Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-08
BREyITIEs.

More new cotton to-day.
Koopmanschap is in town.
Many strangers in the city.
Court Square has been mown.
MajorR. p. Duncan has returned from
North Carolina.
Only twenty-seven hundred licensed
dogs in Memphis.
And still they come-people who have
been away all the summer.
Madison street bridge has been re-
paired. but il is a poor job.
The baptism of the Prince Impe-
rial still proceeds, and is likely to be
a complete success.
Internal revenue receipts in the Eighth
Congressional District for year ending
June 30, 1870, 1927, 600
The mosquitoes about town are as
healthy and hearty as ever known. They
will hold out until Christmas easily.
A contemporary who has taken the
trouble to count announces that there
are one hundred and twenty-five boot
blacks in Memphis.
j. Ed. Stacey secured a reduction of
his bonds before Judge Trigg, at Bristol,
and on giving the amount required was
discharged.
Col. Kinloch Falconer, of the Holly
Springs Reporter, and Col. j. Gus. Sig
naigo, of the Grenada Sentinel, are in
the city. AS the rural press would say,
we extend them our hand.
Mr.. John Willins has returned, with his
wife, from sojourn at Montvale Springs,
a trip to New York and various places
of note in the North He looks the
picture of health and good spirits.
Crisman, Stewart 4 Co., 266 Front
street, received yesterday the first bale
of new cotton from DeSoto county, Miss.
This bale weighed 565 pounds, classes
full style middling, was raised by Powell
& Laws, and shipped by D. L. Dean Il
Co., Of Senatobia.
The examination of witnesses in the
cases of Messrs. Gouldsby, Hill and
Davis, charged with the Dickens muir
der, was set yesterday for next Monday,
before Judge j. E. Ray, at the Criminal
Court room. No new facts were elected
yesterday afternoon, except that large
number of witnesses will have to be
summoned between now and Monday.
The big barbecue given to the colored
population comes off to-day at Forest
Hill There will be smacking of greasy
lips and gurgle of hallelujahs and a
rapturous rolling of Saturn-like eyes as
the roast pig and billed goose, the savory
sheep meat and juicy beef and unctious
hog and hominy are sent home with ac-
tive hands. A number Of old white citi-
zens will be present to encourage and
stimulate the innocent enjoyment of the
day, and the whole crowd will be happy.
Mr.. Mike Gavin, of Front street, re-
ceived a dispatch this morning from j..
w. Grogan, the operator at Madison,
Arkansas, stating that Jas. Ford, form
erly Street Commissioner Of this city,
was found dead in his room this morning,
at Thirty-Three Mile Post Mr. Ford
was well known here and had many
friends. He was engaged as section
boss on the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad. The remains will be brought
here for interment, and the funeral will
be announced.
The most of the delegates to the Nash
vile Gubernatorial Convention will leave
the city Sunday morning. The great
Southwestern problem just now is which
route will they travel. The two popular
ticket agents are counting the delegates
with all the ardent warmth of first love.
The delegates are considering counsel
ing and waiting for a better bid, and we
advise them to hold out to the last. Sell
Howell says he has the shortest route by
several hundred miles. Barney Hughes
says he has the wittiest and wisest news
paper in the world to give them free-the
Railroad Record.