Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-15
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS: =
Friday Evening, Nov Is, 1878
LEDGER E
The day Is dark and dreary.
M v.ootbor l. t,rp;ng cold

luc hONlhOl II 1UAhAhS SeAus
There is nothing new in the Courts of
Record.
The recorder had a small docket this
morning.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison street.
Forty-fye hundred bales of cotton were
received yesterday.
A steady rain has been falling since FIVE
o'clock this morning.
Rev. Father Kelly, the noble priest of
St. Peters, left yesterday for the North.
Despite the rain many ladies to-day
have braved the weather and were shop
ping.
The improvement of u streets will
command the earnest attention of the city
council.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing office,
Is Madison street.
Malaga grapes, r%aisins, %citron, c~urrants,
figs and fresh prunes received to-day by
Lytle & Shields.
Eastern buckwheat -four, Cape Cod
cranberrios and creamery butter just re-
ceived by Lytle & Shields.
Late daily and weekly papers, school
books, plain and fancy stationery, at
Spangler's, $50 Main street.
Guion, Black & Co., rental agents, Is
Madison street, offer a list of residences,
stores, offices and farms for rent.
Another generous landlord Captain
Tom Herman has RENTED the rent fol
two months to his tenants. Next?
Richard S. Capers, deputy clerk of the
Criminal Court, has recovered from the
fever and resumed his official duties.
last night c. L. Staffer's confectionery
No. 2S6 Main street, caught fire and wai
damaged to the amount of forty dollars.
TEN cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by goot
carriers. Leave your orders at this office
Job printing of every kind executed il
the best style and at the lowest price a
the PUBLIc LEDGER job printing Office
1S Madison street.
The yellow fever commissioners leay'
tonight for Richmond to attend the an
nual meeting Of the American Publ
Health Association.
The incoming passenger trains an,
steamers are still crowded with people re
turning to their homes, whence they wer
driven by the yellow fever.
The drummer from the Eastern an
Northern cities is again on his usus
peregrination through the South, as tn
yellow fever has disappeared.
Shilling and Hordon, the alleged sneal
thieves, escaped yesterday from the Adam
street ~station-house. The building is il
secure and needs immediate repair.
Yagabonds, tramps, suspicious chara
I tiers and all swindlers who come to Men
phis will find it difficult to elude the p,
lice and escape the penalties Of the law.
Mr.. Theo. Venable, who has been col
fined to his room since Sunday last wit
a slight attack Of malarial fever, is cow
lescing and will be able to be out in a fe
days.
Judge ]. Z. r. Ray, Of the Grimm
Court, is an excellent jurist. His rulinI
are prompt and his decisions clear. I
will greatly facilitate the proceedings
the court.
: The abolition of the city charter al
settlement Of our municipal indebtedne
, will be sought by legislative measures
the meeting of the next g%eneraFassemb
Of the State.
1 w. NJ. Sneed has returned from an c
B tensive trip through Europe. His trip h
resulted in the improvement Of his heal
and afforded him much interest as well
: instruction.
The Memphis Theater opens for t
season on Monday, November 18th, wi
John r. RAYMOND as Colonel Sellers
Gildei Age, and viii also produce his NJ
play Of Risks.
Since the end o. the epidemic Mempl
has received nearly, if not quite coo
bales of cotton. Business is active a
Memphis is to-day one Of the bus,
cities in the Union.
= The new style Of hose for ladies is "
all over with h~ieroglyphies, that attri
], the attention and excite the curiosity Of I
male admirer. Strange figures on thi
It Indispensable to a lady's attirel
w. G. Line, a three card monte play
= being indicted for larceny, was yesterd
discharged by the Criminal Court. ]
Supreme Court holds that three q
monte does not constitute larceny.
, A few nights ago Mrs. Wiley Man
gin containing a large quantity Of g,
,st cotton, near Stanton, was fired by n
h l%icious persons and burned to the grouI
Of The cotton belonged 70 o tenant nan
M Donobo. The incendiaries were arrest
70 and are nov in Jail at Brownsville.
This morning aphysician who inform
n. the LEDGER Of a case Of yellow fever
arrested because he failed 10 report
same TO the board Of health. The bo
of health on the 18th day Of last mo.
invited refugees to return, and since Il
there have not been many cases Of fe
reported.
Mr.. John r. Flynn, yellow fever n,
Q from Texas, and correspondent Of sew,
Western papers, was robbed At bis bos
ing-house on Front street last night