Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-15
LEDGER LINES.


Knights Of Pythias special meeting
tonight at Commandry Hall. Dull
times in police circles; may such times
continue. Mendelssohn concert at the
theater tomorrow evening. The an
Lual ball Of the Italian society at Coch-
ran Hall next Wednesday. Rip Van
Wrinkle at the Grand Opera House to-
night. The Minstrels will appear at a
matinee to-day and farewell perform
ance tonight at the theater Main street
stores we're crowded with ladies yester-
day afternoon the balmy weather hav-
ing enticed the fair from their boudoirs.
The streets are drying up rapidly,
and now the occupation Of the APP
peal joker is gone; he has not howled
at Mayor johnson for several days.
How would it work to take in the greater
portion of Shelby county and call it the
city of Memphis2 st. Louis, Philadel.
phia aud other cities have done this with
counties, and the thing works like a
charm. Next Monday Pat Short will
have Jimmy Robinson, the champion
bare-backed rider of the world, at his
theater. Lunatics are becoming hume
rous in Shelby county thirty-three un-
fortunates occupy the county asylum.
The publication in the LEDGER yester-
day Of that clause in the city charter
prohibiting the Mayor from receiving
pastdue coupons in payment of city
taxes disposed effectually of the Appeal
conundrum, and has started our morn
ing contemporaries to again wrestle man
fully with the question of taxes.
A bill has been introduced into the State
Senate repeating the odious law which
DISTINGUISHES a citizen because he has
not paid poll tax. Another bill has been
introduced to abolish the usury laws and
permit money, like other property, to
find its own value. The law gives a
magistrate two dollars per day while sit
ting on the County Court bench, but the
magistrates vote themselves FIVE dollars
per diem, and we believe, with but few
exceptions, take the illegal pay, Dead
paupers will hereafter, as heretofore, be
placed in the charge of undertaken Jack
Walsh, who charges for the trouble seven
dollars for adults and three dollars and
seventy cents for children. Next Sun
day afternoon the German Mannerchor
will give free sacred concert at Cochran
Hall. The Mississippi is rising rapidly
and the Hopefeld sand-bar has disap-
peared. The Appeal local is in error
when he states that under Chancellor
Walkers decision, published in the LED
GER of yesterday, those who paid the
Nicolson pavement tax will have to pay
again; when the pavement tax comes TO
be assessed and collected, those who
paid will receive credit for the amounts
so paid. Spiritualism is receiving ven.
tilation in the morning journals, but
nothing new has been said upon the
much-vexed subject. The circus ring to
be put down for the horses at the Mem
phis Theater will be forty-three feet in
diameter. The Tomeny case will be
heard next Monday before Judge Flip
pin of the Criminal Court. The gentle
rain added material to the moisture Of
the season to-day. Griswold, the Fat
Contributor, purposes lecturing in Mem
phis this winter; so do SAKE, the hui
morist, and Miss Faithful, the female
philanthropist And now comes a
French physician who says that cigar
cite consumers invariably die of con-
sumption before they are fifty years old.
Representatives Kerr and Mulvihill are
on the Judiciary, Federal Relations, In
corporations, Commerce and other i'm
portant committees in the House of
Representatives. Next Friday the Leg
islature will elect Secretary Of State
from seventeen candidates, Treasurer
from three applicants, and a Comp
troller from twenty-five would.be mar
tyrs it is rumored that few Memphians
are aspirants to the above positions.