Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-15
BREyITIEs.
Lovely weather again.

Board Of Education meets this after
noon.
Court Square begins to don the sober
tints Of autumn.
The First Circuit Court will convene
next Monday, the 18th inst.
The Confederate Association meets to-
night. See notice elsewhere.
Hon. Logan H. Roots (RadicaD was
renominated yesterday at Devalrs Bluff,
for Congress.
Accepted for publication--"Loye'-a
pretty little bit of poetry, but very SEN
timental.
The Criminal Court will open next
Monday, and the Grand Jury will find
something to do.
VIM. Randolph, Esq, an able lawyer,
has been appointed City Attorney by
Mayor Johnson, vice Col. W. II. Steph-
ems, resigned.
AT recent meeting of the Mississippi
Central railroad stockholders, H. s. Me-
Comb was elected president of the COM
pany, instead of Col Sam. Tate.
Morristown, fourishing young place
forty miles above Knoxville, has been
selected as the county seat for the new
county Of Hamblen, formed out of parts
of Jefferson and Granger counties.
The Oldest member of the Masonic
fraternity in this country, if not in the
world, is said to be David Styles, of
Prescott, Wisconsin. He is in his l05th
year, and was made Mason on the 2lst
day of May, 1871, over 70 years ago.
We have received from Major j. "A.
Wilder, of Brownsville, an invitation
and tickets, to attend the Brownsville
Fair, which begins OH the 18th inst, and
will continue until the 22d. Much
obliged, Major, and may attend or be
represented.
Some of the delegates to the Nash
vile Convention returned yesterday, and
nearly all will be back to-day. They all
express pleasure at the result of the
proceedings and the harmony which
prevailed. The success of the ticket is
as certain as the ides of November.
The Stonewall Jackson concert, for
next Friday night week, will soon be
definitely announced. The best amateurs
and professionals in the city have it in
hands. The tickets are all printed, and
can be had at the principal jewelry es-
Establishments, book stores and hotels.
The meetings of the r. w. Grand
Lodge and Encampment /. o. o. f.
will be held in Memphis, commencing
on the 18th proximo. In honor of the
occasion, the Lodges and Encampments
of the city have determined to celebrate
the event by a procession, address,
steamboat excursion, ETC., which will
take place on Thursday, the goth.
The old Board of Directors of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad were
reelected yesterday. Their names are
as follows: Geo. p. Beirne, Joseph G.
Bradley, Robert C. Brinkley, James /.
Donegan, Albert H. Jones, Pitser Mil
Ter, John d. Rather, VIM. b. Waldran,
and Moses J. Wicks. Two hundred and
fifty thousand two hundred and seven
teen shares of stock were represented.
How are you, twenty dollar gold pieceY
Cadmus offered that little trihe to any
one who would make full frame" at
his ten-pin alleys. The alleys were in
better order than he thought, and he
found better player than he expected
so soon. Mr.. Conkling, of Virginia,
made the 1870 points in one regular game
yesterday, and took in that gold piece
easy enough.
BY the census of 1860, Louisville had
population of 6s,033. BY the present
census she has, in the year of our Lord
1870, Just 100, 2O6. The mortality of that
village must be awful, for, according to
the newspapers there, it had a popula-
ton of l75, 900 three years ago. So Lou
isville has increased about fifty per cent.
in the last decade, Notwithstanding the
war was rather an advantage than other
wise. Memphis has gained one hundred
per cent. in population since 1860, al
though the war utterly ruined many of
her best merchants. We will easily
catch up with Louisville in the next ten
years. Mark that.
A negro woman in Mississippi, crazed
with religious excitement, was going
home a few nights ago from one of the
colored churches, clapping her hands,
knocking out her heels, and ducking her
head like mad. All at once a thought
struck her, a1d giving another one of
those peculiar swoops to the ground
which mark those midnight orgies, she
yelled out at the top of her voice;
THANK God, don't have to cook any
supper to- night Blessed Jesusl Hove
him all overl'' One Of the women who
held her up, became Disguised, and re-
marked that religion don't make mig
ger as big fool as you isl"
You never hear of Q suicide In Mem.
phis. When a man there gets tired OF
living he doesn't have to walk more than
one or two squares before he stumbles
over somebody who is anxious to kill
him. 1t is much the better plan. II
spares the one man the crime of self
slaughter and affords the other what
they call down there an innocent gratlh-
cation.
This spiteful paragraph originated, If
we are not mistaken, with the Louisville
Courier-Journal, and has been copied
into some other papers. Louisville is
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