Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-31

JO-nlBnt. Inc Legislative chuuiudbeo anu
others will make speeches.
A very large aud most fashionable
audience attended the theater last night
and enjoyed the pleasure of seeing Mr..
Davenport in Othello. the Moor OF
Venice.
At the Recorders court to-day but
little of public interest transpired. Lu.
cius and Maria Semmes. black people,
we're committed in default OF bail on the
charge of larceny.
Have you any tobacco2 is not an I'M.
usual question in this world Of ours; but
the answer should be: Sol Coleman
keeps the best fine cut chewing tobacco
at his carravansary, on Main, near Wash
ington street.
Next Monday, if you wish to vote for
yourself as United States Senator, you
can have the pleasure of doing so, or il
you prefer it, you can vote for any other
man, as a special tin box will be found
at each precinct for this purpose.
Governor Brown delivered an able and
lengthy political address before large
audience at the Greenlaw Opera House
last night. The Governor shelled the
woods extensively, and sent many red.
hot shot into the camp Of the enemy.
The reporter who could get an item OF
news at the courts to day must of neces'
sity be remarkable man, as the Clerks
of the Circuit, Chancery, Criminal,
County and Probate Courts are in the
new courthouse fixing up their Offices,
etc.
The visitors at the Cotton Exchange
to day were: W. B. Cornell, agent oil
the North British Insurance Company;
E. R. Anthony, New York; Colonel
Lindsey, Mississippi; John B. Castle
man, Louisville; George H. Lord, Mari
eta, Ohio.
Governor Brown, in his speech last
night, asserted that the anti-funder, Mr.
johnson, favored the funding bill, ad
vised representatives to vote for it, and
then went to Nashville and funded six
teen thousand dollars in bonds on biz
own account.
just now all kinds of theater 6eudi
are being criticised by the press of the
city. The last fiend is the man with
creaking boots, just as il the poor fellow
could remedy the evil for which he has
no doubt hurled many a muttered i'm
precation ct the son Of Crispin who did
the deed.
An interesting meeting is in progress
at the Linden street Christian Church
Rev. T. B. Larimore, Of Alabama
breaches every night during next week
To accommodate all who wish to heal
this learned and eloquent minister, the
night services will begin promptly q
7:l5 and close at $3.50.
To day Chief of Police Athy re-
ceived communication from the Mar
shal at Nesbtts, Mississippi, that he had
arrested man who had a 6ue sorrel
mare in possession, From the contra
dictory accounts given by the man the
Marshal believes the mare to have
been stolen from the vicinity Of Mem
pAis.
The cotton receipts for the week are
l4,l22 bales; total receipts up to date,
1891, an increase of 1883 over last
season. Shipments Cor. the week, 1905;
total shipments since September list,
49, 4s7, an increase Of $4,000 bales over
last season. Sales Of the week, $500,
OF which 1900 we're taken by foreign
buyers.
Now that the eth Independent aud
Radical ticket has failed to stand FIRE, it
is time for the dark-lanternites to bring
ont the sixth, so as to ell up the vacant
chairs Of Messrs. Perkins and Mont
gomery. 1t is understood nov that two
negross-Couucilmsn Thomas and Joe
Lusher-will get the nominations from
the committees.
Wednesday next the Uncle Sam 5
caHp on Vance street VIII be broken up,
and the soldiers vii 60 back to Hum
boldt carrying with them the nsys that
Barbour Lewis aud his horde of Office
seekers have been defeated. Many Of
the soldiers express themselves as
ashamed Of the political duty they are
now performing, and several Of them
abuse the Radical Lewis in no uumeas-
ured terms.
Colonel VIM. N. PerSiRs, one of the
candidates on the nest hiding" and
Radical ticket, has withdrawn, as the
negro voters refused to support the
ticket if he Colonel Perkins, was on it.
The cause Of the calamity vas that in
1859 Colonel Perkins wrote an amusing
pamphlet dsuuneia,Ory Of Abe LineOlH,