Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-11
LEDGER LINES.


Next Saturday, the 18th instant, is
known in religious circles as Holy Sat-
urday, and next Sunday as Easter
Sunday. Drinking through straws has
become the weakness of the bibulous and
spring-oppressed Memphian. How few
people appreciate the fact that one of
the grandest and greatest rivers in the
world rolls beneath the Chickasaw bluffs.
The matinee fiends will have no occupa-
ton tomorrow, the theaters being closed
for the season. Lawrence Barrett will
enact "the Dane" in Hamlet, at the
Opera House, on the 18th inst. On the
evening Of Friday the 18th, Girls" the
humorist of the West, will lecture and
amuse visitors at the Memphis Theater.
The Mississippi is doing his level best to
get over his banks; he wants to fund on
both sides. The dearth Of news is ter
rible strain upon morning newspaper
reporters at present, but we might truly
exclaim, in the language Of Falstafi,
Lord how this world is given to
lying" The barbarisns, known as the
BARRIERS, have issued barbarous procla-
nation against Sunday shaving, citing
section 1928 Of the code, which prohibits
all persons from exercising the common
avocations Of life on Sunday; those who
print and publish newspapers on Sun
day had better look out. Next Thursday
evening, the 18th instant, the grand
Exposition masquerade ball, for the
benefit of the orphans, will come of.
1t might be said that gas in Memphis is
a Gift to man. Tenors, baritones and
bassos make the night hideous in the
suburbs from serenading point Of
view; even the housetop cat makes COM
mon cause with the ours of the neigh
borhood in supplying the chorus. Dead
for ducat, dead" Shaksperean say
ing, has no binding force in Memphis,
because it costs many ducats to bury
even pauper, although duck it" is
good since the paupers are buried in the
back waters of Wolf river. A man who
has thousands of dollars invested in
business, but who boards at hotel, is
disqualified from being juror in a
criminal case, because he is not house
holder or freeholder, yet the aquatic duck
who has dwelling on Wolf river is COM
petent such is the Tennessee, Jury law
To be or not to be the next Mayor, is the
question. Those unsteady inclined will
attend st. Peters church next Monday
evening, when the Oratorio Of the Crea-
ton will be chanted under the leadership
of Professor Perring. The Quarterly
Court is in session, attending to the
financial and other affairs of the county.
Our leading lawyers are absent in at
tendance at jackson on the Supreme
Court; Memphis supplies the Court with
two-thirds of the business from West
Tennessee; yet constitutional provis-
ion makes Jackson the place where the
Court shall sit for the Western division
of the State; this should be changed
Elevated guests are now elevated to
their rooms in our principal hotels by
steam and water power. This is good
Friday. A certificate to practice law
was Issued 70 E. P. Bates of the County
Court to-day. The Quarterly Court Jail
Committee reported to-day that the
county Jail is in perfect order and is
under good management. The Poor
Relief Executive Committee will meet at
Chief Athy's Office at 81 o'clock this
afternoon for the purpose Of winding up
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