Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-09
LEDGER LINES.

The change Of weather yesterday drove
humanity from spring apparel into win
ter overcoAts, and last night iires we're in
demand. Tonight the solons Of the
city will hold an adjourned meeting at
the Exchange building. A fire last
night destroyed one-story shanty, con
tanning furniture, on the southwest cor
ner Of Second and South Court streets.
Spring races will commence on the 10Th
instant. A masquerade ball at Rocco
Hall last aight attracted the male mem
bers Of tho beau monde. and the female
members Of the other monde. On the
18th instant the Exposition bal .masque,
for the benefit Of the orphans, will take
place; get your costumes ready. Sew
eral Of the ex.grand jury assessors APP
pointed by the County Court on Monday
last sent in their designations yester-
day; the little officers were not wanted.
The Criminal Court jurors are beginning
to complain Of the elmer tectuIarius
which infest the crevices Of bedsteads.
The County Court continues TO beg our
leading reformers to accept petty Offices
at their hands; let the County Court
offer to the public remunerative office
and there will be any number Of takers,
you know. Who will be the next Mayor
is the cheerful conundrum which revolves
in the minds Of many aspiring Men,
phians at present; there are at least fifty
aspirants for the Office. Our country
exchanges are beginning to wrestle man
fully with the Funding bill. The Regis
ter man, not being musician, calls the
voice Of deringer " basso," when to
musical ears it is known as barry
tone; such musical mistakes are un-
pardonable, but then everybody has
not received musical education.
II will be pleasing to the chap who in
sists that we are merely standing on a
thin crust of earth to know that Prof.
LeConte says the earth is solid. For
tune.telers are making a living in the
suburbs among the colored residents.
A Memphis street beggar owns q ten
thousand dollar house and lot not far
from the Charleston depot. The season
for ice dealers is rapidly approaching
The Avalanche was full of spirits this
morning. Where to locate the County
Court building is the question both in
and out of the Quarterly Courtroom.
On the 18th and 29th inst. Barrett, the
tragedian, will appear at the Grand
Opera House in Hamlet and Rcsedale
Pin-pool is the exciting game with Mem
phians at present, when not INDUCING
in the three ball carom business. Girls,
the Fat Contributor, will deliver a hui
morous lecture at the Memphis Theater
on the 18th instant; subject, Injun Meal.
A swindler has been passing himself of
at Chicago as the President Of the Mem
phis and Raleigh narrow gauge railroad
of which Colonel Donovan is the head
and front. A petition 10 incorporate a
boulevard company to pike the road
from Memphis to Nonconnah creek,
along the old fernando road, was filed
in the Chancery Court last evening.
Hol by St. George Society was reorgan-
lied Monday evening. The cheerful in
cendiary was again at work at 2 o'clock
this morning. The prosecution in the
Keel Newell homicide case has broken
down. The Appeal calls an eminent
modern divine an Evangelist; heretofore
there were but four known by that dis
tinguished appellation, Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John. The Shelby County
Turnpike Company elected officers and
directory yesterday, and determined to
extend the pike few miles during the
present season; it is good stock lfor in
vestment. Next Monday evening the
oratorio of the Creation will be chanted
by our leading professional and amateur
vocalist at st. Peters church, with full
orchestral accompaniment; it will at
tract most fashionable audience.