Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-04
LEDGER LINES.
Great Eastern Circus on the bluffs To-

evening.
The Chapman sisters in burlesque at
the theater next week.
The Memphis Agricultural association
will elect officers on Saturday next.
The Register has taken the contract
to break up the Mardi Gras celebration.
Duprez & Benedicts Minstrels at the
Greenlaw Opera House next Monday
evening.
A big river now flows beneath the
bluffs. tits truly the Great Father Of
Waters.
Hearts are Trumps, with Marian Nor
daunt in the leading role, at the theater
tonight. -Vt
General Council meeting this evening
to settle the question as to whom will be
Chief of Police.
No matinee at the theater to-day.
There will be matinee and night per
Torrance on Saturday.
Captain A. G. Renaud has resumed
duty as Vice President and Assistant
Secretary of the Towards.
The Appeal man shows up the theatre
cal opera glass fend, and yet no lorg-
nette has been turned on him.
Everybody is preparing to celebrate
Mardi-Gras. Thousands of people are
coming to Memphis BY river and rail.
A town clock in Speed railroad Office,
on the northwest corner Of Main and
Madison, is among the useful things
promised ..i.t
Mayor League will message the Gen
eral Council on sanitary affairs tonight
The Mayor fully appreciates the necessi-
ties OF the times.
Organ grinders most unmusical now
occupy the street corners. Where they
come from and where they go to are
social problems never as yet solved sat
isfactorily.
A rural swain appeared on Main street
yesterday dressed in sky-blue cotton
velvet. He was the observed of all OBJ
servers, as he is no doubt also in his ma
tive woods.
The fre.fend destroyed the work
shops of the Memphis and Louisville
railroad last night; damage estimated
at nearly two hundred thousand dollars.
The ire-fend was discharged fireman
named John McCarty.
The streets of Memphis are clean,
comparatively; the alleys need atten-
ton. AS in the city of Cologne, you
eau, on any afternoon, discover ninety
and nine distinct stenches, besides sew.
eral well defined stinks. Ia1
The Howard Association unanimously
adopted the following significant resolu-
ton at a late meeting: Resolved, That
A. G. Remand be reinstated in his Of
fetal position as Vice-President and
Assistant Secretary of the Howard AS
The Mardi Gras celebration will pro.
coed, even though the Register should
but its brains out fitting at it, Religious
intolerance and persecution should be
stamped out in this land of ours-it is
more dangerous than all the carnivals
which were ever. celebrated.
A gentleman residing in this city re-
ceived letter from Switzerland few
days since. Up to January the Goth no
snow had fallen on the Alps, most re-
markable phenomenon, as for fifty years
heretofore snow fell late in October or
early in November. The inhabitants of
the upper Alps regard the fact of the
absence Of snow as pregnant with some |
great calamity to the Alpine world
When you write communication to |
a newspaper, pay no fulsome compli-
ments to the journalist, as the number
which he las received has made the
vain enough already,
Write legibly, and avoid verbosity. If
the communication is a puff for some
body or something, pay for its insertion
at the usual rates, and do not attempt
to slip it in as a contribution to litera-
ture.
In riding or driving the rule in
England is to keep to the LEFT in
meeting, and go to the right when over
taking or passing. The American rule
is just the opposite-keep to the right
in meeting, and go to the left in over
taking or passing. The American rule
is more sensible than the English. 1t
IS natural to use the right hand and pull
10 the right when meeting. On passing
Or overtaking the person in advance of
you is so doing, which leaves you a
clear track on the left when You desire
aud are able to pass. The same Ameri-
,an rule should be observed by pedes-
irians.
Criminal Court.
This morning F. c. Walton, on trial
for larceny. was convicted and sentenced