Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-18

lhls IS Inc hrst day Of the Jewish
Feast of Purim. The fancy dress and
masked Purim ball will come of at the
Club Hall next Monday night.
The editors of West Tennessee talk Of
meeting in convention at jackson dur.
ing the first week in April. The first
day of the month will not be selected as
the opening day of the meeting.
Professor Barney Hughes will lecture
at the Memphis Theater next Monday
night. Subject: 1.-THE Mysterious Mem
phi; What it is, and where it is" Tick
cts are for sale throughout the city.
A negro thief and ex-penitentiary
convict named Titus was committed by
the Recorder to day on the charges of
stealing au overcoat and a lot Of geese.
His bond was fixed at $4,000 in each
case.
The members Of the Indiana editorial
excursion, numbering fifty or more,
arrived in the city yesterday afternoon.
They visited different portions of the
city, and especially the bluffs that over
look the great Father Of Waters.
Some fifty ladies and gentlemen of the
Indiana press excursion party attended
the theater last night as the guests OF
Lessee T. W. Davey. The presence of
the fair daughters Of the Hoosier State
added no little to the attractiveness of
the dress circle.
What will amusement-seekers do next
week when the theater will be closed2 Is
a social conundrum not easy Of solu
ton. Balls and parties are only in.
dulged in by the fashionable minority,
and it is a long gap between this and the
festive picnic season.
In the suit for $25, 900 damages
brought by Mrs. Margaret Grace, ad-
ministratrix of Grace (deceased), against
the Memphis and Louisville Railroad
Company, and heard in the First Cir.
cult Court, the jury returned a verdict
to-day Of $4,000 against the defendants.
The Avalanche man being near.
sighted and a bachelor willing to marry,
says, the rosy tints which flush the
cheeks Of our blooming bellies are called
spring bushes" He might have added
that these standing and permanent
bushes are put on after having been
purchased in a drug store.
We have received from E. N. Fresh
man, advertising agent, Cincinnati, O.,
his revised list Of the leading Western
and Southern newspapers, classified and
arranged to meet the wants of adyer.
tisers. The list is quite complete, EN-.
braeing dailies and weeklies, giving the
place Of publication, name and circula-
ton Of each journal.
This forenoon Detective Craumer re-
covered a diamond ring valued at $500,
and a gold chain valued at $3.50, which
we're stolen from Miss Kate Cessna, of
Kentucky, by a white man who pawned
them in this city for a small amount
while he was under the influence Of
liquor, if that can be pleaded as an ex,
cuse for the crime.
The Little Rock Gazette Of the llth
states: Early Sunday morning the pas
senger train from Memphis collided with
a freight car at Argenta, wrecking the
locomotive, damaging several cars, and
seriously injuring Express Messenger
Messenger. Harry Walston, well known
in the detective business, has been az
pointed passenger conductor vice j. K.
Land, deceased"
The Courier Journal man at Nashville
says; "a party which goes out of its
w ranks to end a leader, as does this
Democratic House Of Representatives,
in the person Of Gibson, Of Campbell, is
one Of that class Of parties very much
akin in its character to the Irishman's
flea, and n had better be careful in
forming estimates as to whst it is going
to do in the way Of saving the country"
1t is humorously said that since Mayor
League became a Democrat he has be.
come more liberal toward his fellow
men. When the Radical bands begin to
burst and fly OFF Of a mans head, it is
astonishing what a fine effect il has. He
feels that he is in a new world of which
before helknew nothing; his iliiberal and
bigoted views give place to broader and
more generous ones, and he is apt in his
enthusiasm to turn around and curse
the day that bound him TO the Radical
oar Of Juggernaut.
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