Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-17
LEDGER LINES.

~ IS the opening OF the spring campaign
resulting in the total rout Of winter. On
tomorrow evening Rev. David Walk will
lecture at the Linden street Christian
church on "Spurgeon." Mardi Gras on
Tuesday week; get your costumes ready.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, one Of the most
readable journals published in the South,
can be found at the counting.room to-
morrow morning. Robert Emmett, by
the members of the Garrick Club, and
for the benefit Of the Memphis Bethel, at
the Grand Opera House tonight The
Ticket-ofLeave Man at the theater to-
night. Joseph Proctor at the Opera
House and Miss Ada Gray at the Mem
phis Theater tomorrow evening. SAKE,
the American humorist and poet, will
lecture in Memphis on the 9th and 9th
prox. All the civic societies Of Memphis
will assist in celebrating Mardi Gras.
The police force has its ugly man, its
beauty, its Incompetent man, its efficient
man, its giant, its dwarf and its scented
exquisite. Every day our proof reader
has to study words and signatures in
manuscripts that would puzzle Foster,
the mind reader, to decipher; those who
write for newspapers should do so in q
legible style, in order to save an inn
mense amount Of profanity on the part
Of the correspondent who sees his name
changed in print, and op the part Of the
printer who fires off figures Of speech
at the unknown writer. The sprightly
goats that infest the city have entered
into Credit Mobilier scheme with the
bill-posters; to witness half dozen
goats standing on tip-toe and reaching
up for some sweet morsel OF paste would
delight Darwin, and would cause him to
slyly insinuate that the "link" while seek
ing its food was also indulging in liter
airy repast off of posters, and resembled
man who read (2) his newspaper during
meals. A Baltimore physician announces
that smallpox is a cure for consumption
in all its stages; consumptives will be 10th
to wrestle with so loathsome disease
as remedy. People attending places
of amusement should leave. their ope-
ratio boots at home; the creaking boot
is most unmusical. The river is rising
rapidly, with plenty of driftwood in the
channel. Since the rains ceased UNI
brellas have disappeared from the mar
ket; to be the proprietor of an umbrella
during the past three days was to be the
envy of the impecunious and umbrella
less dweller in parallel $50 81. The mys-
FERROUS "Memphi" carnival deities have
distributed over one thousand invitations
to the full dress ball to be given at the
theater on Mardi-Gras night A two
dollar ticket, issued by King Menus of
the Carnival, win admit the bearer to
balls at the following places: Exposition
building, Cochran, Assembly, Turner'S
and Memphis Club Halls, and the
Commercial and Worsham Hotels.
The connecting link between the man
and the monkey is the menagerie, but it
is often doubtful which should occupy
the cage. 1t now turns out that talka-
tive bellies are abused by censorious
theatrical critics out of mere curiosity,
because the critic cannot successfully
eavesdrop on the conversation. At
last, those who commit murder in Mem
phis will have some difficulty in escaping
the gallows; the public mind is turning
against the men who dye their hands in
human blood; the insanity dodge is no
longer good apology for murder. Non
connah bridge on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad was washed away
last Saturday; close connection, how
ever, is made at the crossing by trains
from the north and south; the bridge
will be all right in few days. AT last
the Memphis custom-house bill has
passed both Houses, and has become a
law; the cost of the building is esti-
mated at over one million dollars. Col
ored thieves make things lively for sub
urban residents; mounted police force
for the suburbs would be quite useful;
as it is the suburbs are without any real
protection. Floods prevail everywhere,
and big freshet may be expected. The
will of Rev. Samuel ]. Browne, Of Gin
cinnati, has been set aside, on the
grounds of incompetency to make such
document; year ago Samuel Browne
shot a boy out of his apple tree, and
soon after, being on his death bed, made
a will leaving his large estate to educa-
tional institutions, and cutting off his
children without cent, General W. j.
s. Browne, of this city, being among the
number. A lady correspondent to a
moraing contemporary asks the origin OF
the phrase, THE army swore terribly at
Flanders" and the answer is given that
Flanders was a derelict army sutler; the
true phrase is, The army swore terri
bly, in Flanders" and it has been used
by English writer's and orators from time
out of mind; if the army was in Elan
ders, the sutler Flanders ought to have
monopolized the profanity. The suit to
settle the question as to whether the old
gas company has the exclusive right to
sell gas to the citizens of Memphis is
now being tried before special Chancel-
lor John G. Finnie; an array of expert