Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-11

and offices in the new courthouse.
DR.. Manning editor of the Roanoke
News, Weldon, North Carolina, was il
the city to-day en- route for home from
trip to Virginia.
The beaux and bellies who contemplate
romantic matrimony will go to the thea
ter tonight and witness the troubles o
the Lady of Lyons.
At the Recorders Court to-day Tin
Finlay was on trial for stealing d pail
Of ffteen-cent SOCKS and was committed
in default Of $500 bail.
Carriers with monogram clasps are nov
fashionable in Memphis. The style il
said to be convenient and pretty, and We
hope to see more of it.
Lightning struck house in South
Memphis last Sunday night, but did little
damage save bursting off few boards
and producing local earthquake.
Shall the city schools be closed or kept
open? is now most important question
for the city government to determine.
The schools must be kept open, say the
people.
St. Louis is going into ecstacies over
the Kellogg Opera Troupe. One squall
from this troupe in Memphis would be
worth one thousand dollars night to a
theatrical manager.
Memphis girls are now so overbur-
dened with beads and bugles on their
costumes that they 60 tinkling and jung
ling along the sidewalk like the celebra-
ted old lady who had rings on her fingers
and bells on her toes.
The Italian societies of the United
States are about to prepare a petition,
which will be sent to Congress, to ask
that body to make October 18th legal
holiday, as the anniversary of the dis
covery Of the land by Columbus should
be.
Already our senators and Represeta-
tives elect are receiving letters from
Nashville and other adjacent points
from candidates for little offices at and
around the State House, such as door
keeper, towel-hanger, boot.black, desk
duster, etc.
We saw two gentlemen on Main street
to-day holding their right hands up and
who held their hats in their left hands.
Our reporter rushed over in search of
the item, but discovered that it was a
magistrate swearing man to warrant,
the business magistrate not having time
to return to his office.
While that Grand Jury of the United
States Court was indicting white men
for dschargng negro employees after the
August election, why did not the jury
the conduct of pestoffice
official who called up his clerks and
stated to them the ultimatum, Vote the
Republican ticket or lose your situa-
tons P
Yesterday there was rain, hail, thun-
der, lightning and sunshine at one and
the same time in Memphis, and the
stood at midsummer point
The hail fell in large crystals, the rain
in large drops, the thunder roared and
the lightning flashed in North Memphis,
while the sunbeams from Arkansas made
rainbows in the sky.
Since the election the great headquar-
tiers of the P. II. and W. party on Madi-
son street has been deserted. No longer
can the wise men, the aristocratic look
ing leaders or the dead-beats of the
party, be seen as of yore
shaking their heads and gesticulating
6ercely at Democracy. We miss these
solemn-looking personages.
Yesterday afternoon a Frenchman
named Louis Deviere, or Leviere, slipped
while rolling a barrel on board the
steamer Grand Tower He fell back
ward, striking his head against another
barrel, and death ensued almost in
stantly. A messmste testified that he
knew Deviere in London, years ago, and
that he was a sailor. His arms and
breast we're tatooed with India ink
sketches Of ships, anchors, etc.
Asa general rule men who are arrested
and carried to the station-house give hc-
titious names and beg newspaper report
ers to.keep their names ont Of the papers.
Bat there are exceptions to this rule, one
OF whom our reporter saw locked up q
few nights since. The collared " chap
insisted on having his name put down in
full, his occupation, the number Of his
placs of business, the number Of his
room, aud made q special request that
all reporters would make a note of it.
He was drunk, but the responsibility Of
his relatives saved him from being pub.
lished that time, the good.natured re-
porters not wishing to take advantage Of
the vagariss Of a drunken IDIOT