Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-19
LEDGER LINES.

Lolita has gone TO the Crescent City.
The red-headed favorite leaves host Of
friends in Memphis.
King Menus addresses his subjects in
to-day's LEDGER on the subject of the
Mardi Gras carnival.
Next Monday evening, the 26th inst,
the Memberships will give the cantata
the May Queen at the theater.
Get your costumes ready for the Or
phans masquerade ball at the EXPOSE
ton Hall next Thursday evening.
Mrs. o Byrne will give readings at the
Greenlaw Opera House on Wednesday
evening next for the benefit OF st. Mary
church.
In the First and Second Circuit Courts
petit juries were impaneled this morn
ing, preparatory to commencing regular
business.
Captain j. II. Freleigh, the late effii-
cient clerk of ex-Mayor johnson, has
been appointed deputy clerk in the Office
of County Trustee Norton.
All day long citizens have been wend-
ing their way to the City Hall in order
to look after chances for Office, which
will be decided this afternoon.
The General Council will assemble
this afternoon and 60 into an election Of
officers, subject to the nominations to
be made by Mayor League.
T. C. King, the celebrated English
actor, will open up an engagement as
Hamlet" at the theater tonight.
Richelieu tomorrow night.
The discussion as to the causes and
results of the late municipal contest has
Aopted into the country journals, whose
editors write learned disquisitions on the
subject.
One hundred and forty.six persons,
fifty-fve white and ninety-one colored,
now board at the county Jail, and anx-
iously await the action Of the Criminal
Court.
After the General Council meeting
this afternoon disappointed Office seekers
will be numerous on the bluffs. There
are from twenty to forty applicants for
each Office in the gift of the Mayor.
The LEDGER job Office has the largest
imposing stone in the United States. 1t
is of the best Italian marble, four feet
two inches wide, seven feet one and one.
half inches in length and four inches in
thickness
4 Twenty-Five peace-breakers attended
i the Recorders matinee to-day Louis
Herman was placed under $4,000 bonds
4 for carrying concealed weapons. Sew
h eral petit larcenists were committed in
default of bail.
4 In the County Court to-day the magis-
trates passed series of resolutions
quite complimentary to their former
chairman, Justice Bleckley Several
laudatory speeches were made in re.
Spouse to the resolutions.
The stockholders of the Merchants
Insurance Company have elected the
following board of directors: NJ. l..
Meacham, S. Mansfield, W. B. Galbreath,
J. M. Pettigrew, John Overton, jr., A.
N. Kay, Isaac Schwab, VIM. Joyner, b.
+. Halter.
Next Thursday evening the Confed-
crate Relief Association will give a
grand bal masque at the Exposition
building for the benefit of the orphans
of the city. Even if you do not wish to
attend, purchase few tickets and help
the good cause.
The Eaton pennsylvania News
speaks in a most complimentary man
ner of their former townsman, Charley
| beehn, Councilman of the Third ward,
and congratulates him on becoming for
the third time city dad"
A morning journal speaks of the hand
some attache of the Grand Dukes staff,
who was supposed to be about to return
to the bluffs and claim the hand of
fair Blufite. If there was handsome
man on the Dukes staff he did not APP
pear among the Cossacks and Tartars.
who danced attendance around Aleck"
in Memphis.
The New York Tribune, Of the 10Th
inst, contains an obituary and biograph-
zeal notice of Miss Laura Alexander,
who was leading lady at the Greenlaw
Opera House last season. Miss Alex
ander was native of Charlotte, North
Carolina, and was the niece of the late
Sam P. Walker, Esq, Of this city.
The Fantodling editor of the Register
has thrown down his Faber No. 2, and
gone off to the country to exhibit Punch
and Judy and the Blacksmith Dream,
curious piece of mechanism, which
excited wonder in the minds of men
during the Exposition. The Register
has lost one of its most brilliant writer's.
The Rev. A. P. Stone sermonizes as
follows: " Long live the reporter God
is great way off, but the newspaper
reporter is near. and thrusts his sharp
gaze into all covert and hidden schemes
of men; God give more of this" We
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