Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-29
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The Memphis Fire Relief Association
is TO be incorporated
Read advertisement of Board want
ed" in Want" column.
The Teutonic Association ball al
Cochran Hah on next Monday night.
.i'odt Fasorites i've ] Mop At the Mem.
phis Club ball on New Years night.
The defeat of johnson would place ne.
groes ard old Metropolitan policemen
on the force.
Masquerades, balls and parties will be
celebrated during the New Years holi
days.
The men who discover old friends and
acquaintsnceS every hopr7qrndidatei
for Office.
The italian ball at Cochran Hall last
night was one Of the most delightful
affairs of the season.
A Memphis cynic insists that he never
knewa mah who wrote biz middle pamt
in full to be Of much account.
A morning contemporary publishes in
teresting political articles on municipal
affairs in the German language.
Tennessee has territory of %, 0OO. OOO
acres. and is larger than either Ohio
Pennsylvania or Massachusetts,.
Monday next the day police force re-
turns to night duty for three months
The night force will perform day duty.
The latest and best alnenaesg papers,
magazines and SIGH, can be found al
Mansford's news depot, corner second
and Monroe.
Joe Locke, newsman, at 1864 Main
street, has all the January monthlies,
weekly pictorials and daily newspapers,
from all points North, South, East and
West.
Recorder Scales heard twenty eeses
Of misdemeanor to-day. Frances Con
naway was sent to Jail in defanlt of two
thousand dollars bonds on the charge Of
stealing clothing.
Wanted, few more candidates for
municipal offices. Although there are
only a few offices to be filled, there are
ten thousand voters. Asprants for mu-
nicipal honors, send in your names"
Next Monday the wyndham Comedy
Company will appear at the Memphis
Theater. On Monday week Lydia
Thompson, with her host of blondes,
will enliven our city with the popular
comic OPERA = Z Al y WA
A negro candidate for Wharfnaster
is in the field, and behind him and sove-
raj white Radical candidates for office
stand the black cohorts. The backslid-
ing Democrats and the. Radicals are
working together in harness. beauti-
full team.
The heavy rains last night and to-day
performed a valuable am cunt Of scaven-
gers work for the city. The condition
of the streets and alleys has been i'm
proved by removing from them the we'll
defined stenches, for which the city of
Cologne wasfamoassSH 81
Emmons & Son, newsmen, at No. 10
Jefferson and 4l0 Main street, have re-
ceived tho latest pietorials, magazines,
foreign newspapers, novels, Christmas
goods and daily papers from New York,
St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston, Chicago
Louisville, Nashville and other points.
st, Bridgets Church Fair is pro-
crossing at Rocco Hall in a most salts
factory manner, Lively and exciting
contests are engaged in every evening
for prizes to the popular men of Mem
phis. The three hundred dollar gold
watch has not as yet been disposed of.
A fine band of music is in attendance
each evening.
Since he release Of Frank Graves but
one-Samuel Poston-remains in Jail to
answer the charge of hanging young
Schofeld. Wisener, the other defendant,
died in Jail during the first trial of the
case, in 1870. Poston is rapidly losing
his sight, and his physicians say he will
be blind in few months. he viii be
tried at the next term of Court, which
commences next Monday two weeks.
Alexis will pass through Memphis on
his way to the sea. Where is our eiti-
zens' meeting, our committee o. recep
ton and our toadyisH for the young
man from Russia2 Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin, is the only Democratic city North.
Recently the citizens held an indigna-
ton meeting and strongly censured the
Mayor for his abject Aunkyism in en-
tending, without authority, the hospital
tiles Of the city TO Alexis. Despotie Rus
STA and Republican America are bosom
friends-that is, Alexander and Grant.
The female suGragists of our city must
look after Grace Greenwood, who has
taken a new departure. Grace VOWS
that If she had the framing of the law,
only such women would be allowed to
vote as had sewing machines, and knew
how to use them; no woman would have
vote who could not read and write
who was not able to cast up her millinery
accounts and cut them dozen; who could
not make a loaf of bread, a pudding,
sew on button, wash dishes, and, on a
pinch, keep clearinghouse, and sup
port husband decently."
The hen-pecked husband Of Memphis
will be pleased to learn that the War
Department, in addition to its weather
signal system, is about to establish an
electric social system Of storm signals