Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-02
BREYITIES.

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A general thaw took place to-day,
rendering sleigh-riding an impossibility.
Thanksgiving day passed off without
serious accident or homicide taking
place in our city.
Motions for new trials are on hearing
before Judge Flippin, of the Criminal
Court, to-day. by -fH Ns pr
The japanese matinee to-day will at
tract large crowd of men, women and
children to the theater.
There was a sever freeze last night.
Wild geese few rapidly southwark in
search Of warmer climate.
Joe Locke, newsman, at 1864 jim,
has the New York Weekly and Ledger
besides all pictorials and magazines.
The impaneling of jurors in the
Graves-Schofeld homicide case has been
continued over to Wednesday next.
Go and register in your ward during
the ensuing week, and be ready to sup
port your candidates at the forthcoming
election.
A scales on the levee, for the purpose
of weighing produce, is regarded as an
absolute necessity by many of our mer-
chants.
Go to Mansford, corner Of Second and
Monroe, for news goods, daily papers
weekly pictorials, monthly magazines
novels, stationery and school books.
There was " cracking of skulls a.
a low dance house on Shelby street las
night between the conservators of the
peace and a number Of belligerent ne
groes.
The question of reducing salaries Of
county officers to the sum of four
thousand dollars per annum, has crea'
ted a newspaper war, which RACES fmi'
ously pro and con.
The murderer of Meyer, the unforta-
nate man assassinated in Nonconnah
bottom last week, has not as yet been
arrested. He is running at large in the
vicinity of Horn Lake, Miss.
The argument of new trial in the ga
case of the Memphis Gayoso Gas Com
pany VS.. Murphy ct al, was resumed to-
day before Judge Heiskill of the Firs
Circuit Court.
The mass meeting Of citizens at the
| Greenlaw Opera Eonse, on next Satur
day, suggests the propriety of voters
procuring certificates from the WARD
registrars as soon as possible.
Governor Alcorn has respited the col
ored murderer, John Henry, who was t.
have shuffled off the coil at Grenadn
Miss, last Friday. The festivities haNe
been postponed until the 22d inst.
Bills have been introduced into the
State Senate to make hunting and riding
over enclosed lands of another misde
meanor; also TO make drunkenness il
public places misdemeanor.
The Tammany ward meetings vii
come off tonight, and delegates will b
selected to work the Assembly Hal
meeting, caucus, conclave or conven
ton, which will be held on the 9th inst
On of the most popular hotels i
Memphis is the widely-known Commei
cial, on Jefferson, between Main an
Front streets. The proprietors take tn
greatest care Of their numerous guest
The Church Home Of Memphi
contains twenty-three little waits, rang
ing from two to fifteen years of age
The lady managers will be pleased to n
ceive donations for this truly charitabl
orphan asylum.
Rev. Moses Hull, Of Baltimore, Md
. will lecture on the Esprit World
. the Greenlaw Opera House to-morro
morning and evening Lectures o
A.. spiritualism are becoming quite populf
with the thinkers Of Memphis.
The number of mail letters delivere
by the postofiice carriers during tn
i month of November was ll0,273; loct
: letters delivered, 7s47; number of new
papers, etc., delivered, 27,375; humble
of letters collected, II ,252; newspaper
ETC., collected, 1898.
Emmons & Son, newsmen, at No,
/. Jefferson and 4l0 Main streets, have r
: ceived the latest daily papers from Ne
: York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, 5
Louis, Chicago and all other critic
!. also, illustrated weeklies, foreign pub
cations, and news goods generally.
3 An intelligent contraband addresse
fellow sufferer on Main street, yeste
Il day, in the following mysterious ma
ner; "Hab you seen anything of an
IF thing for me dis mornin'2' 1t was So
y posed by many to be the password
is the colored syndicate.
d Memphis was never so full of thieve
10 swindlers and confidence men as at Il
J. present time. These chaps freque
lie hotels and drinking saloons for the pu
lg pose of enticing the unsuspeeting into
a quiet game of cards, and, Of cours
at fleece their victims. Our police shou
% drive these vandals from our midst.
% In the public schools of New York
\. riot took place among the pupils becau
the teacher commenced reading I
Lords Prayer. Seven pupils were c
D. PEELED by the police, and one anti-pray
10 chap was carried to the station-hou'
This youth ought to be compelled
~ ~ commit the Lords Prayer to memory.
The 6rebrand, GrOrge Francis Trai