Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-20
LEDGER LINES.

Mrs. ohanfrau at the Memphis Theater next
week.
Humpty Dumpty at the Greenlaw Opera
House tonight and at the matinee to-
morrow.
The opponents of Mardi-Gras have retired
from the field, and have been rousted. horse.
foot and dragons.
The thousands Of strangers who visited our
city during the week were loud in their praises
Of Memphis and Memphians.
Lawrence Barrett in Julius Cesar at the
Memphis Theater tonight. Rosedale matinee
tomorrow. and Richard III at night
The Bluff City Shooting Club met last night
and perfected arrangements for the pigeon
shooting match on Thursday next at the Fair
Grounds.
A we'll known Memphian who had been
Airted with thus sums up the situation;
False hair. false teeth, false words, false
everything"
Over the river, in our sister State, when a
man walks into house and shoots the propri-
etor and others. he is styled by the local press
as ian intruder"
In the Criminal Court to-day W. J. Dawson,
alias Null BAUM" was placed on trial on
the charge of robbery. Null" is bad cit
izen. butso far has escaped punishment.
The live bear chained in front of CASTOR s
yesterday became exceedingly dangerous and
particularly savage. owing to being worried
by crowd of boys. SO much SO that the ami
NAL had to be killed.
The deer chase next Thursday at the Fair
Grounds will be most exciting affair. A
well known cotton merchant, but an expert
| enced Nimrod, has agreed TO turn his blooded
dogs loose on this occasion.
c. A. Lefingwell, by arrangement and
agreement with other interested parties, has
assumed control of the management Of the
Memphis Theater. and will hereafter attend
to the financial affairs Of the establishment.
The courts of record failed to furnish a
single item of news to-day. In several of the
courts motions were being heard, and in the
United States Court the argument of counsel
in the case of Seaman VS.. Smell, Taylor & Co.
was under hearing.
The Appeal editOrially says; MRS. West
moreland, the novelist. is lecturing on
kisses She can come this way and be sure
of full houses if she will illustrate the sub
ject." We know not how it is with leading
editors, but from reportorial standpoint we
beg to amend the above by adding, provided
she is good looking"
An enterprising weekly on our exchange
list has commenced the publication of a serial
entitled I" Rasselas." by the late DR.. Samuel
johnson, LII. d. "Rasselas" is story of
olden times. but moro charming prose tale
has never been written. Nowadays but few
people read it, and in but few book stores can
it be found. As astandard work of good Eng
lish and elegant literature it has never been
excelled.
In Memphis there are High and Low
Churchmen who will appreciate the follow
ing anecdote: When clergyman of the
Church of England was about to give din
ner to some of his clerical brethren his butler
asked whether the expected guests were
High Church or Low Church. His master
said, "Why do you ask that question:" The
butler answered, Because if they be High
Church we want more vino; but if they be
Low Church we want more whites"
The Courier-Journal correspondent who SO
unfairly wrote up Mardi- Gras and the Memphi
procession and ball, to which special dispatch
attention was called in the LEDGER of yester-
day. appears in this mornings journals and
apologies for the Rroundless dispatch, ad-
hitting that the dispatch was untrue in every
particular. The correspondent does the'river
and commercial end of the Register, which
journal has been peculiarly unfortunate in its
opposition to the great carnival.