Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-19
LEDGER LINES.


things, is settled now.
The Exposition masquerade ball
comes off tomorrow night.
Old seventy-four will soon be dead;
forty-three days until 1875 comes in.
Secure your doors and windows, for
there are numerous burglars about town.
Yesterday was dull, foggy, rainy and
gloomy, and business transactions were
light.
In business the man who asks for it
through the columns Of the LEDGER shall
receive it.
The Christian church people will hold
convention in this city on the Oath
instant, next Tuesday.
Nashville has big demonstration to-
day celebrating the Democratic victory
of the Sd of November.
II you want printing done in an artis-
tic manner, send your orders to the
LEDGER steam job printing Office.
DeCastro, the illusionist and wizard,
will give one ofhis wonderful exhibitions
at the Greenlaw Opera House tonight
The German Dancing Club had a
meeting at the Peabody last night, and
its members danced away several hours
of time.
To-day each pedestrian has to pull up
and wade through the mud whenever he
or she attempts to cross Main or other
streets.
If you have lost anything, want to find
anything, have a house for sale or rent,
advertise in the want column of the
LEDGER.
The County Coroner found on a dead
body paper written in some foreign
lingo, and now he wants jury to sit on
dead language.
Notwithstanding the gloominess of
the weather, very fashionable wedding
will be celebrated on Second street, near
Union, this evening.
By heating the Greenlaw Opera House
it would be rendered more pleasant for
both the members of the DeCastro
troupe and audience.
Tonight Cal Wagner and his famous
troupe of minstrels will open up at the
theater and give an entertainment most
attractive and amusing.
A very grave revival of religion is
progressing in the Baptist churches OF
our city, and many sinners are being
gathered in from the sinful walks of
life.
In the Criminal Court, the jury in the
case of the State VS.. John McCarty, in
dictment for burning the Louisville rail
road shops had not agreed upon a YER
dict up to l o'clock to-day.
The Memphis Microscopic Society,
which meets tonight, will try and make
out what kind OF insects are those small
minded and bigoted people who desire
the destruction ofour fine public schools.
At st. Peters church Mr.. Dennis
Smith and Miss Ada Goodloe were mar
ried by Rev. Father Edelan in the
presence of large concourse of friends
and acquaintance of the bride and
groom.
The men with red noses, known as
ward bummers, are beginning to look
around for candidates for Councilmanic
and Aldermanic honors. The bummers
are hard as well as dry set, and gen
orally vote on the last treat in the after
noon just before the polls close.
Rev. Father Meagher delivered very
interesting lecture at the Assembly Hall
last night for the benefit of st. Bridget
church. The subject, Social Life in Ire
land Forty Years Ago, was handled in
mastery manner, and the lecture was
replete with witty things and eloquent
passages.
A planter from the Arkansas river,
near Pine Bluff, gives the information
that the wells in that country are drying
up, and that the water now obtained from
the wells is of blue color and is strong
ly impregnated with salt. The Arkansas
river is hardly wide or deep enough to
float mud turtle.
At the Greenlaw Opera House last
night during the performance of the De
Castro troupe the gallery boys set up
horrible yells and INDUCED in stamping
for a quarter of an hour because a
piece of character acting was not re-
peated. Les enfants terrible had to be
suppressed by the police, who visited the
galleries for that purpose.
The Avalanche man, who is studying
natural history, says: 1.-THE Court
Square squirrels we're unusually friendly
to day. They ran up and down peoples
trouser legs in lively and very affee-
tomato way" But the Avalanchian
fails to state whether it was outside or
inside the trouser leg, all of which leaves
the phenomenon dreadful mystery.