Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-09
LEDGER LINES.
NOthing new 10 the Pclice Oourt to.

Lolita, in the II, tile Detective at
the theater next,Monday evening.
Man and Wife at the theater to-
night by the Fifth Avenue Theater Com
oination Company.
The General Council will assemble
again tonight and ballot for Chairman
Of the Aldermanic Board.
Next Monday evening the San Fran
cisco Ministries will attract crowds to
the Greenlaw Opera House.
Last night one hundred and ten able
bodied men ont of employment applied
to the Adams street station-house master
for lodging.
To be or not to be the Chiefs Of Police
and Fire Departments, and the APP
pointees to other ofiices--these are the
questions.
The Register LEGAL says that " ladies
wearing No. 2 CATERS aud under APP
parel were on the streets yesterday.
How did the local see all this2
Mr.. James Bachman, of Madison,
Ind, was one Of the Mexican War vete-
rams who attedded the meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
When it is asserted that but one man
in Memphis is capable of filling any
certain office, our Ledger Liner is Of the
opinion that Memphis is in bad fix.
The County Court has ordered all Off
GERS to cancel county warrants, cou-
pons, scrip or bonds within one week
after such has been received by them.
The Grand Jury report, published in
the LEDGER of last evening, created a
sensation throughout the city. The
Grand Jury should 20 a step further
and indict the guilty.
The matinee to morrow. instead OF
commencing at 10 o'clock, as was an
nounced, will commence at o'clock,
and instead of Alike, the society play,
Divorce will be the attract on.
Yesterday, the 9Th of January, was
the anniversary Of the skirmish below
New Orleans, when Old Hickory - got
away with Mr.. Rockingham, who com
mauded the British squad of invaders.
To-day F.. Il. Lester, elected Consta-
bic of the Seventh Civil District at the
August elections, 1872, sent in his resig-
nation, which was accepted, and Mr.. 5.
G. Eddins was elected to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. Henry Meyers, most popular
young citizen and county official of
Holly Springs, Miss, and Colonel a..
w Walter, are in the city Tie latter
is largely interested in the Memphis and
Selma railroad.
Our reporter, while exami ming the
candidates book at the May or's office
to-day had the pleasure of meeting a
dozen or more office seekers who were
in attendance on the Mayor as he sat at
his official desk.
Newspaper reporters attend ing the
meetings OF the General Cou neil are
button-holed by candidates who invite
the pencil singers to hunt up aud inter
view the Mayor, and deliver an Grafton
in favor of the claimants.
We have received the carriers address
of the Vicksburg Herald. The effusion
was thrown off by James Hampton Sui
livan, formerly Of the press of this city.
Mr.. Sullivan pays poetical tribute TO
Memphis as deserved as it is musical.
A Vicksburg journal insists that the
agent Of the Associsted Press at Mem
phis did not think the result of the mu-
nicipal election Of sufficient Importance
to furnish it to the public, though matters
of much less moment often tax the ope
rators aud newspapers.
As place of popular amusement the
City Hall was the attraction last evening.
Over FIVE hundred spectators attended,
and listened eagerly to the reading of
the minutes of the former meeting, and
the announcement Of the ballots for
Chairman Of the Aldermanic Board.
Ex-Mayor Johnson surrendered the
City Hall and the city to Mayor League
yesterday. Mr.. johnson retires to pri-
vate life respected and honored by his
fellow citizens, notwithstanding the
abuse heaped upon him during his term
of office by irate journalists and chaps
who had axes to grind.
DR.. Nuttall, attending physician, says
that JohR Gilmore, who was slashed
With broadax by his wife last Wednes-
day evening, is doing well. The ak split
the skull, but did not penetrate the
brain. To day erysipelas made its ap-
pearanee, which may endanger his re-
covery. The physicians cannot for sew
eral days give any definite opinion as to
the recovery of the wounded man.
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