Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-22
LEDGER LINES.

Cyrene Commandery No. 4 Knights
Templar meets tonight in full dress.
Centennial masquerade ball at Expo
sition building next Thursday evening.
Big Bonanza matinee next Thursday,
Thanksgiving day. No matinee on
Wednesday.
There was q small crop of thin ice
discovered around town this morning by
the early birds.
Christmas is coming, and already
Christmas goods begin to appear in the
Main street store windows.
Augustin Days Fifth Avenue New
York; Theater Company at the theater
tonight in the Big Bonanza.
The Board of Health mortuary report
for the past week is as follows: Total
deaths, 81; whites Is. blacks 6.
Indian summer has passed away and
the clouds of the winter of our discon-
tenthave come, and are lowering around.
The delegates to the St. Louis South
ern Pacific Railroad Convention, which
meets tomorrow, left yesterday for St.
Louis.
The County Court Committee on Raj
eigh railroad matters will meet again
next Wednesday morning in the County
Court room.
This week Democratic ward clubs will
be organized throughout the city pre-.
paratory for the municipal election in
January next.
Hunters are enjoying rabbit hunting
in the country adjacent to the city. The
molly c~otton-tails,'' as they are called,
are very numerous.
Ia the Criminal Court to-day John Il.
Stratton is on trial, charged With the
murder of a negro named YIN. Cohen,
in this county, in April last.
The Nashville American of Saturday
says charters have been granted to the
Memphis Board Of Trade and the Fort
Pickering Building and Loan Associa.
ton.
A new floor is being put down in the
Hook and Ladder house on Adams
street. The city furnished the lumber,
and Captain Pat Healy and his boys are
putting it down.
A through passenger car passed over
the Washington street Charleston rail-
road track yesterday for Texas. 1t was
drawn by six mules, but it had an en-.
CINE and tender behind.
A newspaper is defined to be a window
through which men look out on all that
is going on in the world. 1t is an infold
ing encyclopedia, an unbound book, for
ever issuing and never finished.
Citizens whose residences other people
visit should keep their hall doors locked
in order to prevent sneak thieves from
stealing hats, canes and o~vercoats O
their guests, which articles are generally
left in the halls.
The United States Court did not open
up to-day owing to the ~non-arrival o.
Judge Trigg, from whom a telegram wal
received stating hat he would be il
Memphis and open court tomorrow
Tuesday morning.
Big craters are beginning t.. appear il
the. Nicolson pavement. One in from
of the LEDGER Office is wide and deey
enough to bury a mule. Many Of the
holes look like extinct volcanoes of tn,
carboniferous period OF the worlds his
tory.
The sling business lie attracting the at
tention of the police authorities. A
young negro was ARRESTED on Saturday
on the charge of havi ng a sling and a
hatfull Of leaden balls and rocks, which
he had been propelling at citizens, dogs
birds and other animals.
A concert for the benefit of the Con
~gregation Beth FL Emeth will be giyer
on the evening Of the 9th of December
at the Memphis Club Hall, and will b,
followed by a hop. Some of the hes
talent in the city has been secured for thu
concert, and it will no. doubt be an enjoy
able affair.
Next Saturday evening a mass meet
ing of the Democratic and Conservative
people of the city will be held in thir
city for the purpose Of selecting a CITY
Executive COMMITTEE, whose duty it viii
be to provide for ward meetings to selec
delegates to a convention, in order tc
select a candidate 70 the M~ayoralty.
A Louisville COuri err Journal Telegram
from Memphis say s: captain A. T
Lacey has accepted the quasi nomina
ton for Mayor m ade by the friends o
various candidates in caucus, and Their,
is considerable dissatisfaction anon,
the Democrats at the course pursued il
making the selection, and a Democratic
convention will doubtless be called"
The friep ds of the various candidates
tor Mayor who met in caucus and Sc
lected ca plain Lacey as a candidate nov
say that if a Democratic convention il
held the y are absolved from their pledge,
to sup port Captain Lacey unless he Sc
cures the convention nomination, anC
that all the defeated caucus candidate,