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

The Memphians visiting New Orleans
are having pleasant time.
Katie Putnam as Fanchon," at the
theater next Monday evening.
Thanks to the LEDGER, there we're
street cars in front of the theater last
night.
Little Nell in No Name at the theater
matinee to-day and at the performance
tonight.
Go and get registered in your ward so
that you can vote against the Radical
ring in January next.
Candidates for the United States Sem
ate are now in order. How many Mem
phians aspire to the positionP
The bar organized library associ-
alton at the court house to-day and
elected board of directors for the ensu-
ing year.
Sol Coleman keeps the best cigars and
tobacco at his Rosa Concha emporium
on Main street, between Adams and
Washington.
Rev. David Walk will preach in the
Linden street Christian Church to-mor-
row night on Modern Revivals and the
Evidence of Pardon"
At the Adams street engine house
horses are hitched and the engine and
hose carriage are on their way to the
fire in twenty seconds.
The Memphis Theater, Jefferson street
varieties and the Washington street
Olympic varieties are the places of
amusement open tonight.
At the Recorders Court to-day Mrs
Roberts, professional shop litter, was
tried on the charge Of larceny and COM
mitted in default of $4,000 bail.
The Changers had picnic at the Fair
Grounds yesterday. Nobody in town
seemed to knoY anything about it, but
the ways of the Changers are hard to
find out.
The learned hog" exhibited on the
corner of Main and Washington streets,
is attracting considerable attention. The
hog is a mathematician, philosopher,
card player and scientist.
Last night hundreds of ladies and gen.
tlemen attending the theater were loud
in their denunciation of the action Of
Barrett, the street car man, who on &C.
count of not being dead-headed into
the theater took the cars off.
Several suspicious characters are
wandering around Memphis. One of
them may be Smith, the fugitive Gov
ernor of Arkansas, but no detective will
arrest him, as they believe he has left his
country cor bis country'e good.
The jury in the case OF the State vs..
McCarty, indictment for burning the
Louisville railroad shops, cannot agree.
The jurors 40 home every night, earn
two dollars day, and tits ti%c that this
legal farce was ended by discharging the
jurors.
A desperate effort will be made by the
bummers to beat Alderman Robbins
and Councilman Hewett in the Second
ward, so that police matters can be con-
trollad in the interest of thieves and
burglars mead year, bat the ring, com
posed of discharged "peeiers' End Rad
icals, will not succeed in their vile eff
fort.
Yesterday afternoon a Mississippiau
rode into town on horseback with a
young lady behind hin, and procured
marriage license. After obtaining 1t ne
took his girl up behind him again and
left town in search of rural magistrate
to tie the nuptial knot before the cruel
parents of the fair one could intercept
them.
In the Criminal Court to-day the fol-
lowing prisoners we're sentenced: VIM.
Smith, larceny, three years in the peni-
Tertiary; Joe Davis larceny, three years;
Joe Edwards, larceny, one year; Winter
Payne, house-bresking, five years; Moses
Smith, larceny, three years. These
worthless will be carried to Nashville next
week by Sheriff Anderson.
Our theatrical man interviewed the
street car drivers last night, and they
unanimously said that Barrett never did
pay then iket fifty cents extra for wait
ing in front of the theateF. Barrett said
what was not true when he made this
statement to the Avalanche man, and
We cheerfully take this occasion of so
stating TO the public.
The New York Republic says: y Tie
Mayor OF Memphis has appointed Dec.
Is as the day and the St Nicholas Hotel,
New York, as the place for holding a
couxehGep between the city committee
and the bondhoidiRg creditors of the
city, wherein the former will endeaEor to
obtain the views Of the latter as to a set
tlement Of the city Indebtedness"
In the Criminal GopFt yesterday Jas.
Champion, street car driver, vas pros
ecuted by Barrett, the Superintendent.
on the charge of stealing nickel from
the company. The jury heard Barrett's
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