Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-31
LEDGER LINES.

1nc thehter On mOuuay evening.
Alice Kingsbury as "Fanchon q
the matinee to-day at the theater,
The General Council will assemble i
monthly conclave on Wednesday next
The Appeal local has been enjoyinl
a Barmacidean feast furnished from tn
Rocco Hall festival.
There are FIVE candidates for Governor
and seven candidates for Congress il
the city Of Memphis.
Already candidates for Office a
both the August and November elections
are cropping out freely.
Mr.. John d. Robinson was to-day
sworn in and admitted as an attorney Of
the First Circuit Court.
Philo-Thespian Club at the theater to-
night in the Golden Farmer and Turn
Him Out. Admission, fifty cents.
Masqueraders appeared on the streets
last night as they wendell their way to
and from private bal masque on Court
street.
Go the to Rocco Hall festival tonight.
The ladies' and the members Of the
Y. M. C. A. will take care of you and
your hat.
The argument Of counsel in the case
of Ps ton VS.. Loewenstine on motion
for a new trial is progressing in the First
Circuit Court.
The chain-gang, with brushes and
scrapers, are doing good service on the
principal streets; few OF the alleys
need attention.
The stabbiDg ARRAY mentioned in the
police reports published in the LEDGER
of yesterday did not occur at the Green
Tree House, as stated.
On Monday next the motion against
the sureties Of A. Woodward, late
County Trustee, will come up for hear
ing in the First Circuit Court
A hungry mule, attached to dray,
plunged into Second street feed store
last evening, and had to be unhitched
before either could be gotten out.
The Bluff City Shooting Club will
meet on next Tuesday evening and make
arrangements for big pigeon shooting
match, open to the world at handicap.
Mrs. Henry T. Hubert died last even
ing at her residence ON Monroe street.
Mrs. Hubert was an old resident of this
city, and leaves a large circleof friends
to mourn her loss.
Mr.. D. s. Wilson and Miss E. A. Al
len, Mr.. l.. L. Battle and Mrs Fannie
Preston, returned executed marriage
licenses to the County Court Clerk
during the past week.
Chinese laundries are taking the place
of the time.honored washerwomen in
Memphis. The Heather, as a washer,
starcher and ironer, beats the average
African or Caucasian.
The Ledger Liner advises all good citi
zens to attend come church tomorrow.
1t matters not what demo mination the
church may belong to- as all Christians
are supposed to worship the same Deity.
By generous use of the scissors on
the LEDGER, the Appeal man who muir.
ders the accepted and legitimate words
of the English language, manages to get
up a local column of some little interest
occasionally.
The lamp posts, door facings, tele-
graph poles and dry goods boxes on
Main street, between Adams and Jeffer-
son, yet show the effects of the fusilade
which took place between two newspaper
men on Thursday night.
Mayor League receives over hun
bred visitors daily at the City Hall. He
is not as yet talked to death, and looks
as fresh and good humored as ever. He
has a considerable amount of the suaUi-
Ter IN n'odo as well as tortiter IN re.
The morning journals announce that
! gentleman who has never spoken in
Memphis before will lecture at the Mem
phis Thealer tomorrow. The conun-
irum now is, When did this dumb man
acquire his speech, and in what Language
will he orate2
A gang of prisoners at the station
house attempted to dig out last evening.
razor made into file was among the
Implements captured from the would.be-
rec. The station-house is a rickety old
which needs strengthening be-
ore desperadoes can be regarded as safe
Ind secure therein.
Jimmy Corwin still lives, and has
news stand in the Bethel Block, where
he public taste for late news and popu.
ar literature can be gratifed at all
hours, especially, however,
If Saturday evenings and Sunday
when people most want the
atest dailies and New York weekles.
A pencil.sIinger on the Nashville
Union and American named Jack I.
Bell takes occasion to berate the Ledger
liner enthusiastically This cracked
,ell is not the mellihuous and melodious
lanes Bell, Of the Union and American,