Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-25
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its session at the Linden street Christian
church.
Hupty Dumpty at the theater to.nigh
and at the Thanksgiving matinee to
morrow.
Monday night next Little Nell will
appear as the Fire Wait" at the Mem
phis Theater.
While enjoying your turkey tomorrow
do not forget to remember the poor anC
act accordingly.
1t is to be hoped that going out t.
the Cemetery and committing suicide
will not become an epidemic.
The LEDGER will not be published to
morrow, as all its employees have been
invited out to attack the Thanksgiving
turkey.
Tomorrow the city and county offices
the courts, postoffice, Chamber of Com
merce, Cotton Exchange, banks. etc.
will be closed.
Governor John c. Brown, John NJ.
Fleming, DR.. j. II. Collender and DR..
W. P. Jones, of Nashville, were in the
city yesterday.
There was fair masquerader at the
Exposition ball who wore five thousand
dollars worth of diamonds She was
dressed as sprite.
T. B. Neal, who stole pair of pants
from Menkin Bros. store yesterday, was
to-day committed by the Recorder in de-
fault of $1,000 bail.
To morrow being Thanksgiving day.
the postofice will be closed. There will
be one delivery aud one collection made
by the carriers in the morning.
Thanksgiving services will be observed
in the Second Presbyterian church. cor
ner of Main and Beal streets, at l / q. N.
Thursday. Sermon by the pastor.
The Majiltons were unable to appear
on Monday night, as advertised, so their
appearance in this city has been post
poned to later period Of the dramatic
season.
The LEDGER job printing department
is complete in all its details, and can
furnish all kinds Of printing, from a
wedding card up to a mammoth circus
poster.
A gentleman was eating oysters to-day
and found two valuable pearls imbedded
in bivalve. The above paragraph is
not intended as an advertisement for
oyster dealers
The annual meeting Of the Cotton Ex-
change will be held at seven o'clock this
evening for the purpose of making ar
rangements for the election of officers
to-day week.
Tomorrow will be good day to think
of the poor. You can relieve some
body's wants, and if you do the invest
ment will pay million per cent. some
Of these days.
The lunatics Of West Tennessee are
becoming interested in the site question.
Governor Brown and medical staff left
the city for Nashville yesterday, and a
decision will be announced in few
days.
The question involved in the King suit
against the Charleston railroad for re-
fusing to accept the legal fare and put.
ting him off the train, is Have passen.
gers any right that the railroad company
is legally bound to respect?
The church revival business continues
to flourish in our city. Many hardened
sinner has been converted and reclaimed
Let the good work 60 on until not q
sinner shall be left on the bluffs to fur.
nish criminal items for newspapers.
When a Memphian is rendered three
and two cent piece in change he casts
one soornful glance at the silver and
copper, and turns up his nose with
an air that he scorned anything of
smaller denomination than five cent
nickel.
The Chamber of Commerce and Cot.
ton Exchange yesterday appointed "a
committee to canvass the city for contri
buttons to aid the Tuscumbia sufferers.
The committee u composed of Messrs.
Napoleon Hill, ]. T. Petit and NJ. c.
Pearce
Yesterday at the Second Presbyterian
church Rev. Mr.. Boggs performed the
marriage service between W. l.. Clapp,
ESQ, and Miss Lamira M. Parker, all OF
our city. The ceremony was witnessed
by a large number of friends and &C.
quaiutances
Last night fifty homeless and houseless
wanderers camped on the hoor around
the stove in the Recorders courtroom
at the Adams street station.house. The
keeper keeps a register of the name,
nationality, occupation and age Of each
applicant for lodging.
II" Hamlet" snd." Horatio we're on
the bluff at the foot Of Madison street
this morning they would repeat that dia-
logue carried on by them on the platform
in front of the castle at Elsinore; Ham
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