Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-13
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returned rom their bridal tour
Choice dairy and creamery butter just
received by B. NJ. Stratton & Co.
Miss Grace Lewellyn in the charming
play Pearl Of Savoy Monday night.
The Bruder Bund ball will take place
next Monday night at Cochran Hall.
Mrs. Bowers as Julia in The lunch.
back tonight at the Memphis Theater.
Try the Ferris hams and breakfast
bacon just received by B. ". Stratton &
Co.
There will be a grand rally of Mayor
Flippin's friends at the Greenlaw Opera
House tonight.
If you want genuine winter sugar.
cured hams, buy the Magnolia brand
from Lyle & Shields.
The Workingmen's central executive
committee meets tonight at Cochran
Hall to consider the situation.
Mrs. Frances Worsham has contribu.
ted several handsomely bound volumes
to the Odd Fellows Library.
The Irish Literary Association meets
tonight at No. 80 Poplar street. The
meetings are open to the public.
Tomorrow evening the anniversary Of
Thales Temple, No, A, will be celebrated
at their hall, No. 298 Second street.
Tongues and Sounds Holland herring,
picked lambs tongues, preserved hearts
and brains, at B. M. Stratton & Co. s.
The fremen and policemen we're paid
twenty dollars each yesterday. We sup.
pose small favors are thankfully received.
Oranges, grapes, ~raisins, mince meat
and all kinds of seasonable goods are
being daily received by Lyle & Shields,
More weddings on the tapis. Mstri.
mony is epidemic this season, and like
lightning, there is no telling where it will
strike next.
Fresh arrival of plain, mixed, and
French candies, assorted nuts, lemons
oranges, raisins, figs; %citron, orange, and
lemon peel at B. NJ. Stratton 4 Co.
Nick Roberts Humpty Dumpty pan
tomime troupe, with all the celebrities o
the day, commences an engagement a
the Memphis Thester Tuesday nigh
next.
The Tom Bolton murder case is OF
trial in the Criminal Court. Attorne,
General Wright represents the State
and Messrs. Adams, Hearn and Turne
the defense.
The entertainment to be given at tn
Memphis Club Hall this evening, at I
o'clock, for the benefit Of the Contra
Baptist Sunday school, promises to be
grand success. All should attend VIII
possibly can.
1t is greatly to be desired that the pro
posed medical college will be establishe,
in Memphis. We need an institution c
that kind to educate physicians for thi
part Of the country, besides it would b
a great benefit to Memphis in man
respects.
Colonel ]. NJ. Heating writes to tn
Appeal from Washington that Murra
will be confirmed as district attorney 70
West Tennessee, and Waldron for mai
shall without doubt; also, that W. J
Smith for surveyor of customs has n
opposition worthy Of notice.
Will not the chamber Of commerce
and cotton exchange take action lookin.
toward starting a b~agging factory here
and make the $1,000 which is yearl
paid out by their members for freight an,
drayage alone on this article, which ca
be more cheaply made here2
A small FIRE occurred about l o'clocI
this morning in the cigar store OF So
PERTH, at 1856 Main street, near th
Gsyoso block. The 6remen responde,
promptly to the alarm and extinguisheu
the flames in a few minutes. Insurance
$1,000; loss not 80 much to stock.
There are now ninety-seven lodges 0
the Knights Of Honor ia Tennessee witt
a membership of nearly 5000, while i
the United States there are over 80
lodges, with a membership exceeiin
10000. 1t is q of the most prosperou
orders in the United States tor its age.
Joseph A. Dacus, formerly Of Men
phis, and late of the st. Louis Reput
lican, has a novel in press, which wi
shortly be published by T. B Peterso
& Co., of Philadelphia. The book is Ell
titled "A Confidence Game" the seer
located in Vt. Louis, the development
in the late insurance imbroglio formin
the basis Of the plot.
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