Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-20
LEDGER LINES.

Apple butter, peach butter and ounce
at Oliver, Finnie 4 Co.'S.
The Methodist Church Conference will
be held at Brownsville next year.
The total number Of deaths in the city
the past week was Is, or whites
IA and blacks 4,
The members Of the Methodist Con-
ference occupied nearly all the pulpits
in the city yesterday.
The Memphis delegates to the meeting
of the Grand Masonic Lodge at Nash
vile have returned home.
You're a member Of q Returning
Board" is the latest and most polite way
of telling a man he's a fraud.
Fifty dozen pigeons, prairie chickens,
squirrels, quails and perch, very low, at
Victor D. Fuchs this evening.
The fifth anniversary of the Christian
Brothers College is being celebrated in
an appropriate manner to-day.
The cold weather has made navy
blue lips and cardinal red" noses
rather popular with the bellies.
The United States Circuit and District
Courts will be opened in this city by
Judge C. F. Trigg on Monday next.
AT the theater tonight Miss Genevieve
Rogers, supported by Aiken's dramatic
company, will appear as Maud Muller"
Frost and ice appeared last night in
the city and suburbs, very much to the
qualification Of coal and oyster dealers.
Tonight Prof. Peres will deliver a lee.
ture at the Memphis Bethel upon the
subject Of The Philosophy of Ian
guage."
Several young men have gone intC
training for matrimony, and ere Verl
long the marriage bells will be ringini
%joyously.
The days are come when the loafe
leaves the cold street corner and acts a
the bosom companion Of the man VIII
keeps up a good FIRE in his back office.
On the 18th Of December a. Somer
vile, Fayette county, Hawson ClarI
%(negro) is 10 be hanged for the willfu
murder of his uncle, William Gaines.
Business men are still blue owing t
the dizziness brought about by the Pres
dental excitement. A few months
such dull times will bring about a 6nar
' cial panic most disastrous.
Railroad conductors inform as that {
A.. all the stations along the lines the pla
forms are crowded daily with people, q
= anxious to hear the latest political new
as to the Presidential election.
The ladies of the First Presbyteris
church will commence a festival in Il
building recently occupied by Murray
Ridgely, on Madison street, to continV
three days. 1t will be a very a%ttracti'
affair.
Every male Memphian wants to kno
the latest news from Louisiana, Sou
Carolina and Florida, but it looks as
- the poet was correct when he wrote Il
, line I'VE only know that nothing CT
be known"
Representative George Peters, of Il
county, is, so far as heard from, the on
- member Of the last General Assemb
who has been reelected to the House
= Representatives, This will make hi
the father Of the House"
The friends OF Mrs. Andrew e. Nj
IN tin, Of Holly Springs, Miss, will reg
IN to learn Of her death, which took pla
at 8 o'clock this morning, at the re
dence of her son.in-law, Colonel WilliG
ed Mitchell, No. l09 Court street.
The cold, cheerless weather is I
preaching rapidly. Our benevolent p,
pie should remember the wants Of I
suffering poor in our midst. The pc
ND at home need assistance just as much
m the heather Of foreign lands.
The police made eleven arrests vest
~ day aud last night, principally for drur
aud nisdsmeanors. This morning
usual fne Of FIVE dollars was iEpoI
upon each of the unfortuuates, who W
furnished with lodging last night free
b. charge.
Last Saturday afternoon the memb
of the Memphis Board Of Underwrit
held q little social reunion, which
+. rendered more palstable by an oyl
supper and a few bottles Of Piper II,
sick. An elegant gold-hesded cane
presented by the members TO Mr.. W.
Goodman, who has been President Of
Board Tor over five years.
The highly aavsred, cream colored
fat Little Bay" oysters have arrive,
Madame vincent's Crystal Palace
the celebrated Cherry Stones" oyst
These branda are the best that Nor
can fnrnisb, and they are regarded
mel, superior to the famous Lynnhaven
bivalves. Madame Vincent has now
largest and best oysters in the city,
she intends keeping such famous bra
allthe season. Small, badly fed eys
DG are eheap oysters, and do not satisfy