Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-18
LEDGER LINES.


Kit, the Arkansas Traveller, at the
Grand Opera House tonight. P. T
Barnum, the great Snowman, will lectur,
on Temperance tomorrow night at the
Assembly Hall. Since the Boston
fire the popular Mansard roof has fallen
under the ban of insurance companies
The churches we're well attended yester
day. The beautiful snow will soor
be on the ground. The Poston-Schofeld
Cuba hanging case will be up for trial in
the Criminal Court o.morrow. Keno has
succunlbed to the Criminal, Court order to
arrest, break and burn" There is some
truth in the French saying: "Quand
tout lie monde tort; tout lie monde a
raison." Miss Emily Faithful, the emf
nent English lecturcss and worker in the
cause of the advancement of women,
will lecture in Memphis next January.
Barnum's great Circus and Menagerie
on the Bluffs next Wednesday and
Thursday. The German Casino ball at
the Memphis Club Hall next Thursday
night. Next Thursday week Thanks
giving day. The Appeal local prom
ises to retire from the Reporters re-
union on the last night of the year so
Der enough to walk LEDGER line-well
take the bet A clear case Of drunkenness
is now called the epizootic. The Ohio
Democracy has resolved to call the new
party "the Liberal Party" very com
prehensive and unobjectionable name.
Atmosphere still frigid. The Gruetli
(Swiss) Society of this city celebrated
the FIVE hundredth and sixty-fifth ami
versary of the foundation Of the Swiss
Confederacy to-day, by a procession
through the streets and presentation of
flags at Cochran Hall. Marietta Ravel
will appear in the French Spy at
the New Memphis Theater tonight.
The Tennessee Legislature will meet in
Nashville the first Monday in January,
1873, and Brownlow's successor as Uni
ted States Senator will be elected in
March, 1875, thus depriving the forth
coming Legislature from performing
that pleasing job. The epizootic is
coming to Memphis on horseback; a
little asafetida used in stables and
troughs is said to be necessary. Since
the elections, our country's Tyres are
mute" Three or four small wires
stretched across a room at proper hight
effectually prevents echoes by breaking
the sound waves and preventing rever-
beration. A Memphian insists that the
rightful heir is not chignon. Some
one says that the difference between
October and November is that with De-
tober the leaves fall and with November
the fall leaves. The Banner says:
Andy johnson is to take up his resi-.
dence at Nashville in the immediate
yicinage of the tombs of Polk
and jackson, which would seem to
be a congenial and natural stmos'
phere to him the tombs, you know.
Maynard beat Cheatham l4,0l3, and
Cheatham beat johnson 27,436; poor
Andy. Governor Browns majority over
Freeman was 1885, with partial re-
turns from feur counties to hear from.
The total conservative vote of Tennes-
see was, for Brown, 1921; for Cheat
ham and johnson, lO2, l6S. The trans
fer boat Mutt takes an entire train of
cars from Memphis to Hope6eld. Next
Wednesday evening there will be inter
esting public exercises at the Christian
Brothers College on Adams street. The
chaps known as amateur ink singers,
are writing to the morning journals in
the most cheerful manner on old issues.
The tactical fluid dished out to Mem
phians is said to be adulterated with
AQUA. The funeral services of the late
John F. Sale, Esq, will be held at the
Second Presbyterian Church at eleven
o clock to morrow.