Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-01
LEDGER LINES.

st. Patrick's Church fair at Assembly
Hall tonight.
Get your printing done at the LEDGE
steam job Office.
Little Nell wears Eve thousand dol
lar dress in one of her plays.
Small boys are beginning to count the
days between this and Christmas.
Tomorrow evening the General Coun
Gil will assemble at the City Hall.
DR.. J. ]. Ross, a well known dentist
has returned to the city from trip East
The robbers of the steamer City Of
vicksburg have not as yet been arrested
Windy as a street politician " has
become the slang phrase Of the streets
The Christmas turkey is beginning ia
become uneasy in the suburbs of the
city.
Dead deer can be found in front OF
every game and com mission house
throughout the city.
If a young man spends all he earns,
employers should look sharp to see that
he earns all he spends.
Quite crowd of excursionists left for
New Orleans via the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad yesterday.
The fashioable Memphis man adores
good clothes with that weakness which is
strangely said to be peculiar to women.
The Recorder this morning committed
to jail R. B. Adams, William Coll and
George Cunningham, on the charges of
larceny.
Everything is quiet in police circles,
and police matters go on as usual, not
withstanding the recent removals and
promotions
Children's fair, for the benefit of the
Cleveland Hebrew Orphan Asylum, at
the Memphis Club Hall tonight and to-
morrow night.
Next Friday week, the llth instant,
Professor Schulze will give concert at
Cochran Hall under the auspices of
the German Casino Club.
Captain Braun and Sergeant Haggerty
fled their bonds at the Mayors office
yesterday, and today went on duty as
officers of the police force.
Little Nell as Fidelia. the Fire
Wait at the theater to night. To-mor.
row evening she will appear as "Capi-
tola in the Hidden Hand.
Several gentlemen from Big Creek
are in the city looking for Mr.. Allen,
OF that section, who came to Memphis a
week ago and strangely disappeared.
A cotton compress escape on Shelby
street makes night hideous, and compels
all persons residing within half mile of
said press to keep wide awake at night.
The internal management of the city
schools is just now coming in for share
of public attention and criticism. The
management is not altogether as it should
be.
In the Criminal Court to-day W. P.
Davis and Mat Peters were found guilty
OF larceny and sentenced to one year s
Imprisonment each in the State peniten.
tiary.
An officer from Arkansas arrived here
yesterday, and to day carried back for
trial a negro named Ham Burford, who
is charged with committing an outrage
upon woman.
Ben Jackson (negro) stole two buffalo
fish on Adams street to-day and was
locked up in jail. as we're also the fish.
The latter will be strong enough in day
or two to break out.
Adams, the white man who was arres-
ted in this city on the charge of robbing
Mr.. Tate Of BENEFITS landing Mississippi, |
will be taken back to Mississippi to-day
by detective Cranmer.
Arkansas Smith was seen in oar city
last week, but the man who saw him
would not arrest him, giving as his rea-
son; IF a small reward can keep Smith
out of Arkansas, all right"
Notwithstanding the depression in bus
mess the prices of the necessaries and
Injuries of life in Memphis remain un.
changed-except for drinks, which may
now be had for fifteen cents.
Memphis girls now direct letter by
writing the full name from one corner to
the other, scatter there one-cent stamps
over the envelope, and then write "im
portant" in every vacant corner.
The young ladies of Memphis are SO
lomplished and handsome; the middle
aged, interesting and piquant; and the
I'D, the best preserved of any city on
he continent. So says a contemporary.
To-day is the anniversary of the death
# Pops Lso X, who died in 1921. He
1 vas who exeOpwpnicated Martin
luther and conferred the title At DE
ender O. the Faith upon Henry VIII
Of England.
Ward candidates for Councilmanic
md Aldermsnic honors are now going
and, grasping the hand of the
roter, whispers in his ess, I'm your