Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-03
LEDGER LINES.
Good Friday.

The Louisville lottery sensation is
over. What next2
The Moffatt-Hall homicide case is still
on trial in the Criminal Court.
The Easter egg is in course of elabo-
rate preparation just now by confec-
TONERS.
Bluff City Shooting Club meeting to.
night; pigeon shooting match next
Tuesday.
Last night Judge Pierce lectured to
the colored members Of the Beal Street
Library Association.
McWade will appear in Richard III
on Horseback and in Rory O'Moore at
the theater tonight.
Main street, the boulevard of Mem
phis, was crowded with gaily dressed
ladies yesterday and to-day.
Candidates for county Offices in
Aunust and November are beginning to
shy their casters into the ring.
There will be sacred concert given
at st. Peters church next Monday even
ing under the direction Of Prof. Winkler
Professor Allan Curr lectured at the
Central Baptist church last night. Sub
ject. How to Get On in the World.
7. Lazarino, arrested on the charge of
whipping his wife and mother, was fined
fifty dollars by the Recorder this morn
ing.
Colonel George Mellersh, formerly a
leading coal man OF this city, is now en-
gagged in the tanning business at Dallas,
Texas.
The amount of amusement that the
average Memphis sinner manages to
squeeze out of this vale OF tears is truly
The Cotton Exchange is closed to-day,
and mercantile business has stopped in
London, Liverpool and New York, this
being Good Friday.
Lieutenant Woodbridge, the blind ex.
soldier, will lecture at the
Assembly Hall tomorrow evening. Sub
ject; Light and the Eye.
The Temple of Love, of Chelsea, had
an installation meeting last night, at
which Master Joseph P. Miller and other
young gentlemen delivered orations.
The city is getting disgustingly moral
and sober; that's what's the natter"
and the reason why the newspaper re-
porter cannot secure sensational item.
The Louisville Lottery fends who
drew prizes are yet celebrating their
luck in a spiritual manner-the disap-
pointed blank-drawers are doing like
wise.
The youth of fashion now sports ci.
minutive bouquet pinned on the lapel
of his coat when he struts on Main street
or tends the bellies and beaux at the
theater.
When Memphis women war 'gainst
whisky and beer and close for aye each
dram shop, then and not till then shall
the salty, silent tear roll sadly down
each lunch tends cheek.
On Monday evening next there will be
a select bal masque given at the Assem-
bly, Hall under the direction of manager
R. j. Walker. None admitted except
hey hold tickets of invitation.
Prof. Allan Curr will deliver his cele-
,rated lecture on the Heroes and
aeroines OF the Scottish Covenanters"
.o-night at the First Cumberland Pres
oyterian Church, on Court street.
The damage case Of the administra-
.ors of Smith VS.. Crenshaw which has
been through the Circuit and Supreme
Courts several times, is being argued
again to-day in the First Circuit Court.
The difference between the income
Ind expenditures of the city govern
nent last month was thousand and
twenty-five dollars in favor of income,
which leaves that much in the Treasury.
Harry Cranmer has opened special
detective agency in this city, and can be
ound at the Office of the Chief of Police.
Jranmer has made reputation through
,ut the United States as leading de-
ective.
Prof. Allan Curr, of London, Eng
and, will preach on Sunday morning |
text, at eleven o'clock, in the Central
Baptist Church, Second street, near
,eale. Subject; 1.-THE Great Question
f the Day" Pews free.
Tomorrow morning at ten o'clock
Japt. E. A. Cole will sell at public out
ny, on the corner of Main and Madison
treets, ten thousand dollars of 8 per
ent. coupon bonds Of the city of Colum-
'us, Mississippi. See notice of sale in