Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-21
LEDGER LINES.

Everybody reads the LEDGER Business Di-
iectory on the fourth page.
MacEyoy's New Hibernicsn at the Assem-
bly, Hall next Monday week.
The terpsichorean editor Of the Appeal, like
Won Moltke, is the leader of the German.
Mrs. Chanfrau. in "A Womnn's Wrong"
at the Memphis Theater next Monday even
ing.
To day Humpty Dumpty Matinee and for
the last time tonight at the Greenlaw Opera
House.
Deep ard dangerous holes begin to appear
in the Nicolson since the rains commenced
falling.
Lent was instituted by Pope Gregory the
Great, who became Pontif in the year 500
and died in 6O4.
The yellow fever is now called the late I'M
pleasantness." Heretofore the last war was
known by that expressive phrase.
Rosedale matinee at the theater to-day, and
Richard III tonight, which performances
will close the Barrett engagement.
Another batch of social-evilites was station
housed by the police last night; so far the
persons arrested have been inmates Of low
dens.
The lovers of bivalves are informed that
oysters weighing three pounds, and ten inches
long, have been found at Point Pinals, Tam
pa, Florida.
| Tomorrow afternoon the anniversary Of the
Memphis Bethel will be celebrated at the Ex-
| change building. Everybody interested in the
little waits are invited to attend.
Spiritualism. such as dark seances and cab
met performances. has again turned loose in
Memphis. and its believers challenge the ma
terialists to expose the thing if they can.
Jimmy Corwin. at 2s5 Main street, near the
corner of Madison, is in receipt Of the latest
dates of all the pictorials, Harper. Frank
Leslie, Days Doings, etc. {; also the principal
dailies of Eastern and Northern cities. Call
at the above place for your Sunday reading.
The St. Louis Republican says that "ex-
President johnson is again dreaming that he
would like to dwell in the marble halls of
Congress. He would be so Andy to have in
the house. Another rumor is that the ex-
President wants to be Governor of Tennessee;
should he run the little fellows will have to
stand back"
PA" asked young Memphian. what is
Mardi- Gras?" " Shroye Tuesday" answered
the father. And what is Shrove Tuesday,"
Look in the dictionary" The boy looked
and saw, "Shrove Tuesday-The Tuesday fol-
lowing Quinquagesima Sunday and preceding
Ash Wednesday" The boy asked no more
questions of the parent.
The United States Gauger is compelled by
law to paste ten cent revenue stamp on all
kegs or parcels holding five gallons Of whisky,
and 1t was n question of law with him the day
after Mardi- Gras whether or not to apply the
law and the stamp to many gentlemen prom
enading our streets. He thought that he
would add materially to his revenue by SO
doing.
The Western Methodist of to-day contains
the following blast at the carnival: THAT
abomination and enemy Of public morals,
'Mardi-Gras,' was celebrated in this city
Tuesday last. The weather was wet and
chilly. No doubt but the foundation of sick
ness and premature death was laid in hun-
dreds of cases, if not another scourge next
summer. They that SOW to the flesh shall of
the flesh reap corruption. is an inspired state
ment."
The Appeal editorially delivered a terrible
philippe yesterday against the Courier-Jour-
nal special correspondent who so DETAINED
Memphis. The correspondent made an abject
apology and withdrew the offensive charges
made in the dispatch, so far as words could do
the same. This morning the Appeal again
hurls fire and smoke at the unfortunate man
who has made all the reparation for the great
wrong done Memphis that he could possibly
do under the circumstances in fact, be signed
every document presented. Wedo not believe
in hitting man when he is down, nor in
orowding the unfortunate. The man has been
severely and properly punished; let him rest.
The LEDGER was the first journal to call at
tention to the dispatches and denounce the
author.