Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-23

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What lovely weather.
A little rain last night.
The staple lacked vim this morning.
As a twig is bent, the boy is in
clined.
People about the city complain of
tramps.
A suit unsuited for the seasonal
bare skin suit,
Variable winds and colder is the
weather forecast.
Five tramps lodged at the station
house last night.
Sound oranges at ten cents a dozen
at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S.
Cotton stifened up at noon and
showed improved feeling.
Judge Heiskell will deliver a lee
ture to the law class tonight
The Circuit and Chancery Courts
were both in session this morning.
Elmwood lots put in order by Male
& Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
Gardeners will o o be at work.
Spading and digging for seed time.
Young Ladies Journal and Wide
Awake, at Spangler's 1856 Main street.
The street force are busy cleaning
up the mud in various parts of the
city.
The general council meets at seven
this evening to ring out the old and
ring in the new.
Temperature at S o'clock this morn
ing, 4O'. The highest yesterday was
64', and the lowest AZ.
j. w. Hampton was admitted as a
practicing attorney in the United
States Court yesterday.
Marriages were slightly off to-day.
Only four licenses were issued, and
these all to colored people.
Crocusses, tulips, hyacinths and
other dubious plants are beginning to
show up their approaching beauties.
Oranges are cheap and plentiful,
bananas moderately so, and all tropi-
cal fruits are reasonable atthis time.
Memphis Opera Club will meet at
the old Memphis Club Hall, over the
postofice, at s O'Clock sharp, thi:
evening.
Resolutions of respect passed the
County Court assemblage this morn.
ing upon their deceased confrere Es-
quire Sam Jones.
Nineteen merchants and shOp-keep-
ers we're taken to the station house
yesterday on a charge of doing bust.
ness without license.
No. 256, John Halifax, Gentle.
man. by Miss Muloch, in Seaside
Library. Large type price twenty
cents; at Spangler's, 1856 Main street
The pruning and tree planting sea.
son is now upon US. This is the besI
time Of the year for both. Put out
your shade trees and enlarge your
orchards.
The trial of the Water-work,
against the city has closed, and Judge
Brown of the United States Cour.
reserves his decision for future con
sideration.
Applications for relief are on tn,
decline. Only twenty-mine families
received assistance yesterday from
! Captain Bishops free ration Office OF
Adams street.
A marking pot and an crasing knit
were found on Front street some night
; since by officer Mitchell. They ha,
been carelcSsly left, and are now at tn.
I station-house.
: Two dollars a day aud cash paid a
soon as earned is the way the UniteI
States Court pays its jurors. Their
were two dozen at work Yesterday
No scrip for that set.
Messrs. j. w. Clapp aud G. A
Hanson are looming up as futur
great statesmen. They have alrcad
: taken positions as the leading orator
of the present Legislature.
The effects of the late freeze ar
; still visible on the north side 4
streets, where moisture oozes fort
from brick aud stone payemcnts as tn
warmth draws the frost cut.
The Payne.0 Oliver case was on tri,
before Judge Hammond aud Jun
. this forenoon. The case involved
charge of Infringement of a patent
! the manufacture Of self-rising -four.
Mr.. Louis Daltroff yesterday aftei
noon disinterred from Elmwood Cen
ot9ry the remains Of DR.. c. L. Chsve
ot'Savaunah, Ga, and shipped theI
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