Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-25
LEDGER LINES.


Cochran Hall tonight. IL
Nothing new in the courts of record or
Recorders court to-day.
Mayor Howell, Of Nashville, is in the
city. He is a better looking man than
the Head Of our Commune.
Katie Putnam, quite a favorite with
our theater. goers, has married her lead.
ing man, Sullivan, in Chicago.
The fellows who swore off on New
Years day are gradually returning to
the old way of doing business.
On Mardi-Gras day we hope many
Memphiaus will be able to say: HE
was a stranger and took him ill.,"
The Berger family of Bell Ringers
will appear at the theater next Wednes-
day night. The theater will be closed
until then.
From our exchanges we CLEAN that the
people are coming to attend Mardi.Gr
in Memphis by the thousands. Long
live King Carnival
The Avalanche editorially continues
to call Johnson the "masher.' The Ava
lanche knows what it is talking about,
and we contradict it not. ,
The cigar box has become the emblem
Of the Johnson party in Memphis, and
Andy's friends are now accosted with,
How are you, old cigar box?"
The Superintendent purposes putting
up a notice on the outside of street cars
to the effect that the cars will not wait
for young ladies to kiss goodbye.
Quite a number of Mem phians re-
turned from Nashville yesterday. They
give conflicting opinions as to the III.
innate result Of the Senatorial contest.
The residents of the Fifth civil district
are the envy of all the other wards of the
city-they will enjoy and indulge in a
magisterial election on next Thursday.
Quite a large number of bets were
made yesterday on the Bnte-Johnson
race. As Locke or Dryden would put it
in old English, Bate bate johnson on
every ballot on Saturday last.
The LEDGER regrets having advocated
the election of Messrs. Overbon, Haynes,
Peters, Mathes, Finlay, Roush, Greer
and Wynn in November last, but it will
! commit no such error two years hence.
Tonight the Clay street school i'm
broglio between the white principal,
Barnum, and Mrs. Thompson, a colored
: teacher, will be further ~investi gated by
the School Board Committee on APP
/, peals.
The funeral of Esquire Hoist yester.
day was attended by Schiller Lodge
. of. o. 0. E., and the remains of the
deceased were escorted to the Cemetery
: by au hundred and fifty members Of the
order.
Yesterday was Septuagesima Sunday.
The term comes from the Latin septua.
gesimus, the SEVENTEEN. The third Sun.
day before Lent, being about seventy
days before Easter, is called Septua.
|. gesima Sunday.
The frightful news that Bate was
ahead of Johnson caused a food of dis
patches to be sent to Memphis begging
Andy's friends here to send up Gallo.
: way, of Fayette, at all hazards and
spare no expense.
The Shelby county Representatives at
Nashville have cut loose from the Demo
: cratic party and now belong to the
Z johnson clique. Had this result been
known last November not one of them
; would have been elected.
To-day is the anniversary of the birth
q of Robert Burns in 1853. In a clay
q built cottage, two miles south of the
I town of Ayr and in the vicinity of the
kirk Of Alloway and the "auld brigo'
DOOM natures poet first saw light.
How can l get an invitation to the
Il Memphi ball?' is the society conundrum
at present. Write to the Grand Ouro,
who has a box at the postofice, and if
I that does not bring the thing we decline
to give any further information on the
3 subject.
Yesterday two negro missionaries
= obtained admittance to the Adams street
station : house yard and preached a
double-headed sermon to the colored
a prisoners. The exhorters, after deliver
e ing eloquent sermons, raised the hymn,
IN which the chain'gang prisoners and
r others Joined, seemingly with earnest
e ness and satisfaction.
The constituency of the Shelby county
Representatives are opposed to the cleo
e ton of Andrew Johnson by at least five
7 to one on a square vote. In 1872 there
, were 1885 votes cast in Shelby county,
Q Of which johnson received but 1874; yet
. 1t is pretended that the bogus cigar box
instructions bind our Representatives to
! the coat tail of Andy johnson.
A learned member Of the Memphis
Microscopical Society, after careful ex-
animation of water taken from a pond
in Happy Hollow where the yellow
. fever appeared in 1879. found the water