Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-02
LEDGER LINES.

Christmas holiday goods can be found
all over town.
During the past week it has rained
almost every night.
The Chancery Court will be in session
tomorrow morning.
Lolita in Zip, or the Point Lynde Light,
at the theater tonight.
Eighty-one prisoners are sojourning
in the county Jail at present.
The General Council stands adjourned
over to next Tuesday evening.
Trade is improving daily, as hundreds
Of country people arrive in town on
every train.
A man named Casey, a w.fe-whipper,
was fined fifty dollars at the Recorders
matinee to-day.
The M%aennoechor will give a vocal, in
instrumental and dramatic entertain
ment next Sunday night.
The municipal election for Mayor,
Aldermen and Councilmen will take
place on Thursday the 18th of January.
Four suspicious characters, arrested
by the police last night, we're fined s.
each by the Recorder this morning for
prowling.
Mr.. W. B. Galbreath has been re-
elected for the third term as President OF
the Cotton Exchange; Mr.. f. S. Davis
reelected Treasurer.
In the Circuit Court to-day Jane Gas.
sell (mulatto) filed a petition for divorce
against John Cassell on the grounds Of
cruel treatment, abandonment, etc.
The municipal contest promises to be
lively, with a probability of it being a
three-cornered fight. Many of the pros.
pective candidates are circulating around
getting their work in.
In the Criminal Court to day the in
dictments in the Chastaine cases were
called up, but the defendant was quite
unwell and unable to appear in court;
consequently the cases will be continued
from day to day until he RECEIVERS.
The Appeal is going to bolt if the
party is to be called the Democratic.
Conservative party, as it had been chris
tened by the State Gubernatorial Con,
v%ention Of 1874, But to what or to
whom will our friends bolt-to League
and the Radical ting2
The Tenth warders did not indorse
the Appeal last night when they organ.
lied what they called a Democratic and
Conservative Club, and pledged them.
selves by resolution to support for Mayor
the nominee Of the Democratic and
Conservative Convention.
Mr.. /. j. Adair, a merchant at La
Grange, Tenn, was in the city last Sun
day, and IN his return Monday found
that his store had been robbed Of thret
hundred dollars worth of goods, anC
that an unsuccessful attempt had beer
made to break into his safe, He has ne
clue to the identity of the robbers.
Mr.. Mckee Rankin's Combination vii
play a week at the Greenlaw 0perr
House, commencing next Monday even
ing. The opening piece will be the TIVE
Orphans, with Mr.. Rankin as Jacques
Frochard," and Miss Kitty Blanchard al
Henrietta" the orphan girl. Reserved
seats for sale at Hollenberg's music
store.
Augusta J. Evans, since she married
has been inspired with 3 horror and feal
of critics. In the preface of her new
work, "Infelice" (which she dedicates t.
her mother and husbsnd), she quotes th'
lines from Disraeli's "Lothair:" ITO
morrow the critics will commence. DE-
you know who the critics are? The mer
who have failed in literature and art
Fifteen ball pool is becoming the flask.
ionable and popular billiard game. The
game is as old as the hills, but it has
been revived of late. To watch a mar
straining himself as he makes a despe
rate effort to pocket a ball, is one of the
laughable sights of a billiard.room. L
is not q scientific game in any respect
but it affords some amusement TO the
players.
The following relief resolution has
passed the General Council: "Thai
fifteen per cent. be credited to police
and fremen from April !, 1875, to No
vember |, 1875, on account Of the losses
sustained by said police and iremen Oh
the depreciation of warrants o%ccasioneC
by the failure Of citizens to pay theil
taxes, and that said allowance be
charged to and taken out of the contiu
gent fund.-
Why cannot gentlemen remain in
their seats at the theater until the cur
tain falls upon the last scene2 Getting
up, putting on overcoats and rushing fol
the door while the last scene is closing
aud when the audience is eagerly watch.
ing and listening, is a violation of the
ordinary rules of politeness and good
breeding. Last night a general hiss
from the audience checked and shameG
the stampeders.
AT the General Council meeting last