Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-01
LEDGER LINES.

Aho e"oet "atDle OF Tue Dlue-Dird Is
heard in the land.
Glass and queensware at reduced
prices at G. N. Erich's.
]. W. Vance, surgeon; office s46 Main
street, residence 254 DeSoto street.
The concert at the Memphis Club
Hall tonight commences at 8 o'clock.
The streets are thrOnged with visitors,
who have come to witness Mardi-Gras
Churches receive considerable revenue
from Mardi.Gr lunch establishments.
Thomas Dick, of Marshall county,
Miss killed Isom Harcock last Wednes.
day.
The weather for Monday and Tuesday
is the prophetic subject among our citi.
zsns.
workmen are actively engaged III
erecting Mardi Gras stands on Main
strest.
The attention of our readers is called
to the Mardi, Gras order of the chief Of
police.
Beginning next Monday the market
hours will be from four to ten o%'clocl; in
the morning.
Oatmeal, cracked wheat, Graham -four
chocolate, cocoa shells, cocoa, broma, a
Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S. T..
Grand vocal concert tonight at the
Memphis Club Hall, The best singers
Of Memphis viii be there.
Elegant Offices aud sleeping rooms fol
rent in the Planters Insurance building,
80 and Al Madison street.
The marvellous splendor of the Mem.
phi pageant Tuesday night will far sur
pass anything in way Of display ever
made in America.
Memphis Degree Lodge No 3, L00F.,
meets tomorrow night at 0dd.Fellows
Hall. Visiting brothers are very cor.
daily invited to attead.
James Wilson, the colored man who
was arrested on suspicion of horse steal
iug, tried to escape last night from the
Adams street station.house.
Rosedale will be played at the Barrett
matinee tomorrow afternoon. Ricbelier
will be presented tomorrow night, which
closes Nj. Barretts engagement.
House and clearinghouse keeper
will do we'll to call on G.. n. Erich be
fore buying as be offers great bargains il
glass, q%ueeusware, cutlery, casters, etc
Professor Barney Hughes lecture a
the Memphis Club Hall last night OF
Money was profitable to the Gudienc,
and to the treasury of the grand festival
Tee sportive wind aud the idle dust
held high carnival on the streets to-day
Give Us wind and dust, but not rain
snow or coli weather for Monday anC
Tuesday.
Sothern is a great actor and is worth
seeing, but he makes a grave mistake in
the belief that he will draw Anything like
a large audience Mardi-G ras night at The
Greenlaw Opera House.
There was a large attendance at the
First Baptist Church last night to hear
Mr.. Eli Johnson lecture on What Intox.
icating Liquors are Made Of" MR.. John.
son is an able and interesting lecturer,
The grand stand at Court Square is
three hundred and seven feet long. Over
twenty.thtee thousand feet of lumber was
used in the construction of this stand,
which will seat about fifteen hundred
persons.
The colored man James Nelson, alias
DeLee, arreated on suspicion, has been
sent to Jail. The horse and mule found
in his possession were identified this
morning as property stolen from Messrs.
Bartlett and Cooper.
Captain ]. S Reudelhuber and his
artillery company will turn out on Mardi-
Grss dsy and fire a salute Of fifty guns
and join in the grand procession. One
gun will be stationed on the bluff and
two will be on the street.
The bright warm weather continues.
Nay we have good weather until the
crack of the Lenten morn is now the
earnest wish of all Memphians and the
fifty thousand persons who will come
here to enjoy Msrdt Gras.
w. II. Cline, who swindled a man out
of money on a railroad train some time
since, was to-day convicted Of grand lar.
ceney by the Criminal Court jury, and
his term of punishment is four years i'm.
prisonment in the peniientiary.
James Taylor (colored) was arrested
yesterday six miles south of Browns,
vile, by Deputy Marshal ]. L Murphy,
who landed the accused in Jail in this
city. Taylor is indicted for dealing in
tobacco without a special license.
George Robinson, convicted of coin
terfeiting nickels by the United States
Court, was last night sent to the Tennos.
see penitentiary at Nashville, where he
is to serve one year. Deputy Marshal