Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-06
LEDGER LINES.

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disorderly conduct.
The name of Judge Flippin, Of the
Criminal Court, has been mentioned in
connection with the MayOralty.
The LEpGER steam job printing Office
is the place to have cards. billheads or
other mercantile printing done.
The School Board will meet next Mon
day night and elect teachers to gil va.
c~ancies caused by resignation.
Ex-Governor Vance will lecture again
to-aight at the Greenlaw Opera House.
Subject: The Scattered Nation"
Magistrate E. W. Caldwell has been
sick at Bartlett for several days. He is
dangerously i'll with Inflammation of the
liver.
The LEDGER being the only daily pub
lished in this city on Mondays, adver-
Users are advised to send in their orders
in time.
The Hayerly Minstrels will close their
engagement at the theater tonight. The
prices will be fifteen, twenty-five and
fifty cents.
Yesterday was the anniversary Of the
reelection of U. s. Grant to the Presi-
dency in 1872. Ulysses received 3,597,'
$40 votes; Greeley, 2.SS4,O97; o'COnor,
81, 559.
In the Criminal Court to-day John
Gainor, a negro with a dozen aliases
was convicted Of larceny and sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment in the peni
tentisry.
The Nashville American of yesterday
says editorially: 1.-THE notorious E(
Shaw of Memphis has been acting as i
he had aspirations for the ~penitentiary o.
the gallows."
Quite a number of Mississippisns werc
in the city yesterday, and they to a mar
were rejoicing over the late election il
that State. The Mississippi people arr
free once again.
A "habeas corpus" sued out by ]. j
Smith, who was bound over by Esquir
Winters yesterday in the Tighe abduC
ton case, comes up to-day before Judg
Ray, of the Probate Court.
The LEDGER job office, IL Madiso
street, is prepared to execute any kin
Of job printing in a neat and tastefr
manner and at as low rates as any othe
establishment in the city. t
u Within ten months Sol Coleman ha
sold over 300 900 Of his now celebrate
Rosa Concha cigars. 1t is a certai
q proof of the popularity of that ciga'
Give Sol a call; he deserves it.
. Next Monday night Ben DeBar wi
appear at the theater as Wilkins M
n cawber," in a play of the same name,
y being a dramatization of David Cope
field, Dickens best and most famou
4 novel.
A sleeping coach passed over d
Washington street extension Of Il
Charleston railroad. 1t was drawn
1 mule power, but the six mules had
hard time of it overcoming the hea'
grades.
At the different Jewish synsgogues
the city to-day it was announced th
" Governor Vance. of North Carolir
would tonight, at the Greenlaw Ope
d House, repeat his lecture on the Sc
tered Nation"
The market hours Of the South Me.
!. phis or Besl street market will chan
on next Monday. Instead of Market |
ing opened at two o'clock pm. as hel
!. %tofore, the hour Of opening will be Gig
o'clock in the evening.
Two matinees are progressing in t
: city to-day. One at the theater, whe
the Haverly Minstrels appear, and t
other at the Greenlsw Opera Houl
where BABY" Mcdonald will make b
appearance in specially characters.
Captain James o. Durff, our river
porter, has been confined to his room {
several days from an attack Of chills a
fever. Our river friends will be attend
to by Capt. Joe Locke, who has becor
our wet-ender during the illness of Co,
modors Durf.
% There was some pistol shooting
Monroe, neal Second street, late Il
night, and the police were runni
around to discover the cause. At Il
it was discovered that a drunken m
/. had fred off his pistol in his room incl
ly for amusement.
Bartlett Lodge No. 1856, Odd Fello'
came in on a special train last event
and paid a fraternal visit to BanI
" Lodge No. lat. The affair wal enjoy
in by a large number of Odd Fellows
he the city, and the Bartlett boys return
ry home at a late hour highly pleased "
ed their visit.
~. The adjourned meeting Of the Gene
III Council which was to have been held
the City Hall last night did not come
owing to the non-appearance of a 81
cient number of members to constit
10 a quorum. An adjournment was /
to next Monday night, when it is
III naclad hoth fba ualarv.grahhers and III