Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-08

again to-MOrroW night AZ the City hall
for the purpose of winding up unfinished
business.
The mortuary report for the past week
is as follows: Total deaths, 20; whites,
Is; blacks, s. Nearly one.half the deaths
were from consumption.
Ben DeBar will appear as wilkins
Micawber' at the theater tonight. A
special excursion train from Little Rock
will be in in time for the entertainment.
In the Recorders Court this morning
twenty misdemeanor cases we're heard.
Bill Sibles, (nig. J, charged with larceny,
was committed in default Of $1,000 bonds
Yesterday was a good day for ~loafers,
who assembled on street corners and adj
mired the ladies as the latter we're re-
turning home from the different
churches.
In the First Chsncery Court to-day
Mary Cousens (nig.) fled a bill for
divorce against Hillary Cousens, on the
grounds Of inhuman treatment and
abandonment.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Con.
vention, which will be held here on the
18th inst, promises to be largely at
tended by representatives from all Dor
tons of the country.
Mississippians can now appreciate the
poetic lines
Mine eyes have seen the glory Of the coming
Of the Lord;
He is trampins out the vintage where the
grapes Of wrath are stored.'
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. I
Bill Banks (nig) was committed to
Jail by Esquire Quigley to-day on the
charge of obtaining one dollar under
false pretences from a woman, to whom
he promised a load of wood.
3. s. Davis, of Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, Supreme Chancellor of the
World Knights of Pythias, is in Nash.
vile on a tour through Tennessee,
Georgia and South Carolina.
Wild ducks and geese have appeared
among the islands (the Hen and Chick
ens) above the city, and sportsmen are
INDUCING in the sport of shooting them
from the shores and from skifs.
At st. Mary's Church, corner of Third
and Market streets, a grand sacred con-
will be given tonight. Our best
and most popular professional and ANA
teur musicians and vocalists will ap.
pear.
There is no excuse for vagrancy while
The planters throughout West Tennessee,
Mississippi and Arkansas are
offering from seventy-6ve cents to one
1ollsr per hundred pounds to cotton.
pickers.
The recent earthquake was felt
throughout the Northwestern States as
we'll as in Tennessee, Mississippi, North
Alabama and Georgia, and as far south
IS Columbia, South Carolina. The Mis-.
valley had an attack of the pre-.
disease, the shakes.
The question of the Mayoralty is at
tracting considerable attention and dis
c%ussion. So far but one general con-
has been reached, and that is,
hat the present incumbent will have to
step dswn and out, he having been iinan.
and every other way an immense
Yesterday SheriT Anderson carried to
he Nashville p%enitentiary David Larrey,
Who was sentenced in our Criminal
court to twenty years in the ~penitentiary
the charge Of murder in the second
and John Gamer, who was sen.
enced to ten years Imprisonment on the
I
of horse stealing.
The lectures BY Governor Vance, of
North Carolina on the Scattered
delivered at the Greenlaw
Opera House on Friday and Saturday
nights, were not as largely attended as
hey should have been. Lecturing has
lever yet become populsrized in Mem
ibis; taste has to be educated to it.
The Memphis Cotton and Wool Manu-
scturing Company hasbeen fully organ.
zed, and the works of the company at
Fort Pickering are rapidly approaching
completion. The officers are; President,
!. d. Milburn; Vice President, L. Urqu-
TART; Secretary, VIM. Moifat; Treasurer,
Ohm D. Milburni superintendent, John
:. Collins.
The Second Circuit and the Second
)hascery Courts have ceased to exist,
wing to the late decision of tie Supreme
)ourt, holding that the act abolishing
courts was constitutional. The
Jerks Of said courts are winding up
%usiness, and Judges Stockton and
ialsey cannot act in any Judicial ca
'aoiV for the present, It is rumored
hat an effcrt will be made to have a re-