Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-19

day next the company FIRST appearing
on Thursday.
The cotton market to-day with
slightly less animation, business being
restricted by bad weather and the
light offerings Of factors.
The lessee Of our theater, Mr.. Jo-
seph Brooks. accompanied by his wife,
arc expected to arrive here Monday
next, coming from New Orleans.
Madame Fayart," a new opera to
this section, but very popular at the
East, is one of the Comley-B Barton
company's list to be presented in this
city.
A skiff with a man in it upset while
crossing the Mississippi in front Of the
city yesterday. The man was picked
up and landed in a damp condition on
the opposite shore.
The base ball boys are fixing for a
lively time tomorrow, weather per-
hitting, the Reds of this city, and the
Eckfords of Louisville, being the
prospective contestants.
The Josefy Concert Company, to
be here Monday night, will attract
large audiences. No theatrical en-.
tertainments this week is a good thing
for the Joseffy party, but bad for our
people.
A new chamber scene with a ceiling
and ether appropriate adornments,
will be ready at our theater five weeks
hence and will be first used for a
comedy company due here about that
time.
The NJ. Y. T. barge II, loaded here
last Sunday with cotton, sunk fifty
miles above New Orleans instead Of at
the latter port as yesterday reported,
and the craft went down in four faith
oms OF water.
Much complaint is heard among
cotton factors regarding the manner
is dumped off in the mud at
the railroad depOts. If the Cotton
Exchange Transportation Committee
were to investigate, it might lead to
results.
Rainy yesterday and this morning
all along the Ohio river as high as
Pittsburg, also at Nashville, Little
Rock and down in Louisiana and
Snow and sIeet fell in the up
per Mississippi country from St. Paul
to Keokuk, Iowa,
A proprietor Of the New Orleans
States in the person of Mr.. Edwin
Craighead passed through this city
yesterday on his way to his fathers
plantation on the river near Osceola,
above here, and also to join his wife,
now visiting in that vicinity.
A brisk t~wenty-mile northwest
wind blew over ~ourfsection early this
morning, and the mercury dropped
to the freezing point, thirty-six
degrees being the official mark of the
Service record. It was quite
as cold over at Little Rock, but the
air there was still and calm. This is
the coolest felt here since last winter.
The fish, game, live and dressed
poultry market of Victor D. Fuchs,
80 aud Al Jefferson street, is now sup
piled with a larger stock and a greater
than at any time this season.
Housekeepers should give him the
FIRST call when needing anything in his
line, as the stock is all fresh and
sweet, and is offered at the lowest
The Morning Numbers ornate
having long been an aspirant
for the championship in grammar, in
spelling, in craftsmanship, in slang
writing and vermifuge dosing, now
cOddles with Satan, and desires to be
invested with the garb of egotism,
he blindly believe he has never
been afflicted with. The ills he bears
are evidently so numerous that he
lOes not know them all.
IT'S barely possible we may catch a
glimpse Of Patti before she returns to
Europe. She has broken with her
French manager, Franchi, and ar.
ranged with Henry Abbey, the New
York manager, to give thirty. five con-
certs. The old programme is entirely
upset, except that part Of it which
arranged for her appearance at Gin
in the Messiah" Half a
dozen managers were after Patti. and
Hayerly offered her $4,000 a concert,
$4,000 as a guarantee, but she
accepted Abbey's bid in preference to
he rest.