Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-24
LEDGER LINES.


Vegetables aud mosquitoes abound in
Memphis At present, Northern winter
invaded Southern spring yesterday, but
was handsomely repulsed from the
bluffs The Episcopal Convention, hold.
ing ia St. Mary's Cathedral on Poplar
street, is wrestling with the Hines Quin-
taFd imbroglio. The cheerful water
sprinkler who uses Wolf river auid as
settler OF dust ON the streets aud side
walks has Il weakness for sprinkling
pedestrians;e few well defined arrests
would efiectually settle this nuisance.
Broonrs Opera House has been changed
into Whites Opera House, and will he
re-opened next Saturday evening.
Captain Ad. Storm, Of the elevator, won
the trotting mare Lady Dempster at
rattle last night; Storm got Dempster
for one dollar. 81. Georges Society
banqueted at Kingdoms last night. The
Register man is still wrestling with the
couundrum, Why don't men marry2"
and being a married man, he has re.
versed the problem, and asks why do
men marry2' The lay members of the
Episcopal Convention present most
dignifed and intellectual appearance.
The Eighth civil district viii be agitated
oyer'the election of constable on next
Saturday. One Of our most learned
magistrates is an amateur painter
in oils, and dashes OF portrait with
as much facility as he would a pro-
found legal decision from the bench.
At last our morning contemporaries have
followed the LEDGER in the Vaughan
Hindman matter; the big sensation failed
to pan outreputation for any one. 1t is to
behoped that the next blood and thunder
prisoner arrested by the police authori-
ties will be allowed to be interviewed by
reporters, and that foolish secrecy will
cease at police headquarters. The can
tata and oratorio of Esther will be war
bled at the Memphis Theater on next
Wednesday Thursday and Friday even
ings. Hamlet" the Dane, will stab old
9 Polonius through the aTras at the
Grand Opera House on next Mon
day evening, and will exclaim,
" Have l killed the king ?"
Fashionable marriages by the dozen are
whispered of in social circles. The Uni
ted States Circuit and District Courts
we're opened by Judge Emmons this
There is no danger of the
Modocs attacking Memphis. Since the
United States troops indulge in scalping
and squaw killing the commanding gem
eral should change his name from Gill
EN- to Kill-em. Warm weather is pre-
dicted4 by the weather observer once
more. The Warm Springs Indians who
are fighting Captain Jack are believed |
to be luke-warm. Nathan Adams and
other delegates received their official
papers yesterday as commissioners to
the Vienna Exposition. "Hi-you-muok-
a-muck" means plenty to eat in the
Chinook jargon, which is used as a
means of communication between all the
Indian tribes of Oregon and Washington
Territories as well as between the white
people and Indians; it is the universal
language of the northwest coast, and is
no more Chinese than it is Arabic; the
Avalanche will have Captain Jack as a
rebel Mandarin next, fighting with cop
per gongs at the head waters of the
Pearl river. The beautiful poem, the
. Polish Boy" which was recited at the
theatre last Monday evening by Mr.. Jos.
Brooks on the occasion of the compli-
mentary benefit rendered to Miss Alex
ander, will be found on the first page of (
to-day LEDGER.