Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-21

Inc belle OF the Rocco hall ball last
night represented the character Of
=" Schneider"
Very few arrests were made by the
police last night. The city is becoming
remarkably quiet,
The prevailing chills and malsrial dis
ease are keeping the physicians o fthe city
and surrounding country busy.
well known candidate for the Mayor
atty is trying to unite the negro and the
foreigner upon a whisky basis, but the
things won't mix,
In the Criminal Court this forenoon
JEFF Willis (nig) was sentenced to ak
months in the county work house, on the
charge of petit larceny.
The Presidents Island work-house
presided over by General Forrest, is be-
coming a terror to evil doors, and espe
cially to those Of the negro race.
AT the Tennessee Encampment of |.
o. 0. F., now in session at Nashville,
Mr.. T. s. Bingham, Of our city, was
elected M. W. Grand Patriarch.
Quite a stir in business is perceptible
throughout the city, and our most intel
ligent business men predict a splendid
tall and winter business,
Social gatherings at the residences Of
our leading citizens are becoming popu-
lar once again, now that winter ap-
~proaches.
Baby Mcdonald, a wonderful child,
continues to astonish the people who at
tend Myers Opera House. She should,
by all means, appear at the Memphis
Theater.
The new charter prohibits the General
Council from levying a greater tax for
any and all purposes than one dollar
and sixty cents on the one hundred dol
lars.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is in Vicksburg,
Miss, at present. As he passed through
Grenada be was called upon for a speech,
but he declined mixing in Mississippi
politics.
Mr.. Jack Cooke, whose desperate fight
with Bud McHenry at Senstobia on Sat
urday last was recorded in the LEDGER
of Monday, died from his wounds on yes.
terday afternoon,
Now that the weather is becoming
cooler, the ward politician or candidate
for municipal houors talks business to
the suffrage singer in beer saloons in-
stead Of on street corners.
The General Council will, probably,
at its November meeting, authorize the
building Of two cisterns in the Tenth
ward for the proper protection of citi-
zeus in that section OF the city.
The oyster war continues, and the
probabilities are that ere long a dezen
shell oysters can be purchased for
twenty-fiv cents. Such a result will be
hailed with pleasure by all lovers of the
bivalves
The Nashville American asks, How
happens it hat a Crockett county convict
has to be guarded to Nashville by one
man and a quarter, while only one guard
for four is sent from Memphis, Shelby
county2"
a twenty ton casting from New York
for one of M~ontgomery's cotton presses
passed over the Washington street rail
road yesterday, and was safely delivered
at the Charleston railroad yard without
change of car from New York.
The September account was passed by
the General Council last night by the
boys because their own illegal back pay
was one Of the items of the account
But the Mayor obeys the opinion Of the
City Attorney and refuses to pay the
twenty dollars per month.
On Saturday next the Baker and Far
ron matinee will commence precisely at
l o'clock, when the new play Heinrich
and Hettie will be presented. There
will be no performance on Saturday
night, as the company leaves in the af-
ternoon for New Orleans.
Charles Samuels (negro) was tried in
the Criminal Court this morning on in
dictment charging that he brought
stolen goods into the State, knowing the
same to have been stolen" He was
convicted and sentenced to three years
imprisonment in the Presidents Island
county work-house.
D. X. McRae, Esq, has been elected
by the General Council to assist City
Attorney walker IN defending the Lett
witch and Loaand bond cases now before
the Supreme Court, But we are afraid
the Mayor will not be able to defend
these suits successfully, At least this is
the opinion Of many able attorneys.
The repairs on one-half or the east side
, OF Main street have reached Vance
street When the other half, west side,
is repaired. and the mule box railroad
compelled to repair inside its tracks and
for two feet outside, then Main street will
present a passable appearance, but not
until then.
d On the passage of the back salary