Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-09

dividuals will be rich after this draw.
ing.
The iremen turned out this fore.
noon to pull down the old walls at the
scene of the ruins on Main street.
where the FIRE occurred, three nights
ago.
"A meeting of the cotton exchange
is to be held at three o'clock this af-
ternoon, to hear the complaints Of
cotton exporters regarding shipments
by rail.
"A book wanted in every house
hold-"Father A. j. Ryan's Poems. .
Mansford, 29S Main street, has now a
second supply. Price five dollars and
fifty cents a copy.
Juvenile beggars are drawing lu-
c%rative trade here. A correspon dent
has something to say of them in an.
other column and he tells it straight.
They Should be looked to.
iii on the first of next month
not on the 18th, as was yesterday mis-
printed, that the proposed calico ball
is to be given at the Peabody in the
interest of the Church Home orphans.
The velocity and quantity Of lin
guistical vibrations at the Greenlawo p-
era House last night was great. There
was a perfect dGluge of talk, and near
ly all tried to do it at the same time.
The police have been ordered to
arrest all persons doing business along
the sidewalks without proper license
and they are also notifying drays and
vehicles to take out licenses immedi-
ately.
Rents to the amount of $759
were collected in behalf of the city
during the months of May, June and
December of last year by Collector A.
j. Murray, who looks after the ten
ants Of city property.
Speakers spoke at the meeting last
night who never spoke before, and
though they were in many instances
persons Of few ideas and confused ut
terances, yet they made themselves
heard, though not understood.
They smell rank, and perfume
the very air we breathe with their
foul odors," say the privy vault filters.
just wait until all have an earth
closet. People will then be able to
taste as well as smell nastiness.
That finished orator the Honora-
bic Pat W., had a few words to say at
the opera house meeting. The
claquers drowned his words with
earth closet dirt, but his eloquence of
motion was admitted by large ma
jority.
The theater will be closed on the
first three nights of next week. On
Thursday Joseph Murphy will appear
in a new play entitled "Shaun Rue"
following with Kerry Cow" in which
the exciting horse shOeinp incident Is
o feature.
THE women sigh for it, the
children cry for it," says a morning
journal in advocacy of the proposed
earth closet introduction. All classes.
sexes, sizes and shades will 60 wild
over the big pontoon at the river
front, if they build it.
"A purse of sol has been made up
by the employees of r. Lowenstein &
Bres. fer The distressed family Of the
late fireman Edward Leonard, con.
sisting Of a widow in a delicate stu
alton end two fatherless children.
This c%ommendablo action should have
many imitators.
"A pair Of magnitudes in the form
of the receivers of the defunct city of
Memphis were noticed sitting together
at the meeting last night. Their
mathematical relationships diverge
widely, but it was generally remarked
that they are a unit in favor ofconcord
and perhaps, earth boxes.
-Earth boxes are now the all,
absorbing theme, and whether 1t be
those surface affairs upon which many
wish the populace to sit, or those in
which others would have us lie. the
box maker is unanimously in favor of
both. The box question just now
rules the roast, by a large majority.
Poets Ike Dante and Shakespeare.
and composers like MCFARLAND Beeth-
oven, occupy high places in art. So
all learned men admit but posterity
will give to the surface earth closet
inventor a more exalted niche on the
ladder Of fame. The contractor will
at the same time make money by 1t.
The sanitary meeting last night
seemed to be about equally divided
on every question presented for a vote.
Now there would baye been entire
pnanimity if Sol. Coleman had ap.
paaFea Oh the scene and distributed to
the crowd samples Of big celebrated
No. 10 cigars. a speech from him
relative to tobacco as o d~isinfectant