Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-14
LEDGER LINES.
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roads are in a condition TOO terrible to
relate.
Mrs. Lander. supported by the Lawlor
troupe, in Antony and Cleopatra at the
theater tonight.
Professor Mueller win give a grand
hop and the German at the Memphis
Club Hall tonight.
Next week Haverly's Miastrels will
appear at the theater. and the week after
the Oates Comic Opera Troupe.
Esquire Lyon. of this county, is dead
and the court yesterday appointed a
committee on resolutions.
The Avalanche wants a theater on
Main street. A theater at some central
point easy Of access would be a good in
vestment.
Yesterday the Quarterly County Court
raised the Chairman's salary from $500
to $500 per annum, be to employ his
own clerk.
Last Monday evening an old lady
residing on Court street was dangerously
injured, caused by her clothing catching
fire accidentally.
During Msrdi.G ras the Sodality Silver
Band will play the Grand Papal March,
which is always performed in the Eternal
City during the Carnival.
Next Saturday afternoon the Cotton
Exchange will meet to consider the pro.
posed reduction OF the rate of legal
interest by the Legislature.
At forty a Memphis man looks back
over his life and wonders what he did it
for, and then turns wistfully toward the
future and keeps on doing it.
Steam pipe coils for heating are being
put up in the court house as rapidly as
it can be done by the workmen under
the supervision of Phil Mallon.
A Mr.. Gillespie, was granted a cortii.
cate by the County Court yesterday, he
having produced two wildcat scalps, for
which a reward is paid in this State.
Those who wish to visit Nashville and
be there Tuesday next during the cleo.
ton of a United States Senator can do
so for fifteen dollars. We will remain at
home.
The game market to-day is as follows:
Prairie chickens, rs cents per brace;
swamp rabbits, IS cents per pair; quail,
% cents each; sea fish, 30 cents per
pound.
Last night the Lander people per-
formed in a most excellent manner
Sherdian's School fer Scandal, which
Byron called the best comedy that was
ever written.
The next great attraction and sensa.
ton will be the Mardi. Gras fete on the
9th Of FEBRUARY. The preparations max.
ing for the Carnival are greater, more ex'
tensive and expensive than ever before.
AT nine o'clock last night a fire broke
out in the tin shop of keenan, & Cole,
under the Gee House, on the corner Of
Main and Beal streets, but the FIRE was
put out before any serious damage was
done.
Among the registered at the Cotton
Exchange to-day are the following: T.
E. Barrett, Augusta, Georgia; j. W.
Graves and l.. II. Terry, New Orleans;
W. G. Crenshaw, NJ. B. Fielding, New
York.
Tie jury in the Beecher case is con.
posed Of two Episcopalians, one Metho-
dist, one Baptist, enc Lutheran, two
Catholics, three Presbyterians and two
persons who are not members of any
church.
The Cotton Exchange and Chamber
Of Commerce have appointed a joint
committee to memorialize the Legisla-
ture against the proposed reduction of
the rate Of legal interest from ten to six
per cent
Strict prison rules should be observed
at the Jail, and all parties visiting pris-
oners should be searched, and no inter
views should be permitted except in the
presence of an officer, and then no gen.
eral Jail deliveries would take place.
AT three o'clock this afternoon there
will be a meeting of the Chamber Of
Commerce for the purpose of discussing
and considering that famous report of
the Peoples Protective Union. The
meeting will be large and the proceed
ings will be lively.
The trouble about Mayor League is
that he takes the advice of men who are
not capable of advising anybody about
anything. His politics naturally tum
bled him into the hands of Radicals,
who, in their anxiety for office and self,
ignored the best interests Of the people.
In this State any rate of interest ex-
ceeding ten per cent. is usury, but the
rate fixed by law without a special con-
tract is six per cent. but if any man in
Memphis can borrow any sun of money
at ten pei cent. per aunum be should
taLa out n natapt an tho r,athNd I,,.or