Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-18
LEDGER LINES.


Of drill yesterday.
The gasftters will indulge in bal! at
Cochran ball tonight.
The Esther Cantata will draw an inn
mense house tonight.
Esther Cantata at the theater tonight
and at the matinee tomorrow.
Next Tuesday evening there will be a
social reunion at the Armour Institute
on Madison street.
Wybert Reeve will appear as Count
Fosco" in the Woman in White at the
theater next Monday evening.
At the Recorders Court to day, Viii.
liam Hill (negro), was locked up in de.
fault OF $4,000 bail, on the charge of
stealing clothing.
/ Every Monday morning there is sad
array of uufortunates at the Recorders
Court to answer the charges Of drunk,
disorderly or asleep on the street.
A row on board the steamer John B.
Maude yesterday afternoon resulted in
the shooting of the boat carpenter by
the texas tender The wound may prove
fatal.
The lawyers practicing in the United
States Court are indulging in social
reunions at present, which affairs de.
velop that mysterious connection be.
tween wine and wit.
Mrs. Swishelm's chemilon chemlin,
chemilette or underall is being intro
duced into Memphis society by fash
ionable belle. Our fashion reporter has
not as yet been able to see the garment.
Yesterday was good wedding day.
At the Central Methodist Church Mr..
Ed j. Wendell was united to Miss Leonora
NJ. Busby, and at Calvary Church Mr..
VIM. Powell was married to Miss Mary
Wooten.
The hearing of the Bender murder
case, on trial in the Criminal Court, has
been continued over to morrow morning,
owning to the illness of Colonel H.
Casey Young one of the counsel of the
defendant.
1t IS estimated that ut least two thou
sand young men in our city will swear
Off on the list of January, 1875, and that
one thousand nine hundred and ninety
nine Of them will be literally using both
again on the I'd Of the same month and
year.
Several days since the Nashville
papers announced that Andy johnson
was in that city and would leave for
Memphis next day, but Andy" has
reconsidered the matter and has failed
to put in an appearance on the bluff.
What's the matter7
An Appeal correspondent this morn
ing grayely says want wife, but
he fails to inform the anxious public
whose wife he wants. We with impa-
thence await the appearance Of the
Appeal to morrow, as we expect to see
published therein score of answers
such as this, You can have mine.
Tip" the shop.lifting and thieving
dog belonging to Mrs. Bobbitt, will be
sold by Sheriff Anderson to the highest
bidder on Saturday next, to satisfy an
execution for cost. Tip" is trained
animal, who will go out and steal any.
thing you desire. In fact Tip" is an
invaluable dog. for which several Mem
phians will bid fifty dollars.
V. V. Smith, the bogus and fugitive
Governor Of Arkansas, passed through
Memphis a few days ago en- route for
Washington. He remained concealed
while in our city, fearing that some de-
tective would arrest him and claim the
$1,000 reward offered for his arrest by
Governor Garland. Smith is bad rep
resentative OF a HISTORIC family.
The battle ground of the January
municipal election, is the Second ward,
where the friends aud henchmen of
Mayor League are putting in their work
to defeat Alderman Robbins and Coun-
Gilman Hewitt, both of whom as chair
man as their respective Boards are
ex-oficio members Of ths Police Board.
All the discharged and disgraced peelers
are working In this ward, as bummers
The blackboard of the Cotton Ex-
change shows the following interesting
figures; Receipts for the week, 2O,O2l,
against 25,OS2 for the corresponding
week of last season, being a decrease of
5O6l bales; the receipts since September
], 1873, 450, against lsl,3l2 last season;
the total shipments since September
were Isl ,2s9, against l3l, los last sea-
son; the sales for the week were $500,
the exporters taking 1000.
That School Board committee should
20 to work at once and summon persons
before them who will develop the facts
connected with the charges pade against !
superintendent Pickett, principal Bar
mum, of the (negro) Clay street schools,
and against the Board itself. The peO-
pie expect thorough examination, and
nothing else will satisfy them. The
report Of that committee will be read
with interest, and will be carefully crit