Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-27
LEDGER LINES

Tor all eOrIs OF nltu.
The art galleries Of Memphis consist
Of photograph rooms.
Harry Everett's benefit at the theater
next Friday evening.
Nothing new or important transacting
in the courts of record to-day.
The Odd Fellows paraded yesterday
and presented fine appearance.
Next Friday Maifesting will be in
order among our German fellow-citizens.
Charley White opens the Olympic
Varieties on Washington street tonight
Theatrical strikes have become com
mon in Memphis; no pay no play, is the
rule.
State Sportsmen's Association Con-
vention next Friday evening at the Pea
body.
The William Mclean embezzlement
case was taken up on argument this fore
noon.
Pigeon tournament by the Bluff City
Shooting Club at the Fair Grounds on
Saturday next.
Colonel James Coleman is lying quite
i'll at his rooms, suffering from an at
tack of paralysis.
Friday next, May lst, the Sodality
Silver Band will give picnic at the
Exposition Building.
Soda water has again appeared in
front of over-heated and thirsty pedes-
TRANS on Main street.
WEEKLY LEDGER at the counting-room
and principal news stands throughout
the city tomorrow morning.
Suburban pleasures during the moon
light nights are wonderfully added to by
leaning on the gate at parting.
Free lunches are disappearing in
Memphis. 1t takes an extra dime to
supply fodder as an adjunct to drink.
The capitalist opposes initiation and
indorses the Grant veto of the currency
bill; the class without money favors in
hation.
Next Wednesday evening Mr.. Berkeley
will open !the Vaudeville Theater on
Jefferson street, late Whites Opera
House.
There is a new crevasse at Niblett's
Landing, twelve miles below Napoleon,
and Hushpuckany break is widening
daily.
During the past week the mortuary re-
port was as follows Total number of
deaths, %; males, IL; females, 6; whites,
IL; blacks, IL.
= Elmwood Cemetery on the fernando
road, and the beer gardens on Poplar
street, were visited by hundreds of citi-
zens yesterday.
Next Wednesday evening Handers
oratorio of the Messiah will be given at
St Peters Church by the Mendelssohns
and a chorus Of sixty voices.
The transfer of the mule motive pow
er on street-cars should be done at the
end Of each line instead of at the mid
die Of the road as is usual in Memphis.
At the Old Folks Concert Cd the 9th,
It'll and Sth of May we understand sew
eral of the Old Folks Will appear in
vocal exercises and Terpsichorean at
fractions.
AL Thomas, negro wood chopper,
vas murdered at Marshall Landing, one
hundred miles above here, last Friday |
light. The murderer escaped in dug
Tut. No particulars.
Hint to fair Memphians: An Iowa |
ourt has decided that when an engage
nent is broken of, both parties must re-
urn all presents, counting uten sils, etc.,
IF their value in money.
In the cotton pool of Memphis, the |
highest estimate of the cotton crop for
1914 was 4,2s16l3 bales; the lowest,
1871 ,O36; average, 4l32, 1872 bales, with
sc estimates in the pool.
Even the public pound keeper, has
een arrested for keeping goats and hogs
'ithin the corporate limits. The city
as no more right to commit nuisance
T violate the health ordinance than an
Individual
In Illinois the women ought to be
Apply, as by late law they are en-
covered to keep their own earnings and
ransact business with their husbands
s with strangers. This is not permit
ed in Memphis.
The Bolivar railroad committees to
ct up subscriptions have divided the
ity into sections, and subcommittee
re out in search of filthy lucre, so as to
aise funds to build the road from Mem
his to Henderson station.