawyers
and clerks having recovered from the
Christmas and New Years celebrations.
The theater will remain closed until
next Friday night, when the dramatic
men Of the Chickasaw Guards will pre-
sent the Romance OF a Poor Young
Man"
The snow is no longer beautiful, it
having assumed a pepper and salt com
p%lexion not we'll calculated to inspire tAe
mind Of the romantic poet or the unro.
mantle citizen.
The United States Circuit and District
Courts will be opened By Judge Trigg
tomorrow morning. The peremptory
call of the dookets will not take place
until next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss, who we're here in
the White aud Bliss religious movement
and whose fine singing created so much
attention, were killed in the Ashtabula,
Ohio, railroad accident.
A w~ell-known local philosopher says
that it may be counted as one Of the curl
Gus things of life, that people who need
presents most get the least, aud those
who ntej them least get the most.
A lot OF coal in a cellar on Bsal street,
near Caussy, took ERE yesterday morn.
ing and created considerable confusion
in the ueighborhood. The fre boys ex-
tinguisbed the fire in a few minutes.
Last Saturday, owing to the snow, a
couple OF cars ran of the track on the
Psducah railroad, and yesterday the 10.
connective Of the incoming train was
ditched some miles north Of ths city.
The toWbo,t ARK" cleaned the ice
from the landing on Sunday last. The
powerful machinery drove The boat
through the ice f,ldi and released the
boats that weye frozen in hari and fast.
The black people ere no; enlistipg
rapidly at the Second street re cruting
statioR for the Tenth cavalry. Thirteen
dollars per month and ratieas is not con-
sid &c frstclass pay by the average