Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-12
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were well attended yesterday.
There will be Conservative mass
meeting at Turner Hall next Wednesday
night.
Grand street parade and opening Of
the Memphis Exposition on Thursday
next.
The first annual parade of the Father
Matthew Temperance Society was held
yesterday.
Charley Pope and st. Louis Olympic
Theater company in Samson at the
theater tonight.
The Bethel SuHday.school concert will
be repeated at the Greenlaw Opera
House next Friday night.
The cotton in Mississippi and Arkan-
sas is opening more rapidly than ever
before at this season of the year.
The General Council will meet on
Wednesday night next at o'clock for
the purpose of winding up unfinished
business.
Coggia's comet, which was SO observed
and admired in the northern heavens
some weeks since, is now displaying its
tail to- the people of Australia.
The cornerstone of the German Luz
theran church, on Washington street,
near Third, was laid yesterday with in
posing and appropriate ceremonies.
The marbles used by boys in play
come from a marble mountain near
Salzburg, Austria. They are rounded
by small mills driven by water power.
The mortuary report of the Board of
Health for the past week shows total
deaths 20-whites, 81 blacks, IL. The
health Of the city continues excellent.
The thirsty citizen watches with no
little interest, and greets with self
satisfied smile, the change in the price
Of saloon drinks from twenty-five cents
down to fifteen.
Let the Art Gallery of the Exposition
be filled with something worth looking
at this year. Let the daubs and
crude efforts at art be ruled out. Let it
be an art gallery and nothing else
To-Day the Societa di Unione e Frat.
tellanza Italiana celebrated the anniver-
sary of the discovery of America by
Columbus. In this anniversary all
American civic societies should partici-
pate.
At the Recorders Court to-day a
heavy docket of DRINKS and dsorderles
was disposed OF by fne Albert Ridley
and Tracey Garland, charged with lar
cenies, were committed in default of
bail.
The lot on the southwest corner Of
Main and Union Streets 224x633 feet
was sold at Chancery sale on Saturday
at $l400 per front foot; total amount
$3l, 800. This is the highest price ever
paid for lot in Memphis.
The first annual parade of the Father
Matthew Temperance Society, of St.
Bridget's Church, took place yesterday.
The society had in froHt of them the new
and beautiful banner presented to them
by few friends who have the cause of
temperance at heart.
1t has been announced that Andy
Johnson will speak in Memphis on Satur-
day night, the 18th instant, and will show
why he and only he should be selected
as United States Senator from Tenn
essee. he being in his own opinion, the
greatest man and only Democrat in the
State.
Post Signal Officer S. W. Rhode has
been transferred from this station to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at which point
he will act as. "0ld Prob" Sergeant
Rhode made a host Of friends in this
city, and distinguished himself last fall
J
as an active member of the Howard AS
ISOLATION during the prevalence of the
yellow fever epidemic.
When will our police authorities en-
force the ordinance with reference to
cruelty to animals? Just imagine a
burly negro sitting upon Eve bales Of
cotton, pulled up the levee by poor,
overworked mule, and when the animal
falls on its knees the negro driver lashes
! it with his whip until it gets up and
staggers off with the fearful load.
The political heather Chinee ticket
which the great Peoples Reform and
Workingmen's party put out last Satur.
, day morning, is laughed at by the Con-
servative voters of Memphis. The P r.
and W. ticket may receive the support Of
the Radicals and negroes, provided their
committee on combination can make the
proper arrangement with the Radical
leaders. The P. R. and w. party meet
tonight to perfect their ticket and an
nounce it to the world.
A dispatch was received from Little
; Rock on Saturday that the requisition
from the Governor of Tennessee and the
other papers in the case Of the man Ru.
dolph who was arrested at Little Rock
for the purpose of being brought back to
this city on the charge of svindling
Loeb Il Co., we're stolen from the court.
-. l...;no .ha ;,vas4;ration of the