Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-05
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will appear at the theater.
Wild geese continue to fly southwark /;
the wild goose honks high at present"
Best quality of French paper for Zoe
a box at e. l.. Cleaves', 326 Main street.
The city fathers will hold a public
seance at the city hall on Wednesday
night next.
Miss Genevieve Rogers and the Aiken
Dramatic Company will play at Little
Rock tonight.
May, the shirt tailor, makes the bet
shirts and underwear at less than prices
of Eastern goods.
Heavy gusts Of wind prevailed last
night, and the rains came aud poured
down until after daylight.
AT the theater tonight the Bohemian
Girl, with Miss Jennie Magevney as
airline" will be the attraction.
Lovers of game here are enjoying
quail, saipe, w~oodcock, wild duck, prairie
chickens and v%enison at present.
The Drury.G Gibson murder case is be-
ing argued by counsel to-day. The case
will be given to the jury this afternoon.
The number of deaths which occurred
in the city during the past week was II,
of which number 10 were white and 7
black.
This forenoon James Vandyke (black)
and John Seymour (white) were arrested
as suspicious characters and vagranis
by the police.
Congressional documents are pouring
in upon US like a food. Many of them
are valuable. to the political student as
works OF reference.
The festive white tramp and the negro
vagrant nov attend the Criminal Court
trials daily in order to kill time aud at
the same time study criminal law.
The destruction Of oysters increases in
this city at the season advances. Never
were so many oysters sold here as at
present. Thee appetite" SAYS Shaks.
peare, grows by what it feeds on"
The fall poet has tackled the mos.
quito:
MOSQUITO, fold thy weary wings
And GROSS thy legs upon thy breast.
fut up my bills and horns and things,
Ard sink into thy final rest!
News has reached here from Washing.
ton that there are no official vacancies to
be filed, by Democrats, and applicants
had better save time and money by stay.
ing at home and engaging in some legiti.
mate business.
Tomorrow our neighbors in Missis.
sippi will settle Rsdicalism and its fos-
ter brother, Independentism, by voting
for the Democratic nominees. But few
Mississippiaus are in town to-day or will
be until after the election.
The Evening Record is a new enter.
prise started at Nashville. 1t is indie
pendent in politics and claims the
right to support men for Office regardless
of party lines or party names" No one
in Tennessee questions that right,
The patent outside" journals of the
country are still publishing the news
that General Forests health is still
pr acarious," while the insides Of the
same journals his death and
contain obituary notices of the great
captain.
There will be a special meeting Of
Banner Lodge, l. 0. W. NJ, No. SO, at
hall, corner of Beal and fernando
streets, tonight at 81 o'clock, for iuitia-
ton of ell persons who wish to become
charter members, as the charter closes
tomorrow.
Oar Tennessee and other exchanges
tons laden with culogies on the
life CT General Forrest. Such ghoullike
Radical journals as the Philadelphia
Bulletin and the New York Times are
exceptions to these courtesies Of tribute
to tie great dead. The editors of such
sheets OF course never heard the whistle
of a bullet.
That hoary old gentleman, Jack Frost,
Is unusually timid this fall. He appeared
a few times last week, but at present he
is net to be found. Last year by the first
of the present month he displayed his
black, destructive powers literally. This
fall the season has been unusually mild,
favorable to planters, and at pres
ent things look almost as green as they
did in the spring.
For fresh home made and
fine French candies, go TO