Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-15
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rreparstlohs sun 20 on Tor marai'
Gras.
All the courts Of record are in session
once again.
The river is clear of floating ice and
ice gorges once again.
Motions are on hearing to day at the
United States Court before Judge Trigg.
The continuous and heavy rains which
fell yesterday and last night have dis.
posed of the ice and snow.
The cold spell played sad havoc with
stores of potatoes and eggs. Scores Of
barrels Of the above were frozen
Among those spoken of for the chair
nauship Of the school board are Messrs.
RhsLt, Edgington and Robbins.
At the thestsr tonight the Wallace
Sisters, supported by a dramatic com.
pany, will appear in Minnie's Luck.
1t is damp, dark and gloomy weather
at present, or fine weather for suiciding,
for so it would be regarded in France.
Dressed turkeys, rabbits. venison
hams, squirrels, quails, prairie chickens,
very low at Victor Fuchs, Al Jefferson.
But twenty-five deaths occurred in
the city during the past week, and of
these eleven were white and fourteen
black.
There will be a matinee at the theater
Wednesday next, on which occasion the
Wallace Sisters will repeat Minnie S
Luck.
The reason why Jack Walsh and 9th.
ers were beaten at the polls on Thursday
last was because he and they did not
get votes enough.
The heavy rains to-day succeeded in
washing away the piles OF mud and
cakes of dirty ice which lay on the
streets and alleys.
A new map Of Memphis will soon be
published, and it will contain all the
necessary corrections and the usual topo.
graphical information.
At the Recorders Court this morning
Cook Walker and Alf Berton, negroes,
charged with larceny, we're committed to
JAIL 10 default Of bail.
Next Thursday night, at the theatsr,
the m~usic-loving Memphiana will have a
chance to witness Chilperic, as per.
formed by the Soldene troupe.
The January terms Of the Criminal
and Circuit courts commenced to-day.
The grand and petit juries were i'm
p%aneled in the Criminal Court.
The lecture at The Bethel on Ger
many and the Germans by D. S. Ross,
Esq, has been postponed on account Of
the %iOclemency Of the weather.
The general council will meet for the
last time tomorrow night. The new
general council will then be sworn in
and will go to work for one year.
Thursday next at the Criminal Court
the argument Of counsel on a motion for
a new trial will be heard by Judge Log.
wood in the Reesnover-E Ellis murder case.
Captain Bob Williamson will most
probably be reelected chairman Of the
common council, and John Zent viii
probably be re.elected chairman Of the
board Of aldermen.
Big ice-bsrgs, sn~ow-capped and rising
from ten to fifteen feet out of the water,
aoated past the city last night and this
morning. The floating bergs came from
the broken gorge at Fort Pillow.
The towns of West Tennessee and
North Mississippi are now infested by
tramps and thieves, and the c%iiizens of
such places are complaining loudly about
the robbsries committed almost nightly
The man who leaves his sidewalk gate
open at night, so that his ueighbor can
run against it 10 the darkness. ia no
friend TO Christianity, because the act is
productive Of a large amount of pro-
family.
Never was there so much sneak.thiev-
ing in Memphis as at present. This can
reasonably be accounted for by the mum.
Der Of tramps in the city, the number
Of people who are unemployed and the
cold and bad winter.
AZ Nashville legislators are introduc-
ing bills 10 cut dowR the fat salaries OF
State and couaty officers. It looks as if
in the present legislature, as was in the
last, the pruning knife Of retrenchmeut
will be welded vigorously and effectively
Amateur theatricals are beginning to
become popular and to be appreciated in
Memphis. ia New York, Boston and
other Northern cities the amateur clubs
are regularly organized and their enter
tainmeRts are very popular With tbs
public.
Attic Chancery Court Fannie Adams
has filed a bill for divorce against John
Quincy Adams. The parties with SO
respectable and historical q nam are
black people. The grounds for the peti.
ton for divorce gre abandonment, cruel
treatment, etc.
This il the season of the arrival of