Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-29
LEDGER LINES.

night.
The General Council will meet again
next Wednesday evening.
The election Of officers Of the Cotton
Exchange will come off next Wednesday.
Candidates for Mayoralty honors'a are
thick and more, are coming % the front.
Banquet Of St.. Andrews Society at
the Peabody tomorrow night in honor of
St. Andrews Day.
Next Wednesday will be the FIRST Of
December. Get ready for the visits of
the monthly bill collectors.
T~hirty-6ve cases we're heard by the
Recorder to-day. Commissioner Leath
sat on the bench with the Recorder.
The mortuary report of the Board Of
Health for the past week is as follows:
Total deaths, Is; whites. IL; blacks, s.
Turkeys that escaped immolation on
Thanksgiving Day in Memphis are now
counting the days between this and
Christmas.
The pin-back dress, so fashionable in
Memphis, reminds our poetical editor of
the lines; Caught back the curtain of
the night, and pinned it with a star"
The station-house is the highest priced
hotel in the city for a drunken or disor-
derly person to put up at. Lodging costs
five dollars per night and no meals are
furnished.
Street musicians have flooded the city
with the musical tidal wave. Many of
them play the role of LA Frochard,"
and cry out, CHARITY for the poo
blind grill"
The genial tramp still trampeth into
Memphis from some Northern city, seek
ing where to lay his head, what food be
may devour, and what hat and coat rack
he may plumber.
The Democratic Executive Committee,
appointed Saturday night at the mass
meeting, will meetto organize tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at the Office Of
Ellet & Estes.
Yesterday a sneak-thief walked into
the parlor o. Mrs. Sonfeld's boarding.
house, No. 65 Union street, and carried
of a sixty.dollar o%vercoat, the property
Of Mr.. Sam Marks.
The oyster dealers are summing each
other pretty lively at present, much to
the qualification Of oyster eaters, who
car now indulge at the rate of thirty-6ve
cents per dozen bivalves.
A reward is to be offered for the arrest
of Joe Chase, who murdered Leon CO.
hupe, a French drsynIAn, on Kerr ave-
nue., a few days since. The assassin hid
behind a fence, shot Cohupe with a PTS.
tol and then fed from the city.
The following advice should be taken
by those gentlemen who are always ask.
ing the reporters to suppress their names
such appear on the Recorders
docket: The best way to prevent a name
appearing is to behave yourself.
A gentleman residing on a we'll known
strest who had his hat.rack robbed by
THE YES, now leaves his hall door open,
puts hats and coats on the hall rack and
sits in a dark parlor with a Trantor in
hand to give the thieves a warm recep.
ton on their second advent.
Governor Porter has offered a reward
Of $3.50 for the arrest of Joe Chase, who
murdered Leon Cohupe on Kerr venue.
Chase was arrested at Pleasant Hill, in
Marshall county, Miss, twelve miles
from Collierville, a few days since, but
he was permitted to escape the next
night.
A Professor, who has recently been
lecturing in New Jersey, advised women
to marry men whose heads were fiat,
whose necks we're thick and whose ears
were low down on the sides of their
faces. Such a being is sufficiently I'M.
fortunate without setting him up as a
ladies' msn with a fat head, a bovine
neck and whose ears are a%sinine.
Al engagement has been made by
Manager Brooks with Barry Sullivan to
play q week at the Memphis Theater
early in January next. Mr., Brooks is
also negotiating with the French Opera
Company of New Orleans to appear
here for a week early next year. This
would be a great attraction, and one
that would be largely ~patrOnized by our
people.
Ben Evans, a river negro, shot at a ne
gro woman in a house on Center alley,
North Memphis, last Saturday night, but
fortunately missed her. The woman had
formerly been his mistress, but now she
is the wife Of another darby. Ben was
committed by the Recorder this morn
ing, and will have q chance to labor for
a few years in Presidents Island work
house.
Rev. Hugh Magevney, son of the late
John MAgevney of this city, is preaching
a mission at st. Xayier's Church Cincin.
natl. Rev. Mr.. Magevney was born and
in this city, was educated at the
st. Louis University, and was ordained a
priest a few months since. His remark.