Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-11
LEDGER LINES.
rAi. i. good weather to play fr.

Quite a crowd OF skaters went over to
Hopefeld lake yesterday.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the fetal deaths to have been a.
whites, 8; blacks, 8.
The WEEKLY LEDGER will be published
tomorrow morning, and can be found
at the LEDGER counting-room and at the
principal news stands Of the city.
Tomorrow night the members elect Of
the General Council will be sworn ia and
will take their seats as city Legislators
for our city.
Two negroes will appear as Council.
men for the present year-Jacob Moon
from the Tenth, and Joe Clouston from
the Fifth wards.
Our Congressman. Barbour Lewis, has
not as yet raised his musical voice
against military oppression and despot-
ism in Louisiana.
The largest aud best oysters are re-
ceiyed ia Memphis this season. The
Lynnhaven bay bivalves are the favor
ties with all Memphians.
At two o'clock yesterday the Signal
Service thermometers indicated % above
zero, and at six in the morning 80. At
twelve m. yesterday it went up to l5o.
OF all the amusements that can DOS.
sibly be imagined for a workingnan after
daily tolls, or ia the intervals, there is
nothing like reading a newspaper or a
book.
The Chamber OF Commerce meets this
afternoon at 4 o'clock when the report Of
the joint committee of the Chamber and
the Peoples Protective Union viii be
presented.
Old citizens say that fifteen years ago
ice a foot thick was cut on Wolf river
near its mouth, aud that the ice-honses
of the city were supplied from this
source for the season.
The ambition Of the young Memphiau
at present is to play fifteen ball pool on
an old fashioned six pocket table. 1t
has shut out pin pool, and is making a
lively warfare on billiards.
Tonight the Educational Board will
assemble for the purpose of installing
the ten School Visitors elect, who will
take their seats and commence the work
of reform and retrenchnent.
The week after next Mrs. Oates and
her comic opera troupe will appear in
Memphis and give us File de Mad
anne Angot and other new operas Mrs.
Oates appears in St. Louis this week and
next.
The Chambers of Commerce and Cot
ton Exchanges Of, other cities have ex.
pressed themselves as to the Louisiana
outrages. Will our Chamber of Com
merce and Cotton Exchange move in the
natter anns
Owing to the inferior quality of gas,
water in the mains, or lack of necessary
pressure, the city has been badly lighted
for several nights. Over fifty lamps were
reported ont by the police on Satnr.
day night.
Mrs. Lander as Marie Antoinette I"
at the theater tonight. Mrs. Lander
will be supported by the Lawlor dramatic
combination, which is said to be one of
the very best companies now travelling
the circuits.
The severe weather has brought about
a great amount of suffering and destitu-
ton throughout the city. The Citizens
Relief Association Of last winter should
be reorganized, and the philanthropic
Towards should onc again engage in
their mission Of charity.
In Helena, Arkansas, it is now the
custom to attach to party invitation
cards the following significant notice.
Ladies are requested not to engage
partners ahead. This gives the modest
man a chance to show his agility in a
terpsichorean way.
The Public Schools Investigating
Committee, like a double barreled shot
gun, produced two reports. The first
flushed the game, but the second bagged
it. Several crippled ducks got away,
but they will not appear around the
Educational Board any more.
That wretch, the dramatic critic of the
Avalanche, says the female talking and
flirting fend at the theater should be
squelched and buried along with the
male dress circle iend." What does he
mean by "sguelched. and what female
6end does he want to be buried with?
Yesterday was the anniversary of the
passage Of the famous Stamp Act by
the English Parliament in 1875, which
was the entering wedge of the Revolution
in America and aroused the Colonists
to action. To-day is the anniversary Of
the secession Of Alabama in 1861.
Those who held Norfolk lottery tick.
cts, the numbers on which end with a
6grEe five, are entitled to an aproxima-
ton OF two dollars aud a half for each
whole ticket, and for coupons in proper.
ton, and all because the capital prize
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