Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-09

If you want to sell Christmas goods
advertise them in the LEDGER-a paper
that everybody reads.
The negro Odd Fellows paraded the
streets yesterday and installed the
officers elect last night.
The Pythian parade, concert and hop,
on Tuesday next, will be one of the
social events of the season.
There were street cars in front of the
theater last night, and the people of the
suburbs were enabled to return home.
Mr.. Benjamin Cash, an old citizen Of
this county, is lying very i'll at his resi-.
dence near Forest Hill, and is not ex-
pected to recover.
Ticket-holders in the Louisville lottery
are anxiously awaiting those fortunes
which they expect to draw on the 9th
of February next.
Places Of amusement open this even
ing; Memphis Theater, Jefferson Opera
House (varieties) and Washington street
Olympic Varieties.
Though we hear of SHOWS and the
at zero in the far up coun-
try, here the air is balmy and the gar.
dens are full Of flowers.
In dozen alleys adjoining hardware
stores are immense piles of grindstones,
and yet so moral is our city that not one
Of them has ever been stolen.
The trial Of the new fire steamer for
the DeSoto street boys attracted hun
dreds of people to the corner of Main
and Madison streets yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday Judge Walker, of the Sec.
ond Chancery Court, dissolved the Happy
Hollow injunctions, so that now the city
can 60 ahead and remove the remaining
buildings.
The Nashville street car company has
reduced the fare to FIVE cents, which the
Nashville journals pronounce an equit-
able figure. Let our street car company
follow suit.
The Avalanche OF this morning con-
tains special from Nashville stating
that il is doubtful whether the site
selected for the Insane Asylum. near this
city, will be adopted by the Governor.
Yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire
was given, caused by the leaking of
barrel Of coal oil and its ignition, in rear
Of the Adams block. The Adams street
fire engine boys we're on hand and the
conaagration was stopped.
The LEDGER has dug up and devel-
oped most interesting subjects for the
School Board to act upon. Let the
Board now investigate and act on the
charges made and ready to be proven.
II the Board does not do so, why the
people will elect men who will.
At the Recorders Court today W. B.
Williams, ticket seller and telegraph
operator at the Little Rock depot, was
placed under $4,000 bonds to appear this
afternoon before Esquire Winters on the
charge of the larceny of eight hundred
dollars belonging to the company.
At the matinee last Saturday there was
/ baby at the theater who gave vent to
/ storm of squeals and screams, but in
! few minutes the noise was subdued,
and there came q sound as of strangling
and furry suggestive of q baby choked
and sat upon, and the musical noise
ceased.
The gentleman who writes US com.
daily on various subjects
will oblige us by discortinuing the same,
Is editorial life is too short and too val
liable to be used up in reading those
illusions. We do not mind being'bored
/ little, but when it becomes a matter Of
laily occurrence we must object to it.
The Ahrens fire engine for the De.
soto street boys passed mos. satisfac-
DRY test yesterday. Water was thrown
rom the nozzle in four minutes eleven
econds. A distance of 259 feet was
.ttaiEed, and afterward a distance of
~ feet was attained by two streams
trough smaller nonzles.
Yesterday the Memphis City Fire and
General Relief Insurance Company
lected officers as follows: President,
J. NJ. Apperson; Vice President, A.
raccaro; Cashier, II. j. Lynn; Board
f Directors, Thomas Fisher, j. T. Hills
nan, W. N. Wilkerson, NJ. Gavin, W. c.
rutland, W. o. Harvey, Napoleon Hill.
Our reporter found one man in the
ity yesterday who had waded through
he Presidents message, and he was fun
f talk about our foreign relations, cur.
ency, domestic affairs, etc. He says
the President closed bis mouth when be
opening the mouth of the
Mississippi, which he regarded as para
oxical in the extreme.
We acknowledge an invitation to at
end the anniversary of the Santa Klaus
Ian, which celebration comes off at
'icks5Urg on the 2lst instant. The in