Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-17
BREyITIEs.

The New Orleans Mardi-Gras visitors
are returning to our city on every train.
Old Boreas whistled around street COR
ners last night as it trying to introduce
q storm. .,a-sr ..,..oa.|.er
+" Our Favorites" win give masquer-
ade party at Mooks Hall next Thursday |
evening. aad
Monday next the well-known Memphis
favorite, Lolita, will fill the theater from
pit to dome.
Pittsburg coal is selling in the city at
one dollar and half barrel. But
few days supply remains in the city.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1864
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers weeklies and monthly magazines.
Services will be held at the Catholic
churches Of our city every Wednesday
aud Friday evenings during the Lenten
season.
Crittenden county, Arkansas, voted
on the 18th inst. to subscribe the sum
of 800, 900, to the Memphis and Kansas
City railroad.
The friends and acquaintances OF
Colonel S. W. Jefferson will regret to
learn that he is lying very i'll, and his
physicians despair of his recovery.
Mrs. Writ Sykes, nee Olive Logan,
lie It. the city this morning for Little
Ro ok, Ark, where she proposes to de-
liy, " series of interesting lectures.
Liar" thief" scoundrel," etc,
are pet words used by one or two of the
Litt lie Rock papers during their contro-
yers y over the $42, 400 levee bond theft.
Oy sters are received in this city in q
froze q state, so that it is impossible for
the bi valve lover to tell which is the
she'll ind which isn't while performing
the &C of d,,glutition.
Thir ty indiv. iduals, including ten fe-
male ulnfortanat, IS, contributed ten dol
lars ca Oh at the re, orders court to-day.
The po ice are raidil 'g on questionable
establi shments extensi, 'ely.
The grand duke has lie, t New Orleans
for Pensacola via Mobile, . embark on
board his flag ship. There is trouble
and weeping among the ascinateu
blondes and brunettes who sigh Nter de-
parted royalty.
Demorest magazine for March al
Mansfords news depot, corner of Seco uo
and Monroe; also, the Tribune an, 4
World Almanacs,. containing interesting /,
politi cal statistics and other valuable |
infon nation.
The marriage licenses returned to the
county clerk during the week marked
execut ed are Robert Lockwood and
Miss K atie A. Banks, John B. Fortl and
Miss Mary Ann Flaherty, d. NJ. Giles
pie and Miss M. Burke.
The Nicolson pavement throu ghout
the city is rapidly wearing out, owl, ug to
a multiplicity of causes, the prime ipal
one being the amount of dirt permit ted
to remain on its surface A few swee y
ing machines would do good service.
EMMoNs q SoS, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 4l0 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 generally
Fractional currency is said to be the
means Of distributing smallpox in the
North, and many persons in our city are
growing nervous about handling the
ragged. We are prepared t., receive
all the fractional currency in the city
and take the risk Of smallpox: with it.
Homer's Dream, as depic ted in mis-
Iliad, Odyssey, and other wonderful
productions, was represented in the
Mystic Krew procession at New Or
cans, The Myths of Memphis got up a
procession that even B,omer ne yer
dreamed of.
The closing lecture delivered by Oil We
Logan at the Memphis Theater |, lst |
night on Nice Young Men, attracted a
arge and fashionable audience. Fr ee |
owe, of the Woodruff and ClaA in
school, came in for Wintry blast fro m |
olive, who has recently embarked on t be
Ieething ocean of mstrimony.
The great Anglo-American muddls
var claims and Geneva conference we're 4
'hiehy caused by a former citizen ard
journalist of our city, the gallant sailc r,
Admiral Semmes, whose Alabama swe. OF |
he Northern commerce from the SCI IS. |
Ills little cruiser has become embalm ed |
n history, and will live 80 long as I be
English language exists.
DR.. Edwin Smith. who is charged it'll
naughty doings ia Gainesville, Ark, of
which an account was published in the
LEDGER Of Yesterday, waived legal ex-
before Recorder Winters, and
vas rems'nded to jail in default of Eve
housap'd dollars bonds to await a re-
Iuisit,on from the governor of flrkan-
as. The young lady connected with
he unfortunate affair was taken back to
Arkansas to-day by her brothers.
Our old friend. ]. I. Trezevant, Ieditcr
If the Augusta Arkansas Bulletin is in |