Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-30
LEDGER LINES.

W ooJs
Three dozen good oranges for u dol
lar at Oliver. Finnie 4 Co.'S.
Thirteen more days and then the cleo.
ton for Mayor-on Thursday, the 18th
of January.
There will be a New Years ball at
Turner Hall, on Poplar street, next Sat.
urdsy night.
At the theater tonight ALI Burnett,
the hnmorist and character delineator,
will give a performance.
The lovers of ShakspeareaR dramas
will be happy next week during the en-
gagement Of Barry Sullivan.
The muddy streets, Alleys and roads
are almost impossible. The roads lead
ing into the city are impossible to loaded
wagons.
James Green, a Enormously disposed
negro, was committed to jail this morn
ing on the charge of larceny by the
Recorder, in default of $1,000 bail.
Che Little Rock Gazette Of the 28th
says; Mr.. K. Urquhsrt, Of Memphis, is
in the city with the view to the estab.
Sshment of a cotton seed oil mill"
Resolved, That the condition Of the
laboring classes is improved by inven-
TONS is the question to be debated TO-
night by the Irish Literary Association
New Years day the LEDGER employees
will take a holiday. The carriers will
call on our customers and collect to.
morrow (Fridsy) morning. Have the
change ready.
During the recent FIRE on Poplar street
a piano lost its legs, and they have not
been found since. There is nothing
strange in this, because at fires many
people lose their heads.
The City Hall has become the caucus
ground of msyoralty aspirants for the
opposition Radical nomination for
Mayor. Several dark political seances
have been held there of late.
Washington street, since the railroad
track has been put down, has become the
best paved street in the city. The rock
and Tishominge gravel placed thereon il
rapidly forming into a concrete pave
ment.
Tomorrow will be New Years eve
but the boy of the period or his older
brother Of any age will not be permitted
to fire of pistols, cannon, sky.rockets OIL
firearms within the city limits, So Say
the Police Commissioners.
Our m~aterialized reporter has to an.
swer hundreds Of questions daily con
cernirg his dive into the so.called spirit
land, and what he saw there. To al
these questions he answered that he say
Mrs. Miller playing the role of a mate
rialized ghost.
1t is authoritatively announced in tn
morning journals that Mayor League i
not a candidate for reelection. The
the compromise has been effected, an
the League gang has assisted in select
ing a representative nominee for tn.
Mayoralty. Bring him out.
In the Recorders court this mornin
Dan Ford, a negro, was committed o
the charge of stealing a bale Of cotto
from Mr.. A. Hatcher about one yea
ago. Ford is also charged with CO.
stealing, which charge will be invest
gated by Esquire Spelman this afteI
noon.
The Londonderry ring boys are sti
trying to manufacture and m~aterialize
M%ayoralty nominee, aud the whisper
that they have secured a man to max
the race against Judge Flippin, aud tbs
it will be announced to the suFerin
world in a few days. The boys hav
been holding secret seances for som
time.
Since the poplice order with r~eferenc
to tramps lodging at the station.hous
has been enforced, the applications 70
lodgings at that hostelrie have material
fallen off. The fears of Presidents Ii
land and the chain-gang have induce
the tramps, st~reet-beggars and wanderin
musicians to seek more hospitable shore
further South.
AS New Years day is ct hand we be
leave to suggest to business men tn
justice and propriety of re~memberin
the l%etter-earriers. They work for yer
small pay, and their duties are importau
and ex~acting., They are d faithful sc
Of men, and have earned the substantis
tokens of respect which we hope wi
not be withheld them.
Our materialized reporter and his test
have been ruled out of the spiritual Gil
Gle and n To use the classics
language of Red Race, the Indian spiri
of the Miller naturalization, the spirit
have " gone back on US. So much fc
our philanthropic efforts to make tn
world wiser than it is, but in all kindne;
we can say to the spirits, adieu, if nc
su revoir.
1t is strange how a physician can in
few seconds pronounce the medium Mr.
Miller to be in a cataleptic state, whe