Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-28

OF the WaruB over tue Omce5 OF OOuucH-
men and Aldermen.
Next week we will have at the theater
such plays as the Fire Wait. the Hidden
Hand, No Name, etc.
Recorder Winters placed Rube John
son. negro, under $4,000 bonds this morn
ing on the charge of robbery.
The committee for the relief of the
Tuscumbia sufferers are forwarding sup
plies which will do more good than
money.
Tonight the Fox pantomime troupe
and Manager Pennoyer will give bene-
fit at the theater for the Tuscumbia suf-
ferers.
If West Tennessee does not get the
West Tennessee Asylum the corps of
lunatics in this city will increase at a
beautiful ratio.
In the Criminal Court to-day negro
was placed on trial for the murder of a
black brother on DeSoto street some
months since.
The Memphis Presbyterian has beer
consolidated with the St. Louis Presby-
terrain, and will be published simultane-
ously in each city.
A special train will leave the Missis.
sippi and Tennessee depot at o'clock
on Monday morning to convey excur.
sionists to New Orleans.
A number of Memphians visited the
Arkansas bayous and lakes ON Thanks
giving day and succeeded in capturing
several fine strings of fsh-perch, trout,
etc.
The Knights Templar, from up North,
rode around the city in hacks yester day.
They were impressed not only with the
beauty but the business air of the Bluff
City.
Neither the Cyrene nor st. Elmo Mem
phis Communicates went to New Orleans
to attend the great conclave of the Or
der. Several members, however, will
attend.
Will the Loagueites or anti.Loagueites
be elected Aldermen and Councilmen in
January next2 is the conundrum that is
often repeated by ward politicians at
present.
If it rains much more the dirt streets
will be so bad that the fire steamers will
be unable to reach fire near the city
limits and the hose carriages will have to
be depended upon.
Two amateurs of our city, while on q
deer hunt yesterday, killed their own
mule as it came snerting out of the cane
with head and tail erect and followed by
q pack of cur dogs.
Strangers are always pleased with
Memphis, but they look puzzled when
they meet with one Of the owls who sits
and croaks upon the bsttlements, presag-
ing hard times and all kinds of evils to
dur fair and fourishing city.
Mr.. Schultz, who was so severly injur-
ed by having a heavy cornice blown on
his head during the tornado few days
since, is rapidly recovering. During his
confinement his place as teller OF the
First National Bank is ably flled by
Captain Bob Hammock.
Our temperance reporter yesterday
saw an unfortunate woman on Main
street attempting to induce her drunken
husband to 90 home, but the brute cursed
her and staggered off with his drunken
companion to the nearest whisky shop.
The poor woman followed them, remain
ed outside until they came out, then fol-
lowed them, renewing her pleadings which
were UNDECIDED.
The FIRE alarm gong in front of the
Underwriters Office on Madison street
was put in working order yesterday.
Whenever fire breaks out in the city
the alarm will be sounded on that gong
from the Adams street engine house sta
ton. All The engine houses should be
connected by a fire alarm telegraph. 1t
would cost about five hundred dollars,
but it would save thousands OF dollars
worth Of property from destruction.