Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-30
LEDGE LINES.
Irish Literary Association tonight.

josh Billings name is Il. N. Shaw.
Oh, pshawi
Tomorrow will be the last Of March,
and then comes All Fools Day.
The base-ballers will be out in force
next week playing match games.
Trotting race over the Chickasaw
Jockey Club course this afternoon.
Wheeler, the negro murderer of Blu.
menstsin, has not been heard Of or cap
tured.
Josh Billings at the tbeater tomorrow
evening. Subject Of lecture: "Pensive
Cockroach."
The Centennial bale Of cotton weighs
one hundred and e~ighty.two pounds, and
still relic hunters are pulling at it.
Reserved seats are still selling rapidly
for Josh Billings entertainment to-mor.
row evening. BE viii have a crowded
house.
A train will leave tha Louisville depot
at 81 o'clock this afternoon for the base
ball ground, where a practice game will
be INDUCED in by the nine"
Every cotton man on yesterday had a
sample of that premium bale in his vest
pocket and a sample Of that premium
bale champagne under his belt.
The river rose one inch and a quarter
in the twenty.tour hours preceding s
o'clock this morning. 1t is twelve and
q quarter inches below high water mark
of 1867.
Mr.. Gilbert KNAPP will lecture this
evening on the subject, Let US Take a
. Drink" There are several thousand
men in Memphis who lecture on that in.
terrogatory subject every night.
= Memphis contains 3 stock Of cotton
amounting to 6fty-six thousand bales al
; present. At forty dollars per bale the
value OF the stock on hand would be two
. million eight hundred thousand dollars
, We understand that q number ofbelles
not satisfied with one Msrdi-Grss, intent
giving a second edition in phantom styl,
/ this evening on the Boulevard. Thu
parade at midnight will be unique an,
worth witnessing.
The Centennial bale of cotton wa
q classed as Fancy" The Cotton Ex
q change will send to the Centennial eigh
other bales, representing the grades o
j. upland and Extraordinary, good ordi
nary, low middling and middling.
10 The 6remen tore down the roof an
IS back walls OF that old stable on Adam
street, adjoining the station-house, thi
III forenoon. The east wall Of the station
house is also in q dangerous conditio,
1T q should be repaired as soon as poss
re BILE.
ie The Geo. W. Cheek, Captain Nat Gree
Of in command, leaves promptly to-morro
q evening for Helena and the bends. TIL
n is the only trip she has missed since HI
es advent in the trade. She has been mo
lis successful under the able management
us Captain Green, and will continue in Il
lie trade throughout the entire season.
Sneak thieving is increasing rapid
nd throughout the city. The police autho
in tiles should wake up and look after o
bs suspicious characters-including thol
who hang around those dens of infAH
kept by white men on WashingtC
nd street, Center alley and other well-knov
points. There are scores of the lowe
,. and vilest dens kept by negroes all ov
the city, yet hardly ever is a raid MAJ
upon them by the police.
ar, Sacred concerts on Sunday nigh
Ird may now be regarded As public instit
tons in Memphis, just as unobjectio
at able as the sacred concerts given
+. choirs in the different churches Of Il
At city every Sunday. Indeed, amol
churches there is a rivalry as to viii,
bs, shall have the best alto, tenor, sopral
Gee and basso singer, those running church
we'll knowing that music draws cong
81 cations, even when the dreariness Of
.nd commonplace sermon is so we'll calC
8 lated 10 keep them away.
A good story is told on two ladies "
recently attended a picture auction. 0
Of them desired two pictures and ask
700 the other to bid them of for her. Th
we're separated by the crowd and
lady desiring to have the pictures, fe
ing that her friend was not bidding, ]
M in q few bids herself. The biddin v
le" lively and the pictures were sold to
'' at a big price. When too late she {
covered that her determined opponI
~ on bids was her friend, who could not
her in the crowd. When ladies atte
auctions a better presrranged pl
" should be agreed upon,
OF the ninety thousand dollars
was police and fire scrip issued by the G
ose. but a few hundred dollars remain {
ion. standing and not redeemed. The c
,;sit Comptroller pays dollar for dollar for t
scrip at present. When it was issued
the police aud 6remen the LEDGER m
and knowing its true value, pulled" it
&c but the " bears" bore it down occasi
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