Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-06
LEDGER LINES.

at Assembly Hall.
The prettiest woman in Memphis is a
blonde: the next IL a brunette.
Thunder. lightning and rain from the south
took tilt the city last night.
The General Council will meet again tc-
night and wind up unfinished business.
A fashion writer triumphantly asserts that
the polonaise still triumphs. We are glad
of it.
The oyster season is nearly over. The
bivalvular delicacy cannot stand the warm
weather.
After all. the heavy rains do more to clean
up the filthy streets and alleys than can our
city authorities.
Spring is opening out in this latitude. or as
the poet has it, sunshine and shadow are
chasing each other.
1t is again rumored that Chief Athy will be
nominated before the General Council by
Mayor League tonight.
Why not erect fountain in Court Square?
VIII not some member of the General Coun-
ell suggest the matter?
The peremptory mandamus issued by the
Second Circuit Court will be executed by the
Deputy Sheriff tomorrow.
The German Lutherans intend building a
church and school house on Washington, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets.
A car load Of shell oysters. in Mobile car.
came in yesterday on the Louisville and Mem
Phis railroad. This is something new.
The 18th inst. will be st. Patrick's Day, and
the Knights of Innisfail of this city will give
grand banquet at Cochran Hall in homer of
the anniversary.
There will be called meeting of the Cham
Der of Commerce held at four O'Clock this
afternoon. Members of the Cotton Exchange
are invited to attend.
Captain W. J. L. Holland. one of the edit
ors and proprietors Of the Holly Springs Re-
porter, il in the city on business for that live
and progressive paper.
Thank Providence the women's cold water
crusade has net as yet reached Memphis. The
women of the South do not follow the exam
pie Of their Northern sisters.
1t is also rumored that the Register will ap-
ply for that great remedial writ, the injunc-
ton, to restrain the Avalanche from publish
ing the City Council proceedings.
The number of persons who insist that the
newspaper reporter shall put in gratuitous
puffs forget that the pencil slinger is charged
up twenty cents line for these magnificent
illusions.
The Adams street station. house lodging de-
partment is not az we'll patronized as it was
some weeks since. The chain-gang order has
rid the city comparatively of travelling pau
pers.
There are at least dozen Chinese wash
houses in Memphis. The Celestial washing
fend is Aourishilg in our midst, and ere long
the Flowery Kingdom will be well repre-
sented on the bluffs.
Not long since twenty penitentiary convicts
at work on some railroad escaped, and are
enjoying freedom cautiously throughout the
State. Half dozen of them are in our city,
but escape detection and arrest.
A number of gentlemen in this city under
take to explain why steam beiilers explode,
and show how such things can be avoided.
The surest and safest method is to use cold
water in boilers-then if they burst swim
ashore.
An effort should be made to repair the Nj
colson pavement. which is rapidly falling into
decay and sinking into the mud. Had the
repairing been kept up regularly during the
past two years the pavement to-day would be
comparatively all right; but so to work now,
gentlemen of the General Council.
An East Tennessee journalist insists that
A. johnson will be heard in the next Con-
gress, while another intimates that he will
occupy the -Gubernatorial chair. This latter
item Is sad news for West Tennessee aspirants.
Every village and hamlet throughout the
State has its embryo Governor, Memphis not
excepted.
The March number of the Southern Farmer,
published in this city, contains a valuable
amount of information for agriculturists. The
staff of the journal is quite able, DR.. M. w.
Phillips being editor in chief, assisted by
Prof. &. W. Hilgard. Gen. VIM. NJ. Brown.
Gen. D. L. Adair. A. j. Murray. Jas. Stew
art and W. NJ. Howard.
The new dance introduced at Prof. Mueller's
dancing academy is called the Memphis
Hop" after Hop johnson, the terpsichorean
reporter and grating city editor of the APP
peal. The Professor has given Hop" up as
a dancing conundrum, he net being able to
get his feet together when separated, or sepa-
rate them when connected; but as vocalist
he is more successful.
The Register. in an editorial this morning,
says the bid of the Avalanche for city print
ing was higher than that Of the LEDGER. The
reverse is true. the learned calculator of
the Register being a little mixed in his
arithmetic. The defeated always squeal-
the LEDGER excepted, which invariably ac-
cepts the situation in good humor. The Cen
eral Council acted wise in giving the printing
to the lowest and best bidder. The matter Of
circulation is something when the word best is
properly considered.