Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-29
LEDGER LINES.


II you wish to inform the people MS to
your business advertise in the LEDGER.
The luscious grape is the favorite
provender Of the Memphis bellies just
now.
The HopeGeld sand baris advancing
upon Memphis at the rate Of about City
feet per day.
Handicap pigeon.shooting match by
the Bluff City Club this afternoon, at the
fernando trotting park
Oysters will begin TO she'll out next
month. Hundreds OF citizens long for
the cool half-shell days
Racing with baby carriages around
Court Square is the novel amusement OF
the Memphis nursery girl.
Fred Douglass win address the colored
people at the State Colored Fair, to be
held at Nashville on the 18th of Septem.
Der.
Green oranges have arrived in the
market. II will be several weeks before
they assume the golden hue and are fit
TO eat.
The failure Of the Madison street
party to reach Raleigh this morning was
not attributable to tie champagne they
had before starting.
The first ten bales of cotton appeared
on the bluff to-day, as did likewise the
inevitable cotton scales and the ubiqui-
tous cotton clerk.
The storm which swept over the city
last Wednesday evening did considera-
BILE damage to fences aud crops in this
and adjoining counties.
The unfortunate Mr. White, whose
weakness for horse flesh got him into so
much trouble, will have hearing before
Esquire Winters tomorrow.
The Exposition Building is being pre-
pared for the great fair. Every arrange
ment has been made to make the com
ing Exposition successful in every point.
The Bluff City Shooting Club met last
evening, and after transacting regular
business, adjourned over to the regular
meeting on the second Tuesday in Sep
TENDER.
The September number of Phillips
Southern Farmer, just published, is a
most interesting and valuable publica-
ton, not only to the planter, but to the
general reader.
Mr.. Cowen, the white teacher of the
Bartlett colored school, who was so dan.
gereusly stabbed by jealous negro,
Bob Green, is recovering from the eff.
fects Of his wounds.
South Main street residents can now
wander homeward at night by the light
Of gas lamps, the Pickering oil lamps
which heretofore failed to make dark
ness visible having been removed.
The Criminal Court, Judge Flippin
presiding, will open for the September
term on the 18th proximo, when the
Grand Jury will be impaneled and put
to work on crimes and misdemeanors.
1t has become the too common custom
to ship paupers to Memphis from the
rural districts. If this thing is permitted
Memphis will, ere long, become gene
raj receiving poor-house and hospital.
for not only this but adjoining States.
There was but one arrest at the Adams
street station-house for the twenty.four
hours ending at o'clock this morning.
This is owing to the ugly looks and sound
given to sinners by the sta
tion.house officers, Featherstone and
Garvey.
The amateur performance of Rich I
ellen, to be given on the 10th and 18th +
proximo, for the purpose of raising v
funds for the Court Square fountain
scheme, will come off at the Memphis
Theater, instead of the Grand Opera \
House, as stated in yesterdays LEDGER. E
Mr.. Brewer, the managing editor of a
The Avalanche, mas put in an appear e
ance from Put.in-Bay, whittier he has Il
neen on counting and fishing excursion a
Turing the past month. He did not 81
bring back with him one of Putin. Bays e
ARREST daughters this time. a
At the pigeon shooting match this af- r
ernoon the sportsman of the Avalanche =
will 90 for his ten birds with club at
.wo yards Fisei bounds, every place
within the Enclosure of the Trntting c.
Park. The Indian clubhist of the Reg s.
ster and the lively man of the Appeal o
will also appear in the handicap match s.
or the gold medal. "
The three Celestials arrested by the +,
,olice on suspicion Of larceny were re- h,
eased this morning, there not being a,
evidence to convict them. al
Their release is also partly due to the =,
cry able manner in which their attorney,
Nat Taylor, pleaded their case. His use VI
# the simon-pure Chinese jargon all the :,
way through the case so befuddled the y
prosecutors that they gave it up. =
Our Ledger Liner has been invited by
he Daily Graphic, of New York, to =,
.itend the celebration, imitation and ID