Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-12
LEDGER LINES.

Sweet cider and Atmore's best minee
meat at Oliver, Finnie Il Co.'S.
The Workingmen's central executive
committee meets tomorrow night.
Holiday goods are tsmptingly dis
played in the principal stores on Main
street.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
will present The First Love at their hall
Friday night.
The weather is delightful, and the
streets are thronged with bright faces
and gay costumes.
Mrs. Bowers at the Memphis Theater
tonight in the second and last represen.
tation of The Woman in Red.
Our fair townswomau Miss Grace Lew.
ellyn in the Pearl of Savoy next Monday
night at the Memphis Theater.
Doc Wilson (colored). who murdered a
man in Mississippi county, Ark, some
time since, is sentenced to be hung on
the 18th inst.
The Workingmen in convention last
night at Cochran Hall organized, made
nominations and had four ballots in the
space Of one hour.
A grand mass meeting will be held to-
morrow night at the Greenlaw Opera
House to indorse Mayor Flippiu's ad.
ministration and candidacy.
The Odd Fellows Library Dramatic
Association will meet this evening at
sharp seven at Witzman's music store on
Second street, near Adams, for re-
hearsal.
There is not as much demand for coal
at 6fty-6ve cents as there was at sixty.fve
cents. So much for mild weather and
the fact that plenty of coal is here and
on the way here.
j. A. Morgan of St. Louis, A. s. Green
Of Coucordia, l.. Lundee Of Horn Lake,
and 3, F. Garrett, of Yazoo, Miss, and
q. D. Gloss Of Ripley, Tenn, were reg.
istered at the cotton exchange this morn.
ing.
An entertainment consisting of tab.
lsaux, Rotations, etc, will be given at
the Memphis Club Hall, corner Second
and Union streets, for the benefit of the
Central Baptist Sunday school, to.mor.
row Thursday night at 7;3O o'clock.
Admission, SOC; children, 25c.
Miss Fanny Burt, of the Milton
Noble troupe, has a voice Of superior
sweetness, compass aud hexibility,
equaled by but few singers on the Ameri.
can stage. Mr.. Alonzo Schwartz, the
Jew, is greatly admired as one of the
best characters of this 6rst.class comb.
nation of artists.
Russia leather is made in Connecticut,
Bordeaux wine is manufactured in Cali.
f@ornia, French lace is woven in New
York, Italian marble is dug in Kentucky,
Magseilles linen is produced in Massa.
chusettS, English cashmere is made in
New Hampshire, Parian art work comes
from a shop in Boston, Spanish mack.
eral are caught on the New Jersey coast,
and Havana cigars are rolled by the mil
lion in Chicago.
The half million drawing of the Louis.
lana State Lottery took place at the
Academy Of Music in New Orleans yes.
terday, in the presence of a large audi
ence, under the superintendence of Gen.
erals Beauregard and Early. The fol.
lowing numbers drew the principal
prizes: 1880 drew 500, 900, 1913
drew $4,000, 60. $50 drew $50, 900, 2O,O6s
drew 10000, 63,l55 drew $40, 900, mum.
Der So, 648, number 23, III, number 1926,
number 1867 drew $4,000 each.
An article in this mornings Ava
lanche, on the advantages Of manufac.
turing bagging 10 Memphis" should ar
rest the attention and enlist the active
interest of our cotton factors, capitalists
aud real estate owners Mr.. Warren
has devoted much time and pains to
gathering information on this point, and
tenders it to the parties most interested
without other compensation than the
satisfaction it would afford him TO see so
important al enterprise established here.
Let us have a baggiug factory.