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

IIciBhtn aClFt.
Soft fall weather.
Hotels well patronized.
More new cotton to-day.
Fall business opening briskly.
Combs, jr., not in jail to-day.
The dog-killer has proclaimed truce.
Mr.. N. Linde's funeral took place yes
terday.
Fine weather for cotton and cotton
pickers.
|Cf Capt. James o, Duff has gone into
business.
Ex-Governor Rector, of Hot Springs
has arrived.
Advertising is three weeks later than
it was last fall.
Gen. J. s. Marmaduke, of st. Louis,
is at the Overton.
Mr. c. P. Oakley has gone to Califor-
MIA on q trip OF month.
Col Duncan McRea has returned from
his summer vacation and tour.
:" Preaching every night at the Central
Methodist Church, on Union street.
Koopmanschap wears a brilliant uni
form of blue coat and white pants.
The conventions held yesterday were
as digni6ed, orderly and expeditions as
any ever held in the city.
Gen, Joseph A. Mabry offers, in the
Knoxville papers, pair of Cotswold
lambs, valued at 800, for the finest
baby, under one year old, exhibited at
the Knoxville Fair, in October.
1t is announced that the Chapman
Sisters, now in Louisville, will be here
shortly. They are great favorites in
Louisville, Richmond, Baltimore and
other Southern cities.
Captain Frank James, who went to
Kentucky with the remains of Col Birney
Marshall, attended the funeral, at Frank
fort, Wednesday evening at half-past
eight o'clock, with few of the relatives
of the deceased, and reached home yes
terday evening
Going to Nashville as delegate now
is like going into Mammoth Cave: there
is long route and short route. We
advise the delegates to go both and
return the other way; and it is not i'm
portant which they try first, so they stop
at the Maxwell House when they get to
Nashville.
A distressing accident occurred at Mr..
E. Simerley's saw mill, in Carter county,
on the 2Sth ult, in which his son. S. w..
Simerley, had his left hand caught in
the saw, which completely severed four
fingers of the hand at the knuckle-j oints,
and otherwise so mangling his hand as
to render amputation above the wrist
necessary.
A laborer named Joseph Henderson,
working under the bluff for Mr.. Holtz,
the contractor, was killed yesterday by
the falling of large clod of earth from
a height of fourteen feet. He was a
stranger here, and was thought to be an
Englishman. An inquest was held, and
verdict returned in accordance with
the facts.
Mr.. A. G. Kirwin, an experienced
business man and a good citizen in every
sense, leaves the city to-day to locate
permanently at Pine Bluff, Ark, where
he will be correspondent for one of our
leading cotton houses, and will repre-
sent two or three frst-class insurance
companies. We commend him to the
confidence and good treatment of his
new friends.
A chap named-no, difference what
in Blount county, is running for State
Senator in the Second Senatorial Dis
trict. His platform has only two planks:
one is in favor of making East Ten
nessee State to itself, and the other is
all whisky. He thinks everybody ought
to be allowed to make and sell the staff
without paying any internal revenue
tax. The damphool ought to run for
Congress, and not hamper up his mas
sive mind at the capital at Nashville.