Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-30

LEDGER LINES.

theater next Monday night.
The General Council will meet again
on next Wednesday night in monthly
session.
Rev. Geo. A. Reynolds will preach in
the Linden-street Christian Church Sun
day morning and night.
The LEDGER steam job office turns
out the cheapest aud best mercantile
and other printing done in this city.
The LEDGER is the only paper pub
lished in this city on Mondays, a fact
which will be remembered by adyer-
tisers.
In the Recorders Court this morning
but eight cases of misdemeanor were
heard, nothing Of importance being on
the docket.
1t is about time to bring out a Con-
sentative and irst.class man for Mayor.
The Lilliputian style Of Mayors has been
tried and found wanting in almost every
respect.
The lamps in that section Of the city
known as Scotland were not lighted last
night-a neglect which those who reside
in that vicinity of the city complain of
considerably, and say it is nearly always
so.
Go to Sol Coleman's to-day or to-
morrow and select your number. All Of
his cigars are now numbered, and they
certainly are the best in town. Give
him a call and he will greet you with a
smile.
The vocal and instrumental concert
and theatrical performance of the Mem
phis Maennoechor comes off at Cochran
Hall Sunday night, instead of to night,
as stated yesterday. A highly interest
ing programme will be presented.
AT the theater matinee to-day and at
the performance to night Jim Bludso
will be repeated. Tonight the tariff
for tickets will be fifteen, twenty-five and
fifty cents, Manager Brooks having de-
termined to make it the peoples night"
Tomorrow Sunday is known as
"Hallow Eve a leading day for merry
making in Europe, when pranks are
played by both young and old, and
maidens perform many mysterious OBJ
%seryances in order to be enabled to find
out who will be their future husbands.
There are hundreds of unemployed
men looking for work in this city, but no
work is here for them. Get out in the
country; the planters are Offering board
and n dollar per hundred for cotton
pickers. A few hundred OF those out Of
work here could get employment there.
The Avalanche local asks: "Who is
Jim Davis, who has been winning the
purses at the Sportsmen's Association? ?"
The Avalanchian should have known
that it is DR.. Saunders of our city, one
Of the members of the Association, and
one of the steadiest and best bird shots
in Tennessee or any other State.
After the Haverly Minstrels, who ap-
pear next week at the theater, her comes
DeBar, and then the Kurdish people,
who will present the great sensation en-.
titled 1.-THE Two Orphans" which is
said to be superior to and more attrac.
tive than Divorce, Mons, Alfonso, and
other sensations played here by the Fur.
bish people last season.
Vagrancy is prevailing again, not.
withstanding'the President Island work.
house, and nightly tramps and Migrants
from Northern cities report regularly for
lodging at the station-house. II the city
had contracted with General Forrest as
did the county, this could be avoided and
that expensive chaiR-gang system abol
ished, but then all that would interfere
with cart-ring politics.
Rev. Samuel Watson, D. d., will preach
at Assembly Hall, 36l Main street, at IL
o'clock Sunday morning, 3lst inst. Sub
ject-Who are the Angela 2 Texture
they not all ministering spirits, sent forth
to ministers to those who hal be heirs
Of salvation ? The public and all who
are interested in the perpetuity Of the
Harmonial Philosophy are invited to at
tend. Seats free.
U. S. Commissioner Garrett, in the NJ.
Combs, ir., forged bounty claims cases,
four in number, committed Combs to
Jail in default OF $4,000. G.. Y. Smith,
charged with being an accessory, waived
examination and gave bond in the SUN
Of $4,000. Esq. Brewer, charged with
being accessory, likewise waived exam
%iuation and gave bond in the sum Of
$1,000. Other parties will also be ar
rested on these Combs cases.
At nine O'Clock last night o storm OF
wind, rain, thunder and lightning swept
over the city, The flashing of the light
ming was continuous, and the wind in
creased to a storm point. Signs we're
carried off, and many buildings shook
violently While the tempest howled
around them. The rains washed ont
streets and alleys in quite a thorough
going manner. Notwithstanding the
violence of the wind but little damage