Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-14
LEDGER LINES.


believes in cremation.
TIE question with local legislators
Who gets the chicken pie2
Stock ale is the fashionable drink of
the cotton brokers of Memphis.
The VIM. Mclean embezzlement case
is on trial before the Criminal Court.
Every man in Memphis who has lot
to sell wants the courthouse on it.
Spiritual circles are preparing for a
grand public display Of ghosts ere long.
The old couplet,. April showers bring
forth May flowers" seems to be appro-
pirate at present.
The number of pupils attending the
public schools is 2479 white and 1929
colored; total, 350S.
Between Memphis and New Orleans
the entire face of the country seems to
be covered by water.
A drunken Memphian has no particu-
lar mission on this earth except that he
is thrown in to ell up"
morrow night Mr.. Nolan will take
a benefit at the theater. A fine bill will
be presented to the public.
Nothing of especial interest in the
Recorders Court to-day. Several lar
cenists were placed under bonds.
Prof. Mueller's dancing academy is in
full blast at present. The Professor is
a master Of the art Terpsichorean.
The School Board committee recon-
mend the plan Of E. c. Jones, architect,
for central high school building.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the LEDGER counting-room and princi-
pal news stands in the city to-day.
The low tax payers had meeting
yesterday and adopted a preamble and
set of resolutions against tax paying.
The fashionable male Memphian now
wears conical Guy. Fawkes" hat like
unto that which circus clown wears in
the ring.
George E. Irvine, School Visitor from
the Ninth ward, having resigned, H.
Townsend has been elected to FIJI the
vacancy.
The Board of Education will meet
again on Thursday evening to consider
the propriety of building central high
school.
Whites Opera House Variety, on
Jefferson street, is the only place of
public amusement at present open in
the city.
W. F. JohnstoRe, telegraph operator
at Brownsville, was shot and killed by
Sam Oldham in bagnio in that village
last Sunday night.
Drivers of public wagons, drays, etc.,
must apply Immediately for the new
numbers (white) or else they will be
arrested by the police.
The Memphis branch of the Mississip-
pi Valley Society will be organized this
week by Bronson Bayliss, Esq, and
other prominent citizens.
During the months of January, Feb
ruary and March 600 homeless wander
ers were furnished with lodging at the
Adams street station-house.
Memphis undertakers do not indorse
the cremation plan of burial-it would
ruin their business, but the marble yard
men who make urns favor it.
Joseph c. Wooten was fatally stabbed
by Geo. Marlborough at Holly Springs
last Saturday night. Joe Wooten was
well known in this city where he former
ly resided.
The original band of colored singers
from the Fisk University at Nashville
is at present starring it in England.
They have netted several thousands Of
dollars for their University.
The Register displayed its usual en-
terprise this morning by capturing the
entire river column of the LEDGER of
last evening and republshing it. Cen
tlemen, your river reporter is fraud.
The convention Of ex-Confederate
surgeons, which meets at Atlanta, Ca,
an the goth of May, is for the purpose of
embodying in a permanent form the
important medical aud surgical facts
CLEANED during the war.
The city daddies meet and converse
at the City hall tonight. Outsiders will
assemble in large numbers in order to
enjoy the intellectual treat, such as mo-
tons to lay on the table, to adjourn and
to refer, etc.
Where to locate the County Court
building is the topic Of interest and
discussion at present; property owners
are coming to the frout, and are offering