Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-06
TIE CENTS Pc WE K
THE CITY.
Monday Evening, Jan. 6, 1879.
LEDGER LINES.

Cotton buyers are scarce and scant to-
day.
Cardinal red is the fashion most popular
for noses.
Mercury &C. again at Z o'clock this
morning.
Lodgers at the station-house last night,
forty-nine.
Futures dropped three points at l80
pm. in New York this afternoon.
The sky was clear and the moon shone
bright throughout all of last night.
The application of Bernstein for a new
trial has not yet been argued before the
Criminal Court.
"Onlya bad cold is what some folks
call the prevailing influenza. The all
ment is well spread.
Il havn't washed for a week; its too.
cold to keep clean said a welLknown
character yesterday.
Mardi Gras will be the 18th Of next
month. II will not be celebrated here as
usual, only in a quiet way.
Property owners who rent their houses
for bawdy places were on trial before the
Criminal Court this forenoon.
Al persons having c. 0. d. bills against
the Coahoma or Cheek will call at John
n. Harbin's, 1921 Front street.
TIN cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your orders az this office.
The news from the East concerning cot
ton was late coming inthis forenoon. The
inference was that New York hal frozen
up.
The United States Court, Judge E. S.
Hammond presiding, is in session to-day.
The principal business to-day is to call the
law docket.
The effort to donate a months salary to
the police and fremen by the city coun-
Gil out ofthe charity fund has failed. the
resolution having been vetoed by Mayor
Flippin.
Several boat hands have gone to driving
street cars during the freeze up. They
put up 80 as security for honesty and
good behavior, and receive SO per week
as wages.
The members Of the Tennessee Club.
with their lady friends and invited guests.
ara to enjoy a musical entertainment, in
the parlor Of their Club house on Court
street tomorrow night.
Jim Henderson paid s. fine this morn
ing for the luxury of basting a fellow
darby. Mike Mansfield. on getting
drunk, had a az" charged against him.
but he was not able to settle.
Winzle. the d.rky who killed
In 1865, was convicted last Saturday of
murder in the second degree. This viii
give him ten years in the State prison IN
less ne gets the new trial he has applied
for.
The birds Of spring are not hilarious lust
now. A few plaintiye notes between the
frosty pipings otthe breeze, like CLEANS Of
sunshine between wintry clouds, are all
that our feathered friends can issue during
this sharp weather.
Thermometers are in demand and fire.
quently consulted this weather. Yester-
day we hung our out on the porch in the
sun for an hour. When We first placed
it there it stood at S2o, but went down TO
a boy, who hooked it.
Mary Anderson opens at st. Louis tc-
night. Fanny Davenport also plays there
during the present week. Much interest
is manifested by the play-goers of st.
Louis in these rival representatives Of the
light and heavy drama.
An opera-glass was carried of FRIDAY
night last from the Memphis Theater BIZ
a gentleman giving his name as f. J..
Woodston. The ushers being the losers.
he will oblige them by leaving it at Hol-
ienpergs music store or the theater.
The total mortality in this city last
week was l9i white, 10; solored, o. -Four
died OF consumption, six Of pneumonia.
two OF debility, two Of dentition, one of
remittent fever, one of congestion. one of
heart disease and one Of Commissions.
Linger not upon the doorstep,
In the winters chilly blast.
For yOulldnd, when you're through kiss
ing,
That your lips are all stuck fast
Froze up as it were.
Marsh Hallway, for getting very drunk
was fined $40 this forenoon. He did not
have that much. Ben Cause was ansd s
for lighting. He could not raise but 1855
OF the money. Ike Louden, for being
disorderly and carrying weapons, paid a
fine Of $40.
That's i'll Go for himl Hit him
with your Ratchet = yelled a gallery ur-
chan at the theater Saturday night during
the camp scene where "Parthenia" Is
rescued from the enemy by "Ingomar.
The audience turned loose perfect roars Of
laughter.
Inc hoating ice in the river is much
harder and heavier to-day than at any
.ime TINS season. Most Of the aatboats