Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

inc mohthty utdWlus OF inc Lou
isiana Lottery will take place Fcbru
airy llth. Procure tickets now at tn,
usual place.
Considerable feeling prevails among
the salaried men about the court,
house, and many talk of resigning
their places.
Country roads have improved under
the genial warmth of the past three
days. Our rural friends can once
more get around.
Express charges from New York
and other leading cities of the East
have been reduced to 81 and $3.50 per
hundred pounds,
The thermometer this morning at Z
o'clock indicated a temperature of
45'. The highest yesterday was 6l'
and the lowest 32'.
Only five free dodgers at the station
house last night. Putting tramps on
the gang has had the effect of driving
many out of the city.
Miss Ada Monk, who is familiar
to Memphians as one of the Kurdish
combination, is a member of the Rob
son and Crane company,
The pruning-knife is at work in the
legislature. Those who talked for
buncombe during the recent county
election have got the buncOmbe bad.
A few private carriages were on the
streets yesterday for the first time
since the recent bad weather. The
horses needed exercise and the owners
an airing.
Female p~romenaders may be looked
for in throngs on Main street this af-
ternoOn. Shopping and exercise in a
limited way are necessary to feminine
existence.
These who pay taxes or take out
licenses now will doubtless be permit
ted to move on unmolested for an
entire year, even though the charter
be repealed.
Venus and Jupiter are evening stars
at present. Mercury shines in the
morning. Jupiter swings off and be-
comes a morning twinkler just two
weeks from now,
The officers of Chickasaw Lodge,
A. o. U. W., have received a cash
draft through G.. NJ. w. i. 7. Lind
say at Nashville, on account of the
death of the late DIR. Hodges.
Distress warrants for taxes, with
four per cent. penalty added to the
present amount due, will be issued
after the LIST Of next month, unless
delinquents settle before that time.
A dangerous man and beast trap,
needing the immediate attention of
the authorities, is situated on Adams
street, beyond Charleston avenue. The
sewer there is open and in a bad fix.
Total cotton receipts to this date
last year 376,5S5 and the year before
3O3, 398 bales. Shipments from here
this year 1872, $50 bales, against 226,OS5
last year and 247.A27 the year before.
Jesse Scales, a colored porter at
Martin 4 Co.'S hardware store, was
arrested for shop-lifting this forenoon.
He was caught with a few new axes,
which he had laid aside for his own
benefit.
The recent cold weather held the
wheat back in growth, but the snow
protected it from injury, and from all
directions news comes that the crop
looks quite promising. All it needs ia
a spell Of warm weather.
At3 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
at Grace Church, a memorial service
to the late rector, Rev. Charles Car
roll Parsons, will be conducted by the
bishop. The Chickasaw Guards, in
uniform, will be in attendance.
Colonel" said a man rather loudly
on Main street, near the court. house.
yesterday, and sixteen persons, half
Of them lawyers, stopped their hurried
tramp TO look at him, thinking they
were meant. Oh human vanity.
The recorder this msrning fined
james Murphy and Joseph Courph
IS each for prowling. Neither were
able to pay and they must work it out
on the street cleaning way. Giles
Wilson for bad conduct paid a fine of.
five dollars.
Dirty looking drift ice, intermixed
with logs and debris of every aoatable
character, covered the surface of the
river yesterday and held all upward
bound boats IN the harbor. It is ex-
pected that it will run out early to-
day and that steamers can then move
on.
W. J. Dallas was licensed to marry
Miss Susan r. Funk this morning.
). Eishwald was also licensed to mar
ry Miss Rosa Son6eld also w. H.
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