Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-12
BREyITIES.

| icSsSu " 80 fAN'-.oA-e@11
There will be a fashionable wedding
at the First Baptist Church at three
o'clock on Monday next.
A run-off on the Memphis and Charles
ton road this morning wrecked freight
train considerably. Nobody hurt,
Walker Wood. Esq, the sprightly
editor Of the Upton Record, is in the
city attending to the interests of his
well-known journal.
IN On next Thursday there will be vote
taken in the city on the question of sub
scribing 100000 in stock in the Missis-
sippi River railroad.
Nearly all our judges and quite a
number Of our officials are absent from
the city visiting the springs and enjoying
good things in the country, tat.el
The number Of station-house dodgers,
homeless and moneyless wanderers, are
on the increase. They say they can
| find no work or employment in the city.
Godey's Lady's Book for September
has been laid on our table by Mansford,
who dispenses literature for the million
at the corner Of Second and Monroe
streets. ni N'lf
The election on Thursday is to wind
up with one Of those disgusting things
called contest. After being beaten at
the polls the defeated ought to be salts
fed without becoming sore-headed.
The seats in Court Square are receiv-
ing a coat of paint, which improves their
former dingy appearance considerably.
The iron railing surrounding the Square
would be benefited by similar applica-
ton.
Joe Locke, the world-renowned news
man, has a large supply of Sunday read
ing, including pictorials, magazines,
| foreign journals and daily newspapers
from all points East, West, North and
| South.
What was left of The South, literary
paper of some merit, published not long
since in this city, was sold yesterday by
the Sheriff to satisfy an execution. Such
is the fate of literary journals started in
Memphis,
The marriage licenses returned to
County Clerk Reilly during the week
are as follows Frank Hurold and Miss
Elizabeth Howell; Lewis II. Cannon
and Mrs. Leionia A. Bolton; John Adair
and Miss Jessie Farquhar; Olof john
son and Miss Fannie E. Browne.
Emmons e. Son, newsdealers at 10
Jefferson and 4l0 Main, have received
the latest daily papers from st. Louis,
Cincinnati, New York, New Orleans,
Chicago, Louisville, Nashville and other
cities. Magazines from all points, illus
trated weeklies of every description, and
foreign papers and periodicals received
regularly. 'Ei fi4l3
Every day the usual runaway takes
place on Main street Drivers seem to
have an unaccountable desire to leave
horses on the street, of which the horses
take advantage by running muck :"
through the city. The result is generally
smashing wheels and shafts and the pay
ment of light fine by the careless
driver.
Some Western poet, in undertaking
to rival the slang poets--Bret Harte,
Miller and Hay-gets off the following
in st. Louis paper:
I'm England rivers are all males
For instance, father Thames
Whoever in Columbia sails
Finds them ma nmsells or danes.
Yes, there the softer sex presides,
Aquatic, | assure ye.
| And Mrs. Sippy rolls her tides,
| Responsive to Miss Souri,"
President Tucker, of the Grenada,
Houston and Okolona railroad, while in
this city few days since, let out the
contract to construct twenty-five miles
of road to those well known contractors,
Messrs. Fleece, Pete & Co. The con-
tract is to grade twenty-five miles of
| road from 0kolona to q point seven
miles west of Houston. The contractors
will commence work at once, under di1
reetion of Chief Engineer W. s. Moon,
of this city.
There are young people who visit that
romantic spot, Court Square, on Sun
day evenings who ought to take the adj
vice of a Louisville reporter to an Area
dian couple in that city. He says:
1.-THE gentleman walking down Jefferson
street last evening, with one arm en-
c5rcline the waist ofa lady, and who
stopped beneath the shadows of the
Pioneer graveyard to steal kiss, should
not be quite so public with his counting
When parties engage in free fight
in a magistrates office in Memphis, the
court, in dignifed manner, imposes a
severe fine; but in Squire Dossman's
office, in Cincinnati under like circum-
stances, the fighting court throws both
combatants out Of the second-story
window. In Memphis the justices fine
for a contempt of court; in Porkopohs
they remove it at once. The Cincinnati
system is the better practice, and more
equitable.