Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-07
LEDGER LINES.

over town.
The Masonic Knights have returne'
from New Orleans.
A Christmas story; Weare opposed h
the free use Of egg.nog.
The County Probate and Quorum
courts we're in session to-day.
The best and cheapest printing dom
at the LEDGER steam job Office.
Katie Putnam as FanchoD. thu
Cricket" at the theater tonight.
| Little Nell speaks four languages il
addition to stage slang-and she speaks
all well.
There are loafers enough in town tc
encourage the opening of soup house
this winter.
The Chickasaw Guards have received
their new uniforms and will parade in
them ere long.
The mortuery report for the past week
shows the total deaths to be "a; whites
| IL; blacks, Is.
If you have holiday goods and wish to
sell them, why do you not advertise such
in the LEDGER2
Next month will be hard one for
ministers and washerwomen. There are
five Sundays in it.
Children are beginning to inform their
parents what they found in their stock
ings last Christmas.
The cotton crop is now estimated at
least four millions bales. of which Mem
phis should receive nearly half million.
Memphis R. A. Chapter No. 95, will
work in the R. A. NJ. degree tonight at
their hall in Gayo'io Block, Main street.
Grand Pythian promenade concert an d
hop at the Exposition building tomorrow
Tuesday night week, the 18th instant.
At the late St. Patrick's Church Fair
four coon skins donated were ratified eff
and sold for the benefit Of the good
cause.
Mr.. John S. Toof has been reelected
Superintendent sHd Secretary of the
Cotton Exchange, a compliment most
deserving.
Cool and cloudy yesterday with more
weather still ahead of us. To-day the
sunshine gives promise of clearer if not
cooler weather.
Life is said to be q tragedy to him who
feels and comedy to him who thinks,
but to the fellow who does neither it
must be farce.
This is the month for alms-giving,
when the wealthy open their purses to
the poor. who are too often without the
necessaries of life.
That epidemic known as the matri-
monial fever is about to rage again. 1t
kills two birds at time and knocks all
the orange blossoms off the trees.
Master Samuel c. Robertson, son of
General B. 81. Robertson, Of our city,
has received the appointment from the
Ninth Congressional district as cadet to
West Point.
Tomorrow Venus will make her tran
sit across the face of the sun, an event
that will be observed by the leading star
gazers of the world. The Beecher trial
is also set for that day.
The nication which appeared
Saturday, signed Another of the Sixty
Teachers" contained misprint. The
word webster appearing for "Wor-
cester," the one intended.
The transit of Venus, which comes off
tomorrow, can not possibly be seen from
the bluffs, and you have not time to 20
to Australia or China for that purpose.
You should have started two months
ago.
Spiritual circles in Memphis are
worked up just now by a female med
ium who blows news from the other
world through horn, provided the horn
is not removed by some unbelieving man
in the audience.
The game market to-day furnishes the
following list Of retail prices: Venison,
lac per ID; quail, 3 for SOC; squirrels, 3
for SOC; prairie chickens, 70 to 9Oc per
brace; perch, loo per ID; Northern lake
and sea fish, l5c per ID.
Main street would be passable if the
Street Railroad Company followed the
example of the city, by repairing the
Nicholson pavement. which, by their
charter, they are pledged to do, where
yer their tracks are laid down.
The excitement in regard to the sex of |
that cat has partially subsidized. The !
owner, inferring that it is the son of a
Tom, has therefore named it Thomson
with "p," hoping that there will be no |
more caterwauling in that quarter.
No street cars in front of the theater
last Saturday night. Our dramatic
critic will notice this delinquency |
nightly, and 80 publish to the world every |
afternoon during the dramatic season
and if the public can "(Barl. il"
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