Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-30
LEDGER LINES.

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Saturday nights.
Purchase your tickets for the annual
italian ball at Cochran Hall on next
Wednesday night.
Read the c~autionary suggestions con-
tanned in the Police orders published in
another column.
Read the orders of the Chief of Police
on Mardi Gras arrangements published
in another column.
Wednesday week, the 10th proximo,
will be Ash Wednesday and the com.
meneement Of the Lenten season.
The LEDGER is the only daily journal
published in Memphis on Mondays, a
fact which advertisers will do we'll to re-
member.
Janauschek as Deborah at the the.
alter next Monday evening. She will be
supported by a good stock company.
So! Coleman, who has sold one hum
dred thousand Rosa C'onchas within a
few weeks, has the " Elegsntqs,o a new
and f%avorite brand.
The condition of the county roads at
present is apt to make cur rural neigh
bors a little profane when they refer to
the subject in Memphis.
Our Representatives will return to
Nashville next week So as to be on hand
at that banquet to be given by A. j. to
the members Of the General Assembly.
In Nashville, the u. and A. says,
johnson tods are ell the CO." They
have the same effect IN Nashville as they
have upon the old mans followers in
Memphis.
The nine Shelby county Representa-
tiyes returned yesterday, and are ROW
enjoying their otium cura dignitate in
the bosoms Of their respe ctiye families.
Good enough.
The Nashville journals a nnounce that
Andy Johnson will be in Memphis on
Mardi Gras day and 90 masked as a
Democrat, just as If he could fool any.
body by that disguise.
The drunken and disorder ly and
the toters of deadly weapons on Mardi
Gras day will be arrested and locked up
until next morning; no f~orfeits taken
under any circumstances.
The General Assembly OF Tennessee
has adjourned until next Wednesday
and the members scattered homeward to
rest from their labors. The election Of
officers has been too much for them,
from a lobbying standpoint.
There are a number of strange faces
here without any visible mea us of sup
port that would look we'll on he chain
gang. A number Of suspicious char
acters and paupers arrive in Memphis
daily.
The white Barnum and celoret
Thompson Clay street school muddl,
will be stirred up once again by the Com
mittee on Appeals of the Education
Board on next Monday night. The fur
will commence at q o'clock. No charge
for admission.
There was a funeral procession in
town yesterday. A dozen hacks, con.
tanning the chief mourners, headed by a
brass band playing the dead march,
moved slowly from one newspaper office
to another, and finally passed ont to the
Political boneyard.s.
The blackboards at the Cotton Elk.
change show the following facts and
figures: Receipts for the week, 1922
bales; since September |, 251, 800; ship.
ments for tie week, $3.50; since Septem-
Der |, lSS,429; stock on hand, SO, 202;
weeks sales, $500, Of which 26O0 we're
taken by exporters.
Monday next will be the LIST day oil
February, the second month in our
present calendar, containing rs days
ordinarily and 80 days in leap year. II
was not in the Roman calendar, but was
added at the end of the year by NumaI
and was first placed after January by
the Decemvirs in 452, b. G.
The LEDGER Office was serenaded yes.
terday afternoon by a } ohnsonian band
Of music. The music was sufficient ia
split the ears Of the groundlings, hui
newspaper men are used to discord, and
IN consequence 1t had about as much
effect upon the LEDGER men as castor
oil would have upon a craven image.
The friends of the Commoncr in this
city who openly boosted on the streets
that they would burst the Democratic
party in Shelby County unless their
man was selected, now say it is all right,
and that they will not burst the party
until they want to elect another man.
Have they not succeeded somewhat in
their threats already, and that by elect
ing their msn2
A correspondent and wit writes US as
follows: The nine cigar boxes from
Nashville arrived by the Louisville train
yesterday afternoon and are being freely
smoked by their Johnson friends. All
good Judges decide them a failure.