Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-13
LEDGER LINES.

The local joker Of Union street
gavely states that none but frst'clasI
citizens Of known respectability and cul
ture. are received by Mr.. Foster, the
medium; yet in the same paragraph the
joker informs the world that be was one
Of 1.-THE received. President Grant has
written note thanking the St. An
drew's Society Of Memphis for the com
plimentary address delivered recently al
festival. In response to the toast-the
President. The distressing distress war
rants will be executed on personal prop
erty by Tax Collector Powell after the
10th instant, for past-due State and
county taxess The Mendelssohns will
give grand concert at the Memphis
Theater next Thursday evening. Robert
McWade as Rip Van Wrinkle at the
Grand Opera House tonight. The fes'
tive Memphian who usually gets drunk
at picnics, will have to walk mile
from the grounds next summer in
order TO get a drink, If Floater
Kerr's bill becomes a law. Mem
phis Ibelles practice sketching on their
eyebrows with black lead.pencils. Ice
foated down the river last evening.
Spiritual circles will be busted to-day,
as Mr.. Foster leaves for the South.
Memphis newspaper correspondents are
coming TO the front and advocating a
property qualification to the elective
franchises most unpopular, unrepubli-
can and unconstitutional measure. Gar
deners should plant peas at once, If they
have not done it; likewise tomatoes un-
der glass, to be twice and thrice trans
planted, before they go into the open
ground lin the middle Of April next.
The sovereigns Of the Eighth ward will
engage in struggle for a Councilman
on the 22d instant. The WEEKLY LEDGER
can be found at the counting-room to-
morrow morning; it will contain Capt.
Gifts sea story, the Cruise Of the 0lus-
tee. Mr.. Lindsley's bill, if passed by
the Legislature, will prevent the County
Courts of the State from electing its
members to the office Of assessors, coro-
ners, notaries public, and other nice Of
fees for which outsiders apply in vain.
The Rev. D. W. Hull challenges the
clergy of Memphis to discuss the ques-
ton of spiritualism; many persons in
sist that spiritual manifestations are the
result of mesmeric power, supernatural
aid or diabolism, while few suspicious
individuals aver that it is nothing more
than series of clever tricks by an
adroit cenjurer; our opinion being
worth nothing, or in other words, worth
as much as the opinion of any other
individual, will not appear in Ledger
Lines. Friday next the Secretary Of
State, Comptroller and State Treasurer
will be elected by the Legislature. States
are being manufactured already for the
next mayoralty election; there will be
no lack of selfsacrilicing candidates
Duprez & Benedicts Minstrels at the
Memphis Theater tonight. The
new School Board will assemble this
evening and elect Chairman and
Secretary-two fat Offices. Annual cleo
ton of Directors OF Union and Planters
Bank to-day. The Criminal Court has
adjourned over to tomorrow morning,
when it will adjourn to court in course.
Application was made in the County
Court to-day for the issuance Of the
third installment Of one hundred thou
sand dollars bonds to the Selma rail-
road; the Company proposes to pur-
chase and lay down iron in few months
j. W. Goddard, Of the sanitary police,
died yesterday of general debility.