Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-19
LEDGER LINES.

the rural ulstrlcts call the thlnB.
Judge Trigg is holding the United States
District and Circuit Courts to-day.
Humpty Dumpty Pantomime troupe at the
Greenlaw Opera House this evening.
A chicken main viii be fought in this city
on the eth ofApril for the sum of $1,000.
The 18th of next month our Irish fellow
citizens will celebrate st. Patrick's day.
The anniversary of the Memphis Bethel will
be celebrated on next Sunday afternoon.
The First Circuit Court has adjourned over
to Saturday next, which will be motion day.
The members Of the Catholic and Episcopal
churches are observing the Ienten season.
which will continue for forty days. :"
Tomorrow night Barrett will appear as
Julius Caesar" and be killed at the capitol
by" Brutus" and the boys.
There were at least ten thousand strangers
in our city on Mardi-Gras, and over $500
were scattered throughout the city.
A live bear chained in front of CASTOR S
this morning attracted no little attention, and
divided honors with the other bar"
Captain j. Harvey Mathes, Privilege Tax
Collector, left yesterday for New York on
business, and will be absent three weeks.
The Memphis Theater men are getting out a
crop ofinjunctions against each other in order
to settle the question Who will run the house
Bluff City Shooting Club meeting tonight to
arrange for the pigeon shooting match and
deer chase Rext Thursday at the Fair
Grounds.
Rev. David Walk will preach. in the Linden
Street Christian Church this evening at half
past seven o'clock. Morning prayer at eight
o'clock.
Fifty.fOur persons, charged with INSIDE
meanors, were before the Recorder this morn
ing, and contributed literally toward filling
the City Treasury.
DR.. Nuttall was robbed yesterday by pa
tient while he (the DOCTOR was sewing up the
battered face of the patient. This was cool
proceeding on the part of the thief.
Captain Dick Lightb1rne is endeavoring TO
start up a menagerie at the corner of Madison
and Front. Yesterday he had yearling
bear under training, and taught him how to
appear atthe bar and smile.
Bill Ferguson, negro rough. was shot and
killed on DeSoto street last evening by an
other rough named Lucas. The fight took
place at Dick Dougherty's saloon. on the cor
ner of Gayoso and DeSoto, a notorious point
for fights Of every description.
The Arkansas House on Washington street
was raided on by the police at twelve o'clock
last night, and the astonished inmates were
carried to the station. house and placed in the
dilemma of lookup or put up a forfeit.
The last of the strangers left the city this
morning, and in common with those who pre-
ceded him, carried away with him the most
favorable opinion Of Memphis and the most
pleasant recollections of. the great carnival.
A New Orleans editor presents this tantaliz-
ing picture to Memphians; THE bright warm
sun. which is now shining through our Office
window, WHITES dormant nature and. makes
termination proceed pace, as though it were
balmy spring."
Yesterday numbers of strangers visited
Court Square and gazed musingly upon the
finty features of A. Jackson, ESD, who sits
upon pedestal and smiles so sweetly upon
"ii' nc a hoih VI aII, lue Just OI II. D. is
horrible nuisance.
A New Yorker visiting our city expressed
his establishment that so many persons could
engage in the fun and frolic of Mardi- Gras.
and yet no person was killed. Hesaid: IF
Mardi-Gras was celebrated in New York
dozen men would be killed before night
several newspaper men are taking dancing
lessons. As pigeon-wing singer the APP
peal man fails to become a success. The
stately representative OF the Avalanche can
not secure the Boston dip, nor can the Regis
terrain hero wade through the square dance.
A handicap pigeon shooting match at the
Fair Grounds on Thursday next will be an
attractive affair. Three prizes will be offered
to the first, second and third bes. shots. A
deer chase will take place, and already over
fifty dogs have been secured. The pigeons
have been received-a splendid lot Of strong
birds.
The Avalanchian Mardi- Gras historian was
guilty of horrible anachronism in writing
about Antony and Cleopatra as depicted by
the Memphi. The average historian was of
opinion that Shakspeare's. allusion to the
royal pair as they hoated down the Nile was
from Dryden, whereas John lived
years after William was dead and buried.
Jimmie Corwin, the newsdealer, lost an
Dvercoat at tho Memphis Club ball on Mardi-
3ras night. The gentleman who carried it off
by putting it on by mistake, is informed that
Il he was governed by peeuniary considera-
lions Corwin is prepared to enter into nego-
-iations Immediately if the present possessor
will leave the coat at 40. 2s5 Main street.
Two newspaper men engaged in a Discus
lion at the theator door last night on the Bar
-ett question. One insisted that he was not
much, while the other would have it that he
vas everything to be commended. The dis
,ussion waxed hot, when one of the pencil
Fingers said something about Barrett's
Hamlet" - The deuce you say" replied
he other, 81 was speaking Of the new street
Jar Superintendent"
A Washington letter writer describes the old
nan as follows: One of the most noticeable
objects in the United States Senate Chamber
s Senator Brownlow. He IS a tall, dark
haired man, pale even to his lips. with no
,olor or life in any part Of his body. save his
restless eyes. that grow bright at intervals.
lie never speaks. nor moves. nor calls page,
Tor smiles, nor talks to his neighbor. Attend
lnts carry him to his seat at twelve and back
o his solitary home ct Ave-"
Chew COleman's Pressed Fine Cut.
A special dispatch to the Louisville Courier
Journal says: The Memphi. very aristo-
ratio crew made their parade to-night under |