Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-27
LEDGER LINES.

The different churches OF the city were
well attended yesterday and last night.
In the Criminal Court to day tight
f~elonies and misdemeanOr cases are OF
hearing.
Venison hams, woodcocks, squirrels,
rabbits, wild turkeys, opossums,
at Victor D. Fuchs.
"The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of the year" sure enough
politically, if not otherwise.
The different railroads centering sin
this city seem to be in tip-top running
condition for the business season.
Divorce, as presented by the famous
Kurdish Fifth Avenue Combination, will
be the dramatic attraction at the theater
tonight.
The United States Court for the Dis
trict of West Tennessee, Judge Trigg
presiding; was in session at the Court
House to day.
There are scores OF men in this city
who 20 about talking Of the hard times,
If they would go to work the hard times
would pass away rapidly.
The mortuary report of the Board Of
Health for the past week shows the total
number of deaths to have been 20; Of
which IL were whites, and s blacks.
Russia has her eye on a Turkey for a
Thanksgiving Christian dinner Russia
has heard of President Grants aud Gov.
Porter's Thanksgiving p%rOclamatious.
Nashville is to have Strakosch's Grand
Opera Troupe this week, with Misses
Mccullough, A~rmadsle, Tom Carl, Sig
Barilli and others. A little Strakosch
opera in Memphis wouldn't hurt.
Our Granger readers will be grstiied
to learn that their brethren in Virginia
are establishing their own warehouses at
Richmond, and the Changers of CalifOr-
MIA are ~endeavoring to control the price
of wheat.
The young dry goods clerks who went
"spipe hunting in Cane creek bottom
last Friday night are not 10 the best of
humor over the publication of their ad-
ventures which appeared in the LEDGER
of Saturday.
Fishermen who have returned from
Reelfoot Lake say that next morning
after the storm, a few days since, thou
sands of dead fish aoated ashore. No one
knew the cause Of their death. The
. water was literally thick with them.
Thursday rex will be turkey OIL
Thanksgiving day ia Tennessee - a
least so says Governor Povter's procla
nation. If we have nothing Else to b,
thankful for we can be thankful tina
\ things are no worse.
This morning Judge Trigg, Of th,
- United States Court, made an order t
d sell the Paducah railroad in six month
from date, upon the petition Of the frs
mortgage bondholders. The matter WI
probably be arranged before the day {
sale.
d The United States Court for the Di
n trict Of West Tennessee and the Clreu
Court convened this morning with Judg
. Trigg on the bench, Several motior
we're heard. On tomorrow mornin
. the grand and petit %juries will be impa
eled.
Yesterday John Williams, negro, Wis
" ing to have a square meal, snatched al
ran away with a lot of spare ribs ne
W. the Beal street market. He was chas
and caught by patrolmsn Romans, al
;, this morning was committed TO jail
the Recorder.
The National Association of Won.
n Sufragists will meet at Washington
" the 10th of January next, and the ass
= citation has issued an appeal to wom0
to circulate a petition to Congress pl
hibiting the States from %defrauding CT
zens on account Of their sex.
Work on repairing the levee front
= landing is progressing rapidly in a sat
isfactory manner. When finished st
lty eral hundred feet of new and good Ian
We ing will be the result. This will no dou
OF be gratifying to business men and SteA
boatmeu.
W. Tomorrow evening Captain John Go
rs. den wilt speak at Assembly Hall up
les the ,uHiect Of the proposed BaratAi
shin canal and the ways and mes
vi necessary to build it. Other spsak'
n will also be in attendance and discouI
M upon the important subject.
The Jealous wretch who controls
an local columns Of the Littl; Rock
an; gstte writes thGt there is e troupe
model artists on exhibition at Mempt
PTS; and the Blufhtes are complaining Il
the show is not as vulgar as they ha,
fly, right to expect and their taste require
rye Mr.. Nicolson pavement Brown p
poses to have the United States Co
issue a @apdaWqs this week upon
City Fathers to COMPEL them TO Il
another TAX or coll. ct the tax alrei
levied on the people. 1t looks as if