Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-01
LEDGER LINES.

Probate and Quorum County Courts
in session to-day.
The United States Courts will open
on Monday next.
Look out for duns-the collectors are
out on the war-path.
Sensible business men are beginning
to advertise literally now.
Summer has closed her eyes, and Au-
tumn sings merrily at present.
The efforts making to erect fountain
in Court Square give every promise Of
speedy success.
The Christian Brothers College, on
Adams street, opened to-day, for the
reception of pupils.
A Life Insurance Underwriters Asso-
citation was organized in this city on
Saturday by the insurance agents.
The public schools open to-day, AND
the children will be gathered in from the
streets by the presiding Genius of Edu-
cation.
The Grand Opera House opens on
the 18th, and the Memphis Theater on
the 29th instant, with fine companies
and attractions.
Prof Baldwin will appear at the
Grand Opera House tonight, and will
present his wonderful seances and mys-
terious spirit manifestations.
The Vicksburg Herald announces a
soiree dansante at Bovina; the Bovines
INDUCED exclusively in back. kicks and
the free use OF "horns"-of whisky.
The average Memphian delights in
tying tin can to dogs tail and watch
the animal as it dances the can.can on
the Nicolson pavement. OF the two,
the dog is the more intelligent animal.
Horse stealing in Tennessee is a cap
ital offence, but as hanging for murder
is played out, of course no horse. thief
will swing on the high gallows.tree ex-
cept by order of the Court of Judge
Lynch.
Our contemporary, the Avalanche, re-
sumed its big size and full dress yester-
day, presenting evidences of prosperity
not to be ignored. The LEDGER congrA-
tulates its Jefferson street neighbor on
its good looks.
James Britton, mate of the Great Re-
public, who was arrested at this port
on Saturday on the charge of killing a
negro OF New Orleans some days since,
will have hearing on Wednesday next
before Esquire Winters.
At this time last year that able and
powerful old war horse, Ex-President
Andrew Johnson, was swinging down
slowly through Middle Tennessee, and
under the name of Peter the. Hermit,
was about to invade Memphis with the
Mosaic code in his hand.
The contest for the gold medal, offered
at handicap by the Bluff City Shooting
Club, will be resumed on Thursday next,
at 2 o'clock precisely, when those who
succeeded in killing nine birds each,
will settle the tie " by an exciting con.
test, wherein a good gun and a quick
eye will tell the tale.
New cotton is coming in rapidly, and,
in consequence, everybody is happy. 1t
is the belief of an eminent geologist at
tached to the LEDGER office, that Mem
phis and the bluffs are built on cotton
bale which acts as substratum that
prevents Memphis from breaking through
the crust of earth which separates it
from the great mass of molten matter
which is believed by the eredulous to be
the condition of things in the interior.
There were but two arrests at the
upper district station this morning, one
for drunk and the other, j. L. Yerger,
arrested by 7. W. Brown mot the legal
adviser but the detective) for stealing
gold watch and chain, at picnic some
time since, from colored maiden, was t
sent to jail to await trial. Officers |
McCune and Browa have recovered {
enough of the stolen property already {
to convict him, and will find the watch /
today.
And now comes the man of the nine.
tenth century, who condemns the prae-
lice of publishing a newspaper on Sp n
lay or Monday, because it violateS the
ordinance providing that the 3 ,abbatb
be kept holy. The difficulty i es in the
definition of what is meant bv keeninr
he Sabbath holy. The learned of one
sect say one thing and. the learned of
another sect say sOm' thing else, but un-
fortunately, there is no umpire or
referee except CO nscience-and thereby
hangs the tale with men who take the
liberty of doing their own thinking.