Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-07


street last evening, but the blaze wa
easily put out.
The Herdics did not pay here, anC
they quit. AT Nashville they hav,
not paid but arc still at it.
The songstress, Miss Bessie Pierce
has gone to New York to hear Patti
and interview Colonel Mapleson.
Hartman is confident. 0'Leary
says he never felt better, and will Dc
some Of the fastest walking Of his life.
Mr.. Mook's soiree dansante, next
Thursday night, All holding invita-
t~ations from lastparty must come again
aud bring their friends; admission, SOC.
Tho First Baptist church has a new
organist, an accomplished performer,
in the person Of Mr.. Charles Bryan,
late Of Boston.
Forrest City, to the west of US, is
now connected with Helena by rail,
aad will have a straight line through
to st. Louis very soon.
The carpenter on the steamer Vint
Shinklc fell into the river this fore.
noon, but was iished out with no in
jury to himself, except dAmpness.
Jim Jackson was convicted Of bur
glarizing the house Of Allen Galloway
yesterday, and his sentence was fixed
at three years. in the pc%nitentiary.
The Josh Whitcomb troupe closed
at Nashville last night, and open here
tonight. The Rentz- Santloy novelty
closed here last night, and open at
Nashville TO night.
Hunters are killing ever so many
bear, deer, duck aud the like all along
the Mississippi valley. The sport was
never more active and engageable than
it is this fall and winter.
Doctor Sylyanus Landrum, formerly
Of this city, is now pastor of the Col
liseum Baptist church at New Orleans
and preached his first sermon in that
city last Sunday,
The prevailing direction oflhe wind
during November was from the south
east, and it travelled 1929 miles in its
movement over this section. Its
greatest velocity was 80 miles an hour
from the southwest.
A fire this morning in the Office Of
the Gayoso Cotton Seed Oil Mill
cGused the uptown fire engines to
turn out. The flames were quenched
with little damage to property or
trouble to the fremen.
Six months is the usual penalty for
hog stealing, when a thief is caught
and it can be proven. Charles Harris
and Ben Williams are both to suffer
incarceration for the time named,
having been convicted yesterday.
During last month we had 5 16-1OO.
Of rsinfall, the same being 81
less than fell last year during
the month Of November. The coolest
weather wa on the 9th and marked
90; the wafmest on the 18th and 10,
the oscillation within the six days be-
ing $50.
Yesterdays issue of this paper ap
on the streets at $3.50 pm.
Thirty five minutes afterward a letter
4 p IN. was received at the
counting room in reply to a business
advertisement. The writer acted with
CELEBRITY, and the postman YVES prompt
in his movements.
Our Poplar street citizens are en-
a roaring sensation at present.
A man formerly residing on that
thoroughfare recently departed this
life, or from the city. Every time
any one attempts to handle any Of his
goods or tools, an old clock in the
corner turns its striking hammer loose
in a lively way, and rattles the minds
Of those who hear il, awfully. No
body understands the mystery.
The Presidents annual message ap-
peared 10 this mornings papers, and is
doubtless an interesting document to
all who have time to read it. Mes
sases Of this C character a generation or
ago contained much that was new
to the people. Through the aid and
favor Of correspondents, the news
papers Of the present day eplighten
the people, and the President there
fore generally supplies them will stale
news, hence his documents are Of little
interest TO the passes. As Congress
seldom acts upon the Presidents
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