Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-13
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Office: 10 Madison Street,
TEN CENTS Pc WE K.
THE CITY.
Thursday Evening. Feb. Is, 1879.
LEDGER LINES.

Wind straight from the north.
Tomorrow is st. Valentines day.
Renewed activity in the coal mar
ket.
The morning air was keen and
sharp.
0yercoats are fashionable as well as
comfortable to-day.
No bed of roses is that in prospect
for Mr.. Receiver Latham.
The moon changed and entered its
last quarter this afternoon.
Any style of wire work done by
Male 4 Lamb, florists, 355 Main.
A match drill for a white plume
takes place at the Chickasaw Guards
armory tonight.
The staple has a weak tone to-day,
and buyers have the advantage, the
market being easier.
Temperature at Z o'clock this morn
ing 29'. The lowest yesterday was go
and the highest 62'.
The quarantine regulations engage
the earnest attention of the new au-
thOrities at present.
Judge Hammond, eff the United
States Court, will deliver a lecture to
the law class tonight.
People can now afford to have an egg
for breakfast. At a zen each they
are within reach of poor folks.
The Father of Waters is now eight
feet eight inches below extreme high
water mark in front ofthis city. 1t is
falling a little.
The Peabody Hotel was damaged
about 500 early this morning by a
fire which caught on the second floor
neal the kitchen range.
Receipts Of cotton here to date for
the present season 75,152 bales.
against 3l2,34l bales last year, and
334,2l9 the year before.
The investigation of the charge of
cruelty to prisoners at Presidents
Island is to be resumed tomorrow.
unless further postponed.
The Clubhouse of J. D. Driver. of
Osceola, Ark, was destroyed by fire
last Friday. The loss included twelve
bales Of cotton and 1000 bags of cotton
seed.
William Parker, the darky impli-
clated in Mrs. w. c. c. Fosters
murder, was to-day captured in Indi-
ana. The sheriff will send a deputy
after him,
The three masked pickpockets we're
yesterday bound over in the sum of
$1,000 each to answer for their r~ascali-
ties. Lamey gave bail the others
rest in Jail.
The great question of States rights
Is likely to catch a new stirring up
through the recent decree of Judge
John Baxter. 1t is a momentous and
intricate one to solve.
The First National Bank is prepared
to fill orders to any mount for the
new four per cent. government bonds.
Investments in these bonds commend
themselves to every capitalist.
The decree Of Judge Baxter, of the
United States Court, is the talk Of the
town. 1t is a severe document and
portends trouble to the people, but
comforts lawyers and bondholders.
Jack johnson, charged with steal
ing several shawls from l.. Goldsmith
" Co., on Beal street, was this fore
noon committed to Jail by Justice
Quigley to await trial before the Grim
inal Court.
The new receiver is likely to en-
counter more annoyance from position
hunters than he will in the settlement
of the affairs Of the defunct city. The
entire business has a wearrysome an
pearance.
The German Casino Hall has been
elegantly refitted and refurnished. and
the first business meeting will take
place this evening. The present
Oekonom will set a fine lunch in honor
OF the occasion.
Twenty-six persons from among the
best people Of this community be-
became members of Unity Lodge, No.
2l7, Knights of Honor. They took
three degrees, aud it required until
near midnight to complete the labor.
When Judge Baxter threatened to
have congress pass a law to uphold
points in his recent decree he perhaps
forgot that his appointment to the