Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-09
LEDGER LINES.


ing.
The Quorum Court is in session TO-
day.
Probate Court will not be in session
until Saturday next.
Adjourned meeting Of the General
Council tomorrow night. i..
Poplar street cars now run to the Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee depot,
Pigeon-shooting match and deer chase
at the Fair Grounds next Wednesday.
St. Andrews Society viii give a ball
next Monday evening at the Chickasaw
Club room.
Palm Sunday occurs on the 10th inst,
Good Friday April Sd, and Easter Sun.
day April 9th.
The Irish.American civic societies Of
this city will parade on tomorrow week,
st. Patrick's Day.
A bet was made this morning that o
pair Of twins means four instead Of
two. The Siamese twins were one.
Rev. S. B. Surratt will preach at the
Safarans street Methodist church, in
Chelsea, at seven o'clock this evening.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the LEDGER couutingroom and at the
leading news stands tomorrow morning.
The Maenneorchor gave vocal and
instrumental concert at Cochran Hall
last night before a large ana critical
audience.
Notwithstanding that during the Len
ten season marriages are not in vogue,
yet goodly number of persons are not
governed by custom. The County Court
Clerk issues a number of licenses daily.
The Rev. 7. W. Hooper, of Lynch
burg, Va, will lecture under the auspices
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton at the Second Presbyterian church
tonight. Subject: What saw in Eu-
rope"
The new Board of Health will be or
ganized to night. The meeting will be
attended by Mayor League and Chief Of
Police Athy. The Mayor has promised
all the necessary power and money to
enable the Board to carry out all neces-
sary sanitary measures.
II was shameful but nevertheless true
that during the yellow fever epidemic
the Magdalens were permitted to sub
scribe considerable sum of money and
many of them acted as nurses for the
sick. Ye Preside philanthropists who
indorse police midnight raids, what
think ye of that2
The Appeal of yesterday editorially
refers to the scenes where the diet
tante tyro in the doctors trying duties
would not dare to show his face" What
a lover o. fine arts has to do with medi-
cine and surgery is not very clear, yet
he has something to say about music,
sculpture, painting, etc.
When you see man on the street
corner carelessly put his hands in his
pockets or lean up against an awning or
Iamp-post and sweep the horizon with
an distracted gaze in search of some
specimen of femininity, you may safely
bet that that man is fashionable street
loafer waiting to stare at some woman
or waiting for some male friend whS will
invite him to smoke or drink,
Geo. d. Chaplin, as Othello," with
Frank Evans as Iago," at the theater
tonight. By the way, did not Othello
lie prodigiously about that bandana
handkerchief In the third act Othello
says: THAT handkerchief did an
Egyptian to my mother give" ETC., but
in the fifth act he says, 1t was a hand
kerchief, fan antique token my father
gave my mother" Our dramatic critic
believes that 0thello told story in
both instances, and really purchased the
bandana at VenitiaA rag chop on the
corner, or won it at rattle.
Newspaper carriers are great conve-
nience. Standing on the sidewalk they
roll newspaper into a hard wad and
hurl it to the balconies on the second
and third stories of buildings with the
greatest art and ease. A subscriber to
the LEDGER has been complaining for
several weeks about not receiving his
paper, but yesterday he had occasion to
20 out on the balcony in front Of his
bedroom and there he found thirty or
more papers, many of them in pulpy
state of decomposition owing to the
heavy rains which of late have visited
this latitude.