Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-01
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Maennoechor m~askenball at Cochran
Hall next Thursday night.
The Chamber of Commerce will NEE
at four o'clock this afternoon.
Janauschek as Deborah" (Leah thu
Forsa ken at the theater tonight.
In these tight times the poor find i
difficult to get a square meal daily.
Mortuary report Tor the past week
total deaths, 49, whites, IL; blacks, 8.
Read the columns of the LEDOER foi
places wherein the Mardi-Gr goods ar,
sold. :
A heavy freeze last night filed tn,
street cutters and pools once again with
a crop Of ice.
Ball Of ths Societa di Unione e Frat
~ellanza Italiana at Cochran Hall mex
Wednesday evening.
The WEEKLY LEDGER will be published
tomorrow morning and can be found at
the LEDGER counting room and at the
leading news stands of the city.
The Cotton Exchange will meet at FIVE
o'clock tomorrow afternoon in order to
resume discussion upon the reports OF
the committee on warehouse receipts"
Professor Mueller gave a charming
matinee d~ansante to his pupils and
patrons on Saturday afternoon. The
Professors. little pupils will in future
years be noted for their grace and polite
ness.
Sea gulls can be seen in hundreds
from the bluffs. At sea the appearance
of q gull warns the mariner that he is
1 approaching land, and has left that
waste Of waters where mother Cary's
chickens ~gladdened his eye, hundreds of
miles from shore.
Next Friday night the Adelaide Phil
lips Opera Troupe will appear at the
Greenlaw Opera House in. the Barber of
Seville, and on Saturday night in Don
Pasqualle. Reserved seats can be Sc
cured at Hollenbergs music store and
at the Peabody today.
Our. Representatives will leave for
Nashville on tomorrow, the General AS
sembly having taken a recess until
Wednesday morning. A recess is not
counted in the se~venty-6ve days session,
so no time is lost, but it gives the legis-
lators and law makers a rest.
One Of the principals in the late Navy
Yard prize fight has a terrible masque.
rading head on him, but the other fellow,
who did not receive a scratch, hallowed
enough, take him off" when he was
holding the beaten man down by placing
his finger between his teeth.
The indications are that the approach
ing carnival will excel anything ever
! given in Memphis and will equal any
thing ever presented in New Orleans.
Thousands of strangers will visit our city
and every arrangement should be made
to furnish them with board, and espe-
cially lodging.
An election for a magistrate vice
Esquire Hoist, deceased, will be held in
the Fifteenth civil district Ninth ward
and suburbs) sometime this month, Of
which due notice will be given by Sheriff
Anderson. We make this startling an
%noHncement for the purpose Of giving
those intending to be candidates a chance
to go around aud make a canvass in due
time.
To-day week King Menus and retain
ers will storm the city's gates and re.
ceives the keys Of the citadel from
Mayor League. No enemy has ever
captured, or ever will capture Memphis.
who has been or will be so gladly re.
ceived by our citizens as the army Of the
great reveller. AS Charley Beehn, the
famous Ulk," has it, the king must be
received in a hostile" manner.
On and after next Wednesday a regis.
try will be opened at the Cotton Ex
change for hotel, restaurant, boarding
house keepers and private families, II
which they are requested to enter the
number Of people they can feed and
lodge and the price to be charged K
Mardi- Gras visitors. Let us take gooC
care Of our guests, and let them 60 hom,
happy and rejoicing.
Now is the time TO remember the poor
especially the little debts you owe them
Hundreds suffer for the lack of triAeI
Owed them by the rich for triAing services
rendered them. Our useless expendi
. lures are all that charity asks for, and {
little attention given by each one who i
able, to the poor, would very nearly ban
! ish suffering from the city. Let eacl
family hunt up at least one poor famil,
whom it will assist during the winter
Don't expect to End them saints by an.
means-only sufferers.
! To-day is the anniversary of the cleo
! ton of George Washington to the Pres
. dency Of the United States in 1875
4 Washington vas elected by a unanimou
I vote. The electoral vote for Vice Pres
Z dent was by but ten States, Rhod
Island, New York and North Carolin
n mt voffn0 tho NJ k.-..m ..t.c.I Al