Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-23
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The Stevens Comedy Combination


Many bets have been made that Porter
will be defeated in Shelby county.
The Louisvilles beat the Reds at Cen
trail Park yesterday by a score Of 6 to 2.
The total deaths in the city during the
past week numbered 28-Bhites, 10;
blacks, Is.
The woods are on FIRE neal Athens, in
McMinu county, and considerable dam.
age has been done in consequence.
The Fay Tenplston troupe will ap.
pear at the theater tonight in Aimee's
Farewell and a Comedy entitled Cuba.
81 have a bad cold" is the most com.
mon remark heard on the streets at pres
ent. 1t seems that everybody takes it.
"You talk like an Associated Press
agent" is 0 the popular and polite
way to quietly hint that a man is flank
ing the truth.
In the Chaueery Court Jennie Bar
danelli has fled a bill for divorce against
Louis Bardauelli, on the ground Of
abandonment. etc.
The annual fair at jackson, Tennessee,
will commence on tomorrow. Special
railroad rates have been obtained from
Memphis to jackson.
An enthusiastic Indianian writes to the
LEDGER Office, saying: II understand
you printed your paper on blue jeans
Send me q dozen OF them"
Messrs. H. Casey Young and William
NJ. Randolph, candidates for Congress,
will engage in joint discussion at Assem-.
bly, Hall tomorrow evening.
This morning John Stewart, negro,
was arrested and locked up by patrol.
man Hackett, on the charge of stealing
clothing from DR.. Hodges on Union
street.
Yesterday a gentleman on Madison
street was talking about the pool oil
Sloan" and judge of his astonishment
when n of his hearers gravely askei
if it was like the Paris mutual pools. u
Next Thursday evening a concert IN.
der the leadership of Prof. Schulze viii
be given at Cochran Hall, for the bene
. fit Of the German American school
After the concert a hop will be INDUCED
10 by the visitors.
, A local poet of the Hudibrsstie schoc
describes Memphis weather in the follow
ing stenZa:
Either the rain comes s%pouting down,
soaking you through from sole TO crown,
= Or clouds Of dust +" cit up and git"
And fill your eyes With soil and grit"
But little is going on in either th
Chancery or Circuit Courts to-day
. owing to the fact that a large number
lawyers have gone to Jackson to atten
the Supreme Court. The easy call
=. tie Shelby county docket takes place Il
day.
North Mississippi is indulging i
Democratic psrsdes, barbecues, torOl
light professions, etc., and hundreds
negro voters march in procession wit
the white Democrats. Ga tomorrow
big torch light procession will come o
at Sardis, Pamela county.
. Judge Bateman, of this State, has d
cided the dog law unconstitutional, at
a few days since a Circuit Judge in OF
: Of the upper counties quashed an indie
- ment found under the third section
) the Dog Law Act, which declared it
misdemeanor to keep a dog and net pa
the dog poll"
It. The Ladies' Protestant Christian A
uu ISOLATION has secured the old comma
dant's house at the navy yard for Il
purpose Of establishing therein a hon
for fallen women. Memphis will tb'
\. have two homes for the fallen, the Siste
of the Good Shepherd having already
home in successful operation out on Il
" Poplar street boulevard.
The dramatic entertainment given
the German Maennerchor last night,
] Cochran Hall, was attended by a lar
audience, composed Of the members
the association, their families and
l.. vited guests. The acting members
the society acquitted themselves wi
great credit, several of them dispiayir
considerable dramatic talent,
S' Candidates for Legislative houors a.
nominees of the Radical aud Democrat
= parties are stumping away througho
N, the country districts. The low tax gu,
.@ ton ia discussed and each candida
gets as low as possible down about TWEEN
cents. No candidate attempts to stan
like Governor Porter, up to about
forty cent tax, or to indorse the coupe
paying scheme.
Sheriff Anderson has gone up to JaC
son, where the Supreme Court is now
session. He took up with him a numt
L OF Criminal Court prisoners, whose ca
had been appealed TO the Supre.
I, Court. In such cases the court eitt
lea a0irms the Judgment Of the court belc
hs, and orders it carried into effect, or S
i, the judgment aside and remands
case for q new trial in the court below