Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-05
LEDGER LINES.
The Bluff City Shooting Club will meet
next Tuesday evening.

Inc Arhngtohh beat the ARGUES IN
base ball match in Chelsea yesterday by
a score Of thiriy.fve to fifteen.
The St. Andrews Society met last
night and made arrangements for the
annual celebration in November.
Mayor johnson will arrive tomorrow
and relieve Alderman Cicalla Of holding
the reins Of government any longer.
The Philo-Thespians will ere long
bring out their new play, the Lancas.
shire Lass, which has been in rehearsal
for some time.
The case Of Carroll, charged with
shooting with intent to kill, will be
heard by Squire Winters at two o'clock
this afternoon.
The handicap pigeon shooting match
inaugurated by the sportsmen's club will
be concluded at the trotting park next
Tuesday afternoon.
The Irish Literary Association met
last evening, when stirring debate was
inaugurated. The association is the
only live oratorical society in the city.
The domestic dog, the roofing hog,
the patient COW and the wandering goat
are permitted to roam at large through
out the city just like any other denizen.
Tho premium list Of the fair to be
held in this city on the 18th of October
by the Agricultural and Mechanical So
ciety has been published. The fair will
continue five days.
Mr.. John Allen, whose attempted sui
eide was noticed in yesterdays LEDGER,
has recovered, thanks to the medical
skill of his attending physicians, Doctors
Saunders, Avent and Chandler.
Prof. Baldwin, the medium, exposed
the Davenports, Foster and other
mountebanks, at the Grand Opera House
last night, and will do it again next
week for the benefit of the public.
An ordinance has been passed making
it Enable to the amount of fifty dollars
for one to hire skiff or small beat to
children under fifteen years of age.
There have been too many drownings of
late.
The awkward squad of the police force
was drilled yesterday. The boys we're
put through their facings by drill master
Hagerty in good style and in strict ac-
cordance with the army regulations or
tactics.
1t has been noticed that quite num-
Der of the Tenne ssee press.gang |"
have become successful preachers. The
practice of morality and other kindred
virtues while engaged in pencil-slinging
is good preparation for clerical life.
Our morning contemporary, the Regis
ter, has secured the services of Major
Joseph Barbiere as river and CONNER
cial editor. The Major is an old news
paper man; that is, old in the business,
but certainly most youthful in appear
ance.
Cupid Auttered in the Second Presby-
terrain Church yesterday morning, when
the Rev. Mr. Boggs performed the mar
riage ceremony which united Mr.. Simon
W. Green and Mrs. Lou E. Felts. The
happy pair left the city on trip to
cooler chimes far to northward.
To be or not to be (the next Mayor of
Memphis), that is the question. 1t is
time that the candidates should come
out and circulate from beer saloon to
beer saloon, which, like the Rialto, is
the place where local politicians do most
congregate.
Owing to the illness of Mrs. Victoria
C. Woodruff at Louisville, her lecture in
this city which was to have been deliv-
cred at the Grand Opera House tonight
had to be postponed. Due notice will
be given as to the time and place of the
lecture on the Scare-Crows of Society.
A sick person stretched at length in
the hall of the County Court Building,
and awaiting conveyance to the hos
pital, is not an unusual sight, but it has
become a nuisance that should be
abated by the rapid trips of the county
ambulance between the County Court
and the County Poor House.
The favorite beverage of the local ed
itors of Memphis is Kentucky Bourbon,
no matter whether they are Orleanists,
Bona partists or Gambettaites. Should
the question be asked, Have we Bour-
bon among us2" the sleeping apart
ments of each of our local contemporaries
could answer by furnishing demijohn
of the purest article, and this assertion
we make more in sorrow than in anger.
An intolerant Memphis preacher is
credited with stating that he would not
recognize as lady any female member
of his church who went to hear Mrs.
Woodhulrs lecture. The day for such
ridiculous ostracism has past and gone,
and its clerical advocate is merely gre
ping in the old ruts of medieval ages,
presenting the amusing appearance OF
one in whom the desire to prosecute has
outlived performance.
Memphis can boast of a man who
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