Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-12
TEN CENTS Pc WE E X.
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Thursday Evening, Dec. II, 1878.
LEDGER LINES.

OnrlSlmds VIII sOun De ncio.
The city council meets tomorrow night.
What will be done with the rotton
Nicolson pavement?
Memorial services will be held at the
Church Orphans Home tomorrow morn
ing,
Judge Hammond, of the United States
Court, has begun a peremptory call Of the
Law docket.
The LEDGER is a g great favorite in Mem
phis. It's circulation is general and daily
increasing.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDeER job printing Office,
IL Madison street.
The pavements in front of many stores
are so crowded that pedestrians find much
difficulty in passing.
This morning a car ran off the Main
street track, in front of Lowenstein's store
as if anxious to enter that establishment.
TEN cents a week for the DAILY PUB
lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your ordes as this Office
The Quinn-R Recorder Quigley %injunc-
ton. con a motion to dissolve, will be
heard this afternoon by Chancellor Ne
Dowell.
The country is to be afflicted with an
other yellow fever commission. This time
a number of homeopathic doctors will Try
taeir hands at the thing.
There is a man trap on Orleans north o
Tate street, that is dangerous to life an'
limb. VIII the city engineer make al
effort to repair this place?
Business continues TO improve and tn
city presents an active appearance. Mem
phis is destined to future greatness an,
unprecedented prosperity.
The accumulation Of cotton along tn
streets in front of the sheds shows to som
extent what an unusually large quantit.
of the heecy staple is being daily received
The msrket-houses are open from 4 I
8 am, but Charley Kney keeps his mai
kot open all day-from 4 am. to 8 pm
Call at As and As Beal street and get tn
best in the market.
= wv. Ryan, charged with issuing bogu
insurance policies, was discharged by tn
recorder yesterday. He was re-arreste
, on the charge Of fraudulently obtainin
S25 from J. W. Rhodes.
q Joe Mancini is recovering from an a
!, tack of yellow fever. Mr.. Maneini an
family left here the 18th day Of Angus
T andtduring the epidemic spent the summit
, in the North. They returned in Noyen
Der.
Yesterday afternoon a tier Of cotto
bales in Furstenheim & Busby's Adam
street she'd fell and buried under the
: Rivers Groves, who was finally e%Etricat'
by:Ed Lamb; the workman Groves
d severely injured.
u The Irish Literary Association will no
i a reunion tonight at their hall on Popl
street, just east Of Main. It has been
long time since the members had a me-
ing. Nearly all the old members are ali
and here. They ought to come up {
ie night and answer to roll call.
There are hundreds Of destitute WON
AMI children in Memphis. To-day Chi
Athy had to refer to the mayor a pc
woman, who represents herself to be
member Of one of the richest PrOtesta
churches in Memphis. She is in destitu
<, circumstances. Alas, for human CHART.
.. A few evenings since a thief entered
is room Of a physician, who boards on Ma
son street, and stole an oyercoat, S
umbrella and case Of surgical instrumer
= The instruments were recovered, but
- doctor is willing 10 let the thief have
81 other articles, if he will only return q k
5s letter that was in his oyercoat pocket.
There we're S26 dead-beats at the cir
a. Monday night. ~Forepaugh's people
= very liberal, too much SO we would
for their own good. 1t is not member
Id the press alone that are admitted free,
Il railroad, hotel men and various OF
= classes that, Oh some pretext or oil
come in on the FREQ list.
A.. j. Wright and Jim Newell,
r. white men arrested on the charge Of q
plicity in the Rhodes assassination at
mantown, have been released on s
~ each. The negroes, Jim Hunt, MOI
Hunt, Douglass Rutherford, Curtis +
erts and Jim Fontaine, being unabl
give bail, still remain in Jail.
SMOKE
+. "OUR DADDIES"