Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-29
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The Oates benefit at the Grand Opera
House tonight; the play, Prima Donna
of Night and Comic Opera at the
matinee tomorrow. The Exposition
masquerade ball was a crusher and q
success. The epizootic has sneezed out
of Memphis. Notwithstanding that the
street lamps are disgustingly dirty, the
usual bill for cleaning will be presented
at the next meeting of the General
Council which comes off next Wednesday
afternoon. Mrs. e. A. Meriwether has
been nominated as a candidate for
" School Visitor" from the Fifth Ward
the voters of the Fifth should elect her
next January. Thanksgiving was gen.
orally celebrated in Memphis Yesterday.
Judge Trigg will open up the United
States Court next Monday. Street cars
are running People residing in the
suburbs should keep a trusty shot gun
for the reception of burglars. Go
and get .yaccinated Immediately
so say the medical men. The old
year is dying slowly but surely.
Every Memphian who dies with high
forehead does not expect statue.
give la Masquerade" was the cry at
the Exposition building. The effort
making in several States to make valid
the verdict Of two-thirds Of twelve men
on jury is called the attempt TO reduce
the stupidity of twelve men one,third.
Buck & Bright is now leading Mem
phis firm. If property owners would
keep their sidewalks clean there would
be less profanity in this world of ours.
Runaway oxen make persons and things
lively on our principal streets. Dead
horses and mules have appeared iii the
suburbs St. Andrews Society reunion
tonight at the Peabody Hotel. Or
phans' Fair and Festival at Memphis
Club Hall every night. The amusing
pantomime Jack and Gill at the Memphis
Theater tonight and at the matinee to-
morrow. Thanksgiving sermons were
preached at the different churches yes
terday. Memphis slept last night
in order to recover from the
effects of the bal masque. The
wind blew from Greenlands ley Noun
tains this morning. What will Grant
do2 is the conundrum of the hour; moth
ing for the South, of course. Christmas
holidays will soon arrive. In order to
vote at the municipal election next Jan
uary the voter must have registration
papers; our local elections are most i'm
portant-twenty Councilmeu and ten
School Boarders are to be selected.
Erecting public monuments to the men,
ory of men who have been dead hun
dreds of years is a silly pra ctice; few
Englishmen purpose getting one up for
Timon of Athens. "Whow Won the prizes
in the Agricultural DrawingY' is one of
the questions that now agltate the pub
lie mind. Lieutenant Fred Grant will
pass through Memphis in a few days, en-
route for Texas, where his regiment is
quartered. Horace Greeley is not in
sane-merely nervous pro stration. Why
hasn't Memphis cotton factory The
dearth of news has produced telling
effect on the reporters of the morning
journals. Judge Smelser, Of the Ava
lanche, has gone south wardly in search
of health; Colonel Sullivan swings the
local pencil ad interim. Lightly was
her slender nose, tip-tilted ike the petal
of flower" is the way the poet laureate,
Tennyson, describes turned up
"snub." tits said that the female poets
generally have holes in their stockings.
Memphis horse doctors are beginning 10
wear diamond shirt studs. Almost
every year fashion adds another button
to ladies' gloves. The mecury stood at
220 to-day, or lOO below freezing point.
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