Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-16
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
Tuesday Evening, April I6, 1878.
LEDGER LINES.

Straw hats viii soon be in style.
The city council meets tonight.
The weather to day is quite warm.
The weather today is fair and pleas
ant.
Who is Bollinger2 Ask Henry Luhr-
mann.
The midnight silence is broken by the
muUic OF serensders.
There was a large attendance at the
roller skating rink last night.
The Milab Club will give an entertain.
ment at Estival Park next month.
Lyle & Shields are now receiving daily
consignments Of Barbour strawberries.
Elegant rooms in the Planters insu-
rance building, Madison street, for rent.
Chief McFadden will give an exhibi.
ton Of the fire alarm telegraph to-mor-
row.
Tie Monumental Society is making
arrangements to decorate the Confede.
rate graves in Elmwood.
The fountain.basiu in Court Square Is
full of perch and trout. Some OF these
fish weigh a pound or two.
A fast young mar who used up $500
belonging to his employers confessed his
crime, and his relatives paid the full
amount.
The benefit Of the treasurer and ushers
of the Memphis Thester takes place the
Gath inst. The entertainment will be
very attractive.
We are indebted to the L'Allegro Club
Of Nashville for an invitation to an en-.
tertaiument to be given at the Maxwell
House on the 26th inst.
Native strawberries are on the market.
Strawberry and ice cream festivals will
now be 10 vogue among the revenue-pro.
motors Of churches and religious socie-
ties.
The case of J.. W. Allen (colored),
who killed Colonel Malone (colored), in
this city, is on trial 10 the Criminal
Court. Argument in the case was made
to-day.
John S. Quain aud Witherspoon &
Brother, of Savannah, Harden county,
have fled petitions asking the United
States District Court to adjudge them
blukrupts.
Tbs grand ball at the Peabody Hotel
the 20tb, for the benefit Of St. Lazarus
aud Grace Church, will be ore of the
most brilliant entertainments ever given
in this city,
Vagrsnt hogs, goats, etc are being
impounded. The board of health is de
termined to enforce all ordinances look.
ing to the sanitary regulation and protec.
ton of the city,
Parties going to Europe will do well to
call on John G. Lonsdale, jr., agent Of
the Travellers Accident Insrranee Com.
pany, Of Hartford, and secure a policy
at a moderate premium.
Mr.. Henry Wade has accepted a posi-
ton ct William Frank & Co.'s, No. 249
Main street. Mr.. Wade is a genial gen.
tlemau and excellent business man, who
has many friends in Memphis aud the
surrounding country.
Charles Herzog q Bro, the popular
booksellers and ~stationers, have removed
to the more spacious storehouse, No. 3l6
Main street, where they have replenished
their stock and are prepared with M.
usually low prices to meet the require
ments Of the spring trade.
The Republicans expect to run a
fusion ticket in the August election.
They will call it the citizens ticket"
and Mr.. CHARLES Kortrecht will most
probably be a candidate for chancellor.
This is rather a dAmper to some Demo.
Gratis who would jump the track and run
as independent candidates.
The FIRE COMMITTEES meets at 4 o'clock
this afternoon to consider the purchase
of two horses for the department. Old
Charlie of the hook and ladder company
has been in the service eighteen years
There are in engine company No. 3 two
horses that have been doing service eight
years. The veterans, esT ecially Ole
Charlie, should be pensioted.
Mr.. r. NJ. Leech, conductor on The
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