Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-31
LEDGER LINES.
Tomorrow will be New Year. day.

1874.
The New Years eggnog will flow
freely tomorrow.
Matinee tomorrow, when Led Astray
will be the attraction.
At IL m. tomorrow the day and night
police patrol forces exchange time. z
Tonight the Kurdish combination will
present Mons. Alphorse at the theater.
There will be religious services in
nearly all the churches Of the city to.
morrow.
The children of St. Peters Church
Orphan Asylum will indulge in festival
this afternoon.
There was plenty of ice this morning;
the wintery northern air is the latest
arrival in the city.
The Chamber of Commerce met to-day
for the purpose of considering that Kan
oho OtIJ IdllrOdu eCucmc.
The Criminal Court will be in session
on Saturday, and all the other Courts of
Record on Monday next.
The LEDGER will not be published to-
morrow; all the LEDGER people will be
around making New Years calls.
Last year the municipal election was
held on New Years day, when John
League was elected Mayor of Memphis.
The municipal election for Aldermen,
Councilmen and School Visitors will
come off on next Thursday week, the It'll
instant.
Station-house lodgings are very popu-
lar at present with the unemployed who
have Aocked into our city from Chicago
and other cities.
We are promised by Manager Pennoyer
a Suggesting in Mons. Alphonse supe.
rior to anything hitherto seen in the
Memphis Theater.
To morrow New Years day. the post
office will close at 10 am. Carriers will
make one delivery and collection. All
mails close at 10 am.
Our Senators and Representatives
elect will leave for Nashville on Satur-
day next so as to take their seats on
Monday as legislators.
Jefferson will make his appearance at
the theater next Monday evening as
rip" the vagabond Dutchman of the
village of Falling Water"
The different Catholic churches of our
city are elegantly decorated st. Pat
rick's church presents brilliant ap'
pearance with four hundredlights around
the affairs.
Maskers will be admitted to the thea
ter tonight as before. Therefore, per
sons attending the Exposition ball car
drop in at the theater without the incon
venience of unmasking.
During the twenty.four hours ending
this morning, not one arrest was made
in the lower police district, and but eigh
arrests were made in the upper district
Memphis is a quiet village.
The Bluff City Lodge No. 1877, /. o. o
F., on Thursday right last elected thu
following officers: G. W. L. Crook, N
. g.: A. E. Kennedy, V. u; W. p. Moys
ton, Secretary; C. Gross, Treasurer.
The Tenth ward Colligan men arr
boasting of that nice little game they
put up on DIR. Morrison by nominating
him at that ward meeting, so as to cleo
their own Radical ticket by splitting the
Conservative element
A petition from the leading lawyers Of
the city has been sent to Washington
praying the powers that be to remove
the United States Courts to the new
courthouse from their present location
on Main, near Linden street.
The School Board Investigating Com
mittee will be in session this afternoon
Several leading negroes will be present
and give their views on the improperly
and injustice in employing white carpet
baggsss ps teachers in negro schools.
At meeting hsi, by Schiller Lodge
No. lao, 1. o. o. r., the folloving off
GERS we're elected for the ensuing term
Henry Schilling, n. G Ph. Maurer, Y
G.; P. Steinbrecher, Treasurer; Chss
Borner, sec'y; J. P. Hoffman, Trustee
The cocktail club viii assemble a
headquarters on North Court street to
night, and transact the unfinished bust
ness of last New Years Eve. Thu
grand opening" will take place at ter
o o'clock and will be conducted by the
"Grand Rooster"
Chickens and sneak Il ives of al
k:sds continue to prowl an teal in the
suburbs. Occasionally at night yOr
hear the trusty shotgus laTber fortl
from second story window, as som,
thieving kfriesu is going it at double
quick across the lgt.
Another man has disappeared. Mr.
Thomas y. Allen, Brownsville cooper
and Son Of Temperance, came to Mem
phis several days ago, disposed Of load
Of barrels and then dropped out Of sight
All the others who have disappeared ii
! Mepph,s turned up in Texas or othel