Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-17
LEDGER LINES.

Fresh oysters daily at Mdm. vincents
The national kennel dog club is in SEES
sion in this city.
The General Council will assemble at
the City bal tonight.
Madame Rentz's female minsirels and
variety troupe at the theater again to-
night.
"Old Probs" still continues to predict
cloudy and hazy weather for southern
~latitudes.
For Sale-A handsome $40 Office
stove at half price. Inquire at No. 10
Madison street. 6S
Business continues dull throughout
the city owing to the muddle On the
Presidential election.
Mr.. B. F. Halter, Of this city, has been
elected Most Illustrious Grand Master Of
the Grand Council of Masons.
MI count you out" has become q
slang expression in this city since the
troubles commenced in the Gulf States.
The Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, is still in session at
the Central Methodist church in this
city.
Major Will 0. Woodson, the Asso-
ciated Press agent at this point, is again
on duty, he having returned from Ken.
lucky.
Next Monday night Miss Genevieye
Rogers will ommencs an engagement
at the theater in a drama entitled Maud
. Muller.
The Grand Lodge of United Friends
Of Temperance is in session at Nashville
Several M~empAians are 10 attendance as
, delegates.
If the Little Democrat was fred q
D few times around the Louisiana Return
ing Board Mr.. Tilden would soon b.
u counted in.
h All eyes are turned Southwark, wher
the magnoliss bloom and negro Return
q ing Boards are counting Tilden out c
the Presidential chair.
> There was a large and fashionable a
tendance at the First Baptist Church o
# Second street, yesterday afternoon, upo
t the occasion OF the marriage Of Mr.. v
P. Miller AID Miss Eula Smith, all
this city,
Numbers Of pigeon shooters froI
: other States are in the city in after
: dance on the tournament progressing
the Fair Grounds. Mr.. Fl G. Skinne
Of the Rod and Cur" is here actin
as historian OF the contest.
Numbers of clerical gentlemen ere
: III, city in attendance upon the Metht
dist Conference. The Central Method.
Church is crowded daily by clergyme
y and visitors, great interest being felt /
of the faithful 10 all the proceedings.
se Wednesday night last q cotton ma
swallowed a dose of laudanum Wink
cana very near putting an end to h
life. A stomach pump and medical q
prev nted the catastrophe. The laud
mum was taken through mistake.
Fatty McGinnis, alias Vance, a no
rious scalper and ex-Memphian, has be
arrested at Vicksburg on the charge
murder. There are but few crimes
/. the catalogue that McGinnis would I
80 commit upon very slight provocation.
- Yesterday afternoon Miller and v
son, two white men, charged with ste
70, ing fifteen sacks Of coffee from the
tie Roct railroad, were convicted in
Criminal Court and were each sentent
''' to FIVE years imprisonme in the pc
- tentilry.
But one arrest was made by the pol
during yesterday and last night.
soll unfortunate was drunk. He '
discharged by the Recorder this morn
FQ on account of his solitary and isola
.ED con iition in court, he being the o
criminal on record.
foy Macy of the crack pigeon killer
our city are shooting under a nom
~ plume at the trap contest. When on
the boys il seen wearing a prize me
/ puzzles the admiring citizen to m
tn, fact tally with the newspaper
med counts as to the aames Of the prize
ners.
Mr.. 0rville Yerger is acting as spe
.s.. Jud ,e of the Criminal Criminal Go
hearing the ease Of Joe Chase, inC
men. for tie marder Of the Fire
dairgmen, Lem Cohupe. Two tt
- have been had in this case, but with
Us other result than a disagreement by
%juries and mistrials entered.
Rsligiou services will be held
evening at Il O'Clock by members Of
SCs Methodist Conferences, now in sessio
this city, at the following places: (
tral, DIR. Young; Asbury, 7. q. Whit
~ otoom-S NJ Cherry evening.