Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-19
LEDGER LINES.

Christmas next Wednesday. Holiday
goods are in active demand. Within a
week Memphis will be the best vaccin-
ated city in the universe. The Memphis
man who married vulgar girl calls her
brown sugar" because she is sweet but
unrefned. The contest for offices in
the Aldermanic, Council aud School
Boards next January will be lively in
the extreme. Pig's-feet are among the
Injuries Of the season. Nashville
has the smallpox The West Ten
nessee Teachers Association meets
at Jackson on the 26th instant.
The annual ball Of the Young Hebrews
Association, at the Memphis Club Hall
last night, was well attended, and was a
most enjoyable affair. MacEvoy's
Hibernicon at the Assembly Hall. To-
morrow evening the third annual ball Of
the plumbers and gas filters comes off at
Cochran Hall. Hay or straw on the
floor of street cars during the cold snap
would add considerably to the comfort of
passengers; our faceticus friend OF the
Appeal says straw is very scarce in
Memphis at present." men of straw are
not. Our morning cotemporaries are
wrestling with the question, whether
Toney Bennocci, the CASTOR safe robber,
is an Italian or an Austrian; what mat
tiers it, even if he was an American
The cheerful ofice-seeker is again smil.
ing at the sovereigns in manner quite
childlike and bland. At the January
elections for Aldermen, Councilman and
School Visitors, it is the opinion of
many no evidence of payment of poll
tax will be necessary, the law only in
Guiding voting for members of the As
sembly or other civil officers of the
county or district, corporation officers
not being within the purview of the
statute. The management of the city
colored schools comes in for discussion
in the morning journals; little invest.
CATION might not be out OF place. A
reward of three hundred dollars has
been offered by the Italian Society for
the apprehension of the brutal negroes
who made that murderous attack ON Mr..
Gonochio and wife; detectives, forward
Bulwers grand play of Richelieu, with
Mr.. Frank Mayo as the great " Car
dinal," at the theater this ev ening.
The wonderful Humpty Dumpty at the
Grand Opera House tonight Miss
Emily Faithful, editor of the Vic, oria
Magazine and lecturer Of celebrity,
will appear before Memphis audience
in few weeks. The rext Gene raj AS
sembly will elect Secretary of State,
Comptroller and State Treasurer: there
are over fifty candidates for each office
in the field, and the cry is, Still they
come" Rain, sleet and ice to-day make
it rather slippery for pedestrians Treas
urer Mcclure, of the Grand Opera
House, has been rendered bene fit for
next Monday night, on which occ aston
Miss Maggie Mitchell will appear. In
order to vote for Floater next Janu-
airy, you must pay your poll-tax in due
time The important question, sis a
female person within the meaning
Of the section regulating voting under
the city charter" is the bone of CON
tention just now between those who op-
pose and those who favor female suffrage ;
to our mind woman has Away Is been q
" female person" The Hiberriian Mu-
tual Relief Society meets tonight. The
motions against ex.State and County
Tax Collector VIM. Mclean were on
hearing before the First Circuit. Court
to-day. The police authorities expect
to arrest the murderous negroes this af-
ternoon who robbed and assaulted Mr..
Gennochio and wife on the Pop lar street
road Fifty thousand dollars of stock
has beeen subscribed to the Lindsey
Coleman Patent Telegraphic Instrument
Company, and that amount could be
doubled in forty-eight hours if it was
necessary, Under the Gasli,;ht" will
be the great sensation at the Memphis
Theater next Monday.