Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-20
LEDGER LINES.

tonight.
A false alarm of FIRE at eight o'clock
last evening brought the FIRE steamers to
the front.
Emmett as Fritz at the theater next
Tuesday evening, No performance on
Monday night,
The Inspector of Revenue is on his
grand rounds to banks in search of un-
stamped checks.
The %workingmen will hold another
meeting at the City Hall tonight. A
large attendance is desired.
There we're more pretty girls to the
square inch at the theater last night
than have been for some time.
The LEDGER is the only daily journal
published in the city on Mondays, a
fact which advertisers will not fail to ap.
p~reciate.
Rev. Mr.. Morgan will preach in St.
Mary's Church tonight, Grace Church
tomorrow morning and Calvary Church
tomorrow night.
The suburban Memrhian who has &C.
CURED a horticultural taste is at work
trimming up trees and INDUCING in the
n
flower planting business.
DR.. Payne will deliver a free lecture
again tonight at Assembly Hall, on
Main street, near Gayoso. Subject:
The lungs and their diseases.
Sol Coleman, the poet of the cigar
box, has some of the finest cigars to be
found in the market, at his emporium on
Main, nea Washington street.
DeMurska and her Italian op era con-
cert troupe will give M~emphians some
good music on the 9Th and 9th of March,
at the Greenlaw Opera House.
The eighth anniversary ofthe Memphis
Bethel will be celebrated tomorrow
afternoonin the City Hall Building. The
public are respectfully invited to attend.
Quite a fashionable audience visited
the theater last night in search Of
Money, and they found it being issued
by a stock company, but it was the gem
uine article.
The stock Of cotton in Memphis
amounts to &C, 1876 bales, aud is valued
at about four and a half millions Of dol.
lars. Three.fourths Of this Gotten is
carried by our banks.
Colonel VIM. L. Duff leaves to-day for
Hot Springs, Ark. Colonel Duff is
suffering frsm rheumatism in the foot
and leg, owing to a severe wound re.
ceived at Fredericksburg during the late
war.
State Representatives Cole and Harris
are in the city, having been sent here by
the House under instructions to examine
the papers in the City Registers office
for information relative to the issue OF
bonds to the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad.
The Appeal Of this morning in repro.
ducing a paragraph from the LEDGER as
to the marriage of ex-patrolman f. r.
McEllroy, gives the congratulations to
Sergeant McEllroy, who has been mar
ried several years, and did not of course
get married again a few days ago.
The war between the two Chinese, of
which an account appeared in the LED
GER Of yesterday, wal a war of races,
the belicose heathens representing re-
spectiyely the wild Tartar Chinaman
OF the interior and the more civilized
type Of the race who inhabit the sea-
coast and cities.
This morning Tom Quinn, the recently
/ elected constable Of the Fifth civil dis
trict, died of pneumonia at his mother
residence in North Memphis. Mr..
Quinn had been for many years an
active member Of the fire department,
and was highly respected by a large
circle Of friends.
The blackboards of the Cotton Ex-
change present the following interesting
items of news: The receipts fer the
past week we're $3.50 bales; receipts since
SOptemberalst, 275,867; shipments dur
ing the week, 1879; shipments during
the season, I'll, 1868; sales for the week,
II 300, chiefly for domestic account.
Barbour Lewis, who so. misrepresents
this (the Tenth Congressional district,
is. catching it from the press of this and
adjoining counties because of his vote
in Congress in favor Of the civil rights
bill. He will soon step down and out
and give place to Congressman elect
Young, who will be areal representative
Of the people of the district. So much
for carpet.bagism in the South.
The w~orkingmeu will hold an ad-
journed meeting at the City Hal to-
night for the purpose of considering the
new amendments proposed as to the
new city charter. The merchants have
met, certain mechanics have met, but
we hear of no mass meeting Of the PEG.
pie as yet, and it is barely possible that
the masses OF citizens have some inter.
est in the matter in common with the
merchant and mechanic.
There was au immense amount of love