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

Inc herman Casino Club will give a
masquerade ball at Cochran Hall to
night.
There are both bulls and bears on
Madison street. The ducks can be seen
on Main.
Michael M. Keogh took charge of the
office of Recorders Clerk to-day, vice
Sim Barinds.
A wagon load of Chinese passed up
town to day. They will engage in the
laundry business
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the counting-room and news stands to-.
morrow morning.
Duprez & Benedicts Minstrels will
appear at. the Greenlaw Opera House
next Monday evening.
The remains of Decatur j. Doyle will
be conveyed to Elmwood Cemetery at
three o'clock this afternoon.
Thirty-six hundred dodgers were ac-
commodated at the Adams street sta
tion-house during the past month.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is esti-
mated for this season at 100000 hogs
heads by the New Orleans Picayune.
Violets are blooming in the suburban
gardens and in Elmwood Cemetery. The
fruit trees have commenced budding.
Colonel L. B. Eaton, United States
Marshal at this point, received his con.
fFmation for the second term yesterday.
Oliver Twist at the theater tonight,
with Marian Mordaunt in the leading
role, and supported by the stock COM
panY.
Next Friday evening a sacred concert
for the benefit of the German Protestant
Church will come off at the Memphis
Club Hall,
There is man in this city who claims
to have Bismarcks watch. We always
believed that Rismarck's watch was on
the Rhine.
The motion against the sureties of A.
Woodward, County Trustee, will come
up for hearing on Friday next before
the First Circuit Court.
Out of twenty.one editors and re.
porters in Memphis newspaper life bat
seven are enjoying unwedded bliss; the
rest are victims to connubial misery.
Immense preparations are being made
throughout the city for Mardi- Gras.
Twenty thousand strangers will be here,
and Memphis will give them generous
welcome.
Poplar street gardens had crowds of
thirsty visitors yesterday. The knock
ing of beer glasses on tables and soft
music from some old spawned piano,
with an occasional Bachanalian song,
awoke the echoes of the boulevard.
The Probate and Quarterly Courts are
in session to-day. The constable's con-
tested election case Of Frank Brannen
VS.. Tom Garvey ct al. will come up for
hearing before the Quarterly Court on
Friday next.
The present city government is scru-
tinizing municipal affairs more closely
than has ever been done heretofore.
Every department is being reduced to
system by which the Mayor can at
glance see what is going on, and if
necessary remedy whatever evils may
exist.
The young lady whose disappearance
at the masquerade ball was so sensation
ally written up in Saturdays Appeal
may possibly be found in the pool Of the
Exposition fountain. The mysterious
disappearance and its incidents were
bosh. People who get lost at mas
querade balls generally turn up. The
police authorities know nothing about
the affair.
The Register is growing about cotton
bales on Union street, which somewhat
obstruct the sidewalk. Cotton is down
at present, and never before were there
so many bales in the city. In week or
two there may not be 5000 bales in the
city. The sheds are full, and it is a
necessity if bales are left on the streets.
To arrest aud fine cotton men on ac-
count of this supposed obstru ction would
be absurd.
The mysterious Memphi cards Of invi-
tation to the Mardi-Gras tableaux and
ball at the Memphis Theater are floating
throughout the city. Who sends them
and where they come from are unknown
to the recipients. The card is beauti-
fully engraved and Illuminated. present
ing picturesque Eastern scenes, Egyp-
tian caravans, the Valley Of the Nile,
and the ancient river down which
Cleopatra hoated in her barge to capti-
vate the heroic Antony. No masking
will be allowed at the Memphi ball