Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-23
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ELThe General Council will assemble II
monthly session on Wednesday week.
Mating is being put down in tn
courthouse halls to-day.
Stamped envelopes and newspaper
wrappers just received at the postofice
Cal Wagners Minstrels and the D,
Castro troupe have gone to other cities
Thanks to the rain, the Memphis base
ball season has been cleverly stopped.
The river is rising in the world anC
from its bed at the rate of two inches q
day.
The Cotton Exchange will elect off
GERS on next Wednesday week, the 2t
proximo.
Thursday next the Goth inst, will be
day of general thanksgiving for the
results of the late elections.
Mortuary report for the past week
Total deaths, l8-whites, 10; blacks, g.
Health of the city excellent.
In many stores in this city the en-
ployers prohibit the employees from sit
ting down during business hours.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the LEDGER counting room and leading
news stands Of the city tomorrow morn
ing.
Mr.. Bob Mcknight, a typo we'll known
in this city, died suddenly last Thursday
in Dyersburg just after eating hearty
dinner.
Tonight Humpty Dumpty will be the
attraction at the Memphis Theater, and
not at the Greenlaw Opera House, as
advertised.
A beautiful rainbow appeared yester-
day in the eastern heavens-"the airy
child of vapor and the sun, as Byron
called it in Don Juan.
All business men will find the LEDGER
steam job printing Office the place to get
letter heads, bill heads, etc., printed with
neatness and dispatch.
1t costs dray-driver ten dollars at the
Recorders court for driving through the
street at pace faster than walk. Let
the ordinance be enforced by the police.
Yesterday afternoon after a heavy
rain storm the sunlight broke out in all
its glory, causing everything and every
person to present cheerful appear
ance.
The runaway Radical and bogus Gov
ernor Smith, of Arkansas, is not in Mem.
phis. Should he come here the detectives
will capture him and send him back to
Little Rock.
The Criminal Court Grand Jury are
working away on indictments and pre-
sentiments, all OF which will be explained
in the light Of capias served by de-
putty sheriff.
1t is quite probable that if we have a
few more rainy and cold spells our
Mayor will find it even more fact that
it is impossible to satisfy everybody as to
street repairing.
The Majiltons will not open up their
engagement at the theater tonight, as
advertised, as through unforeseen cir
cumstances they will be unable to sp-
pear here this week.
A great deal of practical information
would result if the true names of news
paper correspondents were published.
BY this means the chat could be sepa-
rated from the wheat.
A score of dray drivers who INDUCED
in trotting races on the public streets
appeared before the Recorder this morn
ing. The police insist that Main and
other boulevards are not race tracks.
We are much obliged to the Southern
Express Company for full file of last
Fridays New York papers, handed us
this morning at nine o'clock. That is
about as quick time as we have ever re.
corded.
A negro named John Smith was ar
rested and locked up last night He had
in his possession fine gold watch and
chain, supposed 10 have been stolen.
Detective Cranmer has the matter of in
vestigation in charge.
The Insane Asylum Commissioners
have selected the Webb Place, four miles
from the city, on Nonconnah creek, as a
site. Governor Brown will visit the
place selected to-day, and either approve
or disapprove of the selection.
A private dispatch from Tuscumbia,
Ala, says that terrific tornado swept
through that place last night. Ten per-
sons we're killed, number wounded and
the town left in ruins. No further par
ticulars received up to IL IN. to-day.
Yesterday, during the wind storm,
Mr.. C. W. Schultze.was standing in front
of a residence on Shelby street, when
the wind blew down a cornice, which fell
on him, inAicting serious injuries, from
which it is feared he will not recover.
During the heavy rain storm yesterday
several bales of cotton on Jefferson street
we're foated off by the torrent of water
in the cutters. AS the bales were float
ing down to the bayou, and to the sea,