Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-16

liven upper ten society during the mex
two weeks.
The Exposition closed last Saturday
night, after q most successful display
for one month.
The General Council meets tonight
and will repudiate those partisan nomi
nations for City Registers.
Over one thousand dollars worth Of
tickets were sold at the Exposition ticket
Office on last Friday night.
The theater will be closed until Thurs
day evening. Next Monday night the
lively Majiltons will make their appear
ance.
Tomorrow night the DeCastro troupe
will appear at the Greenlaw Opera
House, and will give most entertaining
exhibitions.
Next Friday evening there will be a
grand masquerade ball at the EXPOSE
ton building under the auspices of the
management.
Edwin Adams and Ben De Bars st.
Louis Dramatic Company left yesterday,
the former for Nashville and the latter
for St. Louis.
To day the market hours change for
the winter season. The hours now are
from FIVE a. m. to twelve M, and on Sat
urdays from three to eight pm.
Professor Mueller will repeat his grand
exhibition of fancy dances at the Expo
sition hail. tomorrow night, by which
time all goods will be removed from the
building.
Next Wednesday night Rev. Father
Meagher will lecture at Assembly Hall
for the benefit of St. Bridget's Church.
Subject-Social Life in Ireland Forty
Years Ago.
All the courts of record we're in ses-
sion this forenoon, except the Second
Chancery, which adjourned over to to-
morrow, owing to the illness of one OF
Judge Walkers children.
The case of John McCsrty, Indictment
for burning the Louisville Railroad
Company's shops, is up for hearing be,
fore the Criminal Court to-day. The
penalty for arson is death.
The mortuary report for the past week
is as follows Total deaths-whites, Is;
blacks, 5. No city in the Union can
boast of a healthier record-so says the
medical Board of Health.
According to the Official statements of
the Mayor the city is in fearful fnan-
cial condition, almost on the verge of
bankruptcy and almost ready to pass
into the hands of receiver.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, one of the
largest and best weekly journals pub
lished in the South, can be found at the
LEDGER counting room and at the lead
ing news stands tomorrow morning.
The Recorders Courtroom, at the
Adams street station. house, is filed
with dodgers. They lie on the floor
around the stove, just as soldiers did
around the camp fires in old war times
A gentleman of this city, on last Sat
urday, collected eight hats won on the
November State and county election.
He is now prepared to start small hat
store. His name is Green, but he is not
green; the other fellows were.
Owing to a strange mistake the sched
ule of the Louisville railroad was acci-
dentally credited to the Mississippi rail
road in last Saturdays LEDGER. The
schedule of the latter road can be found
in the LEDGER railroad time tables.
The churches were well attended yes
terday. In the afternoon crowds of
people visited Elmwood Cemetery and
the suburban beer gardens, all of which
shows a diversity of popular taste, which
makes Memphis cosmopolitan city.
Among the street wonders in town last
week were two African monkeys who
understood French, but yet they are like
unto many human beings who under
stand French, yet cannot speak English,
although the latter is their native tongue.
An exchange puts its words in the
right place when it says that the real
bulls and bears Of the stock market
are the commercial reporters of news
papers" II this assertion is not poeti-
cal it has the advantage of being true.
Sportsmen armed with muzzle or
breech leaders and accompanied by
pointers or settlers, can be seen daily
going out on the different railroad trains
to hunt quails in the rural districts. AT
night they return to town weary and
tired, with probably couple of birds in
tins gone bag, and with disguised dogs
following at their heels.
Next Thursday week, the 26th instant,
excursions will start from this city for
New Orleans for the purpose of attend
ing the great eenTpcation of Knights
Templar. Nearly ten Thousand knights
will make the pilgrimage to New Orleans
from the different States of the Union.
Several of our finest steamboats, will
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