Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-01
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quorum being present.
Ten inches of snow fell yesterday.
As Marcus Antonius said, 90, what a
fall was there, my countrymenl"
The Japanese acrobats and bamboo
climbers continue to attract large au-
dienees to the Memphis Theater.
Judge Halsey returned from New Or
leans yesterday and occupied his seat on
the Second Circuit Court bench to-day.
Joe Locke, newsman, at 1864 Main,
has the New York Weekly and Ledger,
besides all pictorials and magazines.
A Memphis barber, of statistical turn
of mind, says there are three hundred
and thirty different hair dyes in circula-
ton.
The mass meeting of citizens to nomi-
nate candidate for the ,Mayorality will
convene at the Greenlaw Opera House
on Saturday evening, the 9th instant.
Rev. Moses Hull, of Baltimore, will
lecture on Spiritualism at the Greenlaw
Opera House next Sunday morning and
evening.
Go to Mansford, corner of Second and
Monroe, for news goods, daily papers,
weekly pictorials, monthly magazines,
novels, stationery and school books
The Moulton concerts, at the theater
on next Monday and Tuesday evenings,
are looked forward to with delight by
the music-loving people of this city and
vicinity.
The opposition to Mayor Johnson
reelection will hold ward meetings next
Saturday night, and nominating con-
vention on Wednesday, the 9th inst, at
the Assembly Hall.
In the Criminal Court two jurors were
selected up to IL o'clock to-day in the
Graves-Scho6eld homicide case. 1t will
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men necessary to try the case.
A lady was knocked out of sleigh
yesterday by some drunken rufians who
were INDUCING in snow-balling. The
police on some of the beats are strongly
censured for not preventing this outrage
on citizens by roughs.
The anniversary ball of Banner Lodge,
|. o. 0. F., comes off at the Memphis
Club Hall next Monday evening. The
members of the order and invited guests
will have delightful time at this Terp-
sichorean fedst.
The Radical hive is stirred over the
municipal election. When will these
ostracizing Radicals learn that their
place in Memphis is on the back
seats2' They have had their day, and
must now seek the shade forever.
Hunters in the vicinity of Memphis
say the squirrels are going west-the
little animals swimming the Mississippi
in great numbers, and using their tails
as main-sail to catch the breeze which
watts them to the right bank of the Fa-
Their of Waters.
Emmons & Son, newsmen, at No. 10
Jefferson and 4l0 Main streets, have re-
ceived the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, Chicago and all other cities;
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cations, and news goods generally.
The fair ones of Memphis who believe
in woman's rights viii be pleased to
learn that in St. Johns, New Foundland,
laborers are so scarce on the wharves
that hundreds of women are engaged in
unloading vessels, rolling flour barrels,
wheeling along large barrows full OF
salt and carrying fish into the stores at
one dollar per day.
French heels, so fashionable in this
city have been discarded by the fair ones
Of Oil City, Pa, because the sidewalks
of that burgh being made of RATED lum-
Der and full of pig holes, the girls fire.
quently find their heels fast, and some
times whole sections of sidewalk had to
be taken up before the fair promenaders
could move on.
Since the destruction of Chicago by a
COW and kerosene the latter oil has been
an object of public interest. An inge-
Nous chap has discovered that squeak
ing boots--so annoying to sections and
church ushors--can be remedied by sat
urating the insoles with kerosene. But
fellow with kerosened boots should not
be permitted to plant his non-explosive
boot-heels on his neighbors stoves.
The report of the fight near New Or
leans, between Mace and Coburn, dis
gusted the fancy" of Memphis, who
had put up money on the result, Mace
displayed lack of nerve not under
stood by many, but all this was no doubt
understood between the bruisers before
they entered the ring. Prize-6ghting is
becoming nuisance in the American
ring"
A lamp is needed at the new Beal
street bridge, which is in course of cree
ton over our own beloved Bayou Styx.
The painting at the Peabody Hotel rep
resenting Virgil and Dante crossing the
tabled river but poorly portrays the dan
ger and inconvenience of crossing the
Bayou Gayoso on a dark and stormy
night. A man fell into this Stygean
stream land was seriously injured last
Wednesday night.
Snow-balling ragged fercely' yesterday
on the corners of Main and Jefferson,
and Second and Jefferson. Upon two
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