Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-03


concert at Nashville tonight, and at
Cincinnati tomorrow night.
Why Old Christmas is to be cele-
brated this year is fully explained by
an article on the second page Of this
issue.
It's a regular barn Of a place, and
despite Mr.. Levy's best efforts the au-
dience at the Greenlaw suffered with
cold last night.
Ice dealers have been rather in the
dumps SO far this season, but they
have nearly two months yet before
they need despair.
EThs market for the staple to-day is
very quiet. Dizziness in New York
and no change abroad keeps onr Oper-
ators from caring to operate very
heavy.
Various fashionable young ladies
having fine ball dresses TO wear, are
much chagrined because as yet they
have no LVthions ssfor the Twelfth
Night ball.
The ever.popular Little Havana
Lst.ery will hold another drawing on
Saturday. Many persons in this city
and vicinity have been lucky winners
of prizes in this lottery.
Many Front row stores closed doors
yesterday afternoon and gave their
young men a chance to go about on
their usual round ofNew Years calls.
They went several hundred strong.
The receipts at the Kellogg concert
last night are v%ariously estimated at
from $500 to $1,000. 1t was a great
financial success, and the managers
were all in smiling humor over last
night.
The usual annual settling time in
business circles, among banking and
financial corporations, benevolent So
%cieties, and so on, keeps the entire
clerical force busy at present, early
and late.
Efforts are in progress to induce
Gerster, the gifted operate soprano,
and the opera troupe now at New
Orleans to come this way and give us
three performances some time in the
near future.
To exercise the inestimable privi-
lege Of pokiug a ballot into q small
box will be a right accorded to every
voter in this city two days ahead, aud
many voters announce their intention
to "Ro-ss-they-please."
The many beautiful and unique Wis
iting cards distributed by young gen.
tlemen yesterday we're occasions for
numerous remarks and expressions of
surprise. They will be preserved as
souvenirs Of the joyful occasion.
The assassin of the late respected
President Garfield held a New Year
reception in the Washington City jail
yesterday, and the man he made Pres
ident kept open house in more gor-
geous state at the White House.
The shrill fife and the rafting drum
sent forth their discordant tones upon
natures c%aloric last night. 1t was
only an effort to marshal the dArkies
and their friends and arouse a little
interest in nominations for School
Visitors.
Not a line Of telegraph news caIne
over the wires up to the hour Of going
to press yesterday. There seemed to
be dearth Of news all over the coun-
try, and fifty millions Of people, more
or less, participated in New Year
holiday festivities.
Temperature 339 at sunrise this
morning, aud g. warmer than yester-
day at the same time, The winds
come from the southeast, and we're
from a southerly direction all of yes
terday. Temperature ranged yester-
day from 80 to 46'.
why this is the Peabody Hotels
Christmas dinner bill Of fare aud
isn't a programme" said a lady last
night, as she entered the Greenlaw
0Oerahouse and received one Of the
souvenir programmes, 1t happened
that the same engraving adorned both
the bill Of fare alluded to and the
musical programme, that was all
Though Clara Louise is a Southern
born woman, and is a native Of South
Carolina, she has acquired tastes and
habits after people in other countries.
She gave an exhibition Of a riley tenn
per by an unwillingness to respect the
customs Of those with whom she hap
pened to abide by ~unbecoming con.
duct at Miller's Hotel, Milan, last
Sunday. She wanted her dsrky at
tendant to eat at her table, and after
cutting a few shines about it, was told
by the landlord that "if she wanted 10
eat with a niger, she could" and she
did.
New York Shell Oysters, Blue
Points, Shrewsburys and Rock
Always, can only be had Mt Henry
Luehrmann's. ut
1000 lbs Dried VenisOn Hams
AT Victor ID. Fuchs. 107