Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-10
LEDGER LINES.
Mardi Gras is ' e

Mardi Gras is over.
Not an accident took place yesterday.
There is many a headache in town to-
day; cause. too much Mardi Gras.
Bellies and beaux viii have to postpone
weddings until Lent is succeeded by
Easter.
1t has been estimated by competent
judges that twenty thousand strangers
were in our city yesterday.
Barrett as "Phideas the Sculptur," and
Raphael D%uehalet" in the Marble
Heart at the theater tonight.
This is Ash Wednesday, the com.
mencement of the Lenten season, which
viii continue for forty days and nights.
A few drnnkards made themselves CON
spicuous last evening. and OF course
excited the disgust Of all decent people.
1t is very bad taste to attempt to turn
a Mardi Gras procession into an ad-
vertising medium, there is a time and a
place for all things.
Our Congressman, Barbour Lewis,
voted for the civil rights bill. This is
the way the Radical always m%isrepre.
senta his Southern constituents.
Plain DRINKS appeared yesterday, as
did also the mixed drunk, which devel-
Oped into frightfnl bowling, all of which
was attended to blythe police.
Several Of our cigar box representa-
tives slipped away from their legislative
labors at Nashville and fr~aternized with
the people of this city yesterday beneath
masks.
Mardi Gras was a bonanza to several
thousand working people who received
their quota Of the thousands Of dollars
scattered throughout the city by citizens
and strangers.
Yesterday a stranger lost a diamond
pin worth two hundred dollars in Ned
Adams barber shop. 2S5 Main. The
stranger left, but one of Ned's boys
found the pm and returned it.
John McCarty, the mar who burned
the Louisville railroad shops and escaped
from the county jail, has been captured
at Indianapolis, Ind. This leaves but
two of the escaped at large.
The Mardi Gras posters, which we're
scattered far and wide throughout the
United States, were designed by Mr..
Carl Gutherz, and we're printed by Rus
sell, Morgan 4 Co., of Cincinnati.
The people of Memphis owe a debt of
gratitude to "0ld Prob" Gen. Myers,
Chief of the Signal Service Bureau at
Washington, for furnishing fine weather
yesterday and forcing Dame Nature to
withhold her tears until to-day.
Not a robbery or felony was COM
mitted yesterday, thanks to the efficient
police system adopted. Forty persons
we're arrested for drunkenness and carry
ing pistols, and this morning the gang
was discharged with reprimands from
the Recorder the pistol toters got their
guns" and went on their way rejoicing.
Yesterday, while the procession Of the
"Ulks'' was passing the Bethel block, a
stampede took place among the ladies
and gentlemen occupying the awning.
They rushed pell nell for the windows
and tumbled into the office. with one ex-
ception-a brave lady, who continued to
occupy her seat near the edge Of the
awning, she appearing to be enjoying
the procession aud to be totally uncon-
cerned as TO the cause of the amusing
stampede.
A lady lodging at the Peabody kicked
up a terrible rumpus this morning be-
cause, when waking up, she discovered
her door open and a thousand dollar
diamond pin, which she had placed
under her pillow, was missing. Detect.
ives were sent for and the lady was
quieted and questioned. She positively
declared, vowed and protested that she
placed the diamond pin under the pillow
and that robbers had entered her room
and carried it of. The detectives insti-
tuted a search aud found the missing
pin under the mattress, when the posi-
tive fair one acknowledged that she then
recollected taking it from under the
pillow and hiding it beneath the mat
treas.
Human hair SWITCHES, 81.
KAHN & FREIBERG.