Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-04
Local Rreylties.
Ames' circus gone.


Over sixty horses at the race track.
| Arkansas 10 to give official thanks to
Providence on the Is h of this month.
Mr.. J. M. Heating. the managing
editor Of the Appeal. has returned from
Nashville.
Quite an island of sand has formed op-
positc the city, on the other side of the
river.
A regular meeting of the Confederate
Relief Society will be held in the Mu-
nicipal Court room at o'clock. A full
attendance Of the members is desired.
We learn that many persons who took
premiums at the late Fair, have made
donations Of the premiums to the Asso-
citation.
Gen. P. B. M. Young, of Confederate
fame, and at present member of Con-
gress from the Atlanta (Ga. district, is
stopping at the Overton Hotel.
There are more horses already on the
ground at the new race course, than
there is stable-room to hold. Some
stables contain two horses, and still they
rcome.
Capt. Mike Cluskey, we are gratiied
to state, is reported to be in fair way to
recover his health, after several years of
suffering and severaltrecent severe opera
tons at Nashville.
Rumored that Jefferson Davis, of Mis-
sissippi, gentleman Of some distinction
during the war, is to become President
of Life I1surance Company in Men,
phis.
DR.. G. 8. Fenner, one of our most
eminent physicians, who has been rest
ing on his oars since his return from
| Europe year or two ago, has resumed
practice. The old habit of work could
net long be thrown off.
Professor DsLave is about to organize
travelling show for tour through the
| South, and hes secured some of the best
talent in the country, including the De-
1--we Sisters, Corona and wife, and Mile
Turnour, the Queen of the Air.
Fast driving as practiced in Memphis
cannot be too severely condemned.
Many of the fast ones seem utterly reck-
less of the lives of people on foot. %
Sunday afternoons particularly it is
barely safe for a person on foot to cross
| the street.
Capt. John G. Klinck, the Oldest
printer in the city, died yesterday in his
seventy-fourth year. He was a soldier
in the war of 1872. during which he served
calamity as lieutenant of the South
Carolina contingent He erjoyed the
esteem and warm friendship OF all who
knew him, and his demise caused many
sincere regrets.
The municipal election is soon to be
held, and we would suggest that it is time
for a Conservative Democratic conven-
ton to be called to nominate candidates
for Mayor and the outgoing Aldermen.
1t is, perhaps, the duty of the Democratic
| Executive Committee to call the conven-
ton. Let us hear from the chairman.
A man named Joseph Mcdonald, alias
J oe Donlsn, once member OF the old
| police force. who shot and killed his wife
at Central Point, near the city, three
years ago, was arrested yesterday at Col
Avery's place, and lodged. in Jail. He
had been to New York long time, but
| finally returned back, and will have to
account for the dreadful deed which he
| committed
The Memphis and st. Louis Barge
Line Company will be ready to COM
mence operations in about thirty days
Can. McMsnus will leave this afternoon
for L uisyille, where two large freight
boats are building for the Company. 1t
ia believed that the Company will be
able to considerably change the channel
| of freight The officers and stockhold-
ers are quite sanguine OF success.
The leaves are falling rapidly in Court
Square. sud workmen were busily en-
gagged yesterday 10 raking them together
in heapp. The squirrels baye taken up
their winter quarters, the birds OF sgIlTer
have all flown, and the beautiful. little
park presents On air OF sutumna! sad
ness. The frosts OF viRter have kissed
the flowers of summer, their petals have
fallen, and only their fragrance remains,
and the winds that are signing among the
leafess boughs seem chanting 5irge
over departing loneliness
A fire broke out in some shanties at
300 Washington street, near Orleans,
last night at ten o'clock. The flames
originated in an empty room, and may
have been the work of an incendiary.
Five or six negro families occupied the
PREMISES. Their effects were saved with
some difficulty. as the houses were very
copbnstible. No great damage done.
The frs engines responded promptly to
the alarm, ana vhen once OF work
speedily p1. out the fire. hr' Watkins
owned the property.
No meeting of the ex-CouI.Iv Com
missioners had been held at noon to-day,
although it was rather expected that
quorum would get together for some pur.
pose. Nothing they could do would be
legal, yet their acts might hold good just
as many others illegally passed at vari-
GUS timer. The act which dissolved the |
County Board, took effect from and after
its passage, and it will probably turn out
that all the hasty proceedings of last |
week are null and void, and that the |
bopdsmen of Barbour Lewis & Co. will |
be held liaale for what was done. |
We would again urge the Importance of
an early meeting of the Quarterly Court
of Justices. When such great interests
are at stake, the Justices cannot plead
ignorance of the law reviving the court.
The child foEnd on Union street night
before last, turns ont to DO purely white.
We apologize to the parentQ, if it has
any. The old women ip the neighbour
hood have bald a spectacle convention
and pronounced it q boy, end four days
old at the time of discovery. The young
man is decidedly handsome for his age,
and is dressed in the latest style of
fashion. His little long tailed dress
coat has 81 elegant fu;ed collar, and
other things, which slosld be namelsss,
to match. He is belisysd to DO thor
ougb-bred. as be parts his hair in the
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