Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-16
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
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Tuesday Evening, Nov. Is, 1875.
LEDGER

The Two Orphans at the theater again
tonight.
Quite a heavy frost made its appear
ance this morning.
John Robinson's circus and menage-
RE on the bluffs to-day.
The Chief Of Police is running all sus-
picious characters out of town.
The wicked Brooklynites CO Il the revi-
walls Moody and Sankey's we r."
Several young men in thin city are
about to start a s~erenading pa rty for the
winter.
The city seems to be CT oW'ded with
country people daily, a gr atifying fact
to storekeepers and merchal ITS generally.
Chief of Police Athy w lnts informa-
ton of a white boy, aged t hirteen years,
who ran away from Cairo. ILL.,, a short
time since.
VIM. Beurer, who stabb ed to death the
negro woma Lou TIL omas, was ad-
mitted to bail yesterday by Esquire
Miller in the sun of $4,000.
Next week there will be al other great
attraction at the Theater, Augustin
Days Fifth Avenue Comedy Company,
who will appear in the Big Be nanza.-
The theater was crowded lai I night by
the elite Of the city, and all ", IRE charm
ed and delighted with the pr, ,sentation
Of the Two Orphans by the Flu rbish peo-
pie.
Fogs on the river are quite co mmon at
present. Our local packets, az well as
boats Of Though lines, are almost
nightly delayed on their trips In conse-
quence,
A negro hack driver named Jourdan
stole a watch from a dentists Office, cor
ner of Adams and Main, last evening,
and then jumped the town, butth police
are after him.
The LEDGER job Office, 10 Ma olson
street, is prepared to execute any kind
Of job printing in a neat and tast sful
manner and at as low rates as any 9th e
esta 5lishment in the city. I
81. W. Rankin. a well known Negro,
lawyer, was seriously bitten by a dog on
Orleans street yesterday afternoon. 1t
was not a white mans dog that did the
deed; 1t belonged to a black woman.
A telegram received here by one of
our boot and shoe dealers states that
this morning George Bachelor, Of E. &
A. 81. Bachelor & Co., the largest shoe
manufacturers in the world, died at
Boston, Mass.
Tornadoes and earthquakes seem to
be skipping about throughout Tonnes
see just now. A few days since Knox
vile had the shakes and Humboldt the
wind storms, but Memphis has had at
tacks Of both.
William Phillips, alias Manning, a
young white thief, stole a lot Of silver.
ware and clothing from Mr.. +. B.
Thompson at Beldwin's Landing.
Phillips was arrested last night and the
goods recovered.
An item is going the rounds Of the
press, and we find it in the Little Rock
Gazette Of Sunday: miss Maggie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, is 1901 to
be married to a gentleman named Hayes,
cashier Of a Memphis hank"
Oyster dealers are being made happy
owing to the cool weather and the love
for the mollusk INDUCED in by Mem
phians. Formerly oysters we're shipped
here by the bhrrsl, but now they arrive
by the carload from Norfolk.
Smallpox is prevailing in Cincinnati.
The Commercial says that nearly three
hundred new cases have been reported at
the Office of the Board Of Health within
the past twelve days and that the NOR
tally among children has been quite
heavy.
An early completion Of the PaducRh
railroad is spoken Of. The gap of
twenty miles is to be cross.tied and
rallied, and the road is to be controlled
by MeComb and Norton. This will be
Of no little benefit to Memphis from a
commercial standpoint.
Quite a number Of hard cases had to
shed tears last night at the theater over