Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-25
LEDGER LINES.

tomorrow.
A heavy shower'of rain fell yesterday
between this city and Raleigh.
The General Council will meet next
Wednesday week in regular session.
The regular session Of the Chamber OF
Commerce will be held this afternoon.
But twenty-five deaths in Me mphis
last week; nineteen whites and six col
ored.
The narrow gauge railroad committee
meets at the Chamber of Commerce this
afternoon.
Friday next the colored Old Folks
Association will barbecue and picnic at
Raleigh.
Pat Lyden, for permitting nuisance,
was arrested this morning by Sergeant
Rogers, and will have a hearing to-
morrow.
The Haywood County Fair will be
held at Browns gille, Tennessee, COM
mencing on Tue ,day, October 2lst, and
continuing six days.
The explosion. of the steamer Geo. G.
Wolf was caused by dry boilers, the
officers agreeing that there was no water
therein when the blow-up occurred.
At the Old Folks barbecue at the Fair
Grounds ON the llth of September the
grafton will be delivered by Judge j. I.
Swayne or Colon Ell M. Magevney, sr.
The courts could not furnish an item
of news to-day, even the Divorce Court
the First Giro uit-failed to come to
time with an anti matrimonial item.
Next Wednesday the representatives
of all the Italian societies in the United
States will meet in convention at st.
Louis. The Memphis delegates left on
yesterday.
A horse was stolen yesterday from B..
L. Branch, who lives four miles from
Raleigh on the Middle Point road. The
owner is in town to-day looking for his
property.
Charles Turner, negro, who drives a
dray for Mr.. Corbitt, was given bottle
Of whisky to drench his mule with, but
drenched himself instead, and collided
his dray this morning against a lamp
post, for which Charles was arrested.
The Bluff City Shooting Club will meet
at the Second Circuit Court room to-
night and arrange fer the handicap
shooting match. Those DESTROYS Of join
ing the club are expected to be in attend
ance.
A young man named Henry Siss, an
employee at the Continental retaurant,
was drowned yesterday at the foot of
Beal street, by the overtnrning of a dug
out in which he and two companions at
tempted to cross the river.
A reward of five hundred dollars has
been offered by President White, of the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, for
the arrest Of the parties who placed an
obstruction on the track few evenings
since, near CORTLAND station.
The first bale of Tennessee cotton was
sold at Nashville on Friday last at
thirty-fve cents per pound-classifca-
ton, low middling. 1t was grown in
Rutherford county by Messrs. l.. j. and
J. W. Pierce.
The Oxford Falcon has it that Mr.. r.
j. Alcorn, who not long since received
the appointment of United States Mar
shall of South Mississippi, was removed
from Office few days since on account
of his opposition to Ames for Governor.
The usual number Of visitors went out
to Raleigh yesterday. They drank of
the waters, reclined on the hills meath
the shade of the spreading oaks, and
did everything to keep cool and ignore
the thermometer, which invaded the
nineties.
On Thursday, at the fernando park,
there will a trial for a purse given to
horses that have never beaten $40 mile
heats, three in five, to wagon and to rule.
Brackets Flora is entered, as also is
Brothers Joe, Smiths Salt River and
Halls Modoc Jack.
Just now our contemporaries are an
nouncing with q flourish of trumpets
that their annual statements will be
out on the first prox. To be compelled
to read an annual statement of the com
mercial year goes far to make even the
philosopher regard life as a failure and
death something to be wished for.
The Cincinnati Commercial amusing
ly says: "When Mr.. Jefferson Davis
opens his mouth to speak to an admir-
ing and applaudiug Southern audience,
there is not an old line Democrat from
the lakes to the Ohio river, who does not
shake with apprehension as violently as
though seized with fit Of tertian ague. "
The card entitled talked to death, F"
has given place to new invention,
which is in circulation in business cir
cles-a small card, with a small cork at
tached to a string, and having the fol-
lowing printed upon it in large letters:
1.-THE most horrible fate is to be talked