Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-27

IcopcCtdDiCs
EVERYBODY will go to see Lolita next
week. She will open up her engage.
meut next Monday night as "Musette,"
q new sensation.
Mons. Alphonse at the theater matt
nee to-day aad again tonight, when the
DAILY Fifth Avenue Theater people will
close their weeks engagement.
Cal Wagner's band of minstrels will
presenta complete change Of programme
at the Assembly Hall matinee to-day
and also at the performance tonight.
In the Criminal Court, this forenoon,
Andrew Brown, a black ward of the ma
ton, "a convicted of larceny and sen.
fenced to three years Imprisonment in
the Presidents Island work-house.
In the United States Court to-day the
following cases were disposed of: Judg-
ments by default taken against the city
Of Memphis in several suits on coupons.
10 the Ease of the United States VS.. j. s..
Alexander, indictment for violating rev.
enue laws, the indictment was quashed
on m ption.
The Cotton Exchange blsck-boards to-
day show the following figures; receipts
of cotton for the week, 2l,4S5 bales; for
the season. I57,4ll; shipments for the
week, 1894; for the season, l23, 266;
stock on hand, .36,7l7; sales for week,
1900, of which 5000 bales we're taken
by exporters.
In mercantile circles there seemsto be
conu ndrum circulstiag-Who will be
the ne xt President of the Cotton Elk.
change? and already the pressure has
been applied to and felt by persons, in
viting them to run. If a man cannot be
brought out by ordinary pressure apply
the compress.
And now come $ the Supreme Court oil
lowe and renders AN opinion that when
the loser in a game of billiards settles
the score he is guilty of gambling and
liable to indictment, but if the winner
pays for the game no Indictment will lie
against him. This may be good law, but
err bad logic.
There is a member Of the General
Joun Gil who votes mo" on 1El questions
,xc slpt a motion to adjourn He is de-
erngined to vote right occasionally.
The. ~ is another member who votes hur'
iedly and generally changes his voIe
the vote is announced; and still
mot bel', who would vote both Yes"
md "N,o' on every question did the par
.ry rules permit such . proceed
ng.
Tomorrow will be the first Sunday Of
Advent. Advent is a period tf four
weeks pi 'eceding Christmas, which is OBJ
erved by Christians in honor of the ap.
roach on the anniversary of Chri SITS
Formerly it occupied six
weeks, and. that is still the case in the
chu rcli. It commenced with the
neare st st. Andrews Day mo
30th). Daring this season, in
he Catholic CHI urch, marriages can only
e performed by special license, as dur
ng Lent.
1t is usual for the time.keeper, who
lands on the corr er of Beal and Main
to wave his hand at street car
in order to make them 60 fast
own the grade on B cal. Superintendent
Of ten stands there and waves his
and imp atiently ana threateningly at
by way of signalli them to in
the speed, and this accounts for
ne ten miles an hour rate of speed on
pa r%ticular portion of track. No
then, that children are run over
nd killed on this grade.
Twenty-Five u~nfortunates or criminals
ppeared at the Recorders matt nee to-
az. presenting an audience, if not fash.
unable, at least numerous. Several pis-
were fined and bonded; suspi.
ious characters and dissrderly pers ons
ere locked up for n%on-payment of fl les.
LOllie Kenny alias Mollie White was
ommitted on the charge of robbery fir, om
3 person of a countryman from Miss as
pgi, whom she had inveigled into an
| sy hack Of the Gayoso House, and as
3 alleges picked his pocket of seven
1t is rumured on the streets that the re
as been an over issue of police and FIRE
rip put upoli the market. This is not
No moro police and FIRE scrip has
scn issued than was provided for by
ordinance, but the financial "bt ,ars"
y so for the purpose of deprecil ,ting
e scrip and buying it in; then they
i'll "bulF' the market, sell out and n lake
cir big bonanza. Any person intere sted
N lind out hal there has been no { ,ver
sue of scrip made by calling at the
ty Hall aud looking at the books Of Ahe
oUlptroller.
THE OR.LECT