Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-31
LEDGER LINES.

The United States Circuit aud Dis
irlct Courts will convene next Monday,
with Judge Emmons as presiding officer.
Mrs. Bowers will remain during the next
week at the Memphis Theater, and will
present several new dramas. Mr.. George
Greeley, late County Register, died yes.
terday of smallpox. Ice continues TO
float down the Mississippi. Coal has
gone up beyond the reach Of even miF
lionaire; fuel is now bought by the cake
oil cake. Since the cold snap set in,
aud since coal and wood reached iabu-
lous prices, the sale Of ardent spirits has
largely increased. Hereafter legal adyer-
tisements will be inserted in the Memphis
papers at regular rates, payable in adj
vance. Marie Antoinette, with Mrs Bow
ers in the title role, at the theater tonight.
The celebrated Martinetti Ravel panto-
mime troupe at the Opera House next
Monday. Tho Mclean investigation
case, on hearing before Judge Heiskel,
is developing strange things concerning
tax. collecting in Memphis. Mr.. Owens
will appear in Paul Pry and Live Indian
at the Opera House tonight. The local
editor OF the Register is an ardent spirit
ualist, theoretically and practically.
An effort is making by few Memphians
to induce the Legislature to abolish the
Criminal Court; the Criminal Court is
terror to thieves and yagabonds, and
should, therefore, be abolished. The Sig
nal Service Bureau man says that the
weather is moderating in every direction.
II may as well be known that detec-
tive, being a conservator Of the peace,
has right to draw his deringer, attempt
TO murder a citizen. aud that no arrest
will follow unless the grand jury takes
the matter up; but il a citizen draws a
pistol on detective he is collared i'm
mediately, locked up, tried before the
Recorder next morning, fined fifty dol
lars for carrying concealed weapons and
placed under heavy bonds. No cars are
running on the Beal street line at pres
ent. You can take your choice at pres
ent between frst-class tragedy or com
edy. The Speed garroters are wabbling
on the Criminal Court gudgeon with
every prospect of being introduced
to the keeper of the penitentiary.
One Of our morning contemporaries IN
its local column has regularly poeti-
cal and rhapsodical description Of fair
Luna,lan containing an accurate ac-
count of her horns as seen by the local
through powerful glasses. The German
Casino ball will come off on the 9th
prox. at Cochran Hall. The Memphis
mechanics demand perfect lien law,
and have memorialized the Legislature
on the subject. Mcconnell, Of Blount
county, East Tennessee, has taken
charge of Memphis, and has introduced
Senate bill abolishing all the Shelby
county courts. Seven hundred and one
whisky dealers in Memphis A report
reached the city to-day that Miss Lydia
Thompson and her manager, Mr.. Sam
Colville, are down with the smallpox in
New Orleans. Mr.. Owens will appear
in FIVE different characters at the Opera
House tomorrow night, and on Sunday
morning will leave for New Orleans.
1t might be we'll for these people w'.o
carry on animated conversations at
theaters during the performance, and
those who are continually moving their
chairs, to know that they attract quite
as much attention as the actors, but not
Of so pleasing character; those at
tending for the purpose of enjoying the
play are often enraged by the thought
less, but brilliant, dress circle conversa-
tionalists.