Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-29
LEDGER LINES.

The LEDGER office is the place to get
job printing done cheap and in the most
workmanlike amer.
Janauschek will commence her en-
gagement in this city on next Monday
night in the role of Deborah"
In the First Chancery Court to-day
Edward Donaldson fled a bill for divorce
against Sallie Donaldson on the grounds
Of incontinency, etc.
Wednesday next, the Sd Of February,
the regular monthly meeting of the
General Council will be held for the
transaction Of regular business.
Colonel Tyler, who shot himself acct.
dentally in the LEDGER editorial room
last week, is recovering from his wound,
aud will be out on the street ere long.
When will Andrew be here, and when
is that Notification to come Off We
want to hear this Tennessee Brutus de-
liver lis GRAFTON over the dead body Of
Democracy.
The Mendelssohn soiree musicale
came off last night. The club INDUCED
in selections from Verdi, Bale, Donizetti
and other masters Of the art Of musical
composition.
Yesterday the brothers Of the Penn.
s%ylvan.an, John Brumgart who commit
ted suicide in this city not long since,
arrived for the purpose of carrying the
remains to Pennsylvania.
Sunday next will be Sexagesima Sun
day, the following Sabbath Qumquages-
ina Sunday and the Tuesday following
Mardi.Gras day, the 9th proximo-but
twelve days until the great carnival.
The qualities Of a good collector in
Memphis are; Patient as a telegraph
post, cheerful as a duck, sociable as q
flea or mosquito, weather-proof like a
rubber overcoat, watchful as a rat and
cheeky as q dray mule.
A thirty hours shower was one of the
things Memphis has just been enjoying.
Dame Nature must have been mighty
sorry at the result of the late Senatorial
contest, since she thus turned loose the
Aood.gates of her tears.
The world moves and changes. Mis-
sissippi is now exporting corn; a eur
load Of corn was received by Lewis
Warner. to-day from Como, Miss, and
several additional car loads will reach
here from the same point to-day.
The Shelby county delegation in the
General Assembly left Nashville for
Memphis last night. The Avalanche
calls them the mine heroes" or the nine
muses. who sung Johnsonism so sweetly.
The delegation will arrive this afternoon.
The election fer magistrate and con
stable, held in the Fifth civil district, or
upper portion of the city, passed of in
q very quiet manner 1t rained all day
long on both candidates and voters, and
in consequence a very light vote was
polled.
In the Fifth civil district yesterday P.
j. Quigley received 452 votes and was
elected magistrate over eleven oppo.
nents. T. Quinn received 535 votes and
was elected constable over ten oppo,
nents. The fight was holly contested,
and the City Hall ring was once again
beaten.
John Casey, while under the influence
of the demon drink, yesterday, attempted
to kill himself with ark shooter at his
residence on Allen avenue. The ball
entered the right cheek and lodged in
the roof of the mouth, inflicting a pain.
full and serious, but not necessarily fatal
wouAd.
We have not as yet heard that any oil
the recommendations of that School
Investigating Committee have been
acted upon, except to cut down the
salary of the Secretary from twelve to
six hundred dollars per annum. Is re.
%trenchment going to stop there2 If SO
the LEDGER will occasionally, il moi
often ask why2
Alasl there are now but few chain.
gang prisoners to clean up the streets
and alleys. The thieying negroes who
once adorned this department of the city
government, since they we're pardoned
and turned loose by the Mayor, in honor
of the election of Andrew johnson, are
now engaged in pilfering throughout the
city, and they gaze with supreme con.
tempt upon the ley chain.gang who will
have to serve out their time because
there are no more United States Sena.
tors to be elected in Tennessee.
The Appeal has the following mysteri.
Gus paragraph: I'VE understand Mayer
League says that in view of the efforts oil
Recorder Winters to secure the election
of Andrew Johnson, he is willing to
admit him into the Democratic party.
How is that2' Not long since Mayor
TLoague published himself in the LEDGER
as a Republican or Radical, and gloried
in it. But when did he become door.
keeper to the Democratic party2 Re.
COrder Winters has been opposing the
Democratic nominees in this county
ever since the election of his friend