Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-10


Fine for ice-cutters.
Boreal is the breeze,
Clean your sidewalks.
The staple is inactive to-day,
Kerry Cow at to-morrow's matinee.
The city council are to meet tonight.
The ball at Steamboat Town was a
failure.
The feecy staple buyers are in their
dens to-day.
The moon rises ten minutes before 8
o'clock tonight.
Are we to have no fashionable dancing
parties this season..
The County Court has ado fned to
convene again on the 22d inst.
w. D. Hilander was fined $25 this fore
noon for giving a masked ball without a
license.
It is amusing to a bystander to see how
quick a foot traveller can sit down during
this freezing weather.
Seats for the theater during LOtta's en-
gagement nexi week are for sale at Hol-
lenherg's music store to-day.
Mercury 1Oo at 6 o'clock this morning.
It will be higher tomorrow morning,
warmer weather being near.
"old Boress shines forth in all his splen-
dor, says a local paper. "Old Sol" has
no chance when Boreas shines.
The mayor continues dealing out orders
for fuel and provisions to the needy poor,
and the demands upon him are heavy.
Cotton in New York to-day at noon was
quoted Lice lower, middling being 9Ac.
Futures steady and a point or two higher.
Peter Winston and Harriet Lee, Pres
ton Hampton and Fannie Owens we're all
licensed to be married during the past two
days.
SiIty-hve INDECENT families we're pro-
yided withthe ~necessaries Of life yesterday
BY the relief boards, Through Captain
Bishop.
The street-cars were turned into their
stables shortly after dark last night. Even
a miserable car-mule has mercy shown
him at times.
The county is out for proposals to bury
its pauper dead. One man has grown rich
at the business, and now there ia a chance
for others to do it.
Notwithstanding the close Of navigation
travel to and from Memphis is very good.
and at present we can boast OF a large
floating population.
Ellen Dryer, who proved a faithful
nurse in plague times, was discharged by
the Criminal Court yesterday. The
charge was vagrancy.
A Mardi Gral ball by the Memphi, on
the night Of February 25, Shrovs Tues
day, Is promised, says the Appeal, and that
journal ought to know.
The signal service reports give l4o a.
the lowest and 27o as the highest tempera-
ture yesterday, a variation Of only lso
during the t~wenty-four hours.
The cotton hauling mules slip and fall
oft-times, held down with heavy loads
resting on their backs, and It's painful to
witness their struggles to rise again.
The appearance Of a well-known citizen
upon the streets, clothed in a complete
suit Of Scotch goods and a light felt hat.
is a novel sight and much commented
upon.
1t has been our pleasure to-day to smoke
some OF Sol Coleman's No. los. They are
delightful, and what is more, the nominal
sum OF fiye cents buys them Of Sol. Try
them.
Chief Athy states that Memphis Is less
infested with criminals at present, and
fewer misdeeds committed than at anv
period during his administration Of nine
years.
The sale of seats for the brief Lolita On.
gagement began this morning and the
prospects are that the bewitchinR little
actress will have a grand ovation on her
opening night.
The Criminal Court was busy today
with petty cases, persons charged with as
sault, carrying concealed weapons, keep
ing bad houses, selling liquor without
license, and the like.
The receipts Of cotton here since the lat
o. September last now aggregate 2l4,658
bales, n decrease compared with last year
at the same date Of 1928 bales, and with
the year before Of 7l,474 bales.
The Polar potentste who has ruled with
undated power for more than a week will
have to step down. Warm southerlv
winds are promised by the indications.
ana lice IS nowhere when "old indica-
tons" pipes.
The United States Court is occupied
with the case Of P. Kehoe against the
steamer Carl Schurz, it being on a claim
for salvage, or for services rendered when
the craft was cut down and sunk by the
ice winter before last.
The 1870 train from Little Rock on the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad. ar
riVed this morning on time, AMI the II
am train for that point departed. There