Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-30
LEDGER LINES.

Hall tonight.
The Quorum Court meets at the
County Courtroom tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be the LIST OF Decem'
Der, the last month Of old 1874.
Memphians are enjoying the weather
between sneezes, sleets and SHOWS.
Tonight Little Nell will appear at the
theater as Fidelis" in the Fire Wait.
Pythian parade, promenade concert
and ball Tuesday, the 18th Of December.
There are large number of counter.
felt nickels in circulation. Look out for
them.
Several larcenists were committed in
default of bonds by the Recorder this
morning.
1t is almost time for the city registers
to open their offices and issue certificates
to the sovereigns.
The mortpary report for the past week
shows tie total number of deaths at FL;
whites l3, blacks 8.
Next January many would.bs Alder
man and Councilman will be deposited
upon the silent shores Of memory.
Quite number Of excursionists went
| to New Orleans this morning over the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad.
Ninth annual celebration Of st. An
drew's day by the St. Andrews Society
of Memphis at the Peabody tonight
Mrs. Oates and comic opera troupe
will appear here next month, and then
the public will have its file de Madame
Angot.
1t is now said of Barbour Lewis in
dorser, Mullet, the United States archi-
tect, that he cannet design decent hen
coop.
Wild geese and ducks are wining
their way to the feeding grounds of the
South from the frozen regions of the
North.
We are anxiously awaiting the open-
ing up Of the next local sensation, which
will of course be written to death by ed
itors and correspondents.
The places of amusement open to the
public at present are: st. Patrick's
church fair, Memphis Theater and JEFF
ferson street variety Opera House.
Robbers continue to prowl around in
the suburbs and dark streets of the city,
lying in wait for pedestrians who are
vending their way homeward after dark.
A country darby in town to-day was
explaining to brother what crop
mortgage was, aud wound up by saying
sadly, "a morgitch makes niger
mighty honest"
The Pythian promenade concert and
ball has been postponed from next Fri
day night week to the Tuesday evening
following, the 10th prox. See amuse-
ment column for particulars.
Be briefin your street salutations, and
remember that on this revolving globe
of ours when you raise your hat to q
lady for one second of time you have
travelled seventeen miles bareheaded,
Merchants requiring bill heads, dray
receipts, bills of lading and other job
printing will find the LEDGER steam job
Office the place TO get all such and have
it executed with neatness and dispatch.
In the Criminal Court on Saturday
evening last a negro named Mac Green
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree on the charge of killing negro
at Die Dougherty's famous DeSoto street
saloon some months since.
Mr.. Ben Bingham, of our city, left for
Tuscumbia, Alabama, on Saturday last
and carried with him a sum of money
donated by the Odd-Fellows' Relief COM
mittee of Memphis to the suffering mem
bers of the Order in the tornado-struck
town.
Expectation fell fat yesterday when
it was officially announced that the
Louisville lottery drawing had been
postponed until next February. Those
who expected to realize fortunes to-day
must hold their anxious souls in pa.
thence.
A Memphian who has been travelling
in Europe says that Europe is not what
it is cracked up to be. Everything is
done on a small scale, and so far as eat
ing and drinking are concerned at ss-
looms and hotels, the United States is far
ahead of the Old World.
A list of the names of those who in
vest in lotteries would present 2 strange
phase of life, and would show that even
the strictest members of the strictest
scots ore not proof against the tempta-
ton to spend five dollars in order to
realize few thousands.
A we'll known Memphian who is a
sporting character announced to crowd
few days since that he was a ruined
man. as he had lost his wife. Indeed,
asked g friend, how did you lose her
at keno or farO9' Such is sympathy
from a professional standpoint