Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-08
LEDGER LINES.

The city council meets tonight 10
monthly session.
The street.cars have returned to their
well.bsaten tracks.
Prices reduced on all kinds of heating
stoves, by Il. Wetter & Co.
The Memphis law library contains
about five thousand volumes.
Mondays and Thursdays are motion
days in the United States Court
Colonel Tom Boyle to-day funded about
fifteen thousand dollars city bonds.
A peremptory call OF the docket was
made in the United States Court ts.day.
Jimmie Schooles has declared for
Flippin and is a candidate for council.
man.
Price reduced on Champion and Char
ter Oak stoves. a. Wetter & Co., sole
agents.
The snow has not yet melted, but the
fields are still covered with the white
mantle.
The peremptory call of the equity
docket in the United States Court was
begun yesterday.
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The NEGLECTED officers in the
County Court Toasted and toasted the
'Sqrires yesterday at Gaston's,
John Murphy, arrested as q suspicious
character, is now in jail, being unable to
give the required bail Of $1,000,
The street car tracks we're frozen up
The company is doing all in its power
to run cars regularly on the different
lines.
Mr., Pat Welch, the street car driver
who fell 10 a fit Thursday, on Poplar
street, died of epilepsy at the hospital
Saturday
Thomas E, Younger, the eloquent col.
ored orator who ~canvassed Mississippi
for the Democracy in 1875, is living in
Baltimore.
A chimney Of the Central Hotel, on
Adams street, neal Third, caught FIRE
about hslf.past seven o'clock last even.
ing. No damage.
Mary Polk, Linda jackson and Hattie
Bowling, all colored, we're on trial in the
Criminal Court to-day to answer the
charge Of larceny,
1t is near election time. The mayor
to-day gave one thousand dollars to the
street force, some of whose members
have wages due for a year back.
The freight agents in caucus yester.
day nominated Captain Dick %Lightburne
as their choice to run as one OF the direc.
tors Of the Cotton Exchange board.
Candidates for the August election are
increasing and the crop will be large.
The latest candidate for county count
clerk is Mr.. Robert Black, deputy clerk
and master in the Chancery Court.
The Memphis and not the Tennessee
club is to occupy the Adams street build.
ing, corner of Second and Adams street.
The Tennessee club will remain in its
elegant quarters on South Court street
The Joint board of trustees of the Odd
Fellows Library Association elected the
following directory, yesterday evening,
for the ensuing year: W. s. Bruce, J. S.
wilkins, A. F. Davis, j. E. Russell, Jno.
Linkhauer.
The contempt case Of the Brown man.
damus in the United States Court was
continued until to-day. The municipal
legislators will not have to 60 to jail, for
the United States Court Judge is merci.
ful and humane.
George A. Hall, of Mississippi, has
fled in the Circuit Court a damage suit
of $25 900 against G. A. Eckerly, VIM.
A. Eckerly and Henry j. Ecksrly, DO.
cause the latter had said Hall arrested
and Imprisoned for alleged irregularity
in purchasing goods,
The cotton exchange holds its annual
election from eleven to two o'clock to.
morrow. One president, three vice prssi.
dents, a treasurer and eleven directors