Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-22
LEDGER LINES.


TINS evening.
Nothing Of interest on the Recorders
docket to-day.
The Garrick Club will appear in Rich
elieu next week.
Ada Gray, in the New Magdalen, at
the Memphis Theater tonight.
Rural newspapers are taking a hand
in the Memphis city elections.
The Sixth warders will nominate can
didt.tes for city Offices tonight.
This is the FIRST day Of the water sea-
son, autumn having closed out yester-
day.
Dresses are on the rise to-day on
Main street, and may be quoted higher
than usual.
When making your Christmas pres
ents do not forget the orphans and poor
of Memphis.
The candidate who fails to advertise
himself in the LEDGER will be forgotten
by the people on election day.
The Exposition masquerade ball, for
white people, tomorrow night, and for
colored people or Wednesday night.
Fred Schaper will be elected Tax Col.
lector by the largest vote given TO any
candidate on the LIST Of January next
Hello, Dick is the euphuistic ex-
preston used in the circle Of fashion at
Grenada, Miss. In Memphis the word
is "shakep
Ward meetings to nominate candidates
for the General Council and School
Board are popular things at present with
the average Memphian.
Election for Constable in the Fifth
Civil District tomorrow. The district
comprises the First, Second and Third,
and part Of the Ninth, wards.
Street cars are always off the track on
the corner Of Main and Jefferson streets.
This gives the mules a rest, but causes
an immense amount Of profanity to be
expended by the drivers.
Notwithstanding the enormous cost Of
living, we noticed the local of the
Register last night as with eye moistened
he squandered nickel on an Italian
harp child who harped unto him.
Leidy Boswell, ir., was appointed
Deputy Clerk of the First Circuit Court
by Clerk Ben Coleman to-day. The
youthful scribe is aged twenty-four
hours.
Paul Cicalla has again come forward
with a petition for mandamHs niSi to
force the Beard of Aldermen to readmit
him to his seat as Chairman of the
Board. The second epistle of Paul to
the Corinthian Aldermen will convert no
one.
The ex-commissaries, quarterm asters
and tent bummers of the Confederate
army now denounce as Radicals all mus
ket-toting Confederate soldiers who dare
to say that they will vote for League and
against Busby2 Can impudence 20 any
further2
The school fund, which ought to be
regarded as sacred, generally falls into
the hands Of defaulters. The State
school fund went up the spout, and now
the Shelby county school fund has gone
where the woodbine twineth with the
County Trustee.
Patrolman Rogers has been relieved
from duty, owing to his candidacy for
the Office of Wharfmaster, which causes
him to violate the recent police order
with reference to members of the force
mixing in conventions, political clubs
and elections.
The hypercritical dramatic critic of
the Appeal, who went for" Little
Nell and got laughed at by the public,
will probably draw his sabre de mon
pere on Miss Ada Gray, who appears to-
night in the New Magdalen.
DR.. Sears, the Peabody Fund man,
says: "As rule, female teachers are
superior to male teachers, owing to their
greater refinement, delicacy of taste,
keener sympathies and more attractive
qualities, so that they govern by love
with certainty where force would fail"
The Busby journals and small beer
orators have a good deal to say about
the "roughs and DULLES who will vote
for League, but have nothing to say as
to the "roughs and DULLES who will
vote for Busby. The kid-gloved gentle
mems party will not permit a plebeiau to
step betwixt the wind end their no.
bility.
The big and little Busbyites are now
rehearsing for the opera of L'AfricaRe,
to be sung by them in public on the LIST
of January. Our musical critic will be
in attendance on that occasion. The
programme consists of NEGRO melo-
dies " arranged for " sharps and flats,
and winding up with that fine National
anthem. If you do not vote for Busby
you deserve to be forgotten by your
Godl"
Shakeiii
" By the great Sierra Nevada," if you
wish IN ant the hest oysters imbibe the