Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-22
LEDGER LINES.

Broom's Opera House was closed for the
season last night, under a writ Of for
chile entry and detainer sued out by the
owner Of the building, who purposes
turning the house to mercantile uses.
DeWalden's drama entitled War Clouds,
with Mr.. Bishop in the leading role, will
be the attraction at the Grand Opera
House tonight. Attend the ball Of the
Italian society at Cochran Hall this
evening. The prospect Of the weather
to-day is more rain, the Signal observer
speaks of general fall Of snow this
morning throughout the Northwest
Billiard playing is the popular amuse-
ment with young Memphians, while pin
pool is the fashionable method of gambl-
ing. The thirtyseven magistrates of
Shelby county adjourned the County
Court yesterday. A new national bank
on Madison street is talked Of in 6nan-
cial circles. The sale of tickets for the
Ole Bull concerts on next Friday and
Saturday. is progressing rapidly at Hol-
lenberg music store. The independent
and undismayed sovereigns of the Eighth
ward are wrestling for councilman to-
day. That Shakespeare was a believer in
Spiritualism is evident from his plays,
Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, etc,
where ghosts form part Of the dramatis
persone of spirits it may be said the
earth has bubbles as the waters have
and these are OF them" and yet our
scientific man never saw, smelt, heard
or felt ghost. Twenty-seven Esquires
sat in the County Court ten days at a
cost of $3.50 to the tax payers; large |
amount Of business was transacted. |
The oiice-seeking Memphian is already |
considering the prospects for the year
1874. In few weeks, on the 25th prox.,
comes the carnival known as Mardi-
Gras. The river is going up again.
The people of Bolivar, Hardeman
county, like the people Of Memphis,
subscribed literally to a fund for the
erection of amonument to the Confed-
crate dead, but the Bolivar people have
erected beautiful shaft of Italian mar
BILE, and the Memphis monument has
been forgotten. When a belligerent
Memphian gets black eye he repairs
to an artist who frescoes the bruised |
spot in a manner that defes detection.
Mr.. Hobbs, of Humphreys county, the
newly elected Comptroller Of State,
takes his Democracy straight; he was a
Confederate soldier, and was wounded |
at Fort Donaldson. The State Teachers
Association is in session at Nashville
to-day. The agent Of the Memphis and
Shelby County Bible Society has issued |
an appeal for assistance, so that the
news that " salvation has come to
Israel" can be told to the sin cursed
race " who reside " beyond the Father of
Waters" The remains of the late
Major Ed A. Beecher were followed to
Elmwood Cemetery yestei day afternoon
by nearly every member of the bar in
the city. Mrs Bowers will be at the
Memphis Theater next week, and Mr..
John E. Owens will appear at the Grand
Opera House; the lovers of legitimate
drama will patronize both places of
The Avalanche pencil
singer speaks of himself as one of
the reporters who, by the stern fat of
the late improvised manager of Broom's
Opera House was debarred admittanoe
TO the late intellectual exhibition, and
who for some time past had to walk
nightly the flags in front to admire the
outside architecture of the great variety
show; this is an honest confession.