Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-18
LEDGER LINES.

81. Naentines day IS approaching.
Prepare your doggerel poetry.
King Kalakaua will be in St. Louis
this week, and may drop in on Memphis.
The January terms Of the Criminal
and two Circuit Courts opened up this
morning.
The Main street shop windows begin
to exhibit Msrdi. Gras costumes of every
style and design.
The Board of Health mortuary report
for the past week-total deaths, 2I;
whites, 8; blacks, IL.
There are AIS cases on the Criminal
Court docket to he heard during the
present term of court.
The last election did not destroy the
ring in the Educational Board, al
though it crippled it somewhat.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the LEDGER counting room and ct all the
leading news stands tomorrow morning.
Motto for the "purgatorJ known as
the Adams street station house: "Ye
who enter here leave Tim Hope be.
hind"
John G. SAKE has written to a friend
in this city informing him that it is his in
%tention to deliver a poeticsl lecture in
Memphis ere long.
Capt. James o. DurHf, river re porter oil
the LEDGER, is slowly recovering from an
attack OF pneumonia, and will be- able to
attend to business 10 a few days.
Since the high hats for ladies came
into fashion a trapeze performance is
the only thing that eau be seen at the
Memphis Theater without hindrauce.
The boys still skate on Wolf river and
the pools in the suburbs, but as yet not
q case Of drowning has been reported
but the boys should beware of rotten ice.
Tomorrow evening the General
Council will meet at the City Hall, and
the chairmen Of the respective Boards
will announce the regular standing com
mittees.
The Nashville Cotton Exchange and
Chamber of Commerce have prepared a
memorial to the General Assembly
against the repeal of the conventional
interest law.
In Memphis the clash in society, from
a millinery standpoint, is between the
girls with pretty feet, who insist on shorI
dresses, and those with ugly feet, who
want to wear long ones.
The Memphis Mardi-G rSs posters have
been scattered to all parts of the United
States, and the "Ulks" have circulated
over ter thousand invitations to point,
North, South, East and West.
A dispatch has been received in thil
city from New Orleans to the effect tina.
no Mardi.G ras will be celebrated in tina
city this year on 20 of the Difficult
ties there, both political and military.
Professor Mueller will receive nev
! pupils at his Memphis Club Hall dancing
academy, on Monday and Tuesday night
! for gentlemen, and on Wednesday
Thursday and Saturday afternoons TO
ladies aud children.
Judge Tom W. Brown, one of GU
leading lawyers, is preparing a revised
City'Charter under the directions OF thu
General Council Committee on the Char
ter. This bill will be sent to the Genera
Assembly of Tennessee in a few days
: Aleck Wells (negro), a chain.gans
prisoner, while. shoveling dirt beneath
/. the bluff on the levee to-day had hi,
right leg broken above the ankle by tbs
caving in of a section of the under.
mined bluff. The injured man was sem
to the hospital.
Representative j. Harvey Mathes re
turned to Nashville, so as to be in at
tendance at the inauguration Of Gov.
, ernor Porter to-day and vote for United
States Senator tomorrow. Several lead
|, ing Memphians left for Nashville yester.
day and to-day.
Mrs. Oates has broken her Memphis
and other engagements, and goes ia
California with her Comic Opera Troupe
from st. Louis. The value of oats has
decreased in this city in consequence
and may be quoted as dull and a shade
lower with theater-going people,
Recorder Winters has gone to Nash
vile to lobby for his great admiration
Andy" and Ia consequence Thereof
Mayor League had to squat on the Re
corder's bench this morning and give
ear to the tales of sorrow and wickednesl
told By tie arrested criminals.
Messrs. Clarke & Wexford, agents o.
the Germau American Insurance Com
pany at No. IS Madison street, have
gotten OUT new calendar for 1875. II
Is unique and convenient as q refeE0uee
the beat yet published. The gentlemen
Sbove.name3 are enterprising citizens
aud thorough'geiEg business men,
The Atlanta (Ga.l News says THE
circulating library in Memphis c%ousisti
of a dictionary, two novels, PartOn's L;ie
Of Aaron Burr and one Of George Fran