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

A"uy vOhhsOu mas Deen truly calleC
the Murat Of Tennessee.
The costumes of the Memph have beer
imported from Paris, France.
The gentle rain from heaven com.
menced falling last night and continued
the operation this forenoon.
Since yesterday the stock Insurance
business is regarded as the most profta,
BILE that can be engaged in-in Memphis
Place additional supports uuder your
awnings by way of preparing for the
crowda and preventing accidents onMardi
Gras.
Rossini's Barber of Seville, by the
Adelaide Phillips Opera Troupe, at the
Greenlaw Opera House, next Friday
evening,
%Jauausehek as Lady Dedloek," in
Chesney Void, at. the theater tonight.
Tomorrow night Marie Stuart will be the
attraction.
The dearest spot on earth is the
establishment which does not advertise
its goods to the world in the columns Of
the LEDGER.
The falling off in cotton receipts in
this market is growing greater week by
week, now that the biggest end Of the
crop has been put lie market.
Our immortal nine Representatives
leave for Nashville to-day to once again
buckle on their legislative harness and
wrestle with the rules of debate as laid
down in Cushing's Manual.
Representative Peters finds a refuge
from the troubles and wickedness of
Johnsonism in the domestic circle, he
having been presented With a daughter
on yesterday morning.
One thousand dollars reward has been
offered by the express company for the
arrest of the murderous robbers who
created so great a sensation on Madison
street yesterday morning.
Several nuptial knots will be securely
tied before this day week, Ash Wednes-
day, the commencement of Lent. The
happy pairs will then have forty days
and nights to repent Of their follies.
The armament Of Tennessee consists
OF about fifteen hundred stand of arms,
distributed among the volunteer com.
panies. Her annon consists of black
smiths %anvils, which are principally
used in firing salutes on election days.
The Avalanche still bowling. Every
day it gives a barbaric yaup" over the
Commoner, of WHOM, it has been said,
it takes nine tailors to make one man,
but it took nine men to make one tailor
a Senator.
Hsysville, an embryo city on the
Louisville railroad some thirty miles
from Memphis, has placed herself in the
Chancery Court for the purpose of being
Incorporated and being ruled over by n
mayor. This is its humble ambition.
Ere long, northern lake fish will be
caught in fronto of Memphis.by our fisher
men, that is provided the Chicago people
succeed in getting the Legislature to
pass a bill authorizing the cutting of a
canal from the Mississippi river to Lake
Michigan.
That LEDGER rooster is receiving
general attention from the Johnsonian
doctors of the press of this and other
States, and whatever may be their com.
ments they to a newspaper man recog-
nize the LEDGER rooster as a game
chicken.
The Appeal dramatic critic growls at
the theater-goer who wears creaking
boots, Just as if everybody has the legal
right to strangle q shoemaker because
he turns your understanding into a mu.
steal instrument which discovers where
your sole is and locates it for the gaping
and jeering world.
This morning the horse attached to
General Smiths buggy broke loose on
Madison street and ran down Front and
to Beal. When the frightened
animal got through with his race the
buggy ~resembled a scattered bundle of
.kindling wood-"only this and nothing
1t has been suggested that the stores
and dwellings along the route of the
Memph procession on Mardi. Gras night
be illuminated from pavement to roof.
This will add to the b%rilliancy of the
occasion, and will present a scene of
enchantment worthy of those recorded
the Arabian Nights.
The Avalanchian says the number of
questions asked about the express rob.
berry yesterday was somewhat a bore to
reporters. We should think it would
have been to the morning newspaper
since the lively and wide.awake
LEDGER gobbled up all the incidents and
facts connected with the bold robbery.
The fire chunkers and the door slam
mers at the theater are almost nightly
The recipients of muttered ~imprecations
from the lovers of the drama who, while
with eaOar and Eafanino aar - h..