Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-04
LEDGER LINES.

Election to-morroH. thhrtotto lhoWP
son, in Zone Wife, at TIC Opera House
tonight The campaign is over. Royal
Japanese at the theater tonight. City
Council meets Wednesday. The Expo
sition will be crowded every evening this
week. Vote for Cheatham and the
straight ticket tomorrow. They talk OF
abolishing the street railroad in Chicago.
All the courts in session to-day. Ex-
Governor Harris and Majer Sykes
speake at Cochran Hall tonight. Fatty
McGinnis, the wickedest hackman in
Memphis, has been elected to the peni-
Tertiary for term Of two years. Hon.
John A. Bingham calls himself "a
simple American citizen" 81. Marys
church concert tonight. Tomorrow the
streetcorner politician will howl for his
native fodder; few brief hours, and
then his occupation is gone. If you
hear q circus man say shirrsh the
gill" he means put the stranger out
The present week will be prolific of
amusements, with the election to-mor-
row, the City Council next day, the Elk
position, Charlotte Thompson and the
japanese, not to mention Broom's and
the Olympic. Our Jim thinks the man
ayers of our theaters should cease to
designate their afternoon performance
as a matinee. or else photographers
should change the definition of the
word, if custom has not already done it
for them; it should be called soiree. The
Library Association, so long needed, is
now considered a fixed fact, and ar
rangements are rapidly going forward
for the early opening Of the rooms al
ready engaged. The children Of the
various Sunday schools in the city will
give grand vocal concert at the Ex-
position next Friday evening, with q
chorus Of something near 5000 voices.
Sovereigns, vote tomorrow and save the
country as we'll as the city. The horse
influenza is stirring up Memphis horse
men. The matrimonial market will he
lively for the next four weeks. The
Johnsonian and Radical candidates ex-
pect the voters to come to the scratch"
but the regular ticket viii 90 through
undisturbed The chain-gang is becom-
ing quite popular with loafers and crimi-
mails. The Memphis Republican (Radi-
call calls the johnson combination
ticket "our ticket" and advises the
"Rads" to support it; Democrats, beware
of the coalition. The Sleeping Beauty of
Kentucky will, it is said, form one Of the
attractions at the Exposition this week.
The editor of the fernando Press and
Times objects to baby shows at county
fairs unless the premiums offered would
be an inducement to improve the
quality Of babies, as in the case of other
animals, and this he thinks is impossible;
the editor is bachelor. The grand
masquerade which is to come off two
weeks hence is the general topic of con.
versation, and everybody is preparing
for it. The trial of Poston, for the MUIR
der Of Scho6eld, has been postponed till
the 18th inst. There are at present sixty
four prisoners in the county Jail. Angelo
Marie is just recovering from an attack
of typhoid fever; he will be tried on
another indictment in few days The
Chamber of Commerce meets at 3 o clock
this afternoon, when the new President
Napoleon Hill, Esq, will be indicted
into office. The Exposition Guide is g
very useful little pamphlet for those at
tending the Exposition, as it explains
the pictures in the Art Gallery. One Of
our ministers, intending to compliment
some of our country cousins, remarked
yesterday, that he had never seen sc
many beautiful country girls in the city
before, when one Of them answered in
diguantly, I'VE are not country girls
sir; we are Trenton young ladies.