Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-23
BREvITIEs.

the springs.
The days are very hot and the nights
cool for this time of year.
Mayor johnson has appealed to the
Supreme Court from the decision o.
Chancellor Yerger, in the suit against
the Water-Works Company.
A Knoxville tailor was surprised the
other day by the return of bill which
he had sent to certain editor, with the
endorsement, this manuscript respect
fully returned"
Be it remembered that the county mass
meeting meets day after tomorrow at u
o clock, in the Greenlaw Opera House
to appoint delegates to Congressional
and Gubernatorial Conventions, and for
other purposes.
The annual meeting of the stockhold.
ers of the Memphis and Charleston rail
road takes place tomorrow at the
Chamber of Commerce. Everybody and
his wife who has any stock can come
and return free.
A morning paper announces that its
issue is three thousand more than usual.
We congratulate our contemporary on
doubling its issue at single swoop. The
autumn trade, and the fall trade, no
doubt had something to do with this,
which they may not do tomorrow.
Col. j. w. Wescott, the well-known
attorney, has fine cotton crop ten
miles from Memphis, on the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad. The speci-
mems we have seen of the staple are
very fine, and the bolls have been open
two weeks.
We regret to learn that Col. II. Clay
King was suddenly called off day before
yesterday to attend his little boy, said to
be dying of meningitis, at Aberdeen,
Miss, where Mrs. King had gone to visit
her relatives. The child is about four
years old and remarkable for his COM
prehensve mind and manly was.
Mr.. Huber, who was deserted by his
wretched wife for the bar-keeper Sparks,
had large insurance on his life for the
benefit of his wife and children. Yes
terday he called at the insurance office
and, with tears in his eyes, asked to have
his wife's name stricken out of the
policy. 1t is understood that he has
discarded her forever.
Brownlow don't die worth cent The
Wing of Saturday says: Senator
Brownlow has been in very precarious
health for the past few years, and his
friends apprehended that his career was
near a close. Since his return from
Washington his condition has been
gradually improving and now he is en-
joying better health than he has for
years"
In our article on Welded Misery "
yesterday we discovered one or two mi
nor inaccuracies; for instance, the H.
900 acres of land" should have been
"l7OO." The capital invested, however,
was $1,000 We are also informed that
injustice was done Mr.. Ammons in re-
gard to the difference twixt the age of
himself and his wife. But this is tread
ing on delicate ground" and unless the
family Bibles are produced on both sides
we will not risk any further reference to
the subject.
A meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce was held yesterday afternoon.
Darlington Mason, Esq, was elected a
member of the Chamber. The Chair
man nominated Messrs. Stratton Hill,
Cherry, Rawlings and Lonsdale com
mittee to nominate candidates for the
elective offices for the ensuing year Mr.,
Donohoe addressed the meeting on immi-
grafton, and committee of Messrs.
Robinson, Mayre and Donohoe was APP
pointed to solicit funds to publish
pamphlet on immigration South to cir
culate ia the North and West. Messrs.
Moore Stratton end Church were APP
pointed a committee on the Union Depot
question.
The corner of Fourth and Jefferson
streets must be a noisy neighborhood at
night from the complaints received.
The place is rendezvous for Africa.
There the man and brother assemblies to
drink creosote whisky, get knocked down
and then draw his knife and go for any
body that comes in the way. The col
cred sister also scqds around in thick
pools, and ig quick to avenge an insult
or defend her title as lady" They
chew each other up until the kilkenny
cats on Deighboring cotton-sheds cope
peering oyeF tho walls to see how it is
done, and give up tbs caRpRdrnm in
disgust. When the police approach,
Ethiopia scrambles off out of sight and
hearing like a thousand prairie pups in
a Western dog-town. They can smell
POLICEMAN any distance, and the police
can smell thep, to-; but the police get
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the worst Of L. That's what . distin-
tinguished friend of ours once would !
have called a jolly old neighborhood.