Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-27
LEDGER LINES.


ST. Patrick's Day next, March 18th.
Concert atAvery Chapel (cclored) tonight.
The old Mississippi is booming again. and is
rising rapidly.
Hall and rack thieves are on the alert watch
ing open doors.
The thing which celebrates Lent best is a
borrowed umbrella.
Candidates for county Offices in August next
are appearing daily.
Mrs. Chanfrau will appear in Jealously:at
the theater tonight.
The Memphis Gas Light Company will elect
a Board Of Directors Tomorrow.
There was German masquerade ball at an
Adams street heer-house last night.
Mrs. Chanfrau will appear in A WOman's
Wrong at the matinee tomorrow.
Next Wednesday board of nine directors
will be elected for the Selma railroad.
The Magdalens were not permitted to rest in
peace by Police Captain Walsh and his gang
last night.
Bishop Haven will lecture at 81. Johns
Vance streets, tonight.
Toe " tie" shooters ofthe pigeon match yes
terday will settle the contest at the Fair
Grounds at o'clock to-day.
The inimitable John f. Owensand COM
pany will open up in Scion Single at the
theater next Monday evening.
The whisky war will not reach Memphis.
The ladies of the Bluff City will not engage
in the saloon praying business, like their
Northern sisters.
A series Of meetings commence tonight at
the Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Vance street, Of which Rev. E. G.. Mclean is
pastor. All are invited.
postofice has been established at Kerr
Vile in this county, on the Padueah rail-
road, twenty miles from this city. John j.
Weaver is the postmaster.
The water spout movement" which the
postal cards received by the saloon keepers
intimated would burst over Memphis this
week. is now pronounced to be hoax.
Colonel G. W. Alexander lectured on steam
boilers at the United States Courtroom last
night before an intelligent audience. The
lecture was instructive and interesting.
Sam Williams. who escaped from the county
Jail two weeks ago. was rearrested yesterday.
When he escaped and how has never been
made public. Not even the most industrious
reporter got wind of the item.
Linden Street Christian church will be
closed Sunday night on account of the ami
versary exercises of the Memphis and Shelby
County Bible Society, which will be held in
the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Court
street.
The Herrado Press man objects to the cot
ton bales on the streets of Memphis, and
wants the authorities to remove them. II the
people of Memphis do not object, we 10 not
see why the occasional visitor from the CAPT
tai of DeSoto county should come to the front
and howl.
The astronomers of the world will observe
the transit of Venus in 1874. and in different
parts of the world. The young men of Mem
phs will observe the transit of the Venuses
over the muddy street-crossing, not only this
year, but for many years to come, and will
comment on their aspects and motions.
Hereafter all pigeon shooting matches got
ten up by the Bluff City Shooting Club will
be confined to the members Of the club, ex-
cept on special occasions. The Club men have
gone to heavy expense in fitting up ball and
in creating the best sporting organization in
the State. All the shootists of the city should
join the club.
A boorish policeman named Pat Callahan.
"No. "a" stationed on the theater beat on
jefferson street, and inspired by ignorance OF
his duties. presume to insult gentlemen who
stand on the sidewalk, when the fellow him
self blockades the pavement SO that people
visiting the theater have to walk around him.
This man should be put on the levee beat or
in the suburbs, where it is not expected that
gentlemen will have to come in contact with
him. In fact. he is not fit to wear the star"
on any beat.