Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-29
LEDGER LINES.
Has the rainy season commenced :

Nothing Of public interest appeared
on the police court docket this morning.
Remember the Exposition masquerade
ball to come off on Thursday night next,
New Years eve. e0I
Last Sunday night Noph Lodge No
1913 of the Jewish order Kosher Shell Bar
sci installed officers.
Notwithstanding the rain and wind
there was large and fashionable at
tendance at the theater last night.
Eighty wanderers slept at the station
house last night, they having been driven
from the streets aud alleys by the heavy
rains.
Professor Mueller will give soiree
dansante for Juveniles at the Memphis
Club Hall this evening, to which the
public are invited.
There is quite large amount of conn
terfeit fractional currency, as well as
counterfeit nickels, in circulation
throughout the city.
Mr.. James W. Cannon, travelling agent
of the Western Watchman, a leading
Catholic journal publish ed at st. Louis,
is in the city on business.
Divorce, by the Kurdish Fifth Avenue
Theater Combination, again tonight at
the theater. Tomorrow night Led
Astray will be presented.
Last night heavy fog wrapped the
city in its folds. Street corner lamps
looked like stars and street car lamps
like fre-aies travelling slowly.
To-day the Norfolk Masonic Lottery
drawing takes place, and the result is
anxiolsly looked for by large number
of ticket holders in this city.
The Sunday.school festival of the Lin
den street Christian church will not be
held this evening as appointed, but has
been postponed until further notice.
The street crossings are in fearful
condition at present. The rule, pull
up and wade" has to be adopted by all
persons, regardless Of color, sex or pre-
yious condition.
The General Council will meet to-
morrow week. 1t will be their last SEES
sion, as the election for new Aldermen
and Councilmen will come off next day,
Thursday, the 7th.
Witkowsky the great cigar man ON
Main street, near Union, made an i'm
mense retail sale of imported cigars on
Saturday last, he having sold 1900 at
rates varying from SC to l2lc each.
The bare and ragged branches Of
Christmas trees can still be seen through
out the city supporting oranges, lemons
and other fruits regardless OF the ordinary
rules Of nature or the relation OF things
on earth.
Ceur de Lion Lodge, No. Is, Knights
of Pythias elected the following officers
last night: J. W. Anderson. c. c.; j.
C. Walston, V. c.; F. M. Haley, P;
d. G. Reahard, K R s.; Jacob Pfster,
NJ. f.; C. A. Burr, ME-
Remember there are ten School
Visitors to be elected on Thursday week
Elect the best men, as we have had a
sufficient amount Of bad management
already. The old "rng" should be
defeated at all points whenever any of
its members attempt to step back into
the School Board.
The public await with impotence and
interest that report or those reports of
the School Board investigating commit
tee. We understand that the reports
will be voluminous aud elaborate, en-
bracing all the points and charges made,
and that it will contain many strange
developments
Now that competent principal, one
aohO has herself gone through the fire
of an examination, holding certificate
as proof Of the fact, comes forward and
declares that Mr. Pickett is competent
from her standpoint, it is presumed by
quid nuncs that all such foolish charges
viii be Withdrawn aud the lady's word
taken as conclusive.
Yesterday afternoon Jim Nelson, the
leader of that gang of notorious negro
burglars who entered the store house Of
Mr.. Durant, OF the Pigeon Roost road,
some months since, was sent to jail
without bail by Esquire Winters. Nelson
is one Of the very worst negroes in Mem
phis, and it is to be hoped that this time
he will go to the penitentiary for long
term. f"t.
Andy Johnson, who is suspected of
being ambitious to warm up the cane
bottomed seat to be left vacant in the
Senate Chamber by Parson Brownlow,
left town yesterday. His visit here did
not impress him with the fact that there
were ne breakers ahead. He is now re-
peating the well known lines, as he sees
that vacant chair in his minds eye:
"Thou art so near and yet so far"
There will be citizens meeting held
in the Tenth ward, near the Mississippi
and Tennessee depot, for the purpose Of
discussing the claims ofseveral aspirants
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