Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-10
LEDGER LINES,

The General Council meets this after
noon.
The grand Exposition will open on the
LIST prox.
The ladies Of St. Peters Catholic
church are holding picnic and iete at
James Park to-day.
Prof Baldwin will give an expose Of
the spiritualistic seanee business at the
Grand Opera House tonight.
Tomorrow Thursday the Old Folks
at Home will indulge in barbecue at
the Fair Grounds. Orator Of the day,
Judge J. I. swayne.
The different courts Of the city, Chan
eery excluded, will open wide their doors
on Monday next, for the relief Of the
oppressed and punishment Of offenders.
as it were.
A wretched punster, residing in the
four courts, insists that Mr.. White, not
withstanding his horse dealing proclivi-
ties, is mon est" man-at least in
Tennessee.
Mr. James W. Tate, of Senatobia,
Mississippi, has won the gold medal
offered as prize at handicaps to the
best trap pigeon shooter by the Bluff
City Shooting Club.
The Appeal local insists vigorously
that he is not paper hustle adjuster,
and yet he claims to belong to the
sterner sex, and raves increasingly about
fairy forms and all that.
VIM. Brown, an American, and James
Jones, a German, we're arrested this
morning by officer Scott for tapping the
bungs Of empty beer kegs, and were fined
twenty-five dollars each by the Recorder
for their "beerish proclivities.
The bal masque to be given at the Ex-
position building on tomorrow Thurs
day. week by the Confederate Relief As
ISOLATION is the talk OF the city at pres
ent. Get up your costumes in time for
the great masquerade OF the season.
Mrs. Sarah L. White was released on
$4,000 bail yesterday afternoon. Colonel
j. E. White has escaped to Arkansas,
having eluded the efforts made for his
capture, but SO far as it pans out, the
efforts we're not of very vigorous or de-
termined character. Few officers cared
about tackling White on the high road
or in the woods.
The catastrophe of yesterday was the
sudden death Of q valuable and educated
Thomas cat at the establishment of
Messrs. Spicer 4 Ryan. Thomas could
perform more tricks than circus horse,
and was the wonder of the vicinity.
But Poor Toms a.cold," and he was
buried decently in candle-box last
evening by his sorrowing friends.
The writ issued against Sheriff Doyle
for alleged contempt of court, because
he turned over to the Kentucky authori-
ties the escaped convict and burglar,
Cornell alias Kernel, and failed to re-
turn the prisoner into court, was dis
missed to-day by Judge Ray, it appear
ing that the Sheriff had obeyed to the
lattar Qovarnor Rrown's warrant which
accompanied the requisition of the
Governor of Kentucky for the body of
the convict. The warrant of the Gov
ernor was higher authority than the
habeas corpus issued by the court.
Among the paradoxes Of human ma
ture may be recorded the fact that
newspaper man may write compli
mentary notice daily of the average man
without receiving call or hearing an
acknowledgment of the compliment
from the worthy; yet if but once per
annum a non-complimentary notice, be
itever so vague, is published, the average
man rushes to the newspaper office and
wishes everybody to rise and explain.
This class of worthless is near akin to
candidates for Office, whose internal
familiarity upon slight acquaintanceis
painfully apparent and correspond
ingly disagreeable.