Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-10
BREyITIEs.

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Masquerade balls and skating-rink
carnivals are fashionable at Nashville.
The fire department was paid off yes
terday. The police force was paid to-
day.
The thermometer at II m. to-day
stood at GO, and the barometer at 20 s-lO'
inches.
The Mendelssohn Club will give grand
concert on Friday night next at the
Memphis Theater.
A meeting Of merchants will be held
this afternoon at the Chamber Of Com
merce to establish Change.
January 25th, Burns birthday, will be
celebrated by the st. Andrews Society
of this city in an appropriate manner.
1t is said that if solution of arsenic
in water be sprinkled upon the cotton
plant the cotton-worm win be effectually
destroyed.
The prisoners sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary by Judge Flippin of the Crimi-
nal Court viii not leave for Nashville
for several days.
The municipal election, held on the
7th instant, at La Grange, Tenn, went
Democratic. Mr.. Thomas ]. Shelton
was elected Mayor.
The contest in the irrepressible Third
Ward closed last night. Alderman Mac
kali was sworn in, and Alderman Duff
swore on going out.
! We are under obligations to Col. Leon
|'Trousdale, Secretary, for copy of the
Rules and Bylaws of the Memphis
Chamber If Commerce"
Joe Locke, newsdealer, has all the late
daily newspapers from the North, South,
East and West; all pictorials from Eu-
rope and everything in the news line at
his stand on Main, near Jefferson.
Mr.. ], 5. Winfield, .jr., was elected
Mayor of Brownsville, Tenn, ON the 9TH
inst. The Radicals elected their Mayor,
Aldermen and Councilmen. Poor
Brownsvillel @ AG
Mansforo, newsdealer, corner of Sec
ond and Monroe, has received the latest
newspapers from every point. Picto-
rails, magazines, literary journals, dime
song books, almanacs and full stock Of
news goods on hand.
Capt. Lees new steamer, Phil Allin,
was visited at the landing by hundreds
of citizens yesterday, who were highly
pleased at the result of Memphis enter
prise and skill. The A lin left for
Friar's Point last evening
Is A statistician announces the fact that
married men live longer than single, and
65 persons out of every one thousand
marry. A greater number of marriages
occur in June and December than in
any other month in the year.
We are pleased to learn that Professor
Louis Meyer, the well-known pianist, in
tends giving another concert in few
days. Miss Edwards, of New York, a
fine soprano, and number of leading
amateurs Of this city will lend their val
liable assistance upon the occasion.
The January number of The Southern
Farmer, an agricultural journal pub
lished in this city by NJ. W. Phillips &
Co., presents readable appearance.
The Farmer is ably edited and is devoted
to the improvement of the industrial
and mechanical interests of the South.
Winnie Ream's statue of the late
lamented" will be unveiled in few
days, The immortal ]. N. has been en-
ployed to lift the veil. 1t is said Winnie
has given the marble Old Abe's express
sion of face when engaged in telling one
Of his vulgar anecdotes.
The skating rink has become the fash
ionable institution of Memphis. Several
of our bellies are rapidly becoming grace
ful and accomplished skaters, and our
gentlemen are becoming adopts in the
art of fastening roller skates-not only
on their own feet, but on those of the fair
sex.
A San Francisco undertaken has dis
covered new method of preserving
bodies by petrifying them. The color of
the flesh is not changed, and on striking
it, it gives out ringing, metallic sound.
Sculptors are now played out. Every
man can be his own statue, and if pre-
ferred, his own tombstone.
The last number of Every Saturday
has a picture of F. Brette Harte, the
author of the Heather Chinee," and
other comicsl poems. A clear cut face,
showing poetieal taste and genius, and
handsome face at that has Brette Harte.
The mustache and side-whiskers do not
add much to the beauty of the outline
When the ballot box left the Third
Ward polls, at the late election, it con-
tanned 1876 votes for Mackall, and 1874
for Druff, but when the box was locked
-earried to the Aldermanic Board
opened, and the votes counted, it con-
tanned 1sl votes for Mackall, and 200
votes for Durf. How did that thing
happen2 fa,
The Catholics Of Louisville held an
indignation meeting on Friday last.
Resolutions were carried which bitterly
denounced Victor Emanuel and the Ital-