Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-04
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Charley White, Of the Jefferson street
Opera House, takes benefit Tomorrow
night
A policeman dropped his pistol on the
street last night and received a severe
wound in the thigh.
But eight alarms OF FIRE occurred in
the city during last month. Damages
by the fire.fend. $500. n 0o A
A new ticket, which will cause the
Busby movement TO retire from the field,
is spoken Of 10 the streets.
The police have balance Of nearly
$4,000 on hand. from the contributions
received from other cities.
The Lancashire Lass, by the Philo
Thespian Club at the Theator tomorrow
night, and at the matinee or Saturday.
The would-be Aldermen and Council.
men are putting in their work where II
will do the most good In their respective
wards.
There is a meeting of the Oranges TO-
day at Whitehaven, eight miles south Of
this city on the Mississippi aud Tenues'
see railroad.
The famous orehestrion, at the Expo
sition, has been tuned and will be in full
blast tonight. Hundreds Of people de-
sire to hear the music.
The Police Beard has placed Mr. II.
l.. Smith on the detective force Of the
city. Mr.. Smith will make most
energetic and effective officer.
Several overcoats have disappeared
from sleeping rooms and halls during
the past week, which leads one to sus-
pect that sneak-thieves are around.
1t is lamentnble, indeed, that so many
of our best citizens will be forgotten by
their God on the 6rst Of January next,
because they win vote against Major
Busby.
The wind and rain storm last even
ing blew down the colored church on
the corner of Main and 0verton streets.
Of late the church has been used for
holding political meetings, but this had
nothing to do with the calamity.
A; meeting of the Typographical
Union the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: James H. Hammer,
President; James Booth, Vice President;
James B. Lawrence. Corresponding Sec
rotary; Joseph Crabb, Financial Secre.
tary; Felix LeClerc, Treasurer; Henry
White, Delegate to the international
Union.
The assistant organ Of the Greenlaw
Opera House ticket seems sadly disap.
pointed because somebody will not
abuse the principal nominee. That is
not necessary or effective. More men
have been made something of by abuse
than prase-for instance, that Christian
gentleman who represents us in Con-
gress.
The representative Germans met last
night and passed resolution in favor
of John League for Mayor, Fred G..
Schaper for Tax Collector and Shaw for
Wharfmaster. The short.sighted and
gifted managers of the Opera House
mass meetings can now begin to see
the folly of placing three ex Confederates
and native Americans on the ticket.
The American vote in the city is 2l00,
against nearly 5000 representing other
elements.
Just now, in other cities, the lecture
season is Aourishing. Why cannot a
series of lectures be INDUCED in in Mem
phis2 The Library Association and
Col. Peter Tracy introduced lecturers
last winter. In the Eastern States
Gerald Massey Beecher. Wilkie Collins
and host of others are enlightening
and pleasing the masses. The admission
to a lecture should not be over twenty
FIVE cents, so as to place it within reach
of all classes Of people. To lecture to a
few hundred dollar-people has been the
sad fate of lecturers in our city, when a
lower price of admission would have
packed the house.