Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-18

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peared on the Court docket.
The following marriage license was
returned to the County Clerk during the
week. N. Buckley and Miss Willie j.
Reddtt.
Rev. j. NJ. PEBBLES will lecture at the
Greenlaw Opera House tomorrow, on
the subject of Life in the Spirit
Spheres"
The calico dress ball of the United
Hebrew Relief Association comes off at
the Memphis Club Hall on next Thurs
day evening.
At the matinee at the theater to-day
Mrs. Bowers will play Mary Stuart.
Amy Robsart will be presented next
Monday evening
Mr.. W. G. Means was sworn in as an
attorn ey in the First Circuit Court to-
day. Mr.. G. F. F. Thompson was ad-
mite to practice law in the Criminal
Court.
The Memphis Art Exposition, at 232
Main street, was visited by hundreds of
peep to-day. The exhibition of oil
paintings and chrc mos is extensive and
varied
The number Of blind persons in the
United States and Territories is esti-
mated in the census tables at 2O,32O.
Tennessee is credite with $40 persons
who cannot see the rascalities continu-
ally going on around them.
The annual ball of the Ezra Lodge
No. 80, A. ]. o. X. s. B., will be given
next Monday evening at the Mem
phis Club Hall. This ball is given for
the joint benefit of the above Lodge and
the Cleveland Orphan Asylum.
Msnsford corner of Second and Mon
roe, receives daily New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis and
Louisville papers, and all the popular
illustrated .sweeklies, andTthe leading
magazines.
The price Of game at the game depots
to-day is as follows: Venison, zoe per
pound; prairie chickens, 75c each;
quails, 25c each; squirr els, 25c each;
pigeons, SOC per dozen; rabbits SOC
each; lake fish, t5c per pot nd; oysters,
75c to 81 per can.
Two young men engaged in personal
difficulty on Jefferson street yesterday
afternoon. During the affair a pistol
was discharged accidentally. the ball
passing through the leg of one of the
combatants. The cause of al this was
whisky; the result, regrets by al parties.
EmmonsH& Son, the pop'i liar news
dealers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main,
have weekly illustrated pape rs, foreign
publications. monthly maya zines, and
daily papers from New York, St. Louis,
Cincinnati, New Orleans, Mas hville,
Chicago and other cities.
The convicts working on the Selma
railroad give general satisfactio n. They
are guarded by men sent do wn from
Nashville. It is kind of re tributive
justice to compel the white an,l colored
thieves to build up railroads in coun-
try wherein they formerly plund cred
Captain R. G. Lowe, one of the editors
of the Southwestern, published at
Shreveport, La, IS still in the city in the
interests of the Memphis and sbreve-
port railroad. Captain Lowe is having
printed in pamphlet form the proceed
ings of the late Shreveport railroad
convention.
The Memphis Theater was crowded to
excess by the elite Of the city last night
Hundreds of our fashionable young men
had to stand up and lean against the
walls, like summer plants. Flirting was
carried on through lorgnettes between
the beaux and bellies who were separated
by densely packed mass of humanity.
A large concourse of people attended
the requiem high mass chanted at st.
Peters Church over the remains Of Miss
c. Dough erty this forenoon. The i'm
posing ceremonies were conducted by
the Rev. Fathers O'Brieri. Cary and
Burns. The remains of the deceased
will be Sc Mt to the faulty burial ground
in Canada for inferno mt.
The Shreveport railroad project has
turned public attention to Texas. There
are about $500, 900 head Of cattle in
Texas, one-fourth bein beeves, one
fourth cows, aud the 9th sr half yearlings
and two-year olds. T5O, 1000 calves are
raised and branded every year. All are
raised on the great Texfs plains, which
cover an area of 100000 acres.
The peniientiary at Nashville has been
leased for Eve years to Colonel R. F..
Looney. Of this city, and Major Thomas
O'Conner, of Knoxville. The price paid
is bonus Of $4,000 per annum, and
assume all the contracts entered into by
the Inspectors, and take OF the hands Of
the State not only the en'ire institution,
but also the men and me terials Of every
description.
ST. Josephs Infrmary, presided over
by the Sisters Of Charity has ceased to
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