Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-17
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The First Circuit Court stands ad.
journed over to Friday morning.
There we're two alarms of FIRE last
evening-one false and the other true,
To-morrow week Thursday being
Thanksgiving day, will be a holiday.
Memphis needs 8 FIRE alarm telegraph
about as much as any city in the land.
The Centennial masquerade ball
comes off tomorrow. week, Thanksgiv-
ing night.
Robinson's circus, ~menagerie and
aquarium will remain on the bluff to-day
and tomorrow.
In the judges chambers" no cham
Der maids or valet de chambre can be
found. Strange, isn't it2
Crowds Of strangers were IN the city
yesterday, they having come in to do
shopping and attend the circus.
The Two Orphans drew another big
house at the theater last night. 1t will
be represented again this evening.
Last night was the coolest Of the sea-
son, and not only frost but ice appeared
this morning in the street cutters.
The mercury in the thermometers
dropped down among the thirties last
night, thus giving us a foretaste of win.
ter.
General Council meeting tomorrow
night, when our Thirty Orphans will
appear and discuss city matters for a
few hours.
The sale Of reserved seats for the
three last nights Of the week and Satur-
day matinee opened up to-day at the
theater ticket Offices.
The body of Captain Ike A. Hood has
not yet been found. His friends will
pay a suitable reward for its recover
and return to this city.
Keep a sharp lookout for sneak
thieves, who are prowling about the city
after dark endeavoriDg to slip into halls
to steal coats and hats.
Robert Mcdaniel (nig) was arrested
this morning by the police on the charge
OF stealing a horse and a heifer from a
farmer residing a few miles out in the
country.
The stockholders of the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad are in meeting
at the Peabody to-day for the purpose
OF electing a board of directors and a
set of officers.
The LEDGER job Office, 10 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
Yesterday afternoon Esquire Miller
performed the marriage service between
Mr.. W. Boden, of Cincinnati, and Mrs.
Margaret Congedon, better known as
Miss Maggie Williams, of this city.
The Memphis Pacific Railroad Con.
v%ention comes off on Friday at the
Greenlaw Opera House. The Chamber
of Commerce meets at 3 o'clock this
afternoon to make all necessary arrange.
ments.
Quite a number Of weddings take
place to-day, among Others two double
weddings. In one instance two sisters
and in another a brother and sister
step over the line that divides single
expectancy from double b~lessedness.
Rumor has it that numerous matches
are shortly to be consummated.
Central Point is agitated over a hoo.
doc performance. The black hoodoo
doctreSs was arrested yesterday for per.
forming incantations and hoodooing sew.
eral sick people in the neighborhood,
both white and black. We did not know
that so much superstition existed among
white people in any portion of this city.
The African mind always leans toward
Fetichism.
Our hymeneal reporter has been in
formed that at present in Memphis so.
ciety the only subject Of conversation
among bellies and beaux is marriage, a
subject which has been brilliant and
broad enough to entertain young people
ever since Adam and Eve sat down be.
meath the apple tree in the Garden of
Eden and discussed it in all its bearings.
Mr.. Frank Evans, who SO cleverly and
dramatically plays the role of pierre
Frochard 1.-THE cripple) in the Two Or
phsns, wasleading mar of the Memphis
Theater company during the season two
years ago. Last year be played with
Lolita, AID since that time has been con-
nected with a New York theater. He is
an excellent actor and a whole-souled
gentleman, and one who has a large
number of personal friends in this city.
State and County TAKE Collector Frank.
land is issuing immense piles of distress
warrants, which are being placed in the
hands of officers for collection. 1t is
astonishing how angry some people get
when asked to pay taxes or pressed so to
do with a distress warrant. One old gen..
tleman yesterday visited the tax-collec-
tors Office and paid two dollars taxes;