Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-01

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The Exposition viii be a grand success.
A jeweler in this city yesterday received
for repairs o silver watch onc' hundred
and five years Of age. Politics continue
to be cheerful on street corners. The
little fellows I" who back the A. J. indie
pendents sing the same tune. When a
Memphis man is strangled while taking
drink he calls it Surratted.Y A big
barbecue and Democratic demonstra-
ton at fernando, Mississippi, next
Thursday, We have the legitimate
drama and three variety shows, in full
blast at present. The weather continues
to be cool and pleasant, with a light
frost in prospect. A Memphis lady is
pronounced to be painfully intellectual
and continually imparting information
The Tablet, female suffrage organ, has
suspended publication for the present.
The man who fails to advertise his
businesslins the LEDGER is on the high
road to ruin. 14A gate hung strong
enough to support two lovers has been
invented and patented The yellow
pumpkin lies golden on the hill-sides of
the rural districts. The citizens of
Omaha, disguised with the frequent and
apparently useless changes of school
books, have held anindignation meeting
and invited a majority Of the school
visitors to resign. The same Invitation,
for that and other reasons, will eek
tended to several Memphis school yisi-
tors next January. The ladies' describe
this portion of the year as the nothing
to-wear season. There is always one
side OF any mans character upon which
the funeral sermon can expatiate com
fortably. The fellow who always
offers to bet on an election is
regular nuisance in civilized society.
Fifty dollars fine. or its equivalent on
the chain-gang, is the penalty in this
city for chastising ones wife. The bellies
of the suburbs no longer sit beneath the
trees listening to the whispers Of lovers
and the dnlcet notes of the mocking
bird; they take their company into the
,parlor and both parties hug the stove.
Shell oysters tickle the palates of Mem
phis gourmands. Houses are going up
all over the burnt district. The City
Paternals meet in solemn conclave to.
morrow afternoon. Cheatham men and
johnson men continue to confront each
other throughout the city. The John
sonian and Maynardian legislative
county tickets have not as yet emerged
from the caucuses. Equinoctial storms
are frolicking throughout the land.
Dolly Warden is no more;o she died sud-
denly and was buried fashionably.
Rural horse trots known as agri-
cultural fairs = will soon appear.
The crop of mothers-in.law will be
largely increased in Memphis this fall
and winter Carl Schurz is expected to
deliver the orntion'at the opening Of the
Turner Bund Hall in this city, during
the present month. Mrs. Brigham Young
is said to be multitudinous person.
The Memphis Theater Lorgnette, pub
lished at the LEDGER Office, is becoming
exceedingly popular with advertisers.
Tennessee, although the ninth State in
population, is second in illiteracy; she
has 10000 children between the ages Of
ten and twenty-one who can neither
read nor write SO much for the stealing
of the school fund by Andy Johnson's
successors in office-th Brownlow gang,
The naughty wind plays sad havoc With
female pedestrianism on Main street;
cease, rude Boreas The great Califor-
mia sensation, Sartin as Death, will be
produced at the theater Thursday night |