Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-11
LEDGER LINES.


Nothing new in the courts to-day.
Barrett as " Hamlet, Prince of Den
mark, at the theater tonight.
A. J. Fletcher has been elected mag.
istrate from the Ninth civil district.
The General Council meets tonight in
order to plant lamp.posts and attend to
general monthly business.
Sunday next will be the l4th, st. Val.
entine's Day, but Monday will be cele.
brated by those so ineliaed.
That old joke is going the rounds
that February has but nine days, be-
cause nineteen of them are Lent.
Last evening a dozen steamboats, left
the landing, and were crowded with
%homeward bound Mardi Gras folks.
The jam on the theater stairway dur.
ing the Memphi ball resulted in a wreck
of feminine matter and a crush Of
worlds of 6nery.
Mr.. Crabtree Belcher, Deputy CLERK
and Master Of the Second Chancery
Court, celebrated Mardi. Gras at home,
and became the recipient of a daughter.
Several gushing orators adorn the
General Council, and in this and many
other respects, it is an improvement
upon the body who sat around the boards
last year.
The Appeal local informs society
that the "prettiest girl in Memphis lives
on - street,and makes vinegar candy. y
Does she keep a candy stand? If so
she deserves a premium for industry and
worth.
Several mothers lost their darlings on
Mardi'Gras day, but the little ones were
found at the station-house, they having
been taken care Of and nursed by
station-house keeper Mulroy and turnkey
Tim Hope.
Senator johnson did not shake his
brogans at the Memphi ball, although in.
vited so to do by Queen Isabella Of
Spain. The Senator elect is not q
dancer. he should take a few lessons
from Professor Mueller.
1t is calculated that Mardi Gras left al
least half a million Of dollars in Mem
phis, as outside of what was scattered
throughout the city by the twenty thou
sand strangers, numbers OF country
merchants attended and bought large
bills Of goods.
The LEDGER, unlike its morning co
temporaries, did not wait upon the pleas
ure of the Express Company for inform
alton concerning the late robbery. The
LEDGER does not believe in letting
dare not wait upon | would" like thu
poor cat in the adage.
Chief of Police Athy discovered tn,
hiding place of the express robber
Woods, and as a matter of courtesy h,
invited Billy Pinkerton, the Chicago de
t%ective, to accompany him and assist il
making the arrest. Nothing like facts
even in the thief.catching business.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Dental Association is progressing at tn,
office Of DR.. Arlington. corner of Mali
and Union streets. The proceeding
yesterday we're opened with prayer b,
Rev. DR.. White, of Calvary Church,
after which a paper was read on III,
Deterioration of American Teeth"
The Avalanche and Appeal came Il
the front this morning with a full &c
count Of the express robbery, which &C
count was published to the world by tn,
LEDGER Of yesterday. Had it not beer
for the LEDGER publication it would no
have been necessary for these journal,
to apologize to their readers for lack o.
enterprise.
It has become a custom to shed tears
n the theater dress circle whenever any
saecting piece is being played. To SET
a Memphis belle in tears, apd to watcE
her catch these sparkling tear drops qpor
a lace handkerchief, is Que of those sac
incidents of human life which remind,
one OF the song-"0h, lady, wipe tina,
tear away"
Yesterday the Adams street station
Rouse resembled an armory, it contain
ing several hundred pistols taken from
Msrdi Gras visitors, who got them bacl
on application. 1t was amusing to heal
the different apologies offered by tn,
pistol toters for carrying deadly weapons
1t is wrong to 60 armed in broad day
light, ss it looks as if you we're lying il
wait for human lIfs.
To show how art is appreciated il
Memphis, it may be stated that this fore
noon a large landscape with river anC
steamboat in the background, an OF
paiRting six feet by four, was sold il
front of the Courthouse by a deputy
sheriff for the sum of fifty cents. /
looked faded and old enough to hav,
been the work Of one Of the famous mas
ters-Guido, Raphael, Rembrandt, etc
fhe steambes; appeared to be floating
ever the tops OF the trseg, apt this cal
be accounted for by a want OF a prope
idea of the rules of perspective on tn,