Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-24
LEDGER LINES.

Memphis is remarkably healthy at
present. Highwaymen from other cities
frequent dark alleys ana side streets
just now. The Memphis thug" car
ries pistols secretly and with impunity.
but the peaceable citizen, if discovered
with pistol, is fined and Ibound over
to the Criminal Court. The wedding
season and the honeymoon days ARE
approaching rapidly. Where was the
fire2" said lady TO her male compan-
ion, who had rushed out of the Opera
House the moment the curtain fell on the
first act Of the play; ut was a false
alarm. said Re, as he chewed coffee and
cloves vigorously. Advertising has been
defined as extending your show win
dows into the newspapers. Young
Memphis has fallen in love with the
Black Crook artists, and odd Mem
phis p" is in the same melancholy condi-
ton. Soda water bottled by steam was
gratuitiously given away by the manu-
facturers at the Exposition last evening.
The diamond robbery and the highway
men on Second street wore the suffice
Of general conversation last evening
Pool selling for the trotting races at the
Fair Grounds will be sold each evening
at the Peabody. A headless rooster was
an attraction at the Exposition last
evening; it represented A. ]. after No
vember 9th. Loubrie's comic mirror
at the Exposition presents the grotesque
side of humanity. The great trot for
$1,000, open to all the world of horse
flesh. comes off this afternoon at the
Fair grounds. The Avalanche, of this
morning, for the first time, failed to
dance over the grave of Andy's victim
the murdered Mrs. Surratt. Thirty
FIVE churches open their doors both
to sinners and saints in Memphis.
The denizens of Indiana are enjoying
refreshing snow storms. Memphis street
cars are rendered odious by persons
carrying wagon loads of baggage. DR..
Eve has written lengthy article against
killing persons convicted of capital
crime; it would not change the result if
the condemned were compelled TO read
the doctors treatise, but if killing is to
be dispensed with, let Messieurs, the as.
sassins, set the example. Ayoung LADY,
overskirt slipped down provokingly low
at the Exposition last evening. and ex,
posed file Of the Memphis Avalanche,
which journal, at present, is " behind"
in political matters. The Black Crook,
Help, the Fair and the Exposition form
the sum of happiness to Memphians at
present. The cloudy weather is seg-,
gestive of suicides. 1t has been several.
weeks since the 6remen have had to con.
tend with the fend." A correspondent
Of the Louisville Courier abuses our Ex-
position because he was not presented
with the freedom of the city" on
his arrival on the bluffs. Our
country neighbors continue to re-
volve around the Exposition building,
Young men escorting their lady friends
to the Exposition or theater should con-
suit old Probability with reference,to the
weather, and thereby save hack fare.
The big trot for $1,000 takes place at the
fair grounds this afternoon. The school
children are to attend the fair tomorrow,
going out on special train at ten O. clock
in the morning. A very pleasant feature
Of the Exposition last evening was the
music made on the tumbleronicon by
Mr.. Levy, accompanied by Master Leo
Kremer on the Chickering grand piano.
The hacks only charge twenty-five cents
for taking visitors to the Exposition. If
young ladies would peremptorily decline
to ride to the theaters in public carriages
it would prove very advantageous TO
managers, but it would be terrible blow
to shoddyism. There was large num-
Der Of strangers at the Exposition yes
terday and last night.