Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-25
LEDGER LINES

One car load Of New York buckvheat
at Oliver, Finhie 4 Co.'S.
Fine turtle soup will be served to-
night at John Wcndefs, 81 Poplar ct.
Tilden beat Hayes in Tennessee 44,427
votes, with Carter county yet to hear
from.
Fifty dozen q%uails, dressed turkeys,
v%enison, celery, mallard ducks at Victor
D. Fuchs.
WI have dusty streets sgein; a light
rain shower would be a blessing, and that
not in disguise.
The United States Court will open up
for business in this city on next Monday,
Judge Trigg presiding.
Maud Muller will be the matinee at
traction at the theater to-day. There
will be no performance tonight.
The States says that Brownsville is
the fastest place Of its size 10 the South,
aud that it is becoming considerably de-
moralizel.
Next Monday night Divorce will be
the dramatic attraction at the theAter, on
which occasion the celebrated Furnish
Combination will appear.
Thsre are a score Of sble-bodied citi-
zsns doing duty on the chain-gang. If
turned bose they would cease to work
ssd would again m 10 stealing.
/ We are indebted to Major Joseph Bar
IbieFe, Commissioner from Tennessee to
the late international exhibition at Phil
%adelphia, for q special catalogue Of stated
D displays Of fine stock.
, The police made eleven arrests last
night, principally IN the charge Of
drunkenness, and this morning the Re
1t corder imposed upon the untortunste'
t the usual ive.dollar fine.
R. d. s~pangler, new dealer, 376 MAR
= street, has all the latest msgaziues
:. fashion books, illustrated weeklies, daily
papers, etc. Jules Verne's From thl
: Earth to the Moon" lOc q copy.
q Ia the little tow Of Fsirview, Tod
county, KY, may now be seen a pleasan
n little cottage, within the walls of wbicI
Mr.. Jefferson Davis was born. So say
, the correspondent Of a Louisville paper
VIM. Moody, negro, was convicted i
the Criminal Court to-day on the charg
y Of bringing stolen property into tn
Of State. He was sentenced to six month";
Imprisonment in the Presidents Islam
workbouse.
> The Nashville papers complain tina
the Sunday law ia enforced SO LIBERAL
that no one can get a matutinal cockta
on that day, unless he has a bottle (
that admixture put up the night befol
ny tOuHo DHI uluk6lop'
Lord help the poor-the rich CO
afford to beg" is the latest way Of putin
it since delegations Of cardinal red coatt
s ladies 90 around begging for money f
the distressed and ~benighted hesthens
- Africa and China.
Bird hunting is all the rage with Mer
D. phis sportsmen at present, and dai
goodly numbers Of rabbits, squirrels al
"a. Qusils are brought into market by tt
hunters, many of whom make huntil
profitable as we'll as pleasurable.
- In this, the Tenth Congressional d
trict, according to the official returns
Nashville, II. Casey Young beat Wm.
Randolph for Congress by $50 votes
EN good working majority that no Retui
IN ing Board can count out in Tennsss,
No one can collect an election bet
we'd law. It is what is called a debt Of hon
3, In this city many bets made on the Pre-
dental election have been drawn
agreement of the parties, as the res
is too remote for the satisfactory adju
ment Of bets between friends.
cGs The LEDGER returns thanks to PhilIi
Henry & Co., of Norfolk, Va. for a {
,,v Of select oysters, to be eaten on Than
giving Day. The oysters were forwArd
= to Victor D, Fuchs, with Instructors
N. present them, which Victor did ia
usual.and polite Partisan style.
There was quite a large attendance
ON. the theater matinee to-day, MI
Muller" being the attraction. Mana
Brooks would do well 10 re-engage N
Q Genevieve Rogers to reAppear here q
Christmas, now that her dramatic tale
have become recognized by the peo
of Memphis.
Kilainning Lodge of Masons cleo
=. ~ the following officers last night: Jal
shes, s. Carpenter, W. NJ; John W, Way
Sat burg, s. W; DR.. J. J. Ross, ]. w.; I
IS IN S%ylvanus Landrum, Chaplain; DR..
p..l A. Edmonds, Treasurer; A. j. Kna
Hills Secretary; Frank Lamont, S. D.; S
rum, A. Bowen, j. D.
rdov The black.bosrds Of the Cotton
lO.sO change show the following figures:
an. ceipts Of cotton for the week, %
bales; for the season, l77,469i shipm.
'"V - for the week, 1855; for the sea
l25, GIL; stock on hand, 67,l96. Sales