Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-13
LEDGER LINES.

King Menus and his retainers will
enter the city on Monday afternoon.
Lawrence Barrett as Richelieu'' al
the Memphis Theater next Monday
evening.
We are having quite TOO many fires
Of late, The inceDdiary with his torch
is around.
Humpty Dumpty by the Fox Panio
mime troupe at the Greenaw Opera
House on Monday night.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis has gone 10
Europe on voyage in search Of health,
and will not return for year.
The Mayor and The General Council
are at loggerheads, judging from the
proceedings Of the Boards yesterday.
The additional detective sanitary and
police force asked for by the Police
Board has been refused by the General
Council.
The Adams street station-house is nc
longer crowded with dodgers since the
three nights and then the chain-ganQ
rule has been adopted.
Chow C0leman's Pressed Fine Cut,
Fra Diavolo or Beauty and the Bri
gands, by the Chapman Sisters at the
Memphis Theater tonight Aladdin al
the matinee tomorrow.
City Inspector Edward Barinds has
been suspended from Office by the Mayor
and the General Council has appointed
committees to investigate the charges
made.
Tomorrow at half-past ten o'clock
the special train leaves the Louisville
railroad depot for the Conservative mass
meeting at Bartlett. Fare, there and
back, fifty cents.
The Mayor has been authorized to
borrow $50, 900 on the notes of the city
at rate not to exceed ten per cent. per
annum, in order to meet the current ex
penses Of the city government.
The fight in August next will be be-
tween political combinations. Here.
after national elements cannot be ig-
nored without defeat. 1t took some
time to hammer this fact into the heads
Of the Bourbons,
A Memphis newspaper man on an av'
erage is invited to drink from ten to
twenty times day. Not being a peri
patetic distillery or brewery, he some
times declines the seductive invitation
but we never knew morning newspa'
ger man to do so.
Three hundred people we're out on the
bluffs last evening; to witness the going
out of the Belle Lee. She went up tc
the point, and rounding to came past
the city like deer and stretched Out
for New Orleans, carrying with her q
gay Mardi-Gras party.
In the q shoot-off" yesterday for the
prize goblet, put up by the Bluff City
ShootingClub, DR.. d. d. Saunders became
its owner, he having killed three single
out of three double birds, to two single
of three double birds killed by Mr.
Arthur Merriman.
lobe Taylor and his associates on
Front street are now compelled to drink
river water, since rural gentleman
mistook the cistern in the cellar for
some other convenience few days since.
The cstern water is believed not good
for drinking purposes since that event
full day.
At least one hundred white and color
ed spectators attend daily at the Crimi-
nal Court trials, listening attentively to
the examination of witnesses and argu-
ments of counsel. These people are
generally loafers, professional jurors,
friends of the prisoners, or would-be
students of law outside the ratings.
The General Council almost unani-
mously signed petition TO the Mayor
asking that he direct the Chiefs of the
Fire and Police departments to have a
parade Of the men under their COM
mand Mardi-Gras day between the hours
of IL am. and pm, and that ct the
former hour he turn over the keys of the
city to the King of Misrule, who shall
hold them until a m. Of the following
day. Long live the King!
Chew COleman's Pressed Fine Cut.
There are number Of persons in this
city who in discussing politics and cleo
ton matters almost abandon speech by
adopting winks and mods, and reckoning
you near, whisper in your right or left
ear in the most mysterious manner, at
the same time looking suspiciously all
around in order to see who comes near.
The whisperers are a nuisance; TO have
a chap whistle in your ear is torture.
Let these men speak out like free men
whenever they have anything to say, is
the prayer of eur Ledger Liner, who has
suffered no little from the whisperers.
Sand Now the Band Begins to Play"