Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-21
LEDGER LINES.
More frost and ice this morning.


They are still sending Valentines
throughout the city.
The general council will meet again
on next Tuesday night.
1t is about time to start out the street
%sprinkling machines again.
The Minstrels will appear again at the
Memphis Theater tonight.
Base ball will be inAugurated again
early next month at Central Park.
M~isdemeanor and light felony cases
are on trial at the Criminal Court to-day.
The call o! the distric: court docket is
still progressing in the United States
Court.
One week from Monday next will be
Presidential inauguration day at Wash
ipgton.
The singing of birds and the cooling of
doves are heard everywhere. The birds
are the harbingers of spriag.
But six arrests were made by the po-
lice yesterday and last night, and these
were for light misdemeanors.
The steam fire engine at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, throws hot water on fires; no
cold water is to be found in that village.
The ordinance prohibiting the driving
Of mules and cattle through the ST. eets
is not enforced. It should be enforced,
however.
Miss Mollie Murphy (colored) was az
rested by the police this morning on the
charge of stealing clothing from a col
ored ~neigtbor.
One of the camels belonging to Coles
menagerie, which Is wintering near this
city, gave birth to a young representa-.
tive on yesterday.
Throughout the country the plowman
homeward plods his weary way and a
general hunt after farming implements
and garden seeds is taking place.
Pocketbook snatchers continue to rob
ladies who indulge in the ridiculous
habit Of carrying a pocketbook in their
hands or by a chain attached to the wrist.
The present cool and somewhat blust !
weather is a forecast of March. A vast
amount Of real estate was floating around
on the wings of the wind during the pas
few days.
Since the movement to abolish the city
charter was inaugurated the city author,
tiles find it almost impossible to procure
supplies 70: the hospital or other pur
poses on a credit
At Cleveland, Ohio, on yesterday q
the meeting of the grand lodge of tht
Iron Tie" a Jewish secret organization
Mr.. Martin Cohen, of this city, wa
|: elected grand president,
Those who witnessed Aimee at tn,
theater q few weeks since will be aston
ished to learn hat the little French
b%Oufist locks up her diamonds ant
wears paste on tie stage.
Mr.. Ben Bingham last night resigne,
his position as councilman of the SixtI
: ward. The council elected Mr.. Marcu
Jones to ELL the vacancy. Mr.. Bingham
resignation was caused by ill.health.
A new Silsby rotary steam FIRE en-
> CINE passed through the city yesterda.
en- route for Pine Bluff, Arkansas, tn,
/. citizens Of that burg having concluded
to provide as against cOnAagrations.
, AT the general council meeting las
night a resolution offered by Alderman
Cochran, protesting against the repeal o
. the city charter and indorsiug the bill
introduced into the legislature by Sena
tor Henry q. Smith, which provides fol
a compromise Of the city debt, wal
adopted unanin ously.
Tennessee has an interest in tn,
memory Of Sam Houston, of Texas, AT
Austin paper gives the information tina.
, at an auction house in that burg can b.
found the chair in which the old mar
used to sit, and in it made memoranda
while members of the legislature or con.
venlions discussed measures OF the re
l public aud later Of the State.