Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-22
TEN CENTS Pc WE E X.
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Evening, Nov -, 1875.
LEDGER LINES.

The weather is fair and bright.
There was a heavy frost last night.
Sanitary work is demanded in this city.
Cotton is being received in large guam
titles.
EOf course you will go to see John Ray
mond.
PUBLIC LEDeERj job printing office, Is
Madison street.
Several weddings in high life viii take
place next month.
Ice and snow would not be disagreeable
to the people of Memphis,
George App, who yesterday shot John
Hackett, has fed the town.
Choice oranges 25c, lemons 12K and 25c
a dozen at Oliver, Finnie * Co.'S.
Hon. Casey Young has donated 500 to
the Garfield (eolored) Orphan Asylum.
Sam Ellison, press-feeder at the Appeal
office, has recovered from a severe attack
Of the fever. jl
The LEDGER is a great favoritein Mem
phis. It's circulation is general and daily
increasing.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office,
\ IL Madison street
Our merchants say they are unusually
busy. Memphis has lost but little trade
by the yellow fever.
The sale of tickets for the John Ray
mond engagement began this morning at
Hollenberg's music store.
Last night some unknown person fired
two shots into the dining-room of Mrs.
f. Miller, No. 205 DeSoto street.
Captain Droescher, sergeant-at-arms,ha has
been in search Of absent aldermenin order
to secure a quorum of the city council.
james Cox and John Smith were ar
rested yesterday on the charge of robbing
Sctot Walker near the Charleston depot,
TEN cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your orders a. this office.
job printing of every kind executed in
the best style and at the lowest price at
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office,
Is Madison street.
The applicants for work are becoming
too numerous to mention. While trade is
active and the outlook good, there are to
be found here ten book-keepers for every
position vacant.
Manager Frank Gray has ventilated,
fumigated, and otherwise improved the
Memphis Theater, which opens Monday,
the 18th inst, with John T. Raymond as
"Colonel Mulberry Sellers"
The commercial prosperity Of Memphis
is remarkable. Although trade was inter-
hrupted and business suspended by the
epidemic, "times have revived and
every one is alive with work.
There are a few persons who possibly
may think that a United States govern
ment officer can be retained on duty with
out paying the political assessment. Nc
postofice, revenue or other employee dare
say that this political blackmair7 is lev
led. Such an utterance is attended by
official decapitation.7
The superintendent Of the city schools,
Mr.. William H. Foute, requests all teach.
ers to meet at the Office Of the schoo.
board, in the Odd Fellows building, OF
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, to draf
resolutions of respect to the memory o.
Colonel james T. Leath, late ~superinten.
dent Of the public schools.
The Washington Capital publishes 4
very slanderous article regarding Mem.
phis and the late epidemic. The Cincin.
natl Times and the Cincinnati Israelit,
during the epidemic had several unpleas
ant and unjust articles upon the subject
: The personal animus Of the Israelite i
readily seen, and if necessary can b.
stated.
- Memphis Avalanche Officially 9TH
. LEDGER is mistaken when it charges tina
assessments for political or any othe
purpose have been, or are made, in the in
ternal revenue service on any Of the EN-
ployes. General r. i. Patterson mad
none, and the tenure Of Office depends Oh
r efficiency and integrity alone We ar
n glad to know that Sit was all" a mi.
take.
Knights of Honor Advocate, Towonda
Pennsylvania, for November; There vii
be paid to the widows and orphans Z
Knights Of Honor who died from yello,
fever in Memphis the large sum Of abou
$40, 0O0, involving an expense Of abor
$40 on the part of each Knight Of Homo
in the United States" We are informe
that c 100000 will be paid here b
: this great benevolent order"
Colonel Lyon, Of the Mobile an
Northwestern narrow gauge railroad, is
the city. This gentlemen is one Of III
most enterprising and energetic railroa
men in America. During September an
October Colonel Lyon, with only six co
ored men, constructed two miles Of Ii
above-named railway. This road is no
in operation thirteen milea, beginning
the Mississippi river and going ca
thrnnrh n rich country. Colonel Lvn