Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-31
LEDGER LINES.

lished to-morrow-New Years day
The General Council will meet TONER
row evening. Our Favorites ball a.
Cochran Hall tonight. Coal has gone
up to aristocratic figures since the ice
blockade; cant some remedy be devised
so as TO prevent this famine price Of Goa
every winter2 The School Board gave
its last gasp last night, and retired from
the field to await the election mex
Thursday. The Poor Relief Association
issues rations TO the destitute from
its depot, No. 225 Second street
The LEDGER newsboys will distribute
their New Years address among Their
patrons tomorrow. The postoflice will
close tomorrow at ten In. the carriers
will make one delivery and two collec
tons; all mails close at ten am. and
twelve midnight The ice has disap
peared from the river and the ice gorges
have played ont. The Little Rock rail
road resumed business yesterday. The
citizens grand ball at the Exposition
building tomorrow night. A police
officer named Cogbill was fined FIVE dol
lars by the Recorder yesterday for as
saulting prisoner; officers who assault
prisoners should not be permitted "a
remain on the force; there are
several men on the force who
should never have been appointed
The Little Barefoot at the Maggie Mitch
ell matinee at the Grand Opera House
tomorrow. Santa Claus will distribute
five thousand New Years presents al
the Memphis Theater matinee tomorrow
The letter carriers who have served
the business community so faithfully du
ring the year will distribute an address
tomorrow throughout the city. Mud that
will stick to you When your friends de
sert you, prevails on the streets and al
legs. Leap year closes at twelve O'Clock
tonight, which is a relief to the bach.
elors who have been writing reflections
during the year; but few hours and the
maiden's occupation, like "Othello's," is
gone. The old year dies tonight. The
courts will be in session next Monday.
The Streets of New York at the Mem
phis Iheater tonight. The statute Of
limitation on notes made prior TO 1867
runs out after the sst of January, 1873
Tomorrow, according to enactment OF
the Legislature of 1865. Fanchon the
Cricket will be repeated at the Grand
Opera House tonight. The banks and
business houses will be closed tomorrow
and maturing paper must be met to-day.
The New Years fiend will be out on
the war path tomorrow, aud will make
several hundred remarks to his lady
friends about the weather, the ice gorge
and the Bully Hoos ball. 1t is ad
mitted that Mr.. E j. Tucker. of Fayette
county. will be elected Floater next
Thursday. Who will subscribe fifty
thousand dollars for the erection of a
Magdalen Asylum? this would be more
practical than sympathy for the fallen
so often expressed through newspapers.
The oldest republic is that of San Ma
rino in Italy, which was organized in
1888; it comprises territory twenty-five
miles square and contains eight thou
sand inhabitants. The Garrick Club,
composed of young gentlemen of our
city, will give theatrical entertainment
in February next for the benefit of the
Memphis Bethel. The phrase grass
widow" so often heard in this vicinity,
is derived from the French grace" and
originally meant widow by courtesy.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the counting-room to-day; terms two
dollars per year in advance. Six tax
gatherers make things lively for prop
erty-holding Memphiaus. An effort is
making to secure signers to petition
for the pardon Of that notorious scalper,
Fatty McGinnis, who has been the terror
of travellers for years, but who new has
ceased to scalp" being a useful citizen,
working for the State in the peniten-
tiary Fatty" should be permitted to
serve out his two years in peace, and a
few more scalpers should be sent up to
keep him company. Attend the Or
phaus' Fair at the Assembly Hall to-
night. The Appeal local charges Mayor
johnson with being responsible for the
muddy streets; why not charge him with
responsibility for the ice gorge for
nation at Randolph the Appeal local is
a humorist, and means not what be says.
PUHRs, l6 Jefferson street. 9ST
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