Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-05
LEDGER LINES.
Expedition matinee tomorrow.

Charley White. Of the Jefferson street
| Opera House. takes benefit tonight.
The Citizens Relief Committee will
meet in Chief Athy's Office this afternoon.
The Louisville Library lottery draw
ing has been postponed until the slst OF
March next. fn ore
Dan Rice will camp on the bluffs on
Monday next, and give a circus per
formance.
The orchestrion at the Exposition was
in full blast last night; the music was
excellent.
Dealers in county warrants are stirred
up considerably since the County Trus.
tee defalcation.
The regular jurors Of the Second Cir
cult Court have been discharged until
Tuesday next.
Couldock will commence an engage
ment at the Memphis TheAter on Mon
day evening Rsxt.
Thieves from the upper country are
crowding into the city. The detective
officers pulled in several last night
The Philo-Thespian Club will give a
matinee at the theater tomorrow, when
the Lancashire Lass will be performed.
To-day the United States Court was
engaged in hearing the case Of the First
National Bank VS.. Mickle, Mason d
Smith. ,.r
This forenoon officer Dougherty ar
rested Joseph Abs on the charge OF
stealing fish on board the steamer Phil
Allin.
The argument of counsel in the Polk
Kirkland jackson Insurance Company
case is progressing to-day in the Second
Circuit Court.
Elder Paul Bagley will lecture to-
night at the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church on Court street Subject, Re-
ligion in Eastern Lands"
The Philo-Thespians will play the
Lancashire Lass at the Memphis Theater
to night. The theater will be crowded
by fashionable audience.
The Philo-Thespians serenaded the
LEDGER office last night, but unfortu-
nately the LEDGER men were not at home
to hear the musical compliment.
The Cotton Exchange meets this after
noon at the Chamber of c commerce. The
new rooms of the Exchange are located
ON the corner of Front and Madison.
Rev. David Walk has been confined to
his room since last Tuesd ay, but hopes
to be able to occupy his pulpit at least
on Sunday morning next, if not at night
also.
The News asks why don't the
LEDGER go for Busby2" The LEDGER
has been going for him since he ac-
cepted the nomination at the Opera
House.
Captain Harry Cranmer, of the detect
i've force, was presented with an elegant
gold badge by number of friends last
night. 1t was deserved tribute to
good and effective officer.
Major Busbys friends are jubilant,
believing that Mr.. Dent will split the
negro and Irish vote, and by this means
the Major will march into the munich
pal chair. Such is sang line life.
The sweet notes of the murderous
pistol we're again heard on our streets
last night, when John p. Grace shot
and killed barkeeper, Alexander W.
Taylor, because the latter refused him
drink.
The announcement made in the
LEDGER yesterday, in advance of all
other journals, of the defalcation in the
office of the County Trustee, caused
hutter of excitement in stock specu'
lating circles. The LEDGER holds moth
ing back from the public.
The Evening News, with that pluck
worthy Of better cause, obstinately re-
fuses to place the names Of Locke and
Rogers, Opera House candidates for Tax
Collector and Wharfmaster, at its head.
The News repudiates the second mass
meeting. The people will repudiate
both mass meetings in January next.
For an elected county officer to give
good and sufficient bond will soon be-
come difficult matter. The time will
come when the elected must not only be
popular, but he must be trustworthy and
responsible. Heretofore what is known
as farming out Offices has been popu-
lar. Anybody elected, no matter how
worthless, could give a bond, because
people would go on the bond and then
put clerk in who controlled the office
and made it the bondsman's Office in
stead of that of the elected nominee.
Personal.
Captain Billy Dill, of the elevator and
Memphis and st. Louis Packet Com
pany, has been petitioned to run for
Wharfmaster. He has promised to con-