Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-12
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
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Friday Evening, March IL, 1875.
LEDGER LINES.

NN"hAoob DuCOu NJ OllVtT, Elu-
ME & Co.'s.
Romeo and Juliet at the theater to.
night.
Lady Audley's Secret at the theater
matinee tomorrow.
Prof. Mueller will give a matinee
dansante tomorrow.
Nothing new has yet been developed i N
the case OF the abortionists.
Professor Barney Hughes will deliver
a lecture at the theater on uext Monday
week
Joe Murphy, the Irish comedian, will
commence an engagement at the theater
on next Monday night.
lima de Murska will sing here after a
while provided she escapes from the
banditti Of New Orleans.
An elegant flag is to be presented
to the Chickasaw Guards by a number
of young ladies Of our city.
The young ladies' festival at the First
Baptist Church last night was largely
attended and was a most pleasant affair.
Does anybody detect the odor of
ylolets upon the balmy air when they
pass a Memphis beau or belle on Main
/ street,
The General Council stands adjourned
until the first Wednesday in April, un-
less invited to a called meeting by the
Mayor.
The Grand Jury of the Criminal
Court IS investigating several scandals
from a criminal point of view, and the
result may be a batch of indictments.
Nearly all the leading saloons keep ers
OF the city have come to the correct con-
c%lusion that fifteen cents is sufficient for
a drink; a few yet hang out on the rag
ged edge of a quarter.
A leak has been stopped in the City
Hospital by empowering DIR. Thornton to
purchase supplies, as heretofore the hos
pital supplies had cost % per cent. more
than their market value.
Our sensational reporter was asked by
forty three men yesterday as to the pa
ternity Of that child hat figured in the
abortion case. Our reporter gave it up,
as he would any other vile c~onundrum.
Happy is the man with a new baby"
is a moral reflection that sometimes has
its exception, but to-day we have been
invited to announce that Phil Doherty is
the happy father of a female eleven
FOUNDER.
In the case of the administrators Of
Grace VS.. the Louisville road for dam
ages on account of the death of said
Grace by being RUIZ over by a train, the
argument of counsel is progressing to-
day ia the First Circuit Court.
DR.. Pool. who figures in the alleged
abortion case of Ellen Shay, at one time
| pgacticed as a lawyer before the Police
Court and before magistrates. He is
lnow predicting medicine, and is also an
agent to rent houses. The house in
which Mrs. Solari resides on St. Martin
street was rented % her BY him.
A c~ountryman very much intoxicated
presented himself at. the station-house
this morning and asked to be taken care
OF, as he had been running around all
night and was unable to take care
of himself. Fifty dollars we're found on
his person, and he was presented with a
bed.
Astonishing as the story may be, two
Memphis ladies made a trade in wearing
apparel yesterday without speaking O
word. The barter was contaminated
and settled by mods Of the head and ex-
pressive looks from the eyes, aud yet
neither lady vas dumb. lis civilization
a failure, or has the Caucasian played
ont7"
Our literary man has made arrange.
ments to purchase an editorial stoss
which will cremate a basket Of original
poems on sundry subjects written IL
rhyme, and bad rhyme at that, by those
who cannot get within even telescope
distance OF Mount Parn&SRs. Words
forced to jingle and destitute Of every
essence of true poetry are POI! worth