Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-26
LEDGER LINES.

tomorrow evening.
shrove Tuesday, Mardi.Gras, the nth
Of February, to morrow two weeks.
The General Council will meet in
regular session on Wednesday week.
The board Of directors of the Paducah
railroad will elect officers tomorrow.
The Chamber of Commerce will assem-
BILE in monthly meeting this afternoon.
We have had four fires within the last
forty. eight hours. What is the matter2
Cal Wagner's Minstrels at the Green
law Opera House on Thursday evening.
Police Board meeting, for the purpose
of selecting patrolmen, to-day at the City
Hall.
King Menus again addresses his sub.
jects on Mardi.Gras affairs in to days
LEDGER.
Tomorrow evening Alice Kingsbury
will appear as Little Barefoot at the
theater.
Masquerade ball, for the benefit of the
orphans, on Wednesday evening at the
Exposition.
If you desire TO have your business
known, advertise in the daily and
weekly LEDGER.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be had at
the counting-room and the leading news
stands tomorrow morning.
Great Eastern Circus, Musuem and
Meuagerie on the bluffs tomorrow
week, Tuesday, February Sd.
Mendelssohn Concert at the theater
to-night--the Cantata, May Queen, with
full. choirs and musical accompani-
ment.
The Independent Pole Bearers and
coored people intend celebrating Mardi-
Gras by grand procession and bal
masque.
Bobby Burns was born one hundred
and fourteen years ago from yesterday,
and the anniversary Of his birth was duly
celebrated on Saturday by the st.
Andrews society, of which Henry Tom
lnson is President.
A gushing and eloquent morning
contemporary gravely informs the world
that another week has passed into the
gulf of by-gone days" This anachron-
ism is so mixed up with metaphor that
it is somewhat unintelligible.
The late appointments Of police Off
GERS are not calculated to win public
confidence. Several worthless and in
competent men were appointed; but
office, like kissing, goes by favor.
Soon, too soon, our own poets and
poetesses will be hinging off odes and
stanzas to violets and other spring flow
ers, which illusions the daily journals
will be expected to spread before cold,
critical world, which has neither music
| in its soul nor flowers in its bosom.
Frank Evans, leading man of the
Memphis Theater, left yesterday for
New Orleans, for the purpose of support
ing Lolita during the week There are
hundreds of young Memphians who
would gladly take the job off his hands
for an indefinite period oftime.
Mayor League has to interview hun
dred applicants for Office each day at
the City Hall. Each applicant leaves
perfectly satisfied as to his appoint
! ment, but yet cannot say positively that
the Mayor made any such promise. Old
Tallyrand used to intimate that Ian
guage was given to man for the purpose
of concealing his thoughts"
There is a theatrical manager in Ar.
kansas who calls his actors hands, and
their salaries wages" The bucoloc
manager used to run plantation where
on the heather Chinese performers came
on with hoe and went off with cue.
The manager should see the play David
Garrick acted, wherein the great Garrick
seorns wages, and goes in for fame, APP
clause and glory.
Shakespeare is appreciated only in
book.form in Memphis. Charles Lamb
set Memphians an example in this he
held that ghakspeare's plays were not
calculated fer performance on a stage
on account of their distinguished ex-
ce,Ience; and so much of them come
not under the province of acting, with
which eye, and tone and gesture have
nothing to do. Edwin Booth might
draw a fashionable house here, but nine
teen out of twenty would go to see
Booth, not Hamlet
Big Fire at Helena.
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