Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-08
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Thanks 10 the Southern Express Com
pany for late papers.
Lingum is the center Of attraction at
the New Memphis Theater. rl '.iaa
G. Francis Train, next President etc.,
is to be in Memphis on the 9th,
Our landing needs repairing badly.
Twill the City Fathers attend to ita
New York elects fifteen Tammanyites.
New Jersey, true to her instincts, has
gone Democratic. = Be-
Joe Locke has all kinds of news goods,
magazines, pictorials and daily papers,
at 1864 Main street. 90 tp
Notwithstanding the gloomy aspect of
the weather, Main street was crowded
with promenaders to-day.
The city ia full of panel thieves.
Housekeepers are cautioned against
leaving front doors open.
Our retail dry goods houses, especially
those who advertise in the LEDGER, are
crowded daily with customers.
A bill has been introduced in the Sem
ate by Mr.. DuBose to repeal section nine
of the charter of the city Of Memphis.
From the reports received last night
il is feared--by the Radeals---that Mis-
sissippi has gone Democratic by hand
some majority. si IS
Our theater-goers are delighted at the
prospect of seeing Mrs Bowers at the
Memphis theater next week. She will
be warmly welcomed. 'sv laash 4.
The Steamboatmen's Convention CON
yenes at Louisville to-day, We shall
doubtless have brief report of the or
ganization in our telegraphic column.
Go to Mansford, corner of seco nd
and Monroe streets, for daily papers
from all points, English, Irish, German
and French papers, illustrated weeklies
and magazines.
The elevator at the 0yerton is now in
full operation, and the guests of that
hotel now find new method of becom-
ing elevated without any accompanying
headache.
Quite number Of Mississippi politi-
clans, including Governors, Congr ess-
men and Representatives, have been
stopping in our city for the past two or
three days. .ef 4Ii
The receipts of cotton are increasing
more rapidly here than at any other in
terror city in the South; to-day they are
three thousand three hundred and
lightweight bales.
Captain John j. Gibson left at noon
to-day for trip to the burnt city of the
North, and also to take bird's-eye
view Of Boston, New York and other
Eastern villages.
II vote were to be taken upon q re
duetion of the taxes, we venture to say
that West Tennessee would cast solid
vote for reduction Of thirty cents on
the one hundred dollars. fr
The committee appointed At the rail
road meeting at the Greenlaw Opera
House on Monday night will meet in q
few days to devise means for carrying
the railroad to Jefferson, Texas. N
Emmons q Son, the popular news
dealers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main
have weekly illustrated papers, foreign
publications., monthly magazines, aud
daily papers from New York, St. Louis,
Cincinnati, New Orleans, Nashville,
Chicago and other cities.
The liquor-dealers' association met
last night to hear the report of their
agent from Nashville, who was sent to
have the heavy burden of taxation light
ened a little, A general reduction is
called for.
By gentleman who arrived at noon
from Pamela county, Miss, we learn that
the Republican majority in the five
largest precincts was 1900. There are
five smaller precincts yet to hear from
which may change the result.
The wires Of the Southern Pacific and
Atlantic Telegraph Company are now
open for business to New Orleans and
other Southern cities. Our merchants
should not forget this, es the Southern
Pacific Company was the first to reduce
the rates of telegraphing to all Eastern
and Northern points.
Mr.. Brunce Wynn, the young man in
prison at Austin, Miss, for killing ne
gro, is not, as reported, a son of X. j..
B. l.. Wynn. His arrest and threatened
foul treatment was a source of anxiety
to his many friends here, and tidings Of
him were eagerly sought.
The usual motley assembly of DRINKS,
disorderlies, etc., were before the Recor-
der this morning. A number of CO.
habitors we're fined five dollars EACH
fighters, S25; plain drunks, So; aud ex-
ponents of the social evil, $40 each.
Thirty-one cases in all were disposed Of,
and good round sum in the way Of
fines finds its way into the City Treasury.
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Fresh stock received daily by V. d.