Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-30
BREyITIES.

January term of the Criminal Court for
trial.
The Jefferson matinee at the Memphis
Theater to-day, and the closing per-
Torrance tonight, will attract immense
audiences.
The latest and best almanacs, papers,
magazines and sich," can be found at
Mansfords news depot, corner second
and Monroe.
The rattle for the trotting mare, Lady
Dempster, has been postponed to next
Saturday evening, at Malatesta's saloon,
on Second street.
Next Monday the popular and pleas
ing Wyndham English Comedy Com
psny will give us the legitimate drama in
the shape of Robertson's comedies.
The alarm of FIRE yesterday was
caused by the burning of some wood
work near the fireplace of Pease 4
Scruggs' grocery store on Front street.
Joe Locke, newsman, at 1864 Main
street, has all the January monthlies,
weekly pictorials and daily newspapers,
from all points North, South, East and
West.
| A pleasant Christmas festival was
given to the Sunday school children at
the Central Baptist church last night
The celebration was delightful and sue.
cessful.
The beautiful, fashionable and critical
elements of our city combined last night
in praising the wonderful representation
of Rip Van Wrinkle, by Mr.. Jefferson, at
the Memphis Theater. II
No edition of the PUBLIC LEDGER will
be issued until next Tuesday afternoon.
Monday New Years Day. will be cele-
b-ated as holiday by the religious en-
ployes of this Office.
In the retail game market to-day
ouails sell at 81 per dozen; rabbits, 25c.
each; squirrels, 20 to 25c. each, or$2 so
per dozen; venison, 20 to Csc. per
pound; bear meat, 25c. per pound.
Sleeping coaches will be placed on
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad
on next Monday. The coaches will
leave with die 2:lO train each day and
20 through to New Orleans. The enter
prising officials of the road deserve the
thanks of the travelling public.
Emmons & Son, newsmen, at No. 10
Jefferson and 4lO Main street, haze re-
ceived the latest pictorials, nagazines'
foreign newspapers, novels, Christmas
goo DIS and daily papers from New York,
St. Louis New Orleans, Boston, Chicago
Louisville, Nashville and other points
Police officers McAuliff and Costello,
doing duty at the Mississippi and Ten
nessee depot, were presented with hats
yesterday by Conductors Childress, Kir-
by, Kahn, Leech and Goodwin, Superin-
tendeit Yonge, Auditor White and As
sistant Auditor Ward, as testimonial of
their valuable services.
Several communications on local poll
S;cs, but of personal nature, have been
sent to this office for publication. These
illogical and useless tracts display more
anger than argument, and have been
consigned to the waste basket, from
which there is no hope of resurrection.
1t is unfortunate that so many writer's,
while honestly trying to be sarcastic,
only succeed in being outrageously per-
sonal II
The last time Joe Jefferson was in st.
Louis, Judge Joseph Gillespie was pre-
vailed upon to go and see Rip Van
Wrinkle. This was the first play the
Judge had ever witnessed. When asked
what he thought about it, he replied;
HEM heml COMPOUNDED ridiculous.
The idea of poor Dutch woman over
the wash-tub with diamond rings on her
fingers" The Judge will eschew the
drama.
A New York Radical newspaper ex-
D resses the following liberal opinion of
NJ, ,mphis journals: 1.-THE Memphis pa
perA' contain accounts of great depreda-
tons committed by negroes in ArSan-
sas. What they say must be taken with
many gr aims of allowance, as they per-
misrepresent the colored peo-
ple through out the South" This is the
unkindest cat of all, coming from the
speetacled sha de Of Chappaqua.
The letter carriers of our city do not
deserve to be forgotten by their patrons
on New Years day. A more deserving
or more polite body of men do not exist
in our city. The citizens doing business
along the respective routes should present
to these toilers in the sea of letters some
testimonial of public appreciation. We ,
can testify as to the unvarying attention
to business, courtesy and politeness of
the gentleman who distributes letters
and papers on the Madison street route
The historical four and twenty black
birds, who were baked in a pie, have
been quite thrown into the shade by one 7
hundred chickens, who furnished the in
terror of a gigantic pasty baked last
week in Bridgeport, Conn, for the fair
Of St. Johns Church. It took four
strong men to carry this monster into $
the hall; and it viii take a great many !
more strong meR and women and child
rem to eat and digest it, How it was
carved we are not told, but the opera {
ton was probably performed by some
kind of machinery. These gigantic
dishes have their value, since they show
what ambitious cooks can do If they try; :
but most people. il asked to dinner, l