Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-19
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Fresh oysters daily at Mdu. V~incent's.
A dense fog hung over the river and
city last night.
At the Criminal Court light felony and
misdemeAnor cases are on trial.
The gloomy weather casts a damper
on business throughout the city.
Warmer aud cloudy weather, With light
rains, are promised by old Probs" for
to-day.
AT the theater tonight the Soldene
troupe will appear in Trial BY Jury and
Chilperic.
The bad weather has brought about a
state Of non-intercourse between the city
and country.
Memphis stands in need Of moral im-
provemeut, bat how to attain it is the
puzzle for the moralists.
Iceberg, foes aud wrecks passed
down the river this forenoon. The gem
eral cry was, the gorge has burstedl"
At the theater matinee on tomorrow
La File de Madame Angot will be pre-
ssuted by the Soldene opera boufe
troupe.
IL was stated tc-lay GA the street that
the twenty-one Republicans in the ltgis.
lature hold the Key to the senatorial
situation.
Mr.. Sol Coleman, the great cigar man,
has b.eu i'll for the past ten days, but is
recovering and can be found at his old
cigar stand 10 a few days.
Open navigation to Cincinnati and
Pittsburg and St. Louis, from Memphis,
is looked for by mercantile circles with
both interest and anxiety.
A Chicago singing evangelist, Mr..
Knowles Shaw, is expected here this
week to hold a series Of r~evivsls at the
Linden street Christian church.
Major Benyaurd and assistants are
making a preliminary survey of the river
front at this point with a view to the
government improvement Of our barber.
Heavy ice is running in the river at
present, and the belief among river men
is that the Fort Pillow gorge broke last
evening o. last night owing to the rapid
rise.
Mr.. John Goo Twin, agent for the Aimee
opera boufe troupe, is in the city per.
fecting arrangements for the appearance
Of the French opera troupe at the Mem.
Theater next Tuesday night.
AT the United States Court to-day the
argument of counsel is being heard 10
the Ease E. MCCARTHY vs.. Andrew Green
ct al, which argument will not be cou
cllded before late this afternoon.
Many Of the professional ropers have
Jumped the town, not to return until
things cool off in these parts, whCa they
W II return. set up their robbery shops
and 20 to work once again, if permitted
to do SO by the police.
The great bulk of the tramps who now
infsst the Southern States, and who are
now feeding upon the charity of the
South, are almost to q man from the
Northern States. This is rather a sad
commentary upon the prosperity Of lhe
Northern section of the country.
The louisville News says Miss Sla.
ter, the lively limb aud agile kicking
phenomenon Of the Soldene company,
creates something Of a furore among the
very young persons in high collars and
Ulster overcoats when she appears in
Chilperic. Indeed" tn, critic AIDES,
she kicks out Of the traces"
The Manning.H Harvey murder at Aus.
tin, Tunica county, Miss, has, it seems,
created a vendetta in that land. On
Thursday last, while Sheriff Manning
was sitting at a supper table at Austin
John Fretwell entered the room, and
drawing a pistol, fred two shots al Man
ming, but withoutleffec'. Manning sue.
ceediug in escaping from the house.
Several Memphians are yet at Nash.
vile indulging in elsctioneering for THAR
friends for the United States senate.
Sheriff Anderson is there working against
Bate; Attorney General Wright is there
working for Bailey; yesterday Colonel
Il. Clay King got back home after put.
tag in a few ticks for Turney. EacA
man seems to have his i~ayorite for the
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