Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-09

LEDGER LINES.

School Board meeting at Odd Fellows
Hall tonight.
Edwin Adams as Enoch Arden "
at the theater tonight.
The Esther cantata will be repeated
during the present month at the theater.
The annual banquet of the German
Casino club comes off tomorrow week,
the 10th inst.
"Chris and Lena" left for New Or
leans yesterday, in which city they will
appear tonight.
Rev. 7. B. Larimore will preach in
the Linden street Christian church to-
night at u o'clock.
The mosquito and the cimex lectula-
rius have again appeared since the In
dian summer weather set in.
When a man is now seen wearing a
button.hole bouquet he is said to be in
the pot'fower business.
The courthouse law library commit
tees will meet again at the courthouse
on next Saturday morning.
If you wish to mako "peeler mad,
just publish an arrest and accidentally
give the credit to another "peeler."
Mr.. j. M. Taylor, of Lexington, KY,
and Secretary of the Kentucky State
Sportsmen's Association, is in the city.
Several very crude works Of art appear
in the Art Gallery of paintings at the
Exposition. A daub is not painting.
Rev. DR.. Setback, of Huntsville, has
accepted a call to the pastorate of the
Court street Cumberland Presbyterian
church.
Memphis beaux and bellies are now
engaged in the laudable occupation of
gathering autumnal leaves every Sun
day afternoon.
In the Floral Hall at the Exposition
number of ducks and geese are admired
nightly by the human little ducks and
geese OF the bluff.
The mortuary report of the past week
shows the total deaths to have been nine
teen-whites, IL; blacks, T. Health of
the city excellent.
The WEEKLY LEDGER will be published
tomorrow, and can be found at the
LEDGER counting.rosm and at the lead
ing news stands of the city.
The Bartlett Circuit Court will be
open to-day, when the civil docket will
be called Immediately after the organi
cation of the Court Next week the
criminal docket will be taken up
L. ]. DuPre, one of the proprietors
and editors of the Appeal, sold out his
one-third interest in that journal to
Felix M. Jones, the present business
manager of the paper. Colonel DuPre
intends locating in Texas
To-day the First and Second Chan
Gerry Courts, Criminal Court and First
Circuit were in session. The new court
house is not thoroughly heated or fur
nished as yet, so but little court business
will be transacted for a few days.
The latest theatrical fend is the chap
who repeats to his nearest neighbor every
smart saying gotten off by the actors,
and not satisfied with repeating, the
fiend always explains the joke in a most
elaborate manner, just as if his neighbor
could not see the joke without an inter
prefer.
The Swiss Gruetli Association Of
Memphis will give their annual ball at
Cochran Hall on the 18th instant. This
will be the five hundred and sixty-sev-
enth anniversary of the independence of
the land of William Tell, the Oldest re
public in Europe, excepting the little
republic of San Marine.
A New York paper of the 4th instant
says that among the lay delegates now in
that city attending the triennial General
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church is Hon. Jacob Thompson, of
Memphis, formerly Secretary of the In
terror in Buchanan's Cabinet, and Gov
ernor of Mississippi in 1861,
The fashionable dress of the period
rolls along the pavement bundle of
straw, and then dumps it at some alley
crossing for the convenience of the col
ored chifionnier. This dirt rolling of
fashion is somewhat detrimental to the
charming Wilderness of undergarments;
at least so it appears to those who OBJ
serve fashion on Main street.
In the Worcester Mass Press of the
4th we see that Mr.. D. Athy, sterling
Democrat, has been reelected from the
Eleventh district to the State Legislature.
Mr. Athy is brother to Chief of Police
Athy, of our city. The Press, in COM
menting on the great victory, asks: By
the way, how about these Southern out
rages2" And the paper is covered all
over with Democratic growing ROSTERS.
The young enthusiast of the Appeal
saw at the Exposition a few nights since
young lady wearing light buff dress,
the polonaise of which looked like
orange.colored clouds slumbering on the