Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-10
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There are 1915 children attending the
public schools of our city.
A cold spell is predicted to follow the
present rainy but warm weather
The Quorum Court, Justices Holman,
Giles and Miller presiding, is in session
to-day.
During the present commercial week
GAG bales of cotton have been received
in this city.
A flock of wild geese honked high
above the city yesterday on their way
southwark
The grand annual Exposition ball will
come off on the night of Friday, the
10th instant.
Next Saturday the validity of the
school tax will be argsed in the First
Circuit Court.
The Exposition will probably close on
Saturday next, it having been open
| ABOUT mouth.
If you want any printing done in the
best style, visit the LEDGER job printing
Office Immediately.
Rumor has it that the young enthu-
siast of the Appeal is about to abandon
single blessedness.
The new courthouse presents a busy
appearance now that all the courts are
being held under one. roof.
Rev. 7. B. Larimore will preach in
the Linden street Christian Church this
Tuesday evening at u o'clock.
1t is rumored that our public schools
will soon have to close for lack of funds,
as the city has failed to furnish the
money.
The annual conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church will commence at
Humboldt on tomorrow week, the 18th
instant.
Yesterday Mr.. Gilbert Mclean, ex-
President of the St. Andrews Society,
died in this city, and will be buried this
afternoon.
Last night the grocery store-house of
Mr.. Boro, on the Poplar street boulevard,
was burglarized by negroes, who carried
off q quantity of goods.
Enoch Arden, with Edwin Adams in
the title role, at the theater tonight.
Tomorrow night the Lady of Lyons will
be the dramatic attraction.
The visitors at the Cotton Exchange
to-day were DR.. Gates, New Orleans; W.
I, Maurice, st. Louis; j. B. Phillips,
Brownsville; W. k. Love, Mississippi.
Several Memphians are off at Reelfoot
lake or in the wilds of Arkansas hunting
and fishing. 1t has been merely an
nounced to the world that these MINI
rods and Isaac Waltons are absent from
the city on business tours.
The next dramatic attraction at the
theater will be Fechter the tri-lingual
actor, whose new conception Of Shak-
speare has many warm admirers and ad-
vocates. Mr.. Fechters "Ruy Blas,"
is probably his finest performance.
The matrimonial fever is increasing
among the bellies and beaux who can
afford the luxury of getting married.
That unfortunate but gifted individual,
the average Memphian who works for a
living, cannot so dispose of himself
That magician who called himself
Robert Houdin," and who appeared at
the Exposition not long since, was pulled |
by the police few nights ago and or
dered to leave the city. houdin, the
great magician, died in Paris years ago.
That Nonconnah turnpike gate has
been thrown down by order of the Judge
of the First Circuit Court The case
decided, and in which the collection OF
tolls were involved, was the State of
Tennessee ex.rel A. B. Ellis et-al VS.. the
Nonconnah Turnpike Co.
Several hundred people went out on
the bluff last evening about dark and
witnessed the departure Of the coast
packets. The AlIin and White went
down the river side by side, and the
Check and Forest went up the river in
like affectionate manner.
The Radicals who so admired Andy
johnson during the last canvass now
say that he will not be sent to the United
States Senate and ought not to be. The
fusion of Andy Johnson men and Bar
bour Lewis Radicals on the P. R. and
W. ticket few days since was sufficient
to kill both the end men.
The School Board has passed the fol-
lowing resolution; Resolved, That the
Finance Committee, in connection with
the President Of this Board, wait on
Mayor League and request his compli-
ance with the requirements of our char
ter, via. the payment of $4,000 per
anaum for school building purposes.
That little sensation in Memphis the
United States Senatorial question: has
been transferred to Nashville, where IN
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