Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-28
LEDGER LINES.
The Probate aud Quorum Courts will
be in session on Monday next.

be in session on Monday next.
The police are after one or two China
men to-day who are wanted for stealing,
Ths MofAtt homicide case will be
heard before Justice Winters this after
noon.
Several bodies from the wreck Of the
steamer Wolf have been washed ashore
near the mouth Of st. Francis river.
The Police Court docket this morning
occupied the attention OF the court and
the practitioners just tweniy-one min.
utes.
The boy Feeley, arrested for horse
stealing. was discharged this morning,
after a sound lecture by Chief of Police
Athy.
There will be a total eclipse of the
moon on the 4th Of November, and q
partial eclipse Of the sun on the 18th Of
the same month.
George Fitzsimmons was arrested this
morning by officer Wilson, who found
Fitz " booty" and locked him up in the
Adams street station.house.
Next Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings, Professor Baldwin, the
seance and manifestation man, will
give performances at the Grand Opera
| House.
The control Of the Carolina Life In.
surance Company has passed into the
hands of Vice President Philip Tuggle,
Mr.. jefferson Davis having resigned the
Presidency of the institution.
Mr., Frank Hobson, sen of Mr.. W. j..
Hobson, of this city, was crushed to
death by a railroad train near Bowling
Green, Kentucky, on Tuesday last His
remains were inferred at Elmwood Gem
otery today. Ilt
In few weeks the forty mule power
harmonican, intended to furnish music
during the Exposition, will arrive from
Geneva, Switzerland. Anything is
preferable to the wretched brass band
music furnished last year.
Those desiring to enter the handicap
match given by the Bluff City Shooting
Club, are expected to attend the club
meeting onight at the Second Circuit
Courtroom, where they can secure their
tickets from the secretary.
There is nothing so pleasing to the
internal man as to see your name an
nounced in the journals of the day as
having departed in some direction, I'M
less 1t be seeing your name in print, an
nouncing your return to the city.
Not even in the desert of Sahara was
there ever so dense and murky a'wind,
sand and dust storm as that which
swept through the city last evening
Every human being has to eat peck of
dirt, according to the proverb, but last
evening he or she out on the streets got
an overdose.
There are quite too many people in
this world who have no higher idea of
the province of journalism than to be-
lieve that journal can be made vehi-
Gle for personal abuse at the rate of
twenty cents line, and how indignant
these little fellows become when they
ind out their mistake.
The Haywood county fair will be held
atBrowsnville, commencing on Tuesday,
October 2lst, and continuing FIVE days,
The fair Of the Tennessee Agricultural
and Mechanical Association will be held
at Nashville, commencing September
3Oth, and continuing six days. The
premium lists of both fairs have been
issued and circulated.
The Avalanche has it that some fear
less and enterprising Modoc is trying to
secure the basement of the Criminal
Courtroom as keno hall This would
enable the paste. board seller to canvass
the courtroom during the day and sell
a few cards to the jurors, lawyers and
spectators.
A passenger and a street-car driver
engaged in an alteration last night, and
the passenger had his left ear split open
with carhook. Since the Foster
Putnam murder in New York, car
hooks have been removed from out the
reach of drivers, but unruly passengers
should be arrested and properly pun
ished according to law.
Since the arrest of ]. E. White large
number of stolen horses and mules have
been recovered by their owners. There
will be eight or ten cases against White
before the Grand Jury. Altogether it is
the most remarkable horse and mule
stealing affair ever brought to light in
Memphis. White will have a hearing to-
morning before Esquire Spell