Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-14

OH mOHuhJ niBuJ.
About three hundred citizens of Mem
phis went out to the Bartlett mass meet
ing this morning
At the theater matinee to day Aladdin
will be presented, and tonight the Chap
mans will bid us adeu in the Forty
Thieves.
The cities and towns within two hun
dred miles of Memphis will empty their
inhabitants into Memphis on Mardi-
Gras day.
Our hotel men, restaurant and board
ing house keepers should put down the
price Of board and accommodations on
Mardi Gras day
Would-be temperance men now chew
fine cut tobacco which has been stepped
in rum. The double effect produced is
said to be pleasant.
The directors of the Charleston rail-
road are to investigate the condition of
the road, and committee has been APP
pointed for this purpose.
Mrs. O'Byrne will give readings and
recitations at the Memphis Club Hall to-
night. Mrs. Czapsky has consented to
appear and give several vocal exercises.
The Appeal man, through the columns
of his journal, seems to be carrying on
Irritation with Little Fraud" and
she is doing the same with big fraud.
Quite large delegation went out to
the Bartlett Conservative mass-meeting
this morning. What the meeting will
accomplish remains yet to be developed.
A rough and tumble fight between
politicians took place at the foot of Beal
street this forenoon. Mr.. NJ. had the
end of his thum bitten of, and the fight
closed without further damage.
Colonel W. T. Avery declines to be-
come candidate for Governor. This
takes the prominent West Tennessee
candidate out of the field. The light
weights can now come to the front.
If the iDcorrigible Democratic Boui-
bons attempt to run the Bartlett meeting
to-day nothing but defeat will result in
August. Let the conservative people
and young men take the lead; the old
fogies have had their time.
R. F. Arrata has been appointed
Deputy Sheriff. Arrata was recently
sergeant of the police, and the very best
sergeant on the force, but he was re-
moved to give place to new man and
prominent ward politician.
The concert at the Memphis Club
Hall last nj ght for the benefit of the
German Protestant Church was well at
tended. The entertainment was mu-
steal success, and the result was sue
cess in pecuniary point of view.
Chew COleman's Pressed Fine Cut.
Dead.head politicians and impecu-
nious candidates for office have deserted
our office on account of the patent Bo-
gardus kicker, which lifts their coat
tails high in the air by way of suggest
ing where they will go when they run
for office.
On the LIST pfoximo, under the super
intendence of Mr.. Barrett, extra street
cars will be placed on the differentroutes
for the accommodation Of the public.
For sometime the irregular running Of
the cars has been the cause of COM
plants. The Poplar street cars should
run to the foot of Main street as form
erly.
The Register has backed out and no
longer howls at Mardi Gras, but its heavy
man will no doubt keep his promise to
" draw his sword, throw away the scab-
bard, and make war upon this vicious
mumery, and like Ivanhoe in the lists of
Ashby De la Zonche, strike with the
sharp point OF his spear upon the shield
of this heathenish display, and fight
Ia outrance until all such vicious Gus
toms be abolished"
A few years ago the Memphis and
Arkansas River Packet Company owned
twenty-five vessels; now they own but
two, both Of which are mortgaged to
their full value. The capital stock
amounted to $4,000, all of which has
been sunk and lost. President Adams,
at meeting Of stockholders held at the
Cotton Exchange yesterday said the
affairs of the company could be closed
by either assignment or bankruptcy. A
committee was appointed to examine
the books and see where the assets
went to.
Last night the performance at the
theater did not commence until halfpast
eight o'clock. The unmusical musicians
would not strike note until other notes
Of a green color were planked down.
The drums ceased, the violin strings
were mute: the bass fiddle was basely
silent, and the brass trumpet ceased to
howl until the difficulty was settled on a
solid basis. In the meantime the gods
in the gallery supplied the music with
cat-calls, vhistling and yells, if not as
musical as sounds ordinarily furnished
by the orchestra, yet they filed up the
unmusical chasm, and amused the wait
;,g and weary audience.