Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-20

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the largest audience Of the season
The day patrol force have to answer
roll call at $50 o'clock in the morning.
The men ought to be able to capture the
early worm, the allegorical reward Of
fered to the early bird.
An immense house greeted Lolita in
the Little Detective" at the Memphis
Theater last night, just tribute to the
babbling, sparkling, efervescing, dra-
matte spirit of the little Californian.
At 296 Main street, is the neat little
news stand of Paul T. Wright. All the
principal magazines, pictorials, and
daily newspapers, including the evening
LEDGER, can be found on his counter.
The jury in the case of Fred Bretz-
man VS.. the st. Louis Packet company
and Elem Calvert, pending in the first
circuit cocrt, rendered a verdict at II
o'clock to-day, awarding $4,000 damages
against said company.
Tomorrow morning the stockholders
OF the Memphis and Charleston railroad
will meet in convention at the Assembly
Hall to consider the proposed lease of
their road to Tom SCOTS Southern Rail.
way Security company,
Demorest magazine for March at
Mansfords news depot, corner of Second
and Monroe; also, the Tribune and
World Almanacs, containing interesting
political statistics and other valuable
information. r's
The seed and agricultural implement
trade of Memphis is rapidly becoming
wholesale business. The improvement
in farming produced by the use Of mod
ern implements of the labor-saving
character speaks we'll for the intelli.
gence of our planters.
Esquire Hoegel held an inquest yes
terday on the body of young Dorsey,
who accidentally shot himself while
hunting in Nonconnah bottom, and of
which an account appeared in yester-
days LEDGER. The jury returned
verdict Of accidental death.
The police will appear in new belts,
clubs, stars and rosettes ON the first Of
March, according to morning cotem-
porary The wearing Of such summer
costume ought to be postponed to the
FIRST Of June at least. We offer the sug-
gestion from sanitary point of view.
EMMoNs & SoN, new,dealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 40 Main, have re-
ceived the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Chicago and all other cities
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cations and news goods ge, ierally.
Next Thursday will be the l4Oth an
niversary of the birth of otlr first Presi-
dent, George Washington. If it were
only the l4Oth anniversary of the death
of our last or present ruler, what glo-
rious celebration would we have. The
great and good Washingto is almost
forgotten in these days.
King faro is being humi lated before
the recorders court. The king can't
put up chips before this tri bunal-noth-
ing but greenbacks viii be Il .ken. "Play
and pay " is the motto WRIT en- above the
recorders bench for the benefit and ad-
monition of the sporting fraternity.
Alas how are the mighty fallenl"
The scalping hack drivers still con-
tinue to hold high carnival in OFT midst
Why cannot our city legislators enact
an ordinance recalling the license grant
ed to hack owners whose hacks are
used in this scalping businessH The
plea that hack owners do not kno " of or
indorse the proceedings Of the drivers,
to use a pure Shaksperian phrp.se, is
too thin"
William Porter, alias Comanche Bill,
is said to be sojourning in the city. Co.
manehe William is the chap who hunted
buffalo with Alexis and Gustav, and to
whom the Grand Duke gave that dia-
moud pin. We understand there is no
truth in the report so generally cireu-
lated in the newspapers that the royal
present necessitated the purchase of
shirt on the part Of William in order to
wear the jewel a la mode.
A report is in circulation that we'll
known judge of one Of our courts called
up his corps of clerks and deputy sher
ifs yesterday and ordered them to go
out on the highways and byways and
gather chips" the courtroom being
destitute of coal. The coal famine in
Memphis is something TO be avoided in
the future. Coal ninety cents barrel
in summer and a dollar and half in
winter calls for a remedy in all direc-
tons.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, published to-
day, contains full report or the carni-
val, Olive Logan's lecture on "Girls," the
latest news in the cotton market and
finance, and a vast amount ,,f original
and carefully selected readin z matter.
The WEEKLY LEDGER is for ale at the
cOunting-room and all the lea ling news
stands in the city. Single copy, FIVE
cents; subscription for one .Tear, two
dollars.
An enterprising Frenehman from