Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-06
LEDsER LINES.

The Shelby county Democratic execu-
tive committee meets Monday.
Magnolia hams, finest quality. SIC a
pound, at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
spangler has all sorts of good reading
OF his news depot, 3S6 Main street.
Only twelve marriage licenses we're
issued for the week ending yesterday.
The very best Improvement in ice.
cream freezers. Wheeler, Pickens & Co.
We have the first annual report Of the
Ladies Christian Association of Mem.
phis.
Handwerkr's orchestra will give a JON.
cert tonight at Emmerieh's s~aloen, 34l
Adams street.
The Riversides and Eckfords play an.
other game Of baseball at Central Park
tomorrow afternoon.
3 The large building on the southwest
corner Of Adams asd Second streets is
being fitted up for the Memphis Club.
The Sodslity Dramatic Association
will give an entertainment for the benefit
OF st. Peters Choir Association. The
play R~etribution will be presented.
Monday is the last day tickets can be
procured for the monthly drawing of the
Louisiana State Lottery at New Orleans.
See advertisement in another column.
Rev. DR.. A. Thomas lectures to.mor.
row night at the Third street German
Protestant church. His subject is The
Distinguished Jewish Poet Il. Heine."
The lecture will be in German.
The man.milliner of the Appeal is try.
ing I convert himself into a hairpin, but
owing to his canvased ham.shaped feet
is too awkward to avoid female trails.
He favors short dresses, for evidently
that man wants but little here below,
nor wants that little long,"
Last night Rev. DR.. Sam6eld delivered
an interesting lecture on temperance at
the Synagogue, corner of Main and Ex-
change streets. The lecture was one Of
true merit and evinced a thorough com
%prehensiou of the subject. The audi
ence was large and %appreciative.
Greenlaw Opera House temperance
meeting Sunday night at 1880 o'clock.
Preaching by Rev. B. R. Womack. Sub
ject-The essential evil of intemperance
in itselt considered. Meeting tonight as
usual. Colonel Turner and Mr.. Prosser
will address the meeting. All are in.
vited.
A %wellknown saloon proprietor says
that the Murphy movement helps the
legitimate whisky trade, because it has
drawn to its folds a great number Of
dead-beats. These dead beats no longer
apply for drinks, and hence the s%aleons
do not lose as much money by %crediting
these bummers.
Some wicked individual who never
paid his board bill illustrated hell by the
following question aHd answer: What
are all those women doing who are msk-
ing such dreadful fAces2' They are
clearinghouse keepers, doomed to eat
their own beefstesk forever aud %everl'
is the head devils awful reply.
Mr.. R. G. Brinkley yesterday made his
first payment to the city Of $25, 900 iu
bonds on bis indebtedness on Memphis
and Charleston railroad stock in accord
ance with an agreement made with The
general council two montbs ago. He is
to make a second payment Of $4,000
January l, 1879, and a third Of $2l, 900
Jannary 2, 1880.
Marcus B. just, Of NJ. j.. Cohn & Co.,
the we'll known cigar dealers, at Nos. 239
aud 1903 Main street, las our thanks for
samples Of COINS Choice, which with
other excellent brands are always to be
lad at the above establishments. Coins
Choice is good enough for anybody. This
firm being enterprising aud intelligent
offers the best cigars at low figures.
Over FIVE hundred persons attended
the opening CT the roller.sks.ipg rink at
the Exposition building last night.
There we're q number Of good skaters
noted for their grace, ease aud skill.
There were many awkward skaters who
humpty.dumptied themselves, to the
great delight Of the spectators. The
opening Of the rink was ii success"
Colonel Barney Hughes Railway Rec.
ord for April has made its appearance.
Among the a%rticles is one on the Con.
v~ention of Moiquitoes'' in the nature Of
an epic. Colonel Hughes is an apt
writer, a profound thinker and a great
philosopher, whose wit, logic and wisdom
are manifest in the lines of the Record.
His description of the functions, tastes,
habits, etc Of the mosquito is as accu-
rate as was his biographical sketch Of
the Count de Noses, Barren of Ce sh'
LII. graceful and attractive,
Of6cer Manuel this morning arrested
a laborer named Thos. H. Kelly, on the
charge Of obtaining money under false
p~retensps. The accused is said to have
taken a certain sun Of money-fourteen
dollars-from two friends, so as TO give
it to the clerk Of the steamer on which