Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18
LEDGER LINES.
A unual hop time has come.

Exposition masquerade ball next FIR
day night.
Revivals in religion and in trade ar
perceptible in our city.
Edwin Adams is delighting the peopl
of Nashville with Hamlet.
To morrow evening Cal Wagners Mir
strels will sing at the theater.
The Fox Humpty Dumpty troupe a
the Greenlaw Opera House next Mon
day night.
Lecture on Social Life in Ireland
by Rev. Father Meagher at Assembl,
Hall tonight.
The days and nights OF wind and rair
have come at last, now that autumn lin
gers in the lap of winter.
The General Council stands adjourned
to the next regular meeting, the frs
Wednesday in December.
The wind shifted to the northwest las
evening, aud in consequence "it is 9
nipping and an eager air to-day.
The German Casino Club celebrated
its seventeenth anniversary with ban
quet and ball at Cochran Hall last night.
DeCastro, the illusionist, magician and
ventriloquist, will appear again tonight
with his troupe at the Greenlaw Opera
House.
Mojor Mike Waldran, chairman of the
Shelby county Democratic Executive
Committee, left the city to-day on a trip
to Chicago and Canada.
All kinds Of business printing done in
the best manner at the LEDGER steam
job office. Mercantile and steamboat
printing made specially.
Last night burglars and robbers en-
tered Poplar street beer garden and
plundered the premises-carrying off
money and goods without detection.
In the Recorders Court this morning
John Semms was committed in default of
bail on the charge of attempting to pass
one hundred dollar counterfeit bill.
The city bondholders will probably
desire to have their claims funded" so
that they can amuse themselves for
years to come by cutting off coupons.
The Majiltons, at present creating a
furore by their novel and unique per-
formances at the st. Charles Theater,
New Orleans, will appear at the Mem
phis Theater next week.
A St. Louis dramatic critic says that
Clara Louise Kellogg sings divinely, and
that she fastens her garters with $500
diamond clasps. Why cannot we hear
aud see the Kellogg in Memphis2
Our Ledger Liner has already been
invited to run for Councilmanic honors
in the Fourth ward, but he peremptorily
declined the proiered honor, as he is a
little particular as to his associates, and
he cannot afford to lose caste.
When an Arkansas Governor gets lost
they offer a reward of two hundred dol
lars for him. Our detectives should
search Memphis for bogus Governor V.
" Smith, of Arkansas, and return him
to his sorrowing friends at Little Rock.
The committee selected by the Mayor
to go to New York and hold a conven
ton with the city creditors is composed Of
Messrs. G. A. Hanson, City Attorney;
l. M. Hill, L. M. Apperson, P. G. Bethel,
]. NJ. Heating, of the Appeal, and A. J.
Kellar, OF the Avalanche.
Conductor Jim Mayhem, of the Little
Rock road, had his arm broken in run.
off few weeks ago. Last evening bis
train was wrecked near Brinkley's and
Mr.. Mayhem received severe cut across
the head. The caboose and baggage cars
were turned over by broken rail-
Yesterday afternoon a newsboy asked
Mempkian, " Have LEDGER, sirP'
No." replied the illiterate man, 81
can't read. The newsboy looked at him
a moment and replied, Mister, there's
free school on Poplar street, but you
had better get there in hurry, as the
schools will be closed by the Mayor next
month"
Louisville has established three public
night schools, which have been taken
charge o: by the principals of the day |
schools. The attendance is so large that |
other night schools will be opened i'm
mediately throughout the city. Unlike
Memphis, the Louisville city government
favors free schools.
Every patrolman should be furnished
with pair of hand cuffs, so that obstrep-
erous and disorderly people can be con.
veyed to the station.house without having
to call in the aid of half dozen patrol
men. The "irons" act as a cooling
process on rowdies. In England each
policeman is so supplied with the dar-
bies."
Last evening Esquire Miller visited the
county Jail and performed the marriage
ceremony-the contracting parties being
male inmate of the Jail and maiden
who loved him not wisely but too well.
When the ceremony was performed the
bridegroom was permitted to leave the