Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-07

operas.
Twice three are six. There are ten
=s=as e &c city et Memphis and three
candidates running for mayor. John
Johnson will carry no wards and the
rest are doubtful.
The tilter is no longer q feature in
female dress. The tilter was long enough
when It lasted, but it has disappeared,
much to the rsgret Of many q lass. May
there be no alias as a substitute.
Mr.. F. W. Irvine, an old and highly
respected citizen, who has long been en-
gagged in the cotton business, died last
night of typhoid.pneumonia, at his resi-.
dence near the city, on the Raleigh road.
The Mississippi Central railroads new
engine, No. II, built at Water Valley, is
an assured success lad has more than
realized the expect - those inter.
esteu la the experiment Of COT structlng
this locomotive.
Seven or eight boys we're having a
sliding hurrah Sunday afternoon on
Shelby street in front of the old Gayoso
House. Boys are about the only crea.
lures that enjoy sliding down hill and
slippery streets.
The interruption of street.car travel
for the past few days has caused great
inconvenience to the public. Persons
attending church Sunday we're disap.
pointed because the street-cars we're few
and far between.
Peanut vendors, organ grinders and
the suburban resident ara still unhappy
for the pavements are slippery and the
streets muddy, Owing to the snow and
previous rains the country roads are
almost impossible.
Mr.. Hopkin Louden has instituted suit
in the United States Court to recover ter
thousand dollars from the city Of Mem.
phis, alleged to be due as the remainder
Of the amount promised him for having
the west side of Main street paved with
stone.
Mr.. Lake is improving the picturesque
mound in Fort Pickering. The view o
the Mississippi river and President
Island from the mound will we'll repay q
visit to that romantic spot where doubt.
less DeSoto first beheld the great Missis.
sippi river.
The intelligence of the average at.
torney at law, solicitor in chaucery and
proctor in admiralty" will not justify St.
Luke's warning, Woe unto you lawyersl
for ye have taken the key of knowledge"
Too many Of the profession take whis.
Key and too few the real key Of knowl
edge.
President Petit, Of the cotton ez
change, will appoint this afternoon from
the numerous applicants FIVE delegates
to 60 on the trip to Havana in the inter
est OF direct trade. None of them ar,
expected to speak the Spanish Language
while in Cuba, but the spiked lemonade
of the tropics must be sent down with
pure Csstillion accent.
We hear that the Tennessee club ha
rented and will soon occupy the section
of the Adams block, Second street. /
is intended to fit up the rooms in magni
ieent style. The Office of the chief o
police will have to be located elsewhere
as that portion Of the building which
now occupies is included in the apart
ments rented to the Tennessee club.
The August elections are already de
veloping a large crop of candidates 70
the thirteen Offices to be filed. NAM
are calling themselves out, but compare
lively few will be chosen. II is probabl
that a few disgruntled ofice.seekers viii
renew their Democratic habitudes ant
revise their faith in conventions abou
the time the August election approaches
The introduction Of the copper cen
will detract materially from Inc revenue
of churches, as the amount It collection
will be very much decreased. The younI
man, who heretofore gave a nickel wheI
the hat was passed around, can now use
a copper cent for that purpose. A cop
per makes as much noise as a nicke.
when dropped in a metal platter, aud the
five cent piece when divided will do for
five Sundays.
The following gentlemen have been
appointed by the Nashville merchants
exchange to 20 to Cuba in the interest
Of the direct trade movement, in which
Memphis has been invited to participate
Colonel John c. Burch, chairman; Colo.
mel Tom 0'Conner, Colonel Wharton, ],
Green, W. Hooper Harris, J.. c Warner.
A. c. WiIkerson, L. Davis, John Terras
DR.. G. N. Ordway, A. NJ. Shook, E.
McIver, Colonel J.. George Harris, N.
Baxter, jr, Ed Driver, Robert Ewing, ],
L. Hill, W. W. Knox.