Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
LEDGER LINES.

The Probate Court will be in session
tomorrow.
The Supreme Court convenes at Nash
vile on Monday next.
The weatherwise predict plenty OF i0'
and snow this winter.
The Irish Literary Association meet
tonight at SO Poplar street.
Numbers of Memphians are enjoying
themselves at New Orleans at present
In the Recorders Court to-day Bill
Walker, negro, was committed in defaul
Of bail on the charge of robbery.
The fair of the Jewish children at thu
Memphis Club Hall last night was largely
attended and passed off successfully.
The holidays are approaching rapidly
if such can be judged by the display o
Christmas goods in our store windows
General Council meeting tonight a
City Hail. when the regular monthly
business FOR December will be attended
to.
Already you can see the ward bum
mers button holing influential citizens
in order to seek the thrift that follows
fauning.
Next month our Senators and Repre-
sentatives will visit Nashville and assist
in settling the hash of that old fossil and
malignant hater of the South, A. j.
Little Nell as Capitola in the Hid
den Hand at the theater tonight. The
play is dramatization of one of Mrs.
Southworth's sensational novels.
The irregularity and slownsss of Bar.
rett's mule box trains is becoming pain
fully apparent. Waiting twenty minutes
for box and mule is not unusual in the
suburbs.
Nashville is having contracted per-
feet system Of fire alarm telegraph and
public fountain. These things are sew
eral hundreds of years off from Mem
phis at present.
During the past month 1853 dodgers
were Accommodated with sleeping rooms
at the Adams street station-house. Dur
ing the same month 555 arrests were
made by the police.
AT present, owing to the tightness of
business, every man hopes through a
iudicious expenditure of money to make
little cash go long ways, and no one
can object to so wise a policy.
A st. Louis editor, noticing some
paragraphs in the Memphis papers, asks
inquiripgly, what is q garter2". Let
the st. Louis man see for himself as
does every other respectable citizens in
this land of freedom.
Several well.known burglars and
thieves, who ply their trade between st.
Louis and New Orleans, are in the city
at present. These men no doubt robbed
the cash drawer of the City of Vicks
burg, as it is understood that they came
to Memphis on that boat.
A gentleman just returned from Texas
says there is too little wood and water
in the Lone Star State. He remained
in Texas three long, weary months, with
no hope of a bright future, so he re-
turned to Memphis.
Fire Chief McFadden has had stalls
for horses put up Immediately in rear OF
the hook and ladder truck, in the Adams
street engine house, so that no time will
be lost in hitching up and getting out to
a fire. This shows enterprise in our fire
department.
The rural towns and districts of West
Tennessee are just now interested in
religious revivals which gather to the
church the wicked and the ungodly Of
those localities, so that when they come
to Memphis they will do better than
heretofore.
Investigation by scientists has shown
that close bed chambers are injurious to
health. During the winter season it is
best to ventilate by keeping door open.
But il there be fire in the room a win
dow should be left open at the top for
for the space of about one inch.
The matrimonial epidemic which
ragged SO fearfully in this city two weeks
ago, has ceased to be dangerous, so
strangers can come to Memphis with inn
punity, Rumors however, exist as to
several prospective marriages in blue
blood" circles ere long.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
in noticing a shooting ARRAY that &C.
Cured in Mississippi, says; 1.-THE good
old times still prevail in Tennessee. I"
These Northern Republican journals
never worry themselves over a trihing
inaccuracy where the South is con-
cerned
A growing nuisance exists near the
theater in the shape of young mscker.
els, who come around the front doors
and annoy every theater-goer by asking
them for checks or passes. The police
who attend the thcater should attend to
these young nuisances, and lock dozen
of them up for few hours.
7, Uolono Arkansas the vonng hIoods