Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-19
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O~entenhial masquerade Dali next
Thursday.
The Tenth ward is to have two public
c~isterns for fire purposes.
Memphis should have a public clock
aud a fountain in Court Square.
The General Council will assemble
again on next Wednesday night.
The Two Orphans matinee will be
held at the theater tomorrow afternoon.
Next Thursday night Cal Wagner's
Minstrels will open up at the Assembly
Hall.
John Robinson & Sons donated one
hundred dollars to the Church Orphans
Home yesterday.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Con-
v%ention is in session at the GreenIaw
Opera House to-day.
Saloon-keepers are now setting forth
fish lunches and oyster soup by way Of
attracting bibulous customers.
Our lady friends who 60 marketing
should drop into Charley Kney's, on
Beal street, near Main, and get some of
his choice meats, fish and game.
The dress-makers of the city are at
work making wedding apparel for brides
or those intending to commit matrimonY
between now and New Years day.
Quite a number of citizens were ar
rested yesterday by the authorities on
the charge of not laying down curbing
aud sidewalks in front Of their property.
The friends Of eight candidates for the
Mayoralty met yesterday and. selected
A. I. Lacey as a joint candidate; so
seven candidates are disposed Of or
eAelved.
Information is wanted by the Chief of
Police of Charlie Mckenzie, aged fifteen
years, who is in the city, andwho left his
home in New Haven, Connecticut, some
time SINCE.
The Sherifs' Office has been removed
to the office recently occupied by the
Clerk of the First Circuit Court, which
is located On the second floor Of the old
Office Of the Sheriff.
The LEDGER job Office, IL 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
Memphis takes great care Of its or
phans, but it never paid so much atten-
ton to these waits of humanity as it has
been doing at the theater nightly when
the Two Orphans have been exhibited.
The circus has disappeared from the
bluff, and o its place is supplied by
"vags." or rag-pickerS, who are turning
over the dirt beneath where the seats
were and are searching for lost nickels,
etc.
Candidates for the position Of Judge of
the Criminal Court will recollect that
they should not only know some law, but
that judges shall be thirty years
Of age and shall have resided in the
State FIVE years before the election or
appointment.
Mr.. James H. Sullivan, of the Vicks-
burg Herald staff, and formerly of the
press of this city, is in town as a dele
gate to the Pacific Railroad Convention.
1t is gratifying to know hat a newspaper
man meets with a reward in this world
occasionally.
In to-day's LEDGER appears the an
nouncement of H. M. James as a cAndi-
date for School Visitor for the Sixth
ward. Mr.. James will make a good pub
lie servant, and will oppose Pickettism
and other destructive influences which
now Cypress our city school system.
VIM. A. Borden, whose marriage in
this city a few days since and whose sub
sequent flight created some sensation, is
wanted in Louisville, where he is a de-
faulter to the tune of over $4,000, and is
also charged with forging his employers
name (Mr. Joseph Mitchell, boiler-maker)
to a check of $1,000. Wine, women and
cards paved the way for the rapid de-
scent to Avernus.
Amateur astronomers will be pleased
to learn that Saturn and Mars are very
close together, being less than fifteen de-
gress apart in the southern heavens,
Mars being now west of Saturn, but by
watching nightly Mars will be observed
to approach aud finally pass its slower
celestial partner. Mars is of a fiery red
color. The rings or belts of Saturn can
be seen through a telescope, which fact
will be of especial interest to the rings"
with which Memphis is belted or envel-
oped.
Two hundred pants makers wanted at
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