Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-20
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AHO last picachtatich VI tnt W VT
phans will be given At the theater to.
night.
Already many citizens are providing
themselves with Thanksgiving turkeys
for next Thursday.
The chicken cholera is said to be pre-
vailing throughout West Tennessee and
North Mississippi.
There was a loud laugh heard all
around town yesterday over the slaugh-
ter of the Innocents.
A few gentlemen who had municipal
aspirations are o repeating that beau
tiful poem entitled I'VE are Seven"
One Of the largest and most fashion
able audiences that has been in the Mem
phis Theater for many seasons appeared
there last night to witness the Two Or
phans.
A petition is in circulation throughout
the city calling for a Democratic and
Conservative convention to nominate a
candidate for the Mayoralty. The petit
ton is being generally signed.
Bishop Wm. M. Wightman will preach
tomorrow morning at Asbury Chapel,
on fernando street. Bishop Wightmau
is the guest of Captain Collier, who re-
sides at No. 45S Pontotoc street.
1t has been remarked that the Pacific
Railroad Convention contains one of
the most respectable and dignifed look
ing lot Of gentlemen ever seen in any
deliberative body that has ever assem-.
bled in this city.
The rivalry between Memphis and St.
Louis over the Southern Pacific railroad
terminus has cropped out ia the Mem
phis Convention and will be cultivated
at the St. Louis affair, which will con-
vene on Tuesday next.
"0f course. to be sure" so~the
smokers say, "Sol Colemah's Cuban
cigars are the best for the money in the
United States" Go to 200 Main and try
Sol just once, and you will call again.
OF course, to be sure"
Leverier, the great astronomer Of
Paris and ~discoverer of the planet Nep.
tune, has made a noteworthy prediction.
1t is that the winter of 1856 will be un.
commonly severe. Enormous quaint,
ties of snow are to fall in December and
January.
Under the new order Of rearrangine
the Internal Revenue collection districts
the Seventh and Eighth Districts of Ten.
nessee have been consolidated, and will
be known as the Eighth and placed under
charge of Collector General II. F. Pat.
terson.
The States represented in the Pacific
Railroad Convention which assembled al
the Greenlaw Opera House yesterday
are Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Lou.
%isiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Ar.
kansas, Ohio and Tennessee, the number
Of delegates being eighty-nine.
Up to Thursday last Memphis had re.
ceiyed 23,67S more bales of cotton than
up to the same date of last season-the
entire number of bales received this sea-
son up to the above date being l3l, 900.
1t is believed that Memphis will receive
nearly half a million of cotton bales this
season.
Twenty or more houseless wanderers
or tramps lodged on the floor of the
Recorders courtroom at the station.
house last night. They sleep on the
floor without any covering, and use their
coats for pillows. All this is either the
result of poverty, %imprudence, sickness
or innate worthlessness.
Yesterday a petition was fled in the
office of the County Register to incor.
porate the Fort Pickering Building and
Loan Association, with the usual powers
pertaining to such corporations. The
%incorporators are Messrs. John D. Mil
burn, W. L. Marsh, j. W. Vernon, E.
Urquhart and VIM. Molatt.
Plenty Of amusements on Thanksgiy.
ing Day, Thursday next. Big Bonanza
matinee 6. the theater, Cal Wagner's
Minstrels at the Assembly Hall at night,
and the grand Centennial Masquerade
Ball at the Exposition, given under the
auspices Of the Centennial Commission
ers, assisted by leading citizens.
Mr.. j. M. Tighe left for Cincinnati
yesterday in charge of the special mes
senger designated in the requisition from
the Governor of Ohio and the warrant
issued by the Governor Of Tennessee, to
answer the charge of obtaining goods
under false preteaces from certain mer-
chants of Cincinnati. His attorneys
will leave here to-day for the same city
to attend to the case.
The Chief Of Police wants information
of Mrs. Molly Barnsdorf, who eloped
with E. ]. Burke from Galveston, Sep
TENDER 8, 1875. Burke abandoned her
in st. Louis, leaving her destitute. She
left for New Orleans on a packet and
disappeared Chief Athy wants to send
the woman back to her friends in Gal
weston. Her photograph shows her to
be of unprepossessing appearance and
aged about twenty-five years,