Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-26
LEDGER LINES.

hC OnhtoluAao tuh NY - 1880
yesterday.
The courts Of record are all closed to-
day on account of the holidays.
The dry bones Of many thousand tur-
keys lay around loose this morning.
That Calvary church organ has ar
rived, and is being put up in its place.
The public schools will open again
Monday week. the 6rst Monday Of Janu-
airy, 1875.
Wybert Reeve in the Better Angel at
the matinee to-day and at the perform
ance tonight.
The LEDGER extended to all its read
ers a merry Christmas, and it now
wishes them a happy New Year.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary OF
St. Johns Day, day which will be duly
celebrated by the Masonic Order.
Rev. David Walk will preach Christ
mas sermon tomorrow morning from
Isaiah, tx chapter, vi and vii verses.
High mass was chanted by the St.
Peters church choir in a most solemn
and musical manner yesterday morning.
The children OF the Memphis Bethel
school enjoyed feast of good things
furnished by the philanthropic people Of
the city.
The School Board has resolved to pay
twenty-five per cent. of salaries to
teachers whenever there are any funds
in the treasury.
A dead mule adorned the street all day
long yesterday on South Court street.
The gatherer in Of dead mules was cele-
brating Christmas.
Next Monday night the Kurdish Fifth
Avenue Combination will open up a
weeks engagement in Divorce, very
sensational society play.
A. Chinaman yesterday informed
brother Celestial that the Mclean men
were celebrating the BIRTH of their
" Joss" or God Of the Christians.
There were more or less headaches
this morning. Our temperance reporter
saw hundreds Of young Ten getting
headaches put up in glass packages
yesterday.
The thanks of the LEDGER office gang
are due to Mime Bullock for supply of
eggnog yesterday. Our thanks are also
due to Chris Steinkuhl for similar
Christmas favor.
1t is now rumored that that School
Board investigating committee will pre-
sent two reports to the public, one
"whitewashinR" the accused and the
other, not.
Messrs @ Bannon & Morris, OF the Pea
body, entertained large number of in
yited guests at CHRISTMAS dinner. The
bill of fsrs YES such that Vitellius might
have eHvied.
Friday next will be New Years day,
and the average caller will struggle to
put in one hundred calls as his days
work-all of which is the ambition Of
the New Years social iend.
The Appeal man has coined new
word perfectly horrible to English speak
ing people. It calls saw mill man "a
lumberist." Heavensl think Of jogr-
nalist being newspaRerist."
Venus, whose transit was observed
few days since by the leading astrono'
msss II the world, now shines brightly
in the eastern heaFens, sE9 Eill be the
morni5 star for several months.
An old citrzen Of thirty years stand
ing informed our meteorological reporter
that Christmas day was the sunniest
and most summer like that appeared
within the above named time 9n the
Bluffs.
A furniture factory situated on the
bluff, near Fort Pickering, was destroyed
by fire last night, and the adjoining
property, belonging to 10 Pigeon, re-
ceived some damage from the flames
aud water.
The iz and pop of the FIRE cracker
were heard all over town last night, and
the Roman candles and sky rockets
filled the air, to the great delight of
yonng America and the amusement of
older people.
Forty. eight per cent. Of all the crimes
committed in the United States can
neither read nor write, but ffty-two per
cent. of the criminals can do both
which about balances the argument
about ignorance and crime.
Fifty arrests for drunkenness and dis.
orderly conduct we're made by the police
on Christmas eve, but yesterday after
noon Chief Athy had q general Jail de-
livery, and the jewellers went homeward
sadder, soberer and wiser nen.
Andrew johnson is among the regis.
tered guests at the Peabody Hotel. To-
day he was called upon BY Q large num-
Der of his admirers and by many who
want something, provided A. J. gets the
United States Senatorship from old Ten