Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-15
LEDGER LINES.


The tine is approaching 10 select
Christmas gifts for your friends and rela-
tives.
Mrs. Bowers in Richard grinley Sher-
idan's School For Scandal, at the thea
ter tonight.
In the United States Court to-day the
argument Of COUNSEL is progressing iu the
Waddy Thompson habeas corpus case.
An exchange says; There is a col.
ored Democrat in the Mississippi Lesis-
lature. He is from Pamela county, and
his name is Vaughan"
Candidates for the Mayoralty, candi.
dates tor places as delegates. voters and
ward politicians sat up late last night in
order to hear the result of the primary
election.
The Jefferson Street Opera House
(vsrieties) will be opened next Saturday
night by Manager Eugene F. German,
who brings q troupe of a~rtistes from
New Orleans.
AT the Recorders Court. to-day D. j.
Parten, who shot 3 negro named Kirk.
on DeSOto street, yesterday morning,
was committed by the Recorder, his
bonds being placed at $4,000.
Walter Reddick, a bar-keeper from
Water Valley, who shot to death a ma.
chinist and engineer named Arthur
Laemy, on Saturday night last, was ar
rested yesterday in this city and impris-
oned to await a requisition from the
Governor of Mississippi.
The Democratic and Conservative
Msyoralty convention will be hold at the
Assembly Hall, on Main street, near Cav.
oso, tomorrow. The convention will
open at IL o'clock a m, and all proceed.
ingS had up to q o'clock will appear in
the LEDGER of tomorrow afternoon.
Yesterday was the anniversary Of the
death of Washington, which event took
place in 1893 His last words we're: II
die hard, but l am not afraid to meet nv
God. thank you, my friends; but do
not take any more trouble about ne"
And then, just previous to his breathing
his last, he whispered: ut is we'll" and
all was over.
Governor Porter has commuted the
death sentence Of John Jefferson, negro.
who was sentenced to be hanged in Jan.
uary, to imprisonment for life. Tho
Governor also respited Frank Scott and
William Williams, negroes, who were
to nave been hanged on Christmas eve.
They are to be hanged on the 7th Of
January next.
A tight r~ope-walker attempted to give
an exhibition Of his roping ability near
the courthouse yesterday afternoon.
The rope was extended across the street
some thirty feet above ground. The
artistic stepped out on the rope a few
yards, but slipping caught a guy and saved
his bones. The roper had taken a few
drinks too many for the aerial business.
The beautiful monument Intended to
be placed ove the graves of Reverend
Fathers Daley, 0'Brien, Carey, Leo
and sheehy, who fell victims in this city
to the yellow fever epidemic of 1873, has
arrived from Csrrara, Italy, and will be
erected in the Catholic Cemetery in a
few days. The monument cost $25OO. and
it ia a beautiful specimen oil Italian art
and workmanship.
To-day the delegates elect are the
most popular men in the city. They are
button-holed on every corner by the
friends of some aspirsnt to the response.
able office Of Mayor. The elect will find
no difficulty in securing a supply of Gig.
airs, tobacco and drinks until day after
Tomorrow, then none so poor as to do
them r%evereneei;" but such is temporary
greatness and fame all over the world.
Several strangers in the city yesterday
hired a carriage from McCullers and
rode through the city on a pleasure trip.
They denounced the Nicolson pavement
in unmeasured terms, and stated that
such a thing would not be permitted to
exist, without repairs, in any other city
on the continent. The puzzle with them
was, why the city government had not
repaired the pavement before it became
In 80 bad a condition; and the strangers
expressed themselves 10 no very compli-
mentary terms of the city government.
During N Of the pathetic scenes in
MART at the theater last night a rural
baby in the audience became so affected
tSat it set up a frightful bowling, and
had 10 be carried out by pater-familias,
much to the amusement of the audience.
Our dramatic critic has noticed that
when such musical events occur at a
thester the ladies all laugh, but the men
frown and look indignant, Just as if they
never were babies in early life. The
amusing incident last night, however,
was highly enjoyed by the entire au.
dience, except by the dramatic reporter
Of the Appeal, who despises babies at
theaters.
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