Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-24
LEDGER LINES.
Get nm rour Chrisimas preAents.

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first Monday in January next
Chancellor John w. Harris dropped
dead at Somerville on Tuesday last.
Motto for the School Board committee
Investigate, but do it not in secret SEES
sion"
The rush for seats at the theater for
the Kurdish engagement was immense
this morning.
The all absorbing topics-the school
question, the United States Senatorship,
aud Christmas.
The postofice will close at ten o'clock
tomorrow. There will he one delivery
aud one collection by the carriers.
Purchase your reserved seats for the
Kurdish Fifth Avenue Company who will
appear at the theater next Monday even.
ing.
Matinees tomorrow and Saturday. On
tomorrow the Woman in White will be
the attraction, and on Saturday
the Better Angel.
Dedication services at new GerMan
Lutheran Church, on Washington street,
at l0a am. tomorrow. Christmas tree
next Sunday evening.
There will be no Recorders Court to-
morrow, so those who get arrested to-
day and tonight will have to remain in
the station house until Saturday morn-
ing.
We advise the boys not to indulge too
freely in egg.nog" tomorrow. 1t is q
very sad yet disgusting sight to see a
drunken Christmas reveller on the
streets.
There gill be no LEDGER published to-
morrow rs the LEDGER men are q
Christmas celebrating set. On Saturday,
however, the LEDGER will appear as
fresh, piquant and newsy as ever.
To morrow will be Christmas day. one
Of rejoicing among meR, women and
children, but a day Of sadness to the
turkey and other feathered animals that
are preyed upon by the superior ami
NAL, mau.
At st. Mary's Cathedral there will be
Christmas services; evening prayer this
Thursday evening, at I o'clock; Holy
Communion Friday morning at o'clock
and morning prayer and second celebra-
ton at | l o'clock.
Tomorrow there will be most inter
esting affair at the Memphis Bethel.
when several hundred poor children
waits in the world-will be enabled to
enjoy a Christmas dinner furnished by
the charitable citizens of our city.
ct the horse trot matinee at the Trot.
ting Park yesterday the best time made
was 2;372, a very good time for plugs. ="
Will not some enierprising citizen pur-
chase and bring on a pair of Eastern
trotters and forever shut out" from the
race track all livery stable stock2
A secret meeting of the School Board
Investigating Committee was held yes
terday. Bring on Your Whitsvash, "
The people will bring on their " white
wash " at the January election, and at
each succeeding election until the
ring" is burst by ousting tie sehoel
Visitors who belong to it.
The Courier-y ournal man says; The
liars are unusually busy. The nncef.
tainty concerning the size Of the cottan
crop has given them opportunities
scarcely second to those of a red'hot pc.
litieal campaign" From the above one
would imagine that the Courier-Journal-
lite gas q citizen Of Memphis.
Last night Captain Braun, Sergeant
McElroy, detective McCune and others
surrounded the house of Jim Nelson
luesrol. aesg Central Point, and cap
tured him. Nelson was oae OF the ps-
groes who broke into the house and out
ragged the family of Mr.. pqrant, on the
Pigeon Roost road, some months since.
The thanks of the LEDGER staff are
due to Messrs. O. Bannon 4 Morris for
- invitation to eat Christmas dinner
at the Peabody Hottss.i to morrow, The
bill Of fsre is elegantly gotten up by
Charley Beehn, the we'll known printer,
and it contains list Of delicacies fit for
a Roman or Greek epicure.
BY gazing into the Recorders Court
room at the Adams street ststion.house
on any night at IL o'clock, the philan-
thropist can see the floor crowded with
human figures lying PROSTATE. These
are the poor houseless end hemeless
wanderers who, when they arise IN the
morning, know not where to get any.
thing TO eat for breakfast.
Yesterday afternoon Dan Flaherty, an
employe at the Merchants Cotton Com
press at the navy yard, vas instantly
killed by the breaking Of the machinery
while bale Of cotton was being COM
pressed. Flsherty was a hard working
and worthy man, aud leaves wife and
two children to remember what is to
them a most unhappy Christmas.
Is three thousand dollars per annual
too much for the sinecure office Of super
intendent Of city schools2 The people