Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
LEDGER LINES.

Judgments over city affairs.
To-day the GRAND Lodge Of the Iude-
pendent Order Of Werkingmen convened
in this city.
The Shelby County Medical Society
will meet % -night and discuss matters Of
professional interest.
This morning q little ice made its D
pearance, and a heavy white frost pre-
vailed in the atmospheric circle.
Genevieve Rogers as "Maude Muller"
IS raking hay at Little Rock; or, in other
words, she is making money by drawing
large audiences. A4@
Tonight the minstrels will stir up the
echoes at the theater. Barlow, Wilson,
Primrose and West are big stars and
great Ethiopian attractions.
Meteoric showers will prevail during
the present month, tie earth being on it's
passage through what is known to as
tronomers as the meteoric belt.
A snow storm and earthquake have
been making it lively for the people who
reside up North. In this section of coun-
try no atmospheric disturbance is OBJ
servsble.
star-gazing is a popular phase of
amusement these nights. Mars, Saturn
and ether planets present as bright and
sparkling appearance as they course
through the heavens.
George S. Knight, Otto and the
Worrell Sisters retdrn here next Monday
and will no doubt delight large au.
diences. knight is the best Dutch char.
acter actor now before the public.
The festive mosquito still fingers in
the lap of fall and refuses to take it's
departure. The little " Bohemian Girl"
that sings at night should not "atand
upon the order of its going, but go at
once"
1t is to be hoped that never again will
a two horse piano acc impairment be
introduced as music for an opera Of such
attraction as the Bohemian Girl. The
ablest musical professors in the world
could not kick or paw music out of
boxes for such an occasion.
Owing to the illness of Chancellor
Morgan Mr.. Hamond acts as special
judge of the Chancery Court at present,
to hear motions. etc. To-day in a special
case Mr.. Mcfarland presided as chan
c%ellor. In yesterdays LEDGER it was
enormously stated tAst General Humes
was acting as special chancellor.
Local politics are late opening up this
season. The would be managers of
political things, however, are at work
making out a list of aldermen and coun.
cilmen for the different wards. Many of
the men who are doing this for the peo-
rle could not get elected to the lowest
Office known to the city government.
People who visit Court Square should
recollect that if they are accompanied
by a dog they (the persons) are liable to
be fined FIVE dollars. Within the past
few weeks several squirrels have been
killed in the square by dogs. Court
Square Keeper Heating will enforce the
ordinance against all violators Of the
same. m
The detective business in Memphis is
about the biggest fraud that the people
have to bear. Walking around, doing
comparatively nothing and being paid
big wages for so doing is all that pans
out. The police commissioners should
abolish this detective system, which is
only a branch of that Chicago humbug,
Pinkerton's detective agency. The PEG.
pie have to pay for the music.
Memphis is a cotton-slutfed town. Cot.
ton is scattered from Pinch to Fort Pick
ering. You can see it on the streets and
in the alleys, or on the wings Of the wind
when flying through space. 1t sticks on
the clothing of the merchant and cuts
no insignificant figure in the garments
Of women. Without cotton Memphis
would be nothing. Then why not work
for the Texas cotton trade which St.
Louis is attempting to m%onopolize2