Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-12
LEDGER LINES.


To night the San Francisco Minstrels
will appear at the Greenlaw Opera
House.
The Mendelssohn Clubbists will re-
hearse the May Queen cantata tomorrow
evening.
School Board meeting this evening,
when the new members will attack
school matters.
The detectives are engaged in shadow
ing and running in thieves who are on
professional visit to the bluffs.
Next Thursday evening Professor and
Mrs. Q'Byrne will give readings and
Rotations at the Assembly Hall.
The mortuary report of the city during
the past week ran up to twenty, or one
in every three thousand of the popula-
ton.
The great carnival on the nth prox.
will attract thousands of strangers to
Memphis. 1t will excel all former cele-
brations.
Center alley and other back thorough
fares are in filthy condition. The
chain gang should visit the alleys for
week or two.
The "can-can" rageth at Whites
Opera House. The dance is Vulgar and
most Objectionable, yet it attracts large
audiences nightly.
The General Council will assemble
again tonight, when it is to be hoped
the Board of Aldermen will elect Pres
ident. Let the balloting farce cease.
The annual meeting of the Bluff City
Shooting Club, for the purpose of elect
ing officers, will take place tomorrow
evening. A full attendance is requisite.
The Register has fantodling" re-
porter, whatever that is; but the Regis
ter insists that he is Of the zoophagous
species; or, in plain English, cannibal.
Last Saturday night the pedestrians
throughout the city felt like smoked
herrings owing to the thick and djsa-
greeable smoke-fog which settled down
upon the bluffs.
Who will be elected President of the
Aldermanic Board this evening? is the
question Of the day. Another question
of the day with Aldermen, What shall
we do tonight
On Monday, the 26th inst, grand
concert will be given under the direc-
tons and auspices of the Mendelssohns
at the theater. The cantata the May
Queer" will be the attraction.
The Confederate Relief Association
Ball for the benefit OF the orphans, at
the Exposition Building on Thursday,
the 22d inst, promises to be most sue
cessful affair not only in social but d
pecuniary point.
The recent provincial trip of the the
ter stock company to Jackson, Tenn,
Holly Springs, Grenada, etc, proved
that the denizens Of the rural districts
are not a theater-going people, except
when they visit Memphis.
There are poets on the reportorial
stats Of the Avalanche and Register
whose illusions are culled almost daily
from Mount Parnassus, and are then
recklessly thrown at the public at the
rate of ten cents line.
The Kurdish Combination Company
showed the public the advantages and
correctness of the rule, that all actors
should talk at each other instead of at
the audience. We advise all actors to
follow this golden rule of dramatic taste
and propriety.
The whitewash has been rubbed from
the walls of the General Council Cham
Der by candidates and spectators who
attend nightly and watch the progress
Of city affairs. When you see a man
with whitewash on his coat, you may
bet your money that he has been there.
A reporter on a morning journal after
having suffered few minutes from the
application of a city legislator to report
something, Indignantly remarked, If
that fellow doesn't let me alone I'll pub
lish few of his speeches verbatim and
ruin him forever with all English speak
ing people.
The Little Rock and the Cairo and
Fulton railroads have stopped the pass
business. Editors, proprietors, cores
pondents of newspapers and all others
are cut off from the privilege of bump
ing over the roads, and all advertise
ments are to be paid for at regular rates.
Good enough"
John Gilmore, who had his head
chopped with broad-ax at the hands of
his wife last week in North Memphis, is
recovering. The choppist has failed in
two attempts to decapitate her husband,
but the third time may be the charm.
The wife insists that Gilmore deserved
the punishment, but of this we know
not, yet it may be true.
"Citizen," in the Appeal, and "Old
Citizen" in the Avalanche, are en-
gagged in wordy combat over the old
issues, Why did the Irish support
League, and why didn't the negroes
support Busby2 These voluminous
correspondents had better turn their at