Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-27
LEDerRLIsEs.


The Appeal Joker wants telescope in
order 70 enable him 70 discover the
Sunny South, the glasses he now uses
not being sufficiently powerful. The
mechanics Of the city are invited to
assemble at the Second Circuit court
room this evening, in order TO consider
the mechanics lien law question. The
Grand Lodge Of the Knights Of Pythiaa
will meet at Nashville on the llth prox,
The snow blockaded the street railway
tracks yesterday, so that mule power,
aided by the profane power Of the drivers,
availod but little. Detectives should be
inhibited from toting deringers, weapon
prohibited by statute; they should be
armed with the regulation repeater, as
are other members Of the police force.
II is lamentable fact that a citizen Of
the United States has no national namei
he Is an American, but so is Brazilian
and Mexican; the United States cit-
zen, when travelling in Europe,
generally calls himself after his State,
as a Tennesseean, Kentuekian, etc.
McCune, the champion deringer detec-
tive, has been suspended from duty, but
not arrested, and will probably be dis
missed from the force on the charge Of
attempting TO assassinate patrolman
Hagerty; reorganization Of the detec-
tive force is very much needed. The
average Memphian became youthful
again and INDUCED in snow.balling yes
terday. Mrs. Bowers in Lady Audley's
Secret at the theater tonight. The
cheerful local on the Register wants to
get into the Ledger Lines in order to be
immortalized. The Poor Relief Com.
mittee appeals to the citizens for assist
ance in the shape Of donations. Owens,
the great comedian, in Scion Single
at the Opera House tonight. The
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Readers of foreign telegIams are often
puzzled about the parties in the French
Assembly called the Right and the
Left" the former means the Mon
archial and the latter the Republican
parties. The Chamber of Commerce
meets at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Ole
Bull created taste for more music, that
will be added to when the Rubenstein
troupe appears at the theater. The
friends of Sergeant Arrata, of the Police
force, are making arrangements to pre-
sent him with horse and rigging-a
well deserved compliment to an efficient
officer. A number Of fights and personal
difficulties occurred yesterday on account
of the liberal use Of snowballs; several
persons had their faces cat by frozen ice.
Our scientific man finds himself involved
in trouble when he compliments the
weather clerk, that NEUROLOGICAL person
age not being able to stand up under
praise any more than hundreds of sub
lunar beings; when you compliment him
in the forenoon on his radiant counte-
nance, he goes back on you before dark
and retreats behind rain and snow. No
wonder Ole Bull finds music in a
diamond.hilted bow and fve-thousand
dollar cremona. The sleighists were
out yesterday in everything from a dry
goods box to cutter; from pre-Adam-
lite turnout without bells, to the latest
Yankee invention with tintinHabula-
tions. Slipping sidewalks made the
perpendicular line an object of study
with pedestrians this morning. Eggs
are fifty cents per dozen in Memphis at
present, owing to the swell of the polar
wave. Miss Lillian Edgarton will lee
ture in this city ere long under the aus
pices of the Reading Room Association;
other lecturers will be engaged during
the season. Memphis should have half
q dozen cotton mills, paper mill and
manufacturing establishments of every
description. Sleigh-riding cost from
five to ten dollars an hour yesterday.