Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-09
LEDGER LINES.

Two inmates OF the county jail died OF
pneumonia last night.
Dan Rice will appear in the ring with
his wonderful blind horse, Excelsior"
tonight.
The number Of children in actual at
tendance at our pablo schools is; white,
2063; colored, 52s.
The Howard Association will soon
issue an official report OF their good
works during the epidemic.
Eight hundred and twenty.three vo-
ters have been registered in the Eighth
ward. OF these 275 are colored voters.
Mr.. Couldock will appear at the thea
ter tonight Ia his great specially Of
" Luke Fielding" in the Willow Copse.
Sovereigns, to the front and get your
registration papers The registration
offices close on the l6th-only seven
more days.
At the County Court meeting in jan
nary next new County Trustee will be
selected from the numerous candidates
in the field.
In the Second Circuit Court to-day,
the Court granted divorce to Helen
Croker from Henry Croker, on the
ground Of abandonment.
The jury in the case of the Polk ad-
ministrator VS.. Kirkland went out last
evening and had not returned with YER
dict up to o'clock to-day.
The Memphis paper collar brigade of
liberty will march on Cuba (Tenn.) if
the Virginius is not given up and
anchored at the mouth of Wolf river.
Rumor has it that the Cicalla case de-
cided yesterday by Judge Halsey, Of the
Second Circuit Court, will be taken up
on appeal to the Supreme Court by
Cicalla's counsel.
The period has arrived in Memphis
when two sixty-pound boys in fifty
pound wagon, all drawn by thirty
pound goat. thereby presenting the
clearest proof of cruelty to animals.
Mr.. G. w. L. Crook, of Chickasaw
Lodge No. 8, l. o. o. F., was presented
last evening at the lodge room with a
costly and elegant set of silver service
by his many appreciative friends, mem
bers of the Order.
In the Criminal Court j. M. Jefords
was tried on charge of larceny. The
jury, after short absence, returned a
verdict Of not guilty, and Mr.. Jeffords
was honorably discharged.
In answer to correspondent from
Moscow, Tennessee, we state that
Boss Tweed was never in Congress,
but we insist that he has been in the
penitentiary, which, in all probability,
does not contain any meaner men than
the Congressional building.
A specimen turnip ten inches in d.
ameter and weighing several pounds
appeared on our book table this morn
ing. The vegetable is from the planta-
ton of G. W. Parker. at Horn Lake
Depot. These immense turnips can be
seen at the seed store of 81. g. Craig IL
Co.
A gentleman was found reclining on
the steps of Madison street bank last
night He locked like a Government
bank examiner, but was drunk. Ere he
took recumbent position he muttered
over the Shaksperean statement, How
sweet the moonshine sleeps upon this
bank. Here let us rest.
The hurdle race, over the Bluff City
course, ten ward hurdles, for the munic-
ipal course comes off on the LIST of Jan
uary. The entries are Major Busby,
out of Peoples Mass Meeting, and John
League, out of Irish, German and Re
publican Convention. In the pools the
betting is about even, with the odds
wherever you put your money where 1t
will do the most good.
The intellectual American regards
mass meetings as kind of opera bouffe
indigenous to our soil. From an amuse-
ment standpoint, our Ledger Liner in
sists that quarter dollar admission fee
should be charged, the intrinsic value of
a mass meeting being worth thousaRd
dollars to man who has a proper APP
probation of the grotesque and the
arabesque.
The genuine average Memphian, hav-
ing secured taste for mass meetings
when Major Busby was nominated, was
in his glory at the Greenlaw Opera
House last night. He sang, yelled,
cheered, Missed, in fact did about as he
pleased in public. Among the demons
brought into notoriety by the newspa-
pers the mass meeting fend should not
be ignored. He is rara avis on the
bluffs, but we presume he will now have
to figure in ward meetings unless some
half dozen enterprising citizens will 90
through the toll and trouble Of getting
up another "hOop-la" mass meeting,
convention OF what not