Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-23
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company Will appear.
A very fine programme has been
gotten up for Myers Variety Opera
House on Jefferson street for this even
ing.
The epizootic continues to prevail in a
mild form among horses, and even hui
man beings are affected with a like dis
ease.
Sol Coleman is making it lively for the
cigar men 10 Memphis. He gives away
cigars to-day free of charge, between the
hours Of 2 aud 3 o'clock. Let us all 60
and see him.
Grass hoppers continue TO fly and
jump through town. At the theater last
night our dramatic critic law one fly
across the stage as a star" performer
and disappear behind the wings.
The schedule or time table Of the &C.
commodation trains on the road has
been changed from 5 pm. to 4:l5 pm.
See change in advertisement and LEDGER
time tables.
Quite a number of people WANT to look
at the Mary Bell. the biggest boat on the
Western waters. She is expected hourly,
and will become a Memphis and New
Orleans packet.
Cassius NJ. Clay, a distinguished Ken.
tuckian, is in the city on his way to Mis-
sissippi, in which State he will deliver
several political speeches during the
present exciting campaign.
We understand a fair and liberal prop.
osition from Colonel P. c. Retheli is now
before the Finance Committee Of the
city, which, if accepted, will be Of great
benefit to the city and its poor.
The negro Lowry who killed bis
mother in-law with a washbowl was yes
terday sentenced by a jury of married
men in the Criminal Court to twenty
years imprisonment in the penitentiary
The expressive and suggestive phrase
gone to the dogs" will be quite appro
pirate next week during the meeting Of
the State Sportsmen's Association al
fernando Trotting Park.
The unhealthy fOgs which hang arount
the city nightly are defined by a we'll
known gentleman who says that be keep
out Of that and other troubles al nigh
by keeping his mouth shut. The remarl
contains a good moral for many otheI
citizens.
The astronomers of the Berlin (Prus
sis) Observatory have discovered an,
other planet. 1t is Of the twelfth mag
nitude, in right ascension 90 degrees A.
minutes; south decllnstion G degrees 81
minutes, with a daily motion south of
degrees.
Sam Geaty, a steamboat engineer, wa
this morning bound over by the Records
in the sum of $4,000 on the charge o
stabbing Ed Read, a negro deck-hand, il
a dangerous manner. The stabbing il
said to have been justifable.
The Supreme Court of Michigan ha
decided that If q bill is accepted unde
the belief that the accompanying Sc
curity is good, when in fact it is worth
loss, this is not such a mistake of fact a
will entitle the drawee to recover bacl
the amount from the payee."
Next week at the theater we will have
Mobiles combination troupe; the weel
after, Haverly Minstrels; third week
Ben DeBar and company, and on tn,
fourth week comes the Kurdish Fiji
Avenue troupe, with their great spe
cialty, the Two Orphans.
Saloon keepers are now setting W
oyster lunches since the price of the bi
valves has fallen. Last season Their,
were some oyster lunches, wherein tn,
soup was so free from oysters that q
search warrant and a posse comitatu,
would be necessary in order to discover
the solitary mollusk that aoated around
uaseen in the soup bowl.
To-day is the anniversary Of the birth
Of Daniel Webster, which event occur
red October %, 1882, at Salisbury, New
Hampshire. Webster began life as 6
schoolmaster, then entered the profes
sion OF law and gained rank as one Of
the first of American statesmen, patri
OTIS and one Of the worlds finest orators.
Webster died in 1852.
The shoe and boot makers Of Memphis
should celebrate Monday next, it being
the anniversary Of the birth Of 81. Girls
pin, who is the recognized patron of the
trade, ard who in the third century went
to Rome from Gaul, where he preached
the Cosrel during the day aud made
shoes at night, and who was put to death
by the idolators, In Europe St. Girls.
pins day is duly commemorated by all
sho~emakers.
Esquire Miller married a dusky couple
in the County Court Clerks office to.
day. The groom, Silas Rice, had bis
head kinked up in strings and wore a