Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-17
LEDGER LINES.

Little Nell as the Fire waif" at the
theater tonight,
Masquerade ball at the Exposition
Building next Tuesday evening.
Big meeting in the Eighth ward, on
Poplar street, at the market-house, to-
night
Alderman ]. NJ. Pettigrew. OF the
Fourth ward, declines 10 be candidate
for reelection
Alderman Treadwell Of the Sixth
ward having resigned, L. L. Clark has
been elected TO GIL the Aldermanic
vacancy.
The officers OF the Board Of Health
viii be appointed by the incoming mu-
nicipal administration. Mayor johnson
declines the task.
A buzzard sailed aud circled over the
city for hours yesterday. as il in search
Of something to eat, Up to IL m. to-day
no local politician had disappeared.
Two thousand people visited the Expo
sition last night and enjoyed the prone
made concert. Tonight the colored
people will visit the Exposition en- masse.
Messrs. j. Harvey Mathes and L. G.
Jones have been appointed by the Cen
eral Council as historians to compile a
history OF the yellow fever epidemic Of
1873.
At the polls on the LIST Of January,
10, lG4 registered voters will rally. There
are 1859 whites and 1925 colored SOW
ereigns in this city of ours; so say the
registrars, who closed business last night.
The right end of the dress circle at the
theater, which heretofore was frequented
and haunted by theater feuds who ad-
mired some actress, is now occupied
nightly by newspaper reporters and
critics.
Last night the General Council de-
sired to send a medical man to the meet
ing Of the Boards of Health Of the Uni
ted States, to be held at Washington
City in January next, but they could not
agree as to the bill of expense.
The General Council and Citizens
Sewerage Committee report in favor of
system of sewerage, the work to be
constructed yearly and paid for in cash,
and that the Legislature be petitioned |
to empower the city to levy a tax of
fifty cents on the hundred dollars for
this purpose.
The man who will leave the city if
Major Busby is not elected had better
start now. How silly it is to assert that
any one man is the political or financial
savior of city like Memphis Even if
all the gentlemen who intend to vote
for Major Busby were to leave the city
it would still be a great city, and the
loss in population would hardly be felt.
The cheerful local of our shutdown
contemporary ran for Councilman of the
Seventh ward in January last, and al
though on the colored ticket, sandwiched
between H. N. Rankin (col.) and c.
Dickinson (col.), this ungrateful repub-
lie only gave him eighty-two votes out
of two hundred and eighty. The colored
men on the ticket were beaten because
they had to pack too much weight.
The canvass is becoming decidedly hot
in many of the wards, and the candidates
can be found in the thickest of the fight,
where beer flies thickest at FIVE cents
pint. At a meeting held in the Tenth
ward last night, Major Busby waltzed up
to the great issue by saying If elected,
as | believe / will be, / will know no
nationality or race in my nominations
for Office or position in our city" The
Major will never have the opportunity of
carrying these glittering generalities into
practice, as he will be the last horse in
the race over the municipal course in