Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-12
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General Council meeting tonight.

General Council meeting tonight
To-day the elements are threatening
There was another rain storm last
night.
The Exposition will close on Saturday
night.
The courts of record stand adjourned
over to Monday.
The Appeal man has bad case Of
"theater fend on the brain.
Summer is over, and each citizen who
can afford it, appears wrapped up in an
overcoat.
Next Monday evening the Memphis
Swiss Gruetle Society will give an ami
niversary ball at Cochran Hall.
j. C. Ramsey, of Helena, attempted
to suicide with pistol at the Worsham
House yesterday. He still lives
The anniversary banquet and ball of
the German Casino Club comes off at
Cochran Hall next Tuesday evening.
Only forty-nin days remaining in OLD
IA. Begin making arrangements to
swear off and turn over new leaf
in rs.
Bob Good, whom everybody in Mem
phis knew, and who some years since
was Wharfmaster of the city, died yes
terday.
1t is noticeable fact that the women
of Memphis attend weddings and the
men attend funerals; but why this d.
versity of taste2
Edwin Adams will appear as Hamlet,
the Dane" at the thester tonight. The
other characters by the St. Louis DeBar
stock company.
Think of St. Louis people listening to
kellogg as Mignon," and as Marguer-
tie " in Faust, and then ask, why will she
not sing in Memphis2
The attractions at the Exposition to-
morrow night will be largely increased
by the appearance of Prof. Mueller's
class of terpsichoreans.
The forest trees in the suburbs, in
Court Square and over the river are en-
joying the falling of the leaf In few
days the trees will be bare, dress not
suited to winter climate.
Yesterday morning at st. Marys
Episcopal church, Mr.. VIM. D. Goats
was married to Miss Katie Dixon, all of
our city. The ceremony was witnessed
by large concourse of people.
When Claude Melnotte " edwin Ad-
ams) was rendering that fine romantic
passage about his home by the lake of
Como, and was attempting to picture it
to Pauline" the lady looked as if
she couldn't see it,
Edwin Adams was serenaded last
night by q number of his friends. The
Old Memphis Brass Band discoursed
most excellent music, and Mr.. Adams
discoursed excellently well in happy
response to the compliment.
Our Senators and Legislators elect will
take their seats in Nashville on the first
Monday in January next, when they will
give A. j. complimentary vote, and
then attend to matters of more impor-
lance to the people of Shelby county.
The applause starter at the theater
appears nightly, and clsps his hands
whenever actors make their exits or
their entrance, or whenever the curtain
falls or rises. Judicious applause is all
right but this business is becoming a
nuisance.
In the Police Conrt this morning but
few cases were heard: Marshall Lane,
charged with assault and battery with
intent to kill, was committed in default
of FIVE thousand dollars bail. A batch
Of five gamblers had to pay fine of
twenty-five dollars each.
To day two weeks, the Goth instant,
will be Thanksgiving Day. All level
headed turkeys had better betake them
selves to the woods and celebrate Thanks
giving in their own fashion, or else they
will fall victims to dissipation at the
hands OF remorseless cooks.
The Philadelphia Bulletin (Radical)
recklessly informs the State of Pennsyl-
vania that "a colored woman of Mem
phis barricaded her house against her
husband the other day, and began an &C.
ton for divorce on the ground that he
bad voted the Radical ticket"
There is certainly some truth, if not
any poetry, in a poem received by our
poetical editer a few days since. The
first stanza can be taken as fair end |
average sample OF the thirteen others:
"Youth's forward slips
Death soonest nips;
Death cuts down ali,
Both great and small
Yesterday afternoon a number of
movers encamped on the bluff where
they could see the land of promise, over
the river. The movers had mules, oxen,
dogs and children by the score. This
morning they passed the Rubicon and
disappeared in the Arkansas swamps,