Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-08
LEDGER LINES.
Motion day in the courts.

Motion day in the courts.
The Arbitration Courtis not in session
to day.
The changing are at work in the
suburbs.
No performance at the Memphis
theater tonight.
Cotton firm, with a good market for
good style middliHgs.
The stores on Main street are assum.
ing a holiday appearance.
The week closes with little business
doing in commercial circles.
A force continues to repair the street
railroad track on Main street.
The stone and Nicolson pavement on
Main street is sadly in need Of repair.
Read the religious notices in the
LEDGER to day and go to church to.mor.
row.
The large receipts of apples, potatoes
and garden truck has caused q Auctua.
ton in prices.
= The fine weather is enabling the plan
tsrs in the bends to pick their cotton and
prepare it for market.
Tha Rice Extravaganza Combination
leave for New Orleans this evening, tie
matinee closing their engagement.
Cody, Peterson and Demorest for Jau.
uary and all the latest weekly and daily
papers at Spangler's, 376 Main street.
The Eighth ward W~orkingmen, at a
meeting last night, selected delegates to
represent them at the Cochran Hall
Convention Tuesday night next.
The Workingmeni in the different wards
Of the city held meetings last night, and
agreed to hold a nominating convention
Tuesday night next at Cochran Hull.
Detective Pryde to day arrested Char.
lie Wallace, an escaped prisoner, charged
with grand larceny, who broke Jail at
Springfield, Illinois, on the 18th Of No
vember.
The rush for tickets in the Louisiana
lottery increases as the day Of the draw
ing approaches. To-day is the last
chance to secure q ticket in this reliable
drawing.
Mr.. b. A. Bohee, of Chicago, NJ. W.
Richmond, of Jackson, Tenn, and W.
I. Arbuckle, of Horn Lake, Miss, were
visitors at the cotton exchange this
morning.
We have already employed two or
three men to fill the place of Captain
Fred R, Brennan, late city editor Of the
LEDGER Applicants for the position
will please take notice.
Mrs. Mary Cheek, wife of the late
Elijah Cheek and mother OF the Messrs
Cheek brothers, the we'll known steam.
bostmen, died yesterday 10 this city at
the advanced age Of eighty years.
There was smother sharp frost this
morning, but nc ice. The weather ia
really delightful just now, but how long
it will last is more than old Probabilities
himself could guess with any certainty.
Theatrical affairs are quite as dull oil
over the country as they are here. The
Cincinnati Gazette says that il there is
not a change in that city soon, the public
tbeatricals will be limited to variety
shows, with liquors"
The coal feet from the Ohio will put
in an appearance next week, which will
have a tendency to cause another de.
cline in that most desirable article at
this season of the year, 1t is an impor
tant item to those whose purses are
limited.
The Temple of Honor, a temperance
organization, gave a banquet last night
at their ball, on Second street, over
the old Chickalaw club rooms. 1t was
largely attended by ladies and gentle
men, and was a highly cr5ditable and
very pleasant affair.
Judge james Halsey, formerly of Ohio,
died at tie residence OF his son Judge
Irving Halsey, nsAr the city, last Thurs
day, aged seve ltJ three years. BE had
been an active, prominent man, but Of
late J e vs resid4d with his son and took
nc part in public affairs.
The Avalar che says that Colonel John
DOnOV an in nof "A mrmhaf nf tha Nountv