Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-12
LEDGER LINES.

James Park to-day.
General Council meeting this after.
noon to wind up unfinished business.
Fashionable wedding at Calvary
Church this evening at eight o'clock,
sharp.
Have you seen dAndy2" is now the
Johnsonian question Of the day on the
streets.
Billy Lieben has the Norfolk Land
mark containing the official drawing Of
the lottery.
Recorder Winters disposed of twenty
misdemeanor cases to-day by imposing
fines and penalties.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the LEDGER counting room and at the
principal news stands to day.
The papers had it that Andrew John
son was expected in Memphis on Satur-
day last, but it was false alarm.
The Lancashire Lass did not draw
well at the theater last night. 1t was,
however, well presented by the ANA.
tours.
The last of the race horses has gone,
and no longer is the horse and pool talk
heard in the land. Sports, farewell I'M
til fall
The new lodge Of Knights of Pythias
will be organized tomorrow night at their
castle hall, corner of Adams and Sec
ond streets.
Ex-Governor Andrew johnson arrived
in the city to-day, and is sojourning at
the Peabody. He will probably make a
speech before he leaves the city.
The concert given by the choir of the
Congregation of the Children of Israel,
given at the Memphis Club Hall last
evening, was quite musical success.
Candidates, if you want your names
placed prominently before the people
send your announcements to the LEDGER,
which journal is read by all the people
Of Memphis.
Next Friday evening Professor Muel-
Ter will give soiree dansante at the
Memphis Theater, and on Friday week
the grand opera TerpsichoBean by the
pupils will come off.
Mr. A. B. Mullett, Supervising Archi-
tect of the United States, arrived here
to day for the purpose of locating the
site of the government custom house
buildings. Mulletts arrival is the most
important event for Memphis that we
have heard of of late.
In the August and November elections
the word Bartlett" will cut no mean
figure. 1t will be the shib6oleth Of the
contest, and even the Radical leaders
and chiefs of the combination are
practicing the pronunciation of the
word.
A well known lawyer is in fix. He
wants to file bill for divorce, the par
ties to which move in fashionable cir
Giles, but, as he says, no publicity is de-
sired, and the internal reporters cannot
be induced to promise secrecy and not
to publish.
Arkansas is now a double-headed
State; two Governors and two sets Of
officials are acting. Business at Little
Rock is entirely suspended and many of
the leading merchants intend leaving
The City of Roses is not the place for
business men at present.
There was tremendous crowd Of
people at the Maifest picnic last even
ing. Music, dancing, promenading,
beer. drinking and target-shooting were
enjoyed by all, and especially by the
candidates in August next,
and they attended in force, mixing with
the masses of the people as it were.
Public masquerade balls as they are
often given in Memphis at present are
,ather Objectionable, owing to the fact
hat the managers permit improper
characters to attend, and thereby pre-.
rent respectable people from appearing
either as spectators or en- masque-but
money seems to be what the managers
ire after.
Whenever a Memphis pencil singer
las occasion to wrestle with a personal
or item the titles Colonel,
General, Major and Captain glide from
IF the end of his pencil without his
moving it. The title "Mr is sufficient
or any respectable citizen, no man be-
ng entitled to a military title unless he
S in actual service-in Arkansas, for
A sharp, named Il. Howell, was fined |
so by the Recorder to day, on the
round that he is suspicious eharac.
err" Howell is a stranger, and has been
iguriug in the Mclean embezzlement