Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-24
LEDGER LINES.

AED0Eh AANLos
The Memphis and Raleigh Railroad
Company has effected a new organizA-
ton, and has elected Colonel John Dom
ovan president; iron and rolling stock
have been ordered, and the road will be
in running order by June next. A big
hotel is TO be built at Raleigh Springs
for the accommodation Of three hundred
guests next summer. Recorder Winters
has decided that past due coupons or
other liabilities cannot be an offset
against taxes, and that the latter have
to be paid in money under the proVi-
sions OF the city charter as passed by
the General Assembly in March, 1870.
The clerk Of the weather, who is the
superintendent OF the meteorological
bureau ofthe War Department, promises
plenty Of sunshine for Mardi.Gras, and
has instructed his deputy at the Mem.
phis station to see to it, and report any
delinquincies, come from what quar-
ters Of the heavens they may.
Tomorrow the great Mardi-Gras Carni-
val will be in full blast The Cbamser
Of Commerce meets this afternoon to
discuss railroad matters. To the mask
ers and unmarked we commend the po-
lice orders of Chief Atby; no forfeits
taken tomorrow. The day after to-
morrow, Ash Wednesday. Sneak thieves
abound throughout the city; the night
patrols should keep vigilant lookout
for the rascals. At the Memphis Thea
ter tonight Miss Isabel Freeman will
appear in the Octoroon. The Lady Of
Lyons, with Carlotta LeClercq in the
role of Pauline" at the Opera House
this evening. SAKE will deliver two lee
lures in this city in March; the subjects
are Love" and "the French at Home"
Governor Brown viii be in the city to-
morrow, and will be received by different
committees appointed for that purpose.
In order to give the employees Of the
LEDGER office an opportunity to enjoy
the carnival no edition Of the LEDGER
will be published tomorrow afternoon.
Only two hundred and seventeen thou
sand dollars in taxes paid by our citi-
zens have been spirited away; old dog
enes, the cynic philosopher, should call
around with his lamp and hunt up the
mythical individual known as the honest
man. That flower born of spring, the
modest hyacinth, has opened out its
beauties to the world. Quite large
number Of strangers have arrived in the
city for the purpose Of attending the
carnival The reason why the street
lamps are not lighted on many cloudy
nights is that the contract between the
city and the Gas Company is based on
the probabilities of moonlight nights as
laid down in almanaes by the astronom-
ical editors, there being no provision in
the contract for lighting lamps about
cloudy weather when the moon retires
behind the murky veil. The local
Of the Appeal in prognosticating fine
weather to-day gave as an evidence
of the fact that wild geese we're seen
going northward yesterday" only q
goose, indeed, would pass Memphis and
90 to the northward when Mardi-Grass
was so near. The fancy cavalryman of
the police force will ride en- masque to-
morrow; it will improve his appearance
wonderfully, and it is to be hoped his
manners also. The fasting period of the
year known as Lent will commence on
next Wednesday and will continue forty
days; the Catholics are prohibited from
eating flesh meat on Wednesdays, Fri
days and on Holy Saturday, from which
rule only the sick, nurses, laborers and
old persons with feeble constitutions are
exempt.