Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-14
LEDGER LINES.

Counterfeit greenback currency Is
floating aud circulating throughout the
city.
st. Louis offers no premiums for cot
ton to be exhibited at the State Fair this
fall.
The Probate Court is in session TO-
day, and will also be in session to-mor-
row.
Sneak thieves continue to prowl
through the city. Keep your doors
locked.
Fast driving on our principal thorough
fares is again becoming a fashionable
amusement
Selfdenial in eating and drinking is
the best physician during the prevalence
Of summer complaints.
The water.works middle was referred
to its appropriate committee in the Gen.
eral Council at the meeting yesterday.
Several athletic Memphians are now
standing at Venice on the Bridge Of
Sighs-a palace and a prison on each
hand.
Complaint has been again made that
drays and coal carts string out on the
streets and prevent pedestrians from
crossing.
The Carolina Life Insurance Com
pany has ceased to exist, it having been
swallowed up by the Southern Life Insu-
rance Company.
There will be at least four or hve hun
dred persons out to the races at the
trotting park this afternoon. Five
horses start positively.
The big Raleigh barbecue and dance
at Raleigh tomorrow. Trains will run
almost hourly. Handwerker's brass aud
string bands will be in attendance.
A negro was captured on Beal street
last evening. In his carpet-bag, which
he carried under his coat, was found a
heavily loaded six.shcoter of the army
pattern.
The value Of farm productions of
Shelby county is estimated at over four
millions of dollars by the census men.
Shelby is by far the most productive
county in the State.
There will be three-minute trot out
at the fernando Park tomorrow after
noon between three well known horses.
The match is private one, but visitors
will be permitted to attend.
The cotton boil fend is on the war
path visiting newspaper Offices and
bending beneath the weight of single
cotton boil, carefully wrapped up in
section of some old newspaper.
We learn that the parties in charge Of
the property upon which Moore was
killed sefuse to pay the scavenger bill
for cleaning the vault upon the premises
even hltci ~ hau pcou ucSiuIcu a hui
sance by the Sanitary Sergeant.
The Searcy ARK Record says that
Memphis is loosing ground by high
freghts, because it costs fully one-half
more to get freights from Memphis than
from st. Louis. If such be the fact, it
should be remedied Immediately.
Robert Still, the widowed husband Of
the murdered colored woman, Lou Por-
ter, was arrested by the police authori
ties last evening on the charge of sus-
picion of murder. The evidence against
the prisoner is almost exclusively cir
cumstantial.
A Union freight railroad depot, near
the elevator, at or near the foot of Beal
street, is the thing most needed at pre-
sent. The elevator proprietors, the
Memphis and St. Louis Packet Com
pany, will erect grain elevator when
ever the Union freight railroad depot is
located.
Hack No. 10 was sandwiched last eve
ming by its runaway horses between the
lamp-post and store on the southeast
corner of Monroe and Main streets while
the driver was taking glass of beer at
Luhrman's. Result--driver minus five
cents for the beer and the store minus
a frame awning.
The Finance Committee of the Alder
mems Board has under consideration
the st. Bridgets school-tax question.
Several other schools in the city intend
applying to the General Council for the
exemption from taxes, which is guaran-
teed them by constitutional and legisla-
tive provisions.
Sheriff Doyle and assistant left for |
Nashville to-day with fourteen criminals
for the penitentiary, including Sturgeon,
the murderer of the boy Murphy and
Eason, the murderer of Ed. Lyles. The
State gets sixty,three years of labor from
the Memphis delegation to the criminal
legislature of the State.
A certain young and we'll known
Front street merchant last night sent a
telegram to his partner at Crab Orchard,
KY, as follows: Isaiah, 9th, l4th,
and this morning received the following
reply: 81 Put another bucket of send
in the sugar, and re-gOose the cotton
samples" It is hardly necessary to