Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-26

upon the increase.
The present weather Is said to be
just the thing for cotton.
a. ]. Williams received final dis
charge In bankruptcy yesterday.
For comfortable quarters and table
not to be surpassed, put up at the wor-
sham. 'i' w
-Workmen are engaged running a
monster sewer from the Brinkley hotel
10 the river.
Fifteen cases disposed Of in police
court this morning, and fifteen dollars in
fines collected.
Summer goods are selling at reduced
prices, the merchants being DESTROYS Of
making room for their fall stock.
REV. J. W. Rogers repeats his highly
entertaining lecture and poem at the
Baptist Tabernacle this evening.
The Fifth Ward Club was ably adj
dressed last evening by Hon. John W.
Left~ich, H. M. Loewenstine, Esq, AMI
Col. A. II. Douglas. .iI4 Hl
Fruit is still coming into the city in
immense quantities. The like" of
watermelons is beyond the recollection
of the Oldest inhabitant."
AT a meeting at wythe Depot, on
Saturday, the initiatory steps were taken
looking to the organization of an Agri'
cultural and Mechanical Association.
"A large stock of Seymour and Blair
badges, just received, at Goodspeed d
Co. g, 24S Third street. Clubs furnished
at wholesale rates. l54
Everything fresh and racy in the
news and literary line at Joe Locke's.
No. % Jefferson street. All the latest
Northern dailies received in advance Of
the mail.
= The street railroad proprietors
authorize us to say that the cars will run
every ten minutes to and from the Dem
ocratic meeting to be held Thursday
night opposite Col. Looney's residence.
The grand fete at the Ford place, IN
Chelsea, on Monday next, the 3lst inst,
in aid of St. Mary's Catholic church, will
probably be the last picnic of the sea-
son. The attendance, therefore, cannot
fail to be large.
ALI parties out on bonds for their
appearance at the present term of the
Criminal Court must appear and renew
the same, on or before Saturday next, or
forfeiture will be taken and a capias is
sued for their re.arrest
Capt. 7. B. Edgington and G. W.
Gulick, Esq, the latter of whom was at
one time on the staff of Gov. Horatio
Seymour, will address the Young Mems
Independent Democratic Club at Still
man Hall this evening.
1t is understood that the letter car
riers of this city will shortly appear in
uniform, under the provisions of the new
postal law, approved in July last. What
ever the balance of their suit, their coats
will of course be coats of mail.
Our friend DR.. R. L. Butt has just
returned from trip down the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, and reports the crops ex-
ceedingly injured by the rains. The
hollis are rotting to large extent, and
the yield will be largely reduced.
The committee appointed at the
meeting Of the citizens on Monday night,
to employ counsel to defend them in the
courts against the onerous Nicoson
pavement tax, as at present assessed,
yesterday employed Messrs. Stephens,
Gault, Clap and McRea. Their cause
could not be in safer hands.
The Tallahatchian, published at
Charleston, Tallahatchie county, Missis-
sippi, offers to the business men of this
city a most excellent medium for adver-
Using. 1t has large circulation in one
of the best cotton growing regions OF the
State, and trades almost exclusively with
this city. Its terms are liberal. l4S 4
The alarm of fire sounded between
eleven and twelve o'clock last night, is
supposed to have been occasioned by the
burning of q buildingin the country. We
had been unable to ascertain any partcu-
lars of the conAagration up to noon to-
day. Steamer No. 3, while turning the
corner at the intersection of Desoto and
Linden streets, came in contact with
lamp-post, completely demolishing 1t,
and slightly injuring one of the horses.
-Emmons q Son received, last night,
the Literary Album, Sporting Times,
Riverside Magazine, Emerald, Wilkes,
Record, Waverley, Albion, New York
Citizen, Harper's Bazaar, Herald of
Health, Saturday Night, German Leslie,
Nation Paper, Muuro's Dime Novel, No.
1870; The Forest Hunters, Die Welt,
American Union, and all the dailies
also the Lacrosse Democrat, Atlantic
Monthly, for September, and Every Sat.
urday for August.
Marriage has decided effect upon
the duration of human life, as Scottish
physician has just proven by some very
curious researches. 1t appears that from
twenty years upward to the end Of life,
the average term of existence of married
men is fifty. mine and half years, while
kaohaIors raach only forty In other