Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-11
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At the Criminal Court to day motions
are being heard.
To-day is the anniversary Of the birth
Of Martin Luther, in 1883.
The Circuit Court stands adjourned
over to next Monday merning.
Haverly's Minstrels at the theater ard
the matinee 0 dsy and again 10 night.
After 40 election in Memphis a news
paper war generally spriugs up. Give
us a rest"
The mau who asks you. What's the
latest news?' has been in the city for
several days.
In a few days people will cease talking
about politics, and will turn their atteu-
ton 10 business.
Nothing but a few drunks and dis
orderlieS appeared on the ststion.house
trial docket this morning.
Market hours changed from morning
to evening, commencing Monday, 18th
inst, from 2 to 8 o'clock pm.
A choice lot of Reelfoot lake perch
received this morning, for sale low at
Victor D. Fuchs this evening.
R. d, S~panGler, news dealer, S76 Main,
has all the latest illustrated weekly,
mouthlyand daily papers, magazines, etc
Our morning cotemporaries are ad-
vising people to keep cool, but how can
they do otherwise than do SO these cool
days.
This will be the peoples night at tbs
thelter. The Ministries will present an
attractive programme upon that occa-
sioa.
If the election is not settled within the
next few days several Memphians viii 60
to the lunatic asylum, or have an attack
Of dslirium tremeps.
Mr.. j. ]. Perez will, on Monday, No.
vember 10th, deliver q free lecture at the
Bethel, upon the subject of the Phi
losopby of Language"
Two newspaper reporters sported
meerschaum cigar holders on Main
street to-day. The meerschaums we're
won on the late election.
The negro voters who were robbed by
the Radical Freedman's Bank OF Mem
phis stuck to Hayes and Wheeler and
the entire Radical ticket on election day.
The betting is all in favor of Tilden
and Hendricks as yet. The Radical
ofice-holders can saying,
Farewell, a long farewell, to all our
perquisites."
Last night a fire broke out in a cottor
cleaner located at the Navy Yard. Tit
iremen were on hand and promptly sup
pressed the flames. The damage don,
amounted to about $500.
The Democratic newspaper rooster
are growing from Connecticut to Floridi
aud back again by the way of Indiana
Our exchanges are covered all over viii
these modern birds Of freedom.
Memphiaus still continue to return
J from the Centennial Exposition. Tn
last absentes will soon be in. The Dem
r %ocratic ticket in this city lost severa
1 votes in consequence Of absentees.
The people are asking, "Why don
the ~ten-pounder PARROT gun and tn
2 Little Democrat give US some Demo
cratic music nightly2" Let us burn
little powder tonight out on the bluff.
, 0rgan-grinders and professional bel
CARS are crowding into the city, and ar
occupying the most prominent stree
corners. They are on their heeira froI
the wintry North, aud are making the
, annual tour through the Southern Statel
The Radical ofice-holder can now sa
> to the Democrat:
81 who was once rs great as Caesar,
- Am now reduced TO Ncbuohadnezzar;
And from as famed a conqueror
As ever took degree in war,
Or did his exercise in battle,
By you turned out to grass with cattle"
The receipts Of cotton for the pal
week were 2l,704 bsles-receipts for tn
season l3l $3.50. Shipments for the wee
1862; for the season, lOO,629. Sale
for the week, &c, l60. The increase
receipts for the season over the corr
spending period Of last year are 26,07'
I Mrs, Catherine Welsh, who resides Q
- Robertson street, lost her little sol
Jimmy, on the 9th day of October las
and his whereabouts has not been 9
: yet discovered. The boy is about twelV
years of age and has light hair. Any ii
formation concerning him will be than
fully received by his distressed mother
of S~outherly winds, warmer and clear,
5, or bazy weather is promised by o.
t Probs for to day. What does tue o
III villain mean by hay weather. o
,y Probs has been predicting this kind
30 weather for o day or two, as il he vi
n. running the weather bulletins in the i
;. terest of Radical politics.
by During the torcbligbt procession la
Saturday night a ~well-kDOwn Radio
j. darkey, who belongs to n of the Hay