Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-13
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turkey, at Victor u. FUCHS this evening.
A Centennial masquerade ball will
come of At the Exposition on Thursday
night, the 25th.
The Memphis Hamlets are all sOlilo-
quising as follows: ITO be or not to be
Mayor, that's the question"
A petition is in circulation calling
upon Minor Meriwether to run for the
MAyOralty. And still they GOMEZ
Next Monday the Kurdish comedy
company will commence an engagement
at the theater and will present the Two
Orphans.
AT the theater matinee to-day DeBar
will appear as Micawber." Tonight
Nick OF the Woods and Toodles will be
presented.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
gave a pleasing entertainment last night
on Washington street. The attractions
presented were Luke the Laborer and
the Irish Lion.
The LEDGER job Office, l3 Madison
street, is prepared to execute any kind
Of job printing in a neat and tasteful
manner and at as low rates as any other
establishment in the city. t
Quite a number of rural bellies and
beaux were in the city yesterday and at
tended the theater last night. They en-
joyed the performance hugely and in
dulged in the loudest laughter when
ever anything funny was presented.
The man Roddy, the horse thief who
was arrested here by the police a few
days since, escaped from the Sheriff last
night as he was taking him to Haywood
county for trial. Roddy jumped from
the train while it was in motion and
made good his escape,
A Memphis new correspondent to the
New York Irish World, among other
things, says; THE municipal election
comes off in January, 1876. 1t is pro-
posed to r%e-elect our present Mayor"
but the correspondent fails to state by
whom such a thing is proposed.
Ed Mccoy and the two Evans broth
ers, convicts sent up from this county,
recently escaped from the Nashville pen
~itentiary. Mccoy was convicted for
robbing a store at Collierville, and the
Evans for robbing a house on Front
street, North Memphis, in which portion
Of the city they resided.
Several packet companies and steam
boat n got out an injunction yes
terday before the Chancery Court re.
straining the City and wharfmaster from
collecting wharfage, as heretofore the
wharfage collected has been ~misappro.
priated by the Mayor to other purposes
and in violation of the ordinance passed
by the General Council.
The Washington street social evil
cases are about to be compromised
The keepers Of these houses and their
inmates have agreed to move out and
into some other section of the city where
the residents will not worry them With
daily prosecutions. The only person
who defies the prosecutors is the keeper
of the famous Arkansas House, and the
legal fight on him will be kept up daily
until he surrenders.
News reached the city to-day of the
death OF a negro man aged one hundred
and twenty-seven years at Australia,
Some distance below here on the Missis-
sippi river. The old mar had been body
servant to General Green during tho
Revolutionary VA and'had his free pa
perS, which dated back ninety years. 1t
was the intention of his white friends to
send the old nal to the Philadelphia
Centennial next year, but he will cele-
brate the great anniversary in another
world. .
The new hearing docket Of the Chan
Gerry Court will be so arranged as to put
all the cases on the fourteen dockets of
the "Chaucery Court of Memphis first,
to. be followed by the cases on the new
dockets o. the First and Second Chan
Gerry Courts in the order according to
date in which they were set for hearing.
The Chancellor will, on Monday next,
commence calling informally the hear
ing docket of the Second Chancery
Coart, and continue the call till case No.
1000 is reached, when a further order of
business will be announced.
At the station-house last evening a
youthful negro thief received fifty lashes
for stealing, Uncle Mitchell, the head
cook of the city prison, laid the lasbes
on where they would do the most good.
The boys father was present and asked
the authorities to give him one hundred
lasheS and then turn him out, but the
officials would inAiot but fifty. The old
man, however, was not satisfied, and said
that when he got the boy home he would
give him the other half hundred. The
old mar held his erring child while the
punishment was being inflicted and was
continually exclaiming; Give EN- to
him a little harder" but they we're sufi-
GENTLY hard to keep him from sitting
down for some time.