Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-05
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St. Andrews Society will celebrate St.
Andrews day November 3Oth) by in.
dulging in a banquet.
Ex-Governor Vance, Of North Caro-
lima, will lecture tonight at the Green
law Opera House on a most interesting
subject, entitled THE Scattered Ma
ton"
The Baby Mcdonald matinee will
come off at the Greerlaw Opera House
at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Every lady in the city should see this
child wonder.
With circuses and Ministries our city
presents the appearance Of a picture
gallery, as scarcely a spot is left on dead
walls, fences, etc., but what is covered
With a big pictorial poster.
An injunction was obtained from
Chancellor Morgan this forenoon by the
representatives of steamboat and steam
boat lines restraining Wharfmaster Shaw
from collecting wharfage.
The negro wharfmaster and miscreant
Ed Shaw still threatens colored men who
act with the Democratic party, but if he
and his gang Of murderers kill any one
then Shaw and his dupes will be lamp
posted and lynched.
The General Council at the meeting
tonight should appoint a committee to
investigate the charges of incompetency
and neglect Of business which are so
universally made against the negro
wharfmaster Ed Shaw.
The rains yesterday washed out the
Bayou Gayoso, much to the qualification
Of those citizens who dwell along its
classic banks, and who have for seine
weeks been enjoying the offensive efluvia
that came from its bed.
On the motion made yesterday in the
Criminal Court by James Reamey
against John Moss, to "disbar" said
Moss for unprofeSsional conduct, Judge
Flippin held that the charges we're not
sustained and the case was dismissed.
Mr.. j. R. Harwell, Secretary of the
Grand Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F., residing at
Nashville, has been quite ill since the
adjournment of the Grand Lodge. A
telegram yesterday to his friends in this
city announced the gratifying intelli-
gence that he was rapidly improving.
The rains last night drove numbers Of
tramps and Migrants to the station-house
for lodging. They we're accommodated
but were informed that two nights lodg-
ing was the limit, and after that they
would be arrested and locked up as
"vags."
AT Grace Episcopal Church on yester-
day Mr.. A, W. Otis was married to Miss
Nita Duval by DR.. Carmichael. The
bride and groom have q host of friends
in this city who will throw the slip.
per after them and wish them health,
happiness and prosperity.
The Cotton Exchange black boards TO-
day showed the following figures: Re-
ceipts of cetton for the week, 81, 7o3
bales; for the season, 81 1902; shipments
for the week, 1921; for the season, g.
5lS; stock on hand, 24,356; sales for the
week, 1900, principally taken by ex.
porters.
Yesterday was gloomy in appearance,
but the marriage bells rang out %joyously
and unsteady upon the misty air. At
the residence of Mr.. Ben X. Pullen, en-
Vance street, Miss Minnie Pulien and
Mr.. Norman Avery intermarried; and
on Orleans street, at the residence of the
bride, Miss Mabel Morrison was married
to Mr.. G. L. Tucker, a son of Hon. Bev-
erly Tucker, of Virginia.
Owing to the fact that the Supreme
Court has decided that the additional
compensation of two thousand dollars
from the County Courts paid to
judges is illegal and unconstitutional,
and that their pay can only be the TWEEN
ty-ive hundred dollars received from the
State, it is rumored that several of our
judges will resign; among others Judge
Flippin, of the Criminal Court.
The negro gambling den kept by Bob
Church on the corner of Beal and
Gayoso is now made headquarters for
Ed Shaw's Radical thugs" who assault
and threaten to kill all Democratic ne
groes who are induced to stay at
Church'S. This gambling and disrepu-
table house should be raided on by the
police occasionally, when something
rich would turn up. Church keeps a den
where rural darkies are roped in to be
robbed by gamblers.
At a meeting Of the members OF St.
Andrews Society held last night the fol-
lowing officers we're elected for the en-.
suing year; President, E. L. Topp;
First Vice President, John G.. Forbes;
Second Vice President, W. W. Young;
Physician, DR.. F. L. Sim; Treasurer,
John Young; Secretary, John B. Camp.
bell; Assistant Secretary, John 7. Tom
%linsoni Librarian, Alexander Tocher;
Board Of Managers, H. T. Tomlinson,
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