Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-20
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upon.
The city purposes and proposes to
make the "drummers" pay for the music
chin music.
Look out for colds, chills and rheuma-
tism and get May. the shirt tailor, to
make your underwear.
Macallister, the wizard, will give a
matinee to-day and an entertainment to-
night at the Greenlaw Opera House.
Billiard and pool playing, ten pin roll
ing and target shooting are popular
amusements throughout the city at
present.
The Arbitration Court and the Deputy
Criminal Court, where misdemeanor
cases are being heard, have adjourned
over to Monday.
At Holly Springs, Miss on the 22d
inst. next Monday, a meeting of the
in%corporators of the Holly Springs and
Memphis Railroad Company will be held.
The Mark Twain, Captain j. D. Ran
dali, leaves this evening at 5 O'Clock for
st. Francis river as fer up as Wittsburg,
and will do business for all way land.
ings.
1t is asserted that the stocks Of coal
here are becoming smaller and that the
price of coal will have to go up as the
stocks 60 down. This is bad news for the
poor now that winter approaches.
Spangler has all the late magazines,
weekly and daily papers, late and back
numbers of the Seaside, Fireside, Lake.
side and other libraries. Call and see
for yourself. Hard Times, by Charles
Dickens, lOe.
At the city hall to-day A. T. Lowndes
& Co, of Charleston, S. c., funded post
bonds, coupons aud interest account
amounting to $2ls6. 80, and received il
exchange compromise bonds for $1,000
and a funding certificate for $l86 30.
A greater number of drummers hav,
visited Memphis and other portions o
the South within the past month thar
during any similar period since the war
This may indicate q revival of business
but we hope not at the expense of Mem
puts.
The man who drew the hoopskirt q
the Macallister show went around las
night and attempted to pawn the articl,
to u saloon.keeper for a drink by way o
a joke, but the s%aloonist saw through
the joke and refused to advance on thI
patent outside.
The synod of Memphis, composed o
Chickssaw, Memphis, North Alabama
North Mississippi and Western Distric
Presbyteries will meet in the First Pres
byterian church, Memphis, Novembe
9th, which represent seventy minister
and l42 churches.
Several fathers and mothers have bee
made happy during the past ten days b,
the appearance Of a new born infant il
their household. Each new conner int
this vale of tears was Of course tn
prettiest, smartest and handsomest i
the world, at least so say the overjoye
and happy parents.
Ia not the arresting Of several keeper
of gaming houses every month and coo
polling them to put up ~torieits Of $25 c
$50 each at the station-house, a systel
of legal black mailing2 On the station
house docket these knights of the gree
table are put down as agents" If
few Of them are arrested why not alp
/ A telegram was received from Panolt
Mississippi, announcing the fact tha
Colonel Freeman B. Irby, Of Panel
county, had died this morning. ColonC
Irby was well known in this city. q
was a successful planter, aud had serve
t in the Mississippi Legislature many year
he was u most useful citizen, and hi
loss will be felt and regretted by a hos
of friends.