Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-19
LEDGER LINES.

AT the theater tonight Fanny Daveu.
port will appear in Pique.
AT the Arbitration Court to-day the
case Of Rogers VS.. Laird was on hearing.
Twenty-three deaths occurred in the
city during last week-whites, II; blackq,
II.
The State SpOrtsmen's Association
meeting at Nashville will wind up to-day
on dogs and birds.
Ten'pins and thirteen.ball pool seem
to be the popular games with many Mem.
phians this season.
On tomorrow evening the Chickasaw
Guards will hold a meeting at their ar
mory and elect a captain.
The Brownsville States says that mo-
one'third of the cotton crop of Haywood
county has been gathered.
The educational board Of the city
schools will meet tonight at the room o.
the board in Odd Fellows Hall.
Jurors have been summoned both from
the city and country districts for the
Wooldridge-W Wait homicide case.
Al many beer saloons customers eai
Weiner Wurst, a kind Of German sau.
sage creased. 1t ~harmonizes with lager
beer.
To-day at the Shelby County Circuit
Court Charles Piaggio fled a petition to
have bis name changed to that of Charlie.
Racigalupo.
Next Wednesday at noon, and at Cal
vary (Episcopal) church, one of our
most charming and fashionable bellies
will engage in matrimony.
Tomorrow night Mrs. E. A. Meri
wether will lecture on the "Oak aud Vine,
or Man and Woman" before the Spirit.
ualists ut Harmonial Hall.
1t is time to wake up for the January
municipal election. The people are
awaiting the action of the city Demo
cratic executive committee.
On Saturday last Deputy Supreme
Dictator Ben X. PuIlen, of this city, Wis
tied sardis, Miss, and organized Unity
Lodge Of Knights Of Honor.
ut is startlingly extraordinary" said
a Memphian when be heard a sound like
a kiss reverberating along the wire and
through the funnel Of a telephone.
Up to noon to-day nine jurors were
secured in the Wooldridge-Wait homicide
Gaze. The remaining three Jurors nee
essary may be selected this afternoon.
Confectioners are dreaming of Christ
mas holidays and the approaching mar.
riages. The milliners likewise are haunt.
ed at night by brides in want of wearing
apparel suitable for the wedding feast.
A paragraph is going the rounds Of
the papers to the effect that the late Ten.
nessee Methodist Conference decided
that a man is not properly qualified to
ell the office Of minister if be chews to.
bacco.
The statesmen of the Avalanche, when.
ever they behold an item on Democratic
politics in tho Ledger lines, get up on
their hind legs and let off an Independent
Radical editorial howl. Their political
proclivities can be recognized without
that howl.
The West Tennessee towns are vigor.
ously enforcing the tramp law, and the
consequence is hat the tramps are all
tramping toward Memphis. Let Mem
phis, through her police, enforce the
tramp law, and the tramps will have to
move onward in search Of fresher pas
lures.
The net proceeds of the rendition of
the Bohemian Girl by the Calvary church
choir and their musical friends, for the
benefit Of the Lee Monumental Fund,
we're but $l3l. 95. The expenses were
$277 30, the gross receipts being $4O9 rs.
The expenses were extraordinarily
heavy,
The celebration by the Memphis
Gruetli Society Of the 564th anniversary
Of the independence Of the land Of Will
liam Tell, at the M#unerchor Hall last
Saturday night, was an enjoyable social
affair. The Alpine boys and wome
talk al nf tha old land aud d,nonA .m..