Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-19
BREvITrEs.
Keno aourishes.

Forty-hve deathsin Memphis last week
Justice Herman improving at Bailey
Springs.
Congressional Convention at jackson
tomorrow, the 10th inst.
Cold nights and warm days-henc,
the chills and fevers which prevail.
Cadmus' annual reopening and bene
fit to several objects to-day appears SC
far to be success,
The city has been improved in the way
Of buildings three-quarters of million
| dollars in the last six months.
Barney Hughes, the ever affable and
accommodating passenger agent, an.
nounces some very convenient arrange
ments for delegates going to Jackson.
\ DR.. Bsze Fraim, we learn, declines to
prosecute Mr.. A. G. Ferguson, but the
sheriff in his official capacity will have
to take notice Of the case.
Fine peaches in market. They are
awful good for chills. So are water
melons, which luxury, by the way, is
growing scarce and beautifully higher
priced.
The weather has been very soft and
pleasant for few days. Cotton picking
prospers well everywhere and business
is on the increase in the principal streets
of the city.
The State Female College, we under
stand, has opened this year with con-
siderable advance on last year Success
to this superior school. No need to
send North when such schools are at our
door.
The outsiders who have been feeding
station-house prisoners on raw whisky,
by means of vial and string, are in
siders now, and think that one good turn
deserves another. The police took them
in.
The population Of Memphis in 1850
was Ss4l; in 1860, 22,632; in 1870 it is
4O,23O If the place only doubles its
population every ten years it will, thirty
years hence $4,000, number 100000,
which is reasonable prediction.
The Appeal suggests Major Grey,
famous G. s. A. quartermaster, as cap
ital Director General of the Chamber of
Commerce. That may be a joke; if so,
we have only to say, speaking gray,
alas, poor Yorick, we wore him well,
but in the spring of '65 he went off some
where, looking very threadbare, and has
not been seen since.
The steamer Pat Cleburne had Ben
Butler club on board it seems, engaged
in various capacities in and around the
pantry. Last Thursday night they went
through the silverware CT the boat, all
new, and worth several hundred dollars.
A lot Of them have been arrested and
are to have an examination. The most
OF the silver was recovered.
The Texas authorities at the seaports
have established a strict quarantine
against all vessels, and set the time of
quarantine at twenty-five days, which is
ridiculously long The Texans in New
Orleans who cannot get home, and the
proprietors and agents of the Morgan
line are, of course, very indignant Like
Noah's grandfather, Methuselah, when |
he couldn't get into the Ark, as tradi-
tionally related, they think there will not
be much of shower nohow."
Captain G. N. Wheeler, of the firm of
Wheeler, Pickens & Co., died this morn
ing at nine o'clock, at the residence of
his father-in-law, Z. Pulliam, Esq, near
Bartlett. The deceased was a we'll
known, eterprising citizen of this city,
and enjoyed the respect and confidence
of large circle of friends. He was
married only about eight months ago,
and was thirty-two years of age. He
has been slightly unwell some time, but
took to his bed only week ago, and as
late as yesterday morning the doctors
were confident of his recovery The
funeral takes place tomorrow near
Bartlett
Eligible real estate in the suburbs and
along the railroads for fifteen or twenty
miles is held at fabulous prices A me-
chanlc or retail dealer has no enoour-
agement to 90 to the country, while the
rich are independent and do not care to
90 far from the city. Hence those pleas
ant little places where many a man
would like to locate and still do business
n the city, such Bartlett and German
own, are improving very slowly. 1t
should be the policy of the railroads to
'educe fares and local freights and induce
people to settle up these lines, and then
he increase of business would in the
md more than pay them on their in |
'estment and enterprise. {
The Stonewall Jackson concert, next {
friday night at the Memphis Theater, is
destined to be a splendid success. The !
'est talent of the city has volunteered to |
ssist, and will appear on the programme.
)ur people have a taste for select S
musical entertainments, and are always S
eady to respond with liberal hand to t
UGH an appeal as this one. Tickets are t
Or sale at the principal book, music and q
ewelry stores, and hotels in the city, and
re not only hope that many will be sold,
ut that the concert will be an artistic
uccess. We look for the ladies always
D take the lead in such noble enterprises
s this, and we appeal to them to take
heir brothers, fathers, and cousins, and
ncles, and sweethearts, the latter in a
artieular, to the concert In this case I
e advocate woman's right to 60 to the
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