Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-27
LEDGER LINES.

6 POP"ioi WIN eho smohlng puDlc.
Fritz at the matinee to-day, and it will
also be the attraction at the theater to.
night.
Professor Mueller's fancy dress matt.
nee dansaute at the Memphis Club Hall
to-day.
It's getting warmer and spring ap-
proaches, but don't mind about your
linen busters yet.
The banana has come again from the
south and can be found at all the street
corner fruit stands,
The LEDGER is the only daily journal
published in this city on Mondays, q
fact which advertisers will duly notice.
The Ida Cerito Female Minstrels, with
the Can-Can of the Jardin Mabille, at the
Greenlaw Opera House on next Tuesday
night.
The police have been instructed to
watch church doors tomorrow and
order the chaps who remain on the
pavement to move on"
Daringthe month places Of amusement
in this city have had a maximum amount
of attractions and but a minimum
amount of patronage.
Chief of Police Athy is ordering the
vags" to leave the city. This will
stop the little pilfering aud robbinp
which is going on nightly.
The only executed marriage license
returned to the County Court Clerk
during the week is that of John Parry
and Miss Frances Henderson.
The Good Confession. Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of the living God" This
grand theme will be the subject of DR..
Walks sermon tomorrow night.
The Vicksburg Herald states that an
Grafton over the tomb OF General Robert
E. Lee is to be delivered by Hon. JeHer-
son Davis, at Lexington, Va, in October
uext.
Lent seems to have lost its charms in
the fashionable circles of Memphis, il
-
the Friday night house at the theater is
any criterion to judge by, to say nothing
Of private hops called the German.
Something must be done with Sunday,
as this year it knocked St. Valentine s
day out Of time, came within a few hours
OF spelling Washingtou's birthday, and
will land right in the middle of the
Fourth of July.
1t is all nonsense to talk about the
inability of women to take mems places
in Memphis, when it is a we'll known
fact and susceptible of proof that there
are nor fires built on cold mornings by
women than by men.
That human finger which was taker
from the negro grave digger George Bull
Ter was yesterday cremated by the
Adams street station. house keeper, who
threw it into the stove, and thus disposed
Of a valuable hoodoo relic of negro bar
barism.
Several members of the City Hal
ring left to day for Nashville to engineer
that curious city charter through the
Legislature. 1t has all the bad features
of the old charter, reforms nothing, but
into it have been hoisted a few good pro.
visions.
Major John H. Freeman, Clerk of the
Supreme Court for West Tennessee, is in
the city for the purpose of consulting
with the members of the bar as to the
course TO be pursued with reference to
the appealed cases to be heard before the
Arbitration Court at Jackson.
The Brownsville States complains
that the LEDGER committed a cheeky
deed by copying one Of its articles
without giving the credit. We may not
have given the credit, out we certainly
gave the article Notwithstanding
the States could not do.
The coupon holders in the Louisville
library drawing did not sleep well last
they we're haunted by castles in
the air. or ships laden with gold consigned
to every m Of them. By tomorrow
many a coupon holder will be willing to
of the thing at a heavy discount.
That leather hat-case captured from
Brodowsky, the shower of queer" is
a most ingenious continuance. Inside
there are several hidden compartments
which contained samples Of counterfeit
dollar gold pieces, fresh from the
mint of the counterfeiters-bu where is
that mint2
The following elegant paragraph from
Helena ARK World suits the
weather Of to-day 1.-THE beauty Of the
day almost compelled us to stop work
look at the glories of nature, but
such a state Of things cannot exist long,
and u beautiful flight was destined to
a sudden fall, and here we are"
Several young gentlemen who attend
the theater regularly seem to be ambi.
to earn the title of Applause
starters" but they generally applaud at
the wreng time and cause the audience
TO lose the bit Of sentiment spoken by
the actor, while they turn their heads to
at the young enthusiasts in the
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