Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-20
LEDGER LIKES.
Fresh oysters daily at Mdm. vincents.

The Fay Templeton dramatic troupe
will be at the theater next week.
The Criminal Court is engaged on the
light felony and misdemeanor dockets to-
day.
At the theater tonight the Stevens
Dramatic Combination will appear in
London Assurance.
Friday next the competitive drill be-
tween the Chiekasaw Guards and the
Porter Rifles will come of in this city.
Tomorrow night at the Greenlaw
Opera House Dorsey Thomas will ad-
dress the people from a twenty cents
platform,
The autumn winds whistled around
town last night, and the leaves did gen.
tly nestle down to earth while the forest
boughs we're signing"
Quite a large audience appeared at
the Greenlaw Opera House last evening
and listened to the discussion had be-
tween Electors Foote and James.
The Fay Templeton troupe will h &.
pear at the theater next Monday night.
Little Fay Templetou is the child wonder
OF the dramatic and musical worlds.
General Nancy is still in the race as
candidate for the office of Governor.
BE is running as a kind of Radical a
didate, but even the Radicals will not
vote for him.
The political contest now progressing
in this county is about the tsmest one
that can well bejmagined. There is not
enough of spice or get up about il
) sufficient to interest even a reporter.
A train filed With soldiers passed
over the Washington street branch o
= the Charleston railroad yesterday. The
boys in blue we're bound for Texas anC
Louisiana on a semi-political mission.
The police are to have four dozeI
whistles, so that they can find each othe
on dark nights. The requisitiou for thl
musical instruments passed the Genera
Council ct the meeting held last night
Brownlow in his Knoxville Tribun
calls him King Harris and the grea
> leader of the rebellion in Tennessee.
Governor Harris is making very effeci
i've speeches throughout CAST TENNESSEE
A fair Memphian insists that any {
the young men who love you with a
their soul show an ignorance Of tn
meaning Of soul" unworthy OF anythiu
higher in the scale Of existence than
=, red herring.
y A negro COW thief, Frank johnson
was convicted of cow.stealing by Il
Criminal Court jury yesterday afternoo
st. and now Frank awaits transportation
Nashville on account of his cattle.l oviI
%propensities.
A game of baseball at Nashvil
i. Wednesday afternoon, between the Lou
Sc villes and LiDcks, resulted in favor
the former by a score Of % to II. 7
same clubs played another game yestI
day afternoon.
Even the United States soldiers "
passed through here yesterday on tn
Us way to Arkansas and Louisiana to cal
out Grants eleotion.controlling ord
are Democrats. The count showed sil
Jsa for Tilden and Hendricks and ten
hayes and Wheeler.
-a=s To night at the Second P~resbyteri
church Rev. Mr.. Witherspoon will
liver a lecture of an interesting char
ter. Subject, "a Fortnight in the Alp
Mr.. Witherspoon is a gentleman of
'N' ent and cultivation, and will no do
deliver a most entertaining discourse,
/, Last Wednesday night, near PoT
go station, on the Mississippi and Tenn
see railroad, the gin house belonging
Mrs. Ray was destroyed by fire. Sixtl
- bales of cotton belonging to farmers
the neighborhood were also destroy
There was no insurance on either
IT, Clubhouse or the cotton.
The compromise which Mayor Flip
TO-. succeeded in effecting with the North
b~on6holding creditors of Memphis
49, be presented by him at the next meet
of the General Council. The terms
compromise are said to be most adv
tageous to our city, and will, if accep
pic. relieve the Taxpayers no little.
d he Not a Legislative candidate in
the county will raise his voice in defens
now Governor Porter aud his coupon pay
: be- scheme. 1t is the first time in the hist
ring Of Tennessee that candidates for
Main Legislature GO back on the candi,
seed for Governor, or at least wisely
'o' nothing upon the subject. This pr
we'd that public opinion is set against POI
pot Considerable investments are mad
futures by specializing M~emphians,
So now, in view Of a European war,
,ame' question Of the future price Ct co
DEC, b),hers the future men no little. S
% say cotton will 60 up, others insist
,ble it will 90 down, and both prove thei
mo. sitiou to be correct to their wi sati
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