Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-27
LEDGER LINES.


The City Public Schools viii reopen
on next Monday for the reception OF
pupils.
The First aud Second Great Courts
will open for the September term on the
Sd Monday, or 10th proximo,
John Feeley. the ten-yeAr old horse
thief. will not probably be prosecuted,
as the horse has been recovered.
Those who have been summering in
Minnesota are returning rapidly. They
all sing the sony, There's no place like
home"
Next Monday. Tuesday aud Wednes-
day evenings Professor Baldwin will
give mysterious seances and manifesto
tons at the Grand Opera House.
The alarm Of Gre late last evening
was caused by the explosion Of an oil
lamp in house on DeSoto, near Union.
The fire was promptly extinguished.
The floating wreck Of the blown up
steamer Wolff now lying at the foot OF
Washington street, was visited by crowds
of people to-day. The Wolf was literally
blown into pieces.
Buy Broom waltz is very pretty
to hear at night, but when butchered by
Madison street amateur pianist in the
middle of the day it is horrible. The
less heard Of it the better.
Attend the advertised sale of lots and
barbecue tomorrow at Atoka, on the
Paducah railroad, twenty miles from
the city. A special train leaves the
depot at 81 o'clock am.
Continuous flashes OF sheet lightning
in the northern heavens last night indi'
Gated a heavy storm in that direction
which accounted for the cloudy weather
and cooler atmosphere in this latitude
to-day.
Mr.. Jerry Collins, the &c ntleman who
was so terribly beaten and his life at
tempted, on Winchester avenue, on Sat
urdaY night last, was out to day, and is
improving fast. AS yet there is no clue
that will lead to the would-be murderers.
Those desiring to engage in the handi-
cap pigeon.shooting match TO be given
by the Bluff City Shooting Club on Fri
day Eext at the Trotting Park should
attend the club meeting to- morrow night
at the Second Circuit Co urtroom, and
receive their tickets of classification.
Charley, the little son of John Kim
brough, who was run over by lumber
wagon on South street, yesterday morn
ing, died from the effects of internal in
juries at 10 o'clock last night. His
father reached home from Holly Springs
few minutes after his son had breath
ed his last.
The men who not long since, in Upton
county, poured ccal oil on an unfortu-
nate negro, and then set him on fire,
burning the victim to death in the most
barbarous manner, have fed the State
to avoid arrest and punishment The
iends should be followed and brought
back for trial.
Every other man you meet on the
public tboroughfares is bill collector
who with collapsed bill book under his
arm is engaging in vain search after
money, which at present is a myth in
business circles. Money is said to be
tight, but no one has been able to cap
ture it.
The coal firm horse, Yellow Jacket,
driven by one of the neatest looking
jockeys in the city, Lon JEWS, won the
fifty-dollar gold-mounted, silver-ferruled
and silk-crackered whip at the race yes
terday, dragging around the track top
buggy and driver in 1891 Good time,
but the gold dust stock can make it.
The gentlemanly bounty disbursing
agent of the War Department, Major
Gibson, of the Fifth Infantry, who has
made host Of friends in this city,
leaves to-day on pleasure tour toward
the Canadas. Major Gibson has DIS
bursed over $4,000 to claimants since
last December all of which money was
expended in Memphis. Over 100000
yet remains to be disbursed.
The Shelby county Board of School
Directors will assemble in solemn con-
cIave on Tuesday next, at the Second
Circuit Court room, for the purpose of
permanent organization on'school mat
tiers. When the machinery of the new
school law gets into working order, good
common schools should be established
in every vicinage throughout the county;
something that is very much needed as
an antidote for crime and its cause, igno-
rance.
Barbecue and sale of Lots at AtOka
TO-MOrrOW.