Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-21
LEDGER LINES.

VI hUcFty tclthof wv uOihTb u year, ~
advance" and Of such is journalism in
Louisville, The steam street car draws
passengers at Louisville, Kentucky, vice
mule and horse power, played out; when
will Memphis have a steam street car
Smallpox items appear in our ex'
changes; in order to escape the loath'
some disease come to Memphis, where
its ravages have ceased. The Hiberni.
con at the Assembly Hall. Humpty
Dumpty matinee at the Grand Opera
Houseto-day. Miss Emily Faithful writes
that she intends lecturing in the South
during the present season; arrange
ments are now being, made to have her
appear before Memphis audience
under the management Of Prof Tracy.
Christmas comes on apaee. An election
for three School Commissioners is hold
ing in the fifteenth district Chelsea
to-day. The charge of the 9593 regis
tered voters on the second Of next jan
uary will be equal to that at Balacklava,
so immortalized by Tennyson; the Office
seekers are preparing to receive the
enemy. Davy Crockett at the Memphis
Theater matinee to-day, with Mr.. Frank
Mayo as Colonel Crockett" Treasurer
Mcclure, of the Opera House, takes a
benefit next Monday evening. The APP
peal man insists that the chap who spit
tobacco juice on his Brussels carpet
yesterday is man of filth; Mulroy kept
showing the spittoon at the tobacco
chewer, who threatened to spit in it if
he didn't quit it, those who visit news
paper Offices, either on business or pleas
ure, should take warning. Next Wednes-
day the newsboys and children Of the
Bethel school will have a grand Christ
mas dinner at the Exchange building.
The longest day in the year, the twenty
first OF June, has been immortalized by
Byron in Don Juan, but to-day, the
twenty,6rst of December, the shortest in
the year, yet awaits the inspiration of
the poet. Masquerade balls will be all
the rage in Memphis this season. Willis
Hays, colored porter fell down eel
Ter stairway in rear of the Merchants
National Bank last evening, broke his
neck and died; Coroner's verdict acct
dental death. The white citizens regis
tered number 6552, and the colored,
3O4l majority for white over black, 35ll.
By investing fifty cents in poll-tax
receipt you can enjoy the felicity of
voting for Floater on the second of
January next. 1t is said that smallpox
is spread by means offractional currency
which absorbs the virus, etc.; our
Ledger Line editor is ready to accept
such currency, virus or no virus.
Edward A. Pollard, who some years since
welded the editorial destinies of the
Avalanche, and who since that time
wrote an amusing history of the war, is
dead. Many of our ablest lawyers hold
that under the city charter property
holding females can vote for municipal
offices and be elected to said Offices.
Richard III at the theater tonight.
Masquerade party at Commercial Hotel
next Tuesday evening. Orphans fair at
Assembly Hall next Monday. Citizens
ball at Exposition building Christmas
night. The Christmas dinner fiend pre-
sents cheerful appearance. That i'm
pulsive child, George F. Train, who cleo
trifed Memphians some time since, has
been arrested in New York for publish
ing naughty paragraphs in his journal
called the League. Miss Maggie Mitch
ell will appear at the Grand Opera
House next Tuesday night in Jane Eyre.
Privilege Tax Collector Mathes had a
negro porter arrested yesterday on the
charge of abstracting money from the
drawer; the money was found on the
person of the colored appropriation.
Since the proposition for a reporters
reunion on New Years eve fell through
for want of funds, the reporters will have
to take pot luck with the newsboys at
the Bethel" dinner on Christmas day.
The passenger train leaves the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee depot at eleven
o'clock each day in order to make a
transfer in daylight at the Yallabusha
river crossing, where conductor Childress
manages bull train in scientific style.