Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-24
LEDGER LINES.

The General Assembly will adjourn
sine die tomorrow. The Chamber Of
Commerce meets this afternoon. Mem
phis needs n Cotton Exchange. The
Malowny. Blackwell murder case is on
trial in the Criminal Court. A number
Of our leading merchants have been in
yited to attend the Recorders matinee
to answer the charge OF bloekading tho
sidewalks aud streets with goods, aud
thereby ignoring the rights Of pedcs-
TRANS; numerous complaints have been
made TO the authorities as to this sub
ject. The Avalanchian dramatic critic
will insist on putting the descriptive
word Mesdames before the names Of
actresses who are unmarried; Mes
demoiselles " or "Misses" would be
more appropriate the Appeal dramatic
critic has n passionate fondness for the
word "chic" (knack), which he fearlessly
swings inte criticisms on operate, dra
matte, minstrel and other performances.
The Katie Putnam troupe at the Grand
Opera House in Little Nell, or the
Warehouses. tomorrow evening Miss
Leo Hudson and her well trained
mare Black Bess. closed their engage
ment at the Grand Opera House; the
stellar attraction during the engage
ment was the quadruped. The distance
between Memphis and Nashville varies,
according to the astronomical survey
made by our Legislators, one Of whom
claimed milage for six hundred miles,
another for FIVE hundred miles, while a
third asked for only four hundred and
sixty-two miles; good deal depends
upon the route, it being impossible to
travel by the air line, Notwithstanding
the fact that every railroad is of course
an air line road. The Legislature will
appoint six additional Commissioners to
the Vienna Exposition. Nine-tenths of
the retail liquor men have obtained new
licenses to sell liquor for twelve months,
thereby annulling, in measure, the
effects Of the tipping or local option
bill for the next year it will be dead
letter on the statute book, so far as Mem
phis is concerned. Ben DeBar, as Too
dies at the Davey benefit at the Grand
Opera House tonight. The Trans
Atlantic Circus and Menagerie will
encamp on the bluffs next Wednesday
morning. The Memphis Theater has
closed for the season. Ryder, an old
Metropolitan police detective of this
city is in fair way to be sent to the
penitentiary from St. Louis; he and
many Of his metropolitan police
brethren were bad citizens. The
slowness of the mules and the If
regularity in the time schedule of the
street railroads are things to be won
dered at, but not to be understood ~
the average Memphian. A fashionable
newspaper man Of this city enjoys his
otium cum dig" III driving blonde
horse to a red-wheeled buggy. The
WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be had at
the counting room tomorrow morning;
single copy, five cents. The Poplar
street beer gardens and the cavalry
camp, near the Boulevard, were objects
of special attraction yesterday. Young
America takes the greatest interest in
the military camp on Poplar street Boul-
eve I'd; the old soldiers who took hand
in the last war have no such curiosity.
The itch for writing newspaper commu
nications is prevailing as an epidemic
in Memphis at present. G. +. Train,
who SO electrified Memphians some time
since by his oratory and astonished
them by his eecentricities has been pre-
nounced insane by board of New York
physicians, who state that his chief de-
Iusions, or illusions, we're that he was
pagan dictetoF, was the only man VINO
could save the county, and was the
leader of the Internationalists. The
Government buildings will in ell proba-
bility be erected on the corner of Third
and Jefferson streets Mr.. W. W. lit
tlejohn, of the Merchants National
Bank, went home last Saturday evening
and fognd there a little John whom
he had never befpre been introduced to-
but whom he greeted as a pear and deer
relative. The Raleigh Railroad Com
pany fled dozen suits for right-of-way
in Chelsea in the First Circuit Court
to-day. Clerk Boyle, of the Second Cir
( cult Court, has number Of transcripts
ready for ths Saprsme Court, and invites
attorneys interested to yqik gp aud ex-
! anime. An effort is making 20 run .
teleqra oh wire from Memphis to Helsi .
along the east bank Of the river.