Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-19
LEDGER LINES.

The Gubernatorial Convention met to.
day at Nashville.
Soda fountains are beginning to dry
up for the summer.
On the LIST proximo will commence the
Memphis commercial year.
The game laws are in force in this
State until the I'd Of October.
In ten days the summer season will
close and the fall season open out.
S. B. Robbins, President of the Alder
manic Board, leaves to-day on trip
Northward.
The report of the collections by the
Wharfmaster is now published officially
every week.
1t is generally believed that the cotton
season Will open earlier by two weeks
than it did last year.
The FIRE last night was in Chelsea, out
side the corporation. A one-story frame
dwelling was burned down.
The great New York and New Orleans
circus and menagerie, ETC., will camp on
the bluff on the 10Th of next month.
There is no pandemonium like that Of
a crowd of newsboys on the steps wait
ing for the evening LEDGER to come out.
The new moon has appeared in the
western sky with her horns pointed
downward, as if spilling out rain. Is
It dry or wet moon? is the meteorlogi-
cal conundrum.
Congressional candidates are APP
preaching the front. Watch the LEDGER
announcement column for the latest ar
rivals.
Colonel Magevney and family have
returned from Europe, and are sojourn-
ing in the middle portion of Tennessee
for the present.
The Bluff City Shooting Club will en-
gage with pigeons on the wing, for a
prize silver pitcher, out on Poplar street
this afternoon.
"What did you speak to her for2"
said Main street shoppist to a com
panion yesterday. :" She is the stuck
upidest thing l ever saw"
Jimmy Speeds ticket Office, corner of
Main and Madison streets, was draped
in black yesterday on account Of the
death of President Newcomb, of the
Memphis and Louisville railway.
The new quarantine on Presidents
Island will be fit for occupancy SHOULD
such be necessary in few days. The
Board of Health visited the grounds
yesterday.
Item hunting in Memphis at present
does not pan out successfully. The I'M
fortunate reporter interviews everybody
about everything and is interviewed in
like manner by everybody, yet items are
scarce.
The people of Athens, Alabama, in
tend holding a Conservative mass meet
ing and jollifcation over the nomination
of George S. Houston for the office of
Governor. The LEDGER returns thanks
to the committee for an invitation to at
tend.
In the Congressional Convention
Shelby county will have seventy-six del
egates, Fayette twenty-six and Harde-
man eighteen, or one delegate for each
one thousand and one for every fraction
of over five hundred population in each
county.
Toothache can instantly be cured by
electricity, so says French savant.
Of ten-cell battery the positive pole
is placed against the jaw on level with
the painful tooth, and the negative pole
to the antero lateral region, on the same
side of the neck.
The new comet can be seen with the
aid of telescope seven degrees south of
Usse MINORS, the upper portion of the
Little Bear, between nine and ten p m.
it is almost directly to the left of that
star. At present it is about midway be-
tween that star and Thuban.
The butchers were arrested yesterday
for selling meat outside the market
houses in less quantities than quarter.
A villaiuous city ordinance has this pro-
vision, most unjust not only TO the
butchers but to the citizens who desire
to purchase meats wherever it is most
convenient.
The New York State Association for
the Protection of Game has called a
convention to assemble at Niagara Falls,
N. Y, on the 2lst Of February, 1875, for
the purpose of forming grand national
organization for the protection of game
and fish. All sportsmens associations
are invited to send delegates.