Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-14

LEDGER LINES.

Wild violets are abundant this season
in Memphis and surrounding country
The Quarterly Court will meet again OF
Wednesday morning. The oratorio o
the Creation will be the musical treat al
St. Peters church tonight. The Lenter
season is over, Lawrence Barrett at the
Opera House, in Hamlet, on the 2lsi
instant. The boys got new hook and
ladder truck last Saturday evening; il i,
beauty aud complete in every detail a,
to fixtures. Next Thursday evening the
Exposition masquerade ball will come
of for the benefit Of the orphans.
Broom's Opera House will soon be re-
opened under the management Of Charlie
White. The Geographic news to the
effect that Captain Jack and Modocs
had outwitted, betrayed and assassinated
General Candy near the lava beds ere
ated indignation throughout the city yes-
terday; the Modocs are a doomed tribe.
Mr. Wilson, the spiritualist and medium,
attracted a large audience to the Opera
House last evening. The Little Rock
railroad excursionists left this morning
The dust on the different railroads
centering in Memphis makes trav.
cling rather disagreeable than other
wise, but there is no remedy for it.
Fire plug water-works test this afternoon
at three o clock. The new county bridge
over Horn Lake creek on the lower Horn
Lake road is falling into the water, the
abutments being undermined by the
current. The Educational Board meets
this evening for the transaction of regu-
lar monthly business. st. Bridget's
Church Fair and Festival tomorrow
evening at Cochran Hail. Probate Judge
Ray is presiding over the Bartlett Cir
cult Court. Barber shops closed yester-
day out of respect to the Sunday law.
The Avalanche man writes that the
belle of Memphis is a irst-class whistler
and canary bird warbler; some modern
philosopher has given his opinion Of
whistling girls. The complimentary
benefit rendered to Miss Alexander, late
leading lady OF the Grand Opera House,
will take place tonight week at the
Memphis Theater. The Register man,
who has 4 cabbage garden somewhere in
the suburbs, is making vigorous and
unrelenting war ON the solemn looking
goats and festive hogs that prowl around
at night. The Reading Room Associa
ton has been changed into the Memphis
Mercantile Library Association as an in
Cooperation %ish the usual privileges.
The mouth of Wolf river and adjacent
submerged lands, over which the aquatic
denizens of the vicinity float and bask in
the twilight. may be termed the suburban
Venice of Memphis, through which gon-
dolas are propelled by the gondoliers OF
the period as they pass and repass under
the Bridge of Signs" the Doge of our
Venice keeps floating grocery. Yes
terday, Easter Sunday, terminated Lent,
and ushered in colored eggs. Since the
LEDGER took charge of the ogling Main
street brigade of swells, the dress pa
rades have not been largely attended.
The April term of the First Chancery
Court commenced this morning. The
beer gardens, the bluffs, Elmwood GENE
terry and Court Square, were visited by
hundreds of pleasure-seekers yesterday.
The fast driving buggy man occasionally
drives over child on Poplar street, when
racing on Sunday; such things make
fast driving more exciting, and break
the monotony of the Nicolson race
course. On next Friday evening the
Fat Contributor will give feast
of IDjun Meal at the Memphis Thea
ter. Chickasaw Jockey Club races
will commence on the 25th instant.
The lunstic of the bluffs preached to
A large audience yesterday. A half
dozen upper ten weddings are spoken
Of, now that the Lenten season has
closed. Several picnics viii be held in
Lhe Exposition building during the
present season. Spiritual seances at
the Grand Opera House tonight. The
question with the educational board is
gould it not be more equitable to reduce
the salaries Of the half dozen male
teachers to that paid the sixty female
teachers than vice versa. Chamber OF
Commerce meeting tomorrow at three
o eloek to consider the Selma railroad
question.