Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-14
BREyITIEs.

days Of the year.
Stock dealers are daily arriving with
droyes from the North.
Mr.. A. G. Ferguson has gone to Nash
Vile, to be gone two or three days.
Services every night at the Central
Methodist Church on Union street.
Confederate meeting at the Second
Circuit Court room usual place. to-mor-
row night.
All hackmen doing business without
State and county license are required to
take out the same at once, and thus save
trouble and costs.
The LEDGERs immense new poster
job press arrived day before yesterday
and is now safely laid in the cellar. 1t
is without rival in the city In short
while it will be in full operation and the
public can see specimens Of the work.
A gentleman who lately travelled
through the prairie counties of Missis-
sippi, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
gives gloomy account of the cotton
crop. The ravages of the boil worm
have been general, and scarcely one
fourth of bale will be. picked to the
acre.
Mr.. Jessie +. Brown, who lives in the
southern part of the city, brought to oar
Office this morning an egg laid by an or
binary bow-legged hen, which measures
in circumference, lengthwise, eight and
three-fourth inches, and in circumfer-
ence, crosswise, six and a half inches.
This piece of fruit looks more like a
goose egg than anything else. Mr..
Brown informs us that his hens have
laid number of such eggs, which usu.
alIy are found, when broken, to contain
two yolks. We should like to know
whether these eggs would produce twin
chickens.
The correspondence published yester'
day between Messrs. Spalding, Bidwell
& McDonough and Gen. John G. Fizer
explains itself. The entire use of the
theater has been rendered and accepted
for the benefit of the Stonewall Jackson
Monument Fund 1t now remains for
somebody to organize the concert The
gentleman from Virginia now in the city
is stranger to our people, and cannot
make up programme and give the con-
cert himself. We suggest, therefore,
that all amateurs who are willing to as
sist in the cause report their names to
Gen. Fizer. When it is known who will
serve a call can be made to bring them
together and arrange business details.
Levity or mirth always seems out of
place in church, but an incident occurred
in one of our city churches last Sunday
which rendered smile excusable. The
minister arose to give out his hymn
and read out number which he had re-
ceived from the choir. He preached an
excellent sermon, and;of course at the
end of it had forgotten all about the
number of the hymn, so he required to
his slip of paper and happened to select
the same hymn. This caused slight
smile on some faces, but the choir applied
another air and it was sung with good
effect. Then followed an exhortation
from another minister present. When
through his remarks he opened hymn
book, and singular us it may seem, fell
upon the same hymn and read it out with
great deliberation and emphasis. Then
and there a smile vent around the house
that broke out at one or two points in an
audible singer. Even the members OF
the choir had to bite their fingers to look
sober and decorous. When it came to
the singing they hesitated for tune, but
the stock of that particular metre had
not entirely given out, and the same
words were sung for the third time to a
still different air The reverend gentle
men-Mr. Mullins and Mr.. Eldridge-
were innocent OF the little mistake or
coincidence and scarcely comprehended
the embarrassment of the choir,