Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-06
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fifty thousand.
Professor Mueller gave a soiree dan
sante at the Memphis Club Hall, las
night, which was largely attended,
The annual convocation Of the Mos
Excellent Grand Royal Arch Chapter O.
Tennessee is in session at Nashville.
The Cut Glove, a new melo.drama
will be produced at the theater tonight
with Baker and Farron in the leading
roles.
The Exposition is crowded nightly
with the beauty and fashion of the city
who attend to show what they wear and
to see what others wear.
All the courts stand adjourned until
next Monday, as by that time the clerks
will be fixed up in the new courthouse
and the building will be thoroughly
heated.
Now that the election is over, several
candidates for the office of United States
Senator will appear in the field from
different portions of the State, Memphis
included
Memphians die at the rate of eleven
per thousand, every six months; at least,
the last six months showed that death
rate, according to the report of the
Board OF Health.
In the Police Court this morning Law
son Lane was committed for larceny in
default of $500 bail. Horace Johnston,
an escaped convict, was locked up to
await an officer from Nashville.
Even Nashville has an alarm tele-
graph; with twenty-nine signal boxes
distributed at various points throughout
the city. Such telegraph Memphis
needs more than any city in the country.
When anything unfortunate happens
to a religious Memphian it is called an
affection, but if it happens to sinner
it is called judgment. This is the
difference between orthodoxy and hete-
rodoxy.
A drunken man and street car
driver engaged in a difficulty in car No.
2 last night. The driver got slightly cut
with knife, and the drunken man got
hit over the head with car hook Both
parties were arrested.
Cory or Cory Waters, a well-known
ex-Memphian who shot and killed an
inoffensive barkeeper named Bischoff at
Little Rock, not long since, has had his
bail reduced to the sum of FIVE thousand
dollars, but as yet he has been unable to
give it.
In few weeks the cantata Of Esther
will be repeated by our musical people
Last year the Esther cantata was partic-
ipated in by the elite of the city, and
drew immense houses to the theater
This time it will be presented with addi-
tional attractions.
There is great rejoicing throughout the
city with reference to the great Conser.
vative victories all over the country
The Memphis Radicals look despond-
ing and almost give up all hope of ever
appearing in politics again in this sec.
ton of the State.
In the notice of the Democratic and
Conservative committee published in the
Appeal an error occurred. Mr.. Peter
Mentges was mentioned as a member of
that committee, but it should have been
Mr.. William Benges who did some good
work on election day as an executive
committeeman.
1t is not unusual when births are an
nounced in the newspapers to give the
accurate weight of the stranger, just as
if the pounds weight were any indics-
ton Of the mental caliber of the infant
The physiological fact that an infant
weighs few pounds more or less merely
indicates health, not brains.
To-day patrOlmen Malloney and Cheek
arrested a negro who had box of ladies'
shoes in his possession. He refused to
give his name or account for the posses
sion of the goods. The shoes are marked
as follows: 1854, 2. I. n, 10 K, and
are supposed to have been stolen from a
shoe store or dry goods establishment,
The German Casino Club elected eff
GERS last night: President, Dr. Theo.
Hoerner; Vice President, DR.. Thomas
SzreDzi; Secretary, Thomas Krekel;
Treasurer, John Scheibler; Librarian,
S. Langhein; Steward, E. Moller. The
Club is making extensive arrangements
for the approaching Merdi' GFas celebra-
ton.
The Irish Literary Association held |
an unusually interesting meeting last
night. Mr.. John Mulroy's essay on
" The Senses" elected such praise that
he was requested to allow its publica-
ton. In the field of metaphysics Mr..
Mulroy is proioudly yersed, and we hope |
he will comply with the request of the
association.
Some of the city commercial editors
report Charleston railroad stock as dull
and nominal at lie, when a reliable gen
tleman of our acquaintance hunted the