Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-05
LEDGER LINES.


Jefferson will appear as rip. Van
Wrinkle at the theater tonight.
The great Mardi-Gr posters are ont.
and are objects Of curiosity to all.
Nothing Of public interest appeared on
the Recorders Court docket to day.
The School Board meets tonight and
will receive the reports Of the invest.
eating committees.
The mud on the streets is frozen solid.
and the pools in the suburbs afford fine
skating for the boys.
The new postal card will soon be put
in circulation; il will te nearly white,
and printed with blsck ink.
Friday next the survivors Of the Next
a war will hold q meeting in this city
with reference 20 petitioniug Congress for
pensions.
IL is the duty OF every good citizen
who is registered to 20 to the polls and
vote on Thursday next for the Conserve
tive candidates.
That new organ of Calvsry church will
be used for the first time to morrow even
ing during a Sunday-school festival to
be held at the church.
In the Second Circuit Court to-day
Warren Rufin (negro) fled a petition
for divorce against Marian Rufin ON the
ground Of abandonment.
= The test Of drunkenness made at the
station.house. is to induce the accused
to pronounce the words reciprocity
and "Erastus Richardson"
The negroes employed at the gas works
INDUCED in a riot yesterday because their
wages were reduced BY the company.
They we're arrested by the police.
The election for a United States Sena-
tor has been postponed until next Tues
day in consequence of the failure of the
State Senate to organize yesterday.
During the entire of yesterday the
thermometer indicated 2So, or four below
freezing point, which made it rather cool
for this sunny land Of fruits and flowers.
Captain John Somerville has been
elected County Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction by the Quarterly Court.
The salary is six hundred dollars per
annum.
The role Of "Meenie Van Wrinkle" is
very cleyerly portrayed at the theater by
little Nellie Pennoyer, a charming little
six year old daughter of Manager A. S.
Pennoyer.
Several hundred copies of the LEDGER
are sold daily at the Maxwell House
news stand, Nashville. Memphians Wis.
iting the capital Of the State will End
the LEDGER at the above location.
Tomorrow evening at Z o'clock Capt.
VIM. Maingault, commander Of the
steam tug Oriole, will be united in wed.
lock to very charming lady of our city
at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
1t is a saying among Mississippi river
steamboatmen that a boat must make a
good deal Of money or she will lose a
good deal, there being no such thing as a
medium or small profit in the business.
Last Friday Senator Powell Clayton,
Of Arkansas, was in Memphis on his way
to Washington, and yet not a daily jour
nal thought the event Of sufficient i'm.
portance to give him a personal notice.
Such is Radical fame.
The meridian of Washington is used
by Americans; but on the continent OF
Europe. excepting France, the meridian
Of Greenwich, England, has been adopt
ed. The French Academy of Sciences
is about to adopt the Greenwich meridian
in lieu Of that Of Paris.
The day after to morrow the registered
sovereigns Of the city can have the
pleasure of selecting Aldermen, Coun-
cilmen and School. Visitors in their
respective wards. The "ring.masters'
will do their best to defeat the Conserva-
tive tickets in the First, Second and
Tenth wards, but they will be routed by
the people.
Superintendent Pickett delivers a
weekly lecture to the sixty unfortunate
school teachers who are compelled by a
resolution Of the Board to attend and be
bored by q stale, pointless, prosy end
nonsensical discourse Of two hours du-
ration. Our reporter will attend the
next lecture and give the oratorical
effort publicity, but we would advise the
Superintendent to rent a hall aud then
let her gush.
Mrs. G. c. Clay, who conducted that
very charming exhibition known as the
farley Wax Works" at the thester
some time since, appeared as Mrs. Jar.
ley in Huntsville, Ala, last week. The
exhibition was givea for the benefit Of
the parish poor. The accomplished and
philsnthropic lady recited Bret Aarte's
poem styled Dickens in Camp" and
then exhibited her wax fgsers," ex.
planning them in a very amusing,
unique and witty lecture.
AS a specimen Of the style in which
the finances Of the School Board have