Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-09
LEDGER LINES.
To.morrow waak Mardi.Gras.

Ao-mOlIOW Woeh mhrul-OtdS'
Get your Valentines ready for next
Saturday.
Butchers Union ball at Cochran Hall
tomorrow night.
Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels at the
Greenlaw Opera House this evening.
The Louisville Railroad Company will
commence rebuilding their workshops
this week.
All the railroad and steamboat lines
have agreed to reduced rates for visitors
to Mardi Gras.
Pigeon shooting match and fox chase
at the fernando Trotting Park at IL
o'clock to morrow.
The Chapman Sisters in the comic
opera entitled Don Giovanni at the
Memphis Theater tonight.
A second concert will be given by the
members of the German Protestant
Church next Friday evening at the
Memphis Club Hall.
The Mystic Crew of New Orleans, the
Myths of Mobile and the Memphi of
Memphis are the secret societies Of
Mardi- Gras, and are composed Of the
leading citizens of each city.
The General Council met last Wednes-
day and Friday evenings. AS yet the
Register has not furnished the LEDGER
with single line of official proceedings;
hence its non-publication in our col
umns.
A mass meeting of the Democratic
and Conservative citizens Of the county
will be held at Bartlett on Saturday next
to take action with reference to the ap-
preaching elections in August and No
vember next.
The pulpits of Memphis opened out
on Mardi-Gras yesterday. The pulpits
of New Orleans and Mobile do not do
80. Which is right, and which is wrong?
Mardi-Gras will be grand success this
season and forever on the bluffs.
A thieving dog on fernando street
takes. the Avalanche every morn
ing from the porch of resident of that
vicinity and carries it to the adjoining
commons but for what purpose has not
as yet been discovered by the Avalanch-
ian reporter.
Last Saturday the property on the
southwest corner of Shelby aud Gayoso
streets, was sold at chancery sale by NJ.
ID. l.. Stewart, Clerk and Master of the
Second Chancery Court, at $2O5 per
front foot; lot, AZ by IS feet. The pur-
chasers were Sledge, Mckay & Co.
The handsomest city editor in town is
possessed by the Appeal; the fighting
city editor slings a pencil ON the Ava
lanche; the most religious and the fancy
city editor skirmishes around for the
Register; but the most-well, the re-
naming city editor is attached to this
journal.
1t is rumored that the entire staff of
the Register will leave the city on Mardi-
Gras so as not to aid or assist in the car
nivsl of the people. Gentlemen, fare
WE'LL Come back on Ash Wednesday and
celebrate Lent. Even the wickedest
man on the Register gives faint signs of
reformation.
The fire bells startled the residents at
$50 clock last night. The cause of
the alarm was the leaking of coal oil
can in Feltman's grocery on Main street.
near the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road depot. The fire was suppressed
before any damage was done.
Mayor League has not replied to the
attacks made on his late message to the
General Council. At least one thousand
taxpayers are benefited by the message,
and we presume the Mayor, like Mayor
Johnson, his predecessor, can afford to
be silent, which is wise rule to be gov
erned by.
To-day the Danbury steam 6re-engine
pumped out the cellers under the Plant
ers Insurance Company and the County
Court building. The water filled the air
with perfume, reminding one of the
water at fashionable springs in this and
other States. The smell might suit fash
enable people, but to the uuinitiated it
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