Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-02
LEDGER LINES.

a new postotice has been established
in this county at Pea Point.
The Easter services at the different
churches On yesterday were largely at.
tended.
TheSouthern Dental Association will
meet at Montgomery, Alabama, on the
10th instant.
At the Criminal Court to-day Moses
Johns was on trial on the charge Of steal
ing a ~pocket.book.
The Shelby County Court and the
Chancery Court opened up their April
terms this forenoon.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
chamber Of commerce takes place at 4
o'clock this afternoon.
John E. Ovens and troupe left the
city last night for Nashville, where they
will appear tonight in Our Boys
The Chancery Court was opened up
for the April term this morning and an
adjournment wal had over to Monday
next.
Coles circus is csmped on the bluff to-
day. Performance will be given each
afternoon and night Of to-day and to,
morrow.
Albert Williams, a negro wife whipper,
was arrested by patrolman Uuverzsgt to.
dey and was locked up TO answer the
charge.
Miss Mary Anderson is swinging down
upon US from Kentucky. This week she
will appear as Juliet" to the people o.
GAINESVILLE.
This evening the Sodality Dramatic
s1ciety will present q drama entitled
Time and the Hour" at their Wash
ington street hall.
The showers on yesterday blighted tn,
hopes of the lovers of the gaue.of base
ball, the ground being too wet and mudd,
for the ball-tossers.
An immense amount Of good s%anitar,
work was performed by the rains Satur
day night in the way of cleansing tn
streets and alleys.
Quite an exodus Of negroes is takin
place in Middle Tennessee for Kansas
where an emigration Moues secures 70
them cheap lands.
Last Saturday afternoon a little whit
boy named Madden while jumping o
and on q street.car on Main street, nea
Jackson, fell and broke his leg.
Bishop Quintard will preach in Grac
church to night at s o'clock, and admir-
lister the apostolic rite of confirmation
Seats free. The public are invited.
The average M%empbisn calls it mo,
raligy instead of neuralgia" a disea;
which, owing to the changeable weathe
is worrying q number of people F.,
present.
Scores Of lawyers left last night f
Jackson, Tenn, to attend the meeting
of the Supreme and Arbitration Court
S now session at that burg for the di
trict of West Tennessee.
= March retired in q storm OF indigni
ton on Saturday night. and tickle Apr
, has taken its place. The rains, howeve
are a blessing to those who have be
empty %cisterns for some time.
The religious zeslot and the gloom
, a%scetic, new that Lent is over and gon
can dispense with that rigorous sslt-d
NAL as to the good things of this cart
and can laugh and make merry as
yOre.
Under the last legislative act a leg
fence in this State shall be Eve feet hig.
=. il a common worm or a crooked raj
and four feet high, if a post and plar
: or a post and rail fence. A stoue feuc
to be legal, shall be three and one ha
feet high.
Owing to the rain. showers on yestt
day many a lady who had purchased
Easter bonnet failed to appear at churc
= The bonnet had to go or else the lac
would stay ct home, and the pattern
rain settled the matter in favor Of hom
sweet home.
Quite a number Of practical jok
we're played of yesterday. the first
April. In consequence Of q mott
"a which appeared in the Appeal of yest'
, day morning, as to the expected arriv
:, Of agovernmeut steam sloop OF the Ian
\ ing, numbers Of people visited the BIZ
and gAzed anxiOusly adown the river
: catch a glimpse Of the strange craft.
,r The site Of the Garden OF Eden
,e believed to be Erzoum. in Asia. CAPITA
Barnaby, q traveller, writes from there
q date February Sth, and says: ST
thermometer is about zero" This settl
ID the fg.ieaf question, and goes far
70 prove that Adam and Eve we're elothe
II unless, indeed, there has been a chaaI
Or of climate at Erzoum since the creatio
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