Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-18
LEDGER LINES.

Prayer meetings we're held yesterday
at the county Jail for the edi6cation OF
the prisoners.
There will be barbecue and basket
picnic at Horn Lake depot next Friday,
the 22d instant.
Owing to the press upon our local col
umns today, our weekly cotton state
ment is crowded ont.
The annual barbecue Of the Old Folks
will be given at the Fair Grounds on the
10th Of September next.
Colored residents Of the rural districts
now appear in the city with wreAths OF
open cotton bolls around their hats.
Dan Roush, negro, fell overheard
from the steamer Glencoe near Bor-
deaux chute, night before last, and was
drowned.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the counting.room and at the leading
news stands throughout the city to.mor-
row morning.
Who will send and who will receive
the first, second and third bales of cot
toni are the approaching mercantile
conundrums.
Next Saturday night, the 23d instant,
Charley White will reopen his Jefferson
street Opera House, with star company
of variety performers.
On Thursday afternoon next there
will be trotting race between roadsters
owned by gentlemen of the city, at the
fernando street trotting park.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee will
hold its regular term at Knoxville, be-
ginning on the second Monday in Sep
TENDER next, the 9Th proximo.
Gentlemen from Grenada, Mississippi,
say that the sensational Grenada riots
amounted to nothing. A few drunken
negroes were the cause OF the troubles.
Memphians wandering in Europe are
on their way homeward bound, having
done Europe in sixty days, and &C.
CURED smattering of all the modern
languages.
All lovers Of field sports are expected
TO attend the meeting fer the orgsniza-
lion Of the sportsman's club. to be held
It the Second Circuit courtroom next
Wednesday evening. y
The officers of the Old Folks Society
are: President, w. B. Waldran; Vice
President, John 7. Stratton; Recording
Secretary, j. P. Prescott; Financial
Secretary, Ben Richmond; Treasurer,
R. W. Parker.
A wind instrument called an orches-
ron, worked by machinery. will make
music for the people who visit the Expo
Iition this fall, instead OF the human
Wind instruments called brass ba nds, who
lid the musical business heretofi IRE.
A woman named Alice Stanley, for
nerly Of this city, attempted to c ommit
uicide at Little Rock on Friday last,
~ swallowing a large dose of CT lloro-
orm. A galvanic battery and ,Itom-
Ich pump restored her to conscious ness.
The Avalanchian says the first brick
louse ever put up in Memphis still
tands on Jefferson street. This must
,e mistake, as there are several OLD
rick rookeries standing on Front street,
lear the Navy Yard, which were erected
n 1882 or 1888.
The police authorities have deter
mined to pay attention to a number of
'ouths of rather fast proclivities, who at
light prowl around the city in half in
oxicated condition, and visit dens of in
guilty. The arrests when made will as
onish many parents. ~
General W. H. Jackson, President of
he Agricultural Bureau, has issued an \
address to the farmers of Tennessee on
he subject of holding farmers con.
'ention at Nashville on the 10th of Sep
ember next and organizing State
Farmers Association.
Every afternoon, and especially every |
sunday, dozens of sail boats can be
cen floating on the bosom of the Mis-
issippi. The gamins of the city and q
ew average Memphians seem to be the
nly lovers of aquatic sports at present
n the regatta business.
A well-known small fruit raiser has
murdered several thousand moles during
be past month. He says the mole is
he great destroyer of grapes and fruit
f all descriptions. Within the past few
ears the moles have migrated to this
ection of country in countless num-
ers. trr .H..Il
Every young man now absent from
lemPhis on a pleasure trip has been
nnounced through the newspapers as
me who will return with belle and
ride" The number of bellies, in con-
has been greatly augmented
q order to supply this newspaper de-
nand for the article.
A suburban beer garden is cheerful
ooking establishment, where on Sunday
lou can sit at a table under a tree and
lave a glass of beer and a deck of cards
vherewith To while away dull time. At