Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-15
BREVITIES.

ster Review and many novelties.
Mr.. Peter Tracy is making arrange
ments with Olive Logan to deliver three
lectures in this city in February next.
Subjects: "Our Girls" "The Pas
sions," and Nice Young Men,"
This is the centennial anniversary of
Sir Walter Scott, the great son Of
Caledonia. stern and wild,
Meet nurse for poetic child.
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood.
Land Of the mountain and the Hood.
Joe Locke, the news king of Memphis
at 1864 Main, has the latest pictorials,
magazines, foreign papers and journals,
novels and daily papers from all points
of the country.
The intense heat of the weather has
opened new avenues of trade. A col
ored speculator at the west gate Of Court
Square sells lemonade, tinctured with
claret wine, to thirsty country darkies,
at FIVE cents glass.
Three hundred Terrible Tempta-
tons" were received yesterday By Joe
Locke. The story is immoral but sensa-
tional. Will not some of our bookstore
men send for Joaquin Miller's Songs
of the Sieras" as literary antidote2
1t is understood that the managers of
the next picnic will offer premium for
the champion suicidist. Non-residents
of the State will not be permitted to
compete for the prize, although they may
indulge in the luxury of suicide as
amateurs.
There was quite a large docket dis
posed Of by the Recorder this forenoon.
The drunks and disorderlies were quite
numerous. The consequence was that
the city treasury received quite an
amount of money as fines and forfeit
ures.
The number Of amateur musicians
roosting high up in blocks on our prin-
cipal streets is increasing rapidly. There
is not city block but has its banjoist,
fiddler, guitar bangor and piano whacker.
Those who court the sleepy god Somnus
are loud in their denunciations of what
they term musical nuisances.
The musical world of Memphis was
startled yesterday by the rumor that
Mile Christine Nilsson was married in
Chicago to Mons. Mullory Murphy. The
rumor was true, but it was not the Chris
tine who sang so charmingly at the
Greenlaw Opera House last season. Of
Mr.. Murphy nothing is known.
The worn out mating on the stairway
leading up to the First Chancery Court
has been removed, much to the gratifi-
cation of lawyers and others who had to
come down the steps at the risk of their
lives. The mating on the Criminal
Court stairway presents the appearance
of another man-trap.
We were interested this forenoon in
listening to a Memphis man lately
from Europe talk of the OF pOlloi and
haute nobleSse whom he met on the con-
tinent. From his remarks we were led
to believe that the OF pOlloi were the
Communists, and the hGute noblesse the
other fellows, and that they we're both
somewhat alike.
Emmons & Son, newsdealers at 10
Jefferson and 40 Main, have received
the latest daily papers from st. Louis,
Cincinnati, New York, New Orleans,
Chicago, Louisville, Nashville and other
cities. Magazines from all points, illus
trated weeklies of every description, and
foreign papers and periodicals received
regularly.
The Apache Indians at Tucson, Ari
zonia shoot nugget-hunting white men
with golden bullets. If these wild mil
lionaires were in Memphis we know hun
dreds of impecunious individuals who
would let them shoot the precious metal
at them from early morn till dewy eve
and pay two per cent. month for the
accommodation.
The Landing Committee meets in
council this afternoon to cogitate over
the alarming condition of the landing,
which threatens to slide into the bosom
of the Father of Waters. Prentice
said: You could not dam the Missis-
sippi with chip" But the amount of
swearing done by steamboatmen on this
subject rather weakens Prentice's asser-
ton.
1t is proposed to establish branch of
1.-THE Clan-na-Gael Association in this
city. 1t is a Celtic society, which has
had several years existence in New
York, and has affiliated branches in sew
eral of the larger cities of the Union.
Its object is not dissimilar to that of the
German Turnerverein, and aims at the
physical, social and intellectual eleva-
ton of the Irish in America.
A correspondent in the Appeal says
:" the devil is among us, and wants him
driven out by camp-meeting. This is
good idea, provided the remedy is a
specific, but alas, we fear the devil will
remain undisturbed on the bluffs for
years to come. We presume the CORE