Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
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enemsetFes accordingly.
That Christmas drink known as Tom
and Jerry. is now called Moody and
Sankey in New York city.
And there be Mayoralty candidates
around to-day interviewing the impor-
tant delegates and soliciting votes.
Chamber of Commerce meeting this
afternoon at 3 o'clock to consider the
Memphis and Knoxville railroad project.
Hunters say that wild ducks and geese
are feeding in thousands in the lakes
and bayous Of Mississippi, Tennessee
and Arkansas.
The different game stores and restau-
rants are low well supplied with game
aud fab, and lovers Of good eating are
correspondingly happy.
A long-range Creedmoor Rife Club is
about to be organized in this city. Every
time you FIRE q Creedmoor rife at a tar
get it costs four and a quarter cents.
New Years, the day of 'good resolves"
is coming, but the resolves are generally
made to be broken in a few days by the
average Memphian conyivially inclined.
The Msyorslty Convention will be held
on'Tharsday next at Assembly Hall on
Main street, near Gayoso, instead of at
the Exposition as heretofore announced.
The candidates for the Mayoralty
nomination, so far as heard from, are:
Judge Flippin, John johnson, James T.
Leath, A. I, Lacey, Minor Meriwether,
besides q dozen others tied out in the
bushes.
At the opening Of the cold spell Of
weather coal went up to fifty cents per
barrel, but competition has brought it
down to forty cents. Competition in the
coal business isthe life of trade; at least,
SO the consumers think.
During an alteration at Mckenzie,
on the Louisville road, on Saturday, be.
tween a negro and a white man named
Lewis, the negro killed him With a spade.
The young man, Lewis, was a popular
and prominent citizen.
Mrs Bowers as MART, at the thea
ter again tonight. Tomorrow evening
we will have Sheridan's brilliant and
witty comedy, School For Scandal-by
far the best comedy ever written or pro.
duced on the English stage.
There being no law to punish the lille
gal voter or repeater at primary ward
elections, the sub-committeemen and the
officers and members Of the different
ward clubs should see that no one not a
resident of the ward is permitted to cast
his ballot for delegates.
The Southern Musical Journal for
December has been received. 1t con-
tains q monthly review of news, litera-
ture and the science Of music, and lie de-
voted especially to the interests of music
in tue South. 1t is published monthly
by Ludden & Bates, Savannah, Ga.
Frank Scott (negro), who murdered
Ransom Phillips on Wolf river bridge
because the latter refused to pay him a
debt of ninety cents, will be hung ia the
jail yard by Sheriff Anderson on Christ.
mas Eve, next Friday week. 1t was on
Christmas Eve, 1874, that Scott muir.
dered his colored brother on the bridge,
President Petit, Of the Chamber of
Commerce, has appointed the following
standing committee on the subject of
the Southern. Pacific railroad to watch
the matter here and in Washington.
The committee is composed of Messrs.
Jacob Thompson, chairman; F. S. Davis,
j. I. Latham, Henry G. Smith AID A.
7. Lacey.
superintendent Of City Schools Pick
EFT, ia his report to the Board last night,
says the schools are a success" There
is a commendable modesty in this az
%sertion, which is supposed to reflect back
the light Of success upon the Superin.
tendent, but ths public know well that
he has been everything but a success;
or, in other words, he is an imported
failure.
The next General Council should do
what the present n should have doze
but failed to do, and that is, dispense
with the Office Of City Recorder and
make it the duty Of the Chief Of Police to
act as Recorder without additional com.
%pensation. This would save the city
twelve hundred dollars per aunum which
the Recorder gets for working from ten
to fifteen minutes each morning.
The teachers Of the city schools, those
employed and those discharged by the
Pickett School Board ring, are invited
to present the ten per CEN interest
bearing notes which we're paid them for
salaries to the School Board by the LIST
of January, as after hat the interest will
cease. The interest on the notes can
cease when the School Board pays
the amount Of the notes and redeems its
promises to pay.
On the doors Of the Adams street sta.
tion.honse appears the written notice,
Look out for Paint" Two darkies
stopped in front Of the prison yesterday,
and q Of them being an educated citi.