Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-15
LEDGER LINES.

OF Waters. Each year settles the fact
that Memphis is the real head Of navi-
CATION on the Mississippi. The periodi-
cal serenader is again preparing to
accompany the dogs Of the suburbs Of
midnight in a sonata or fantasia from
some bowling opera; get your brickbats
ready. Fashionable weddings in the
misty future are freely spoken OF in
social circles, A personal notice in a
city paper ia the highest aspiration Of
many country editors who make weekly
trips to the Bluff City. Our news editor
received valuable literary contribution
in the shape Of poem in ton stanzas,
and in which capitals were ignored and
bad spelling and worse grammar we're
siudiously selected by the author, who
wrote the sublime eifnsion not for pay,
but in order TO kill time and assist the
editor in filing up-the waste basket.
Il is said that our Representatives in
the Legislature have not as yet made
up their minds as to how they will
vote on the court question:" they
are awaiting news from the front, and
may hear il on next election day.
Since the slow time schedule has been
adopted on our street railroad lines, IL
has been suggested that Pullman palace
sleeping coaches be placed on the differ
ent routes. The next great musical at
traction will be the Aimee French Opera
Bouffe troupe in March. The unpoetical
rain fell increasingly last night, bat it
did the city scavengers great assistance,
and will improve the health of our city
by removing the well defined smells and
stenches that greet the nasal organs of
our citizens at every corner A newand
revised edition of the codifed laws of
the State is imperatively needed by those
dabbling in legal matters; the present
Code has been repealed and amended to
such an extent that the work has been
almost useless TO the legal profession.
Next Tuesday evening Rev. David Walk
will lecture at the Linden streetChristian
church on "Spurgeon and his Works.
Poor Froude is lecturiHg in England on
America, giving his few weeks experience
from critical and philosophical stand
point. Since keno abdicated in favor Of
the Criminal Court,quiet games ofpoker
and exciting games of pin pool form the
sum of happiness of the CHANDELIERS,
The cheerful stool pigeon" and
roper" want the Criminal Court abol-
ished, and brag that twenty thousand
dollars can be raised where~ith to pur-
chase the Legislature, A large and
fashionable audience of young Mem
phians attended the Memphis Theater
last night by way of complimenting Miss
Katie Mayhem, the beneficiary. lie Roi
Carotte matinee at the Opera House
and Blade O Grass matinee at the Mem
phis Theater to-day. Robert Emmett by
the'members of the Garrick Club, at the
Opera House next Monday evening, for
the benefit of the Memphis Bethel.
Captain Gifts war story, The Cutting
Out of the Underwriters" will appear in
the LEDGER next week. Attend the
Union Festival at Rocco Hall this even
ing. Everybody is preparing to do
homage to King Menus on Mardi-Gras
day. Valentines day, yesterday, was not
celebratedin an epistolary way to any ex-
tent by the comic or sentimental citizen.
Thunder, lightning and rain early this
morning; spring approaches. At least
twenty Memphians aspire to succeed
Mayor johnson in the Mayorality chair;
well known newspaper man has a
weakness in that direction, but this is all
it will amount to- Another effort will
be made to finish the Raleigh railroad.
The patrolmen should be instructed to
arrest dray drivers who make their
mules sweep around street corners at a
pace that seriously threatens the lives of
citizens; this nuisance has continued
too long already; the stringing out OF
drays is violation of the city ordi-
nance, yet it is practiced almost daily;
pedestrians should have equal rights to
crossings. The Chief of Police has re-
ceived a communication from Walsh, M.
D., of Baltimore, with reference to a
fearful poison known as Xylol; our ex-
changes inform us that the police OF
nearly every city have been the reeipi-
ents of DR.. Walsh's communication
the thing is hoax. A great deal has
been written concerning laxative peo-
pie who attend places of public amuse-
ment; it has been remarked by actors
that Memphis has the best behaved and
most attentive audiences Of any city in
the land; our theatrical reporter has
not as vet been able to discover a single
Memphian, male or female, who fails to
speak during the performance, the cen
serious critics not excepted, The jury
instead OF Sturgeon, the boy-killer, has
been hung in the Criminal Court for
nearly three days.
Probate Court business.