Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-26
PUBLIC LEDGER.
0A1ces No. IS Madison Street.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
nj E M H HISt
Monday Evening. October go, 1874
LEDGER LINES.

State election Tuesday, the Sd proximo.
The Lingards left for New Orleans
yesterday.
Saturday next will be the last day Of
the month.
The fremen got their pay for August
on Saturday last.
Mendessohn concert at the Greenlaw
Opera House tonight.
Indian summer, with its hazy, smoky
atmosphere by day and night, has come.
The General Council will meet in aj-
journed session next Wednesday night
Base ballers now enjoy their Sundays
playing their favorite game in the su.
burbs.
The candidates for Governor-Porter
and Maynard-will speak in this city
next Saturday.
Public speaking by the Conservative
candidates and others, at Gordon's in
the Tenth Ward tonight.
In the base ball contest yesterday in
the suburbs, the Wetter club beat the
Eckfords; score IS to l3.
Davenport will appear at the theater
to night as "Sir Giles Overreach," in
A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
The Exposition Art Gallery is begin.
ming to be attractive. Several valuable
paintings are now on exhibition.
The smoked ruins of the burned
Elliott block have been torn down, as
they presented dangerous appearance.
A young drug store clerk was locked
up in the station-house yesterday on the
charge of taking improper liberties with
child.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows total deaths at 2O-whites, Ill;
blacks, 9. The health of the city con-
tinues excellent.
The steam dyers are now busily en-
gagged in repairing and cleansing last
winters clothing preparatory for next
campaign, when the old east.off garments
will appear renovated and made new.
The Conservative meeting in the First
ward last Saturday evening was a rous-
ing one, and one which saddened the
hearts of both the heads and tails Of the
P R. and W. Radical Combination
party.
Public speaking in the Ninth ward to-
night, on the corner Of Greenlaw and
Fifth streets. Messrs. Lacey, MCabe,
Townsend, Winchester and the Conserv-
alive nominees will address their fellow
citizens.
1t seems almost impossible to create
uniform precision of time on the part of
the various bells, whistles, clocks and
watches about our city. There ought to
be more uniformity in this respect among
the powers vested with authority to in
dictate time.
That charming old artist Autumn is
out in the suburbs with paiut-pot and
brush, giving yellow tint to this leaf
and brown tint to that and making up
charming panorama of lights and
SPADES, pleasing to the eye and capti-
waiting to the Senses.
Deputy Sheriff W. ". Coleman has
notified the leaders of the P. r. aud ".
party 10 haul down his name from. the
ticket, or else be will be compelled to
come out publicly in a card. The doubt
fnl honor conferred upon Mr.. Coleman
was unauthorized.
The eclipse last Saturday night was a
good excuse for sweethearts Who sat up
an hour or two beyond the usual time.
In Memphis the bright luminsry has not
received such attention for years before,
and all owing to the present marriage
season or the belle-mArrying epidemic.
Tom Cogan, who was shot some weeks
since BY fireman Sullivan, is now de-
tanned al ike Adams street station-house
on the charge Of obtsining money under
false pretenses by going aroana With a
bogus petition for the relief Of some
destitute fireman. and on which be
raised some fifty dollars.