Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-20
LEDGER LINES.

MRS. Enoch Ensley has been elected
President Of the Orphans Home.
The Mckee Rankin people did a large
business at Little Rock last week.
The Tenth warders meet tonight to
select General Council candidates.
Buffalo Bill combination, with the eel.
ebrsted Morlacehi, at the theater to-
night.
Mrs. Bowers and company left for
Nashville yesterday, where they play to.
night.
The small boys who slide amused
themselves in the street-gutters yester-
day on the ice.
Mortuary report Of the Board Of Health
for the past week-total deaths, Is.
Whites, 9; blacks, 8.
During Christmas week do not forget
the poor Of the city. Help POUR poor
neighbors from your abundance.
Many Of the Christmas festivities to
be given to the children in many por-
tons Of the city are to be on a large
scale.
The Old Folks Of Shelby county now
meet on the first Tuesday Of each month
in the School Board room, Odd Fellows
building.
Colonel I. f. Whitfield, Of Corinth,
Mississippi, is not the man put for
ward by G. Wiley Wells for United States
District Attorney.
The Sixth Ward Democratic Conser.
vative Club meets tonight to select can
didates for the Offices of two C~ouIcilmen
aud one Alderman.
There are twice as many dogs in the
State as there are voters. In Memphis
the dogs outnumber the voters five TO
one. The dogs are ours of both high
and low degree.
Next year, 1876, will be leap year, but
will the young ladies use their privilege
and call on gentlemen If so, the boys
must lay in a supply of candy, peanuts
and chewing gum.
Christmas day falls on Saturday next,
and New Years day on the Saturday
following. Both young and old people
are beginning to talk Of Kris Kringle,
alias Santa Claus.
Water consumers will do well to shut
OF the water in the mains at night and
let the supply pipes remain open and
drain out in order to keep them from
freezing and bursting.
To-day is the shortest of the ear II
you wish to find the length of any day,
multiply the hour Of sunset by 2; to find
the length of any night, multiply the
hour of sunrise by 2.
A telegram was received this morning
from Sheriff Anderson, dated Battle
Mountain, Nevada. He will be in Mem
phis with his prisoner, A. Woodward, on
next Thursday or Friday.
Will not somebody start a roller
skating rink for the amusement of the
young folks of the city2 If properly
conducted and in a good locality there
money in it for the managers.
A collection was taken up in the Cath
olic churches yesterday for the purpose
of d~efraying the expense of the monu
ment to the priests who died here during
the yellow fever epidemic of 1873.
Amateur theatricals are prevailing in
aristocratic circles throughout the city,
The ladies wish to be Bowerses and the
gentlemen Barry S~ullivans. Such a
hope and result is not impossible but i'm
probsble.
A very large and fashionable audience
attended the theater last night to witness
the spirit manifestations of the medium
Mr.. Livingston. Sunday theatiricals
seem to be popular here as we'll as at
New Orleans.
The Nashville American says the
Memphis Democracy made a 6rstclass
nomination for the mayoralty, ex,Jadge
Flippin. They have fully carried out
their determination to put forward the
best man they could get"
In selecting candidates for the Gen.
ecal Council in the wards, candidates for
School Visitors should also be selected
in those wards where VACANCIES occur. A
good School Visitor is Of as much i'm.
portance to the people as a good Alder.
man or Councilman.
The Adelaide Phillips Opera Troupe
will appear at the theater in January.
The troupe consists of Misses Phillips,
Colville, LAMBERT, and Messrs. Karl,
Benjamin, Carpi, Locatelli, Msrcini,
Tagliapietra, Baccelli, Barberis and
others, with Musical Director Signor
Tomasi. There's music even in their
names.
Sixteen cases we're disposed of by the
Recorder this morning. VIM. Smith, a
white larcenlst, who stole a pair Of boots
and . hat from a acknowledges at a Ger.
man clearinghouse was committed in
default Of $4,000. Thomas Moore, a ne.
gro %roustabout, cut with a knife another
$500