Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04
LEDGER LINES.
onorum Court /. IN sesslon.

Quorum Court Is in session.
Bluff City Shooting Club meeting this even
ing.
The theatrical season will continue but a
few weeks longer.
The stockholders Of the Selma road elect
directors to-day.
Owens will appear in Heir-at Law and
Young America at the theater tonight.
The Adams street station has colored
turnkey. and Causey street lookup has two.
MacEyoy's Hibernicon matinee at the As
sembly Hall tomorrow. Exhibition tonight.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at the
counting room aud at all the principal news
stands in the city.
Many of the street car strikers left the city
yesterday for other points, the management
having refused to take them back.
An immense amount Of whisky and beer is
consumed in this city daily, yet it is not often
that drunken man is seen on the streets.
Back water prevails in the Chelsea district
bordering along the Nashoba and Mississippi
shores. A vast inland seScan be seen in this
classic locality.
The revival meetings now in progress each
evening at ~ O'clock at Rev. Mr.. McLean's
church. on Vance street. are increasing in
interest daily. All are invited to attend.
McWade will not appear here this season.
Heis Ripping" it through West Virginia,
and 1.-THE journals Of the locality pronounce the
representation of the vagabond Kaetskiller
he narfactiop &c drar n, orf
A heavy rain and hail storm last night did
more for the sanitary condition of the city in
an hour than could have done one thousand
men in twenty-four; the accommodating filth
Of ages was washed from the alleys and streets
into the river.
There are at least dozen dramatic critics
connected incidentally and otherwise with
the newspaper press of the city. On many Of
nights the boys all attend in the dress circle,
and we presume the question as TO who will
write the criticism is settled by lot.
A colored debating club at South Bend.
Indiana. at their last meeting debated the
question. Who done the most to liberate
the slaves. Abraham Lincoln or JEFF Davis p
The Confederate President was awarded the
palm. his partisans arguing that if it hadn't
been for JEFF Davis Mr.. Lincoln couldn't have
issued any emancipation proclamation at all.
The Fathers Of the city will assemble this
evening. and attend to monthly business.
Alderman Paul Cicalla, Of the Sixth ward.
will be reinstated. under the peremptors
mandamus of the Second Circuit Court. b.
F. Ball. who.was elected by the Board to fill
the vacancy caused by the removal of Cicalla,
will have to retire. Alderman Cicalla has
whipped his opponents out in the courts.
The individual who played the role of the
watch dog and who barked so naturally be-
hind the scenes during the presentation Of
Forty Winks by Owens last night, deserves
especial commentator, and certainly he de-
served the applause received from the au-
dience. Our dramatic critic was unable to
discover the name of the clever and versatile
actor, and hence it is lost to the world for the
present.
The Memphis Thsater is advertised for rent
for the next season. Last season Spaulding
Il Pope paid 5000 per annum; this season the
theater was rented out TO Mr.. Leffingwell for
5000, Messrs. Spaulding & Pope having bid
but 5000. The property is in the custody Of
the Chancery Court. and will. as last year, be
rented to the highest bidder. If managed by
men of experience there is money to be made
off the theater-going people of our city, as ac-
cording to the opinion of the best actors
Memphis supports theatcr better than any
city of its size in the United States.