Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-27

Templar from other cities and States.
There was general suspension Of
business yesterday in consequences of the
numerous Thanksgiving preclamations.
There is a probability and possibility
that the West Tennessee Lunatic Asylum
will be located as selected by the com
missioners.
The Tennessee annual conference of
the colored Methodist Episcopal church,
Bishop Miles presiding, met yesterday
at Nashville.
Merchants will find the LEDGER steam
job Office the place to get all kinds of
printing done in the best style and at
the lowest rates.
The Knights Templar from Missouri
and Illinois are in the city. Other COM
manderies will arrive to-day on boats
from up the river.
Dray drivers now walk their unfortu-
nate mules around street corners since
the passage Of the fast driving ordinance
and its enforcement by the police.
The Cotton Exchange consists of one
hundred and thirty members, which list
embraces all the leading cotton men,
bankers, insurance and transportation
men in the city.
A maddog was killed near Elmwood
Cemetery this morning. The rabbid
animal succeeded in biting several dogs
before he was laid out by a gentleman
who carried trusty. shotgun.
The Christian Church Convention con-
tinued its session daily and nightly at
the Linden street Christian Church.
The exercises closed yesterday, and were
Of most interesting character.
The Cotton Exchange has resolved
that all shedmen shall keep cotton either
under sheds or tarpaulins, and that all
railroad and steamboat lines shall take
better care of all cotton received by them
and placed under their care.
The Knights Templar and their friends
arrived by river last night on their way
to New Orleans for the purpose of cele-
brating the great convention of the Or
der to be held in that city on the LIST
proximo.
St. Andrews Day, next Monday, will
be celebrated by the st. Andrews society,
Of our city, at the Peabody Hotel, on
next Monday evening. All friends of
Scotland are invited to attend the ami
versary. See programme in another
column.
Memphians who have been to New
Orleans say that the Crescent City pre-.
sents most forlorn appearance Gnan.
cially, and that they returned to Mem
phis firmly satisfied that the Bluff City
was financially far above any of her
rivals.
At 10 o'clock this forenoon the Great
Republic, Idlewild and Thompson Dean,
with Knights Templar Oh board, left the
landing and passed down the river amid
the firing of cannon and waving of
handkerchief from hundreds of people
on the bluffs.
The cold weather drives nearly one
hundred wanderers to the Adams street
station-house nightly in search Of lodg-
ing. Six degrees below freezing point
make sleeping on the bluffs or on the
streets not the most comfortable way Of
passing the night.
Nothing of public interest transpired
in the courts or at the Cotton Exchange
to-day. All our public officials we're
recovering from the effects of Thanks.
giving Day and the consequences INCL.
dent to demolishing the tame or wild tur.
key OF the period.
Everybody took turkey in theirs yes
terday, except the poor. for whom no
Thanksgiving day brings a good dinner
anless at tie hands Of some Christian
leighbor who recollects that this world
IS full of poor people, and that the rich |
,f to-day may be the poor of tomorrow.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange is one
ii the ligeliest and most Furnishing in
'titutions in the United States. The
black boards are scanned daily by hun.
ireds of people. Secretary Toof keeps
hem covered with figures that represent
money, and financially the Exchange
tanis with over $25Oo on the credit side
# the ledger. TIE Cotton Exchange is
Omsthing that the city can take some
ride in.
The school question is becoming one
f the liyeliest issues at present with
e.erence to assessing the unpaid teachers
o contribute toward something. What
member of the School Board, what sp.
,erintendent principal or teacher has
be Ak to grind1 If any, let the AK and
he grindstoue be produced, in order
hat the ignorant public may enjoy the
Thole show, especially IS the public pay
or the entire exhibition in advance. Il
5 our opinion that there is something
often in Denmark"
Since the Memphis ladies' have CON-
nenced wearing mems hats, they fnd
hst the Rprnly winds will carry of a