Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-09
LEDGER LINES.

General Council meeting Tomorrow
night.
School Board meeting next Monday
evening.
Memphis has been exempt from fires
for some time.
The Two Orphans are about played
ont in Memphis.
Beth III Emeth concert at the Mem
phis Club Hail tonight.
Quite a crowd OF people from the
country are in town to-day.
The Coroner of this city refuses to
drink lager because there's no body in il.
Several "tramps'' we're arrested by the
police last night on the charge Of drunk.
enness.
In the Criminal Court to-day the Toof,
Phillips 4 Cirode bankruptcy case is on
hearing.
Sterling Paisley (negro) was committed
to Jail by the Recorder to day on the
Charge of larceny.
The Nashville American is informed
that the cotton crop Of West Tennessee
is desperately short.
The snow yesterday reminded the old
est citizens hat n had rot fallen this
early in the season for numbers Of years
past.
The streets and crossings are in a bad
condition, dissgreeable 10 pedestrians
and dangerous to equestrians and ve-
hicles.
Winter commences on the oath instant
a. " minutes past one in the morning.
We are still enjoying autumn or fall, bat
it has a wintry aspect.
The names of John johnson, James
I. Leath, N. NJ. Jones and Judge Flip.
pin are prominently mentioned with re.
ference to the M~ayoralty.
In the Criminal Court to-day a black
woman named Thompson is on trial
charged with q misdemeanor in violating
the laws condemning immortality.
At Calvary (Episcopal) Church to-
night a fashionable wedding will take
place, the contracting parties being Mr..
Charles Collier and Miss Eva Belcher.
The Fourth warders will assemble at
the Assembly Hall tonight aud organize
themselves into a club with which 10
dive the unworthy from out the City
II III.
The Seventh ward Democratic and
Conservative club meets tonight al
Solari's, on Beal street, aud the Eighth
ward club tomorrow night at Meutges'
On Poplar street.
The health of the city is excellent al
present, no especial disease prevailing
but the Ohangeable and wet weather pro
vokes colds and coughs often needing
medical attention.
The sudden approach OF winter is sug
gestive Of the lamentable fact that there
is no little poverty and suffering in oul
city, and the poor should be remembered
by our charitable people.
Eight hundred aud sixty stand Of
arms and two brass field pieces have been
received dt Nashville from the general
government, and will soon be ready fol
distribution to companies complying
with the law.
Qlite a number of citizens decline be.
ins candidates for the ~mayoralty, but
whether the decision can be attributed to
innate modesty or the fear that they
wonld not receive any votes we are uu-
able to discover.
In a few more weeks the frantic effort
to collect that back pay in the General
Council will cease, as even the back
salary grabber will not contend for the
twenty dollars per month after the new
Council assumes control Of city affairs.
In Baltimore an extensive agency for
taking young ladies from Northern cities
to various cities in the South has been
discovered to be a trap for wicked pur.
poses. The agents we're arrested by the
authorities and the agency was broken
up.
Snowl Snowl Snow yesterday com.
ing out of the dimness of the clouded
distance above, and falling in fine, white
fakes to the earth, or as the poet sings:
"The valley streams are frozen;
The trees are brown and bare,
And the wild, white bees Of winter
Swarm in the darkened air."
Citizens should watch their hen roosts,
and especially where tsrkeys loiter al
night, from now until Christmas. The
unsupplied darkeys, who plumber, are
liable to make a midnight raid il order
TO supply themselves from those citizens
who purchase and fstten the bird Of the
period.
The black politicians are looming to
the front with a view to participate III
the forthcoming ~mayoralty contest. Il
the business men will put their shoulders