Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-04
LEDGER LINES.

sion to-day.
Jefferson as rip Van Wrinkle" al
the theater tonight.
The General Assembly of Tennessee
convened at Nashville to-day.
Venus and Mars are now the morning
stars and Jupiter the evening luminary.
That sandbar which has for months
been over the river mas at last disap.
peared.
A little sunshine would be most &C,
ceptable after the weeks dark and rainy
weather.
The last term Of Professor Mueller
dancing school commences this week at
the Memphis Club Hall.
Bar your doors and windows, sleep
with n eye open and then let the burg.
lars approach within range.
Next Monday night Mrs. Lander, sup.
ported BY Q irstcclass dramatic company,
will be the theatrical ATTRACTIONS.
The Furnish Fifth Avenue Theater
Combination left yesterday for New Or.
leans. where they will remain two weeks.
The Little Rockers boast of q popula.
ton of 2O,475 souls-whites, 10, 1853;
blacks, 97l2; males, l,O40; females,
s435.
The week Of prayer is being observed
by the Linden street Christian church.
Half hour services every morning al ten
o'clock.
The negroes arrested on the charge Of
numbering Mr.. Jack Smith, near White.
haven. will have a hearing before Squire
Caldwell this AFTERNOON.
Three days until the municipal cleo.
ton. The little City Hall Radical ring
and clique will on Thursday next receive
q quietus for twelve months.
On Saturday night the audience at the
theater was annoyed by the wretched
light throughout the house. The man.
agement threw the blame on the Gas
Company.
The interior condition Of the street
cars would be much improved by a little
sawdust or straw. AS a general rule tie
interior Of Barrett's mule boxes are
somewhat filthy.
The School Board and Citizens Union
Public Schools) Investigating commit.
tees meet to-day for the purpose Of fur.
nishing the report, which the public are
anxious to see in print.
The fire on Saturday night was on
Beal street, east of the Charleston rail.
road. The double tenement two story
frame residence OF Mrs. Bond was de.
stroyed. No insurance.
The new court house cost originally
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Nearly thirty thousand dollars have been
expended in making the necessary
changes and improvements.
The LEDGER has Goth and several
other special correspondents at Nash,
vile, who will keep the citizens of Mem.
phis fully posted up in all matters during
the present session Of the Legislature.
The mortuary report for last week
shows the total deaths to be 22-whites
IL; blacks, 8. Total number of deaths
during the year 1874, l~l7O-being q
death ratio of % for each 1000 inhabit-
ants.
The Morrison and MORT parties of the
Tenth ward will not harmonic, so two
tickets will be run against the Colligan
Radical ticket. The ambition OF some
men to run for office calses them to
ignore the best interests of the people Of
the city.
The Association Of "Ulks" has made
all necessary arrangements for Mardi.
Gras celebration on the 9th of February.
The mysterious Memphi has done like
wise; all ofwhich will make the forthcom.
ing carnival the most attractive ever
seen in our city,
In accordance with the recommends.
ton Of. the Evangelical Alliance the
Pastors Association Of Memphis has
ordered this week as one of prayer. A
meeting will be held daily at $3.50 pm.
at the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church, Court street.
There will be two ecHpses this year
a total eclipse Of the sun April 9Th, in.
visible from the United States, and an
anHular eclipse Of the spn September
10Th, partly visible at Chicago just after
sun rise; also from every point of the
North Atlantic coast and the continent
Of Africa.
Every person In Memphis 10 most
anxious to read the LEDGER every after
noon. It's independent and fearless
course on the johnson Senatorial ques-
ton, the public school question and
municipal election matters meets with
ibe approval of the great majority of
the o.lyQHs Of our city.
Last Thursday night . sGrse was
stolen from the premises Of DR.. McNeal,
ten miles south Of the city. The Doctor
recovered possession Of his horse this
morning, having found IL In the poses
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