Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-30
LEDGER LINES.

troupe at the theater tonight.
At the police court to-day few five
dollar misdemeanor cases were settled
by paying the money.
The collection of city taxes has re
ceived a postponement and delinquentt
breathe free once again.
Now is the time to pat up stoves and
purchase coal by way Of preparing for
the approaching winter season. h.
Dozens of poor people apply nightly
for lodging at the Adams street station.
house. They are furnished with blan.
ket and floor.
The detective force now consists Of
Messrs. Harry Cranmer, P. S. Simonds
and Curly" McCune, all of whom are
efficient officers.
The Main street store windows are
filled with new fall goods by way OF
catching the eye of some man from the
rural districts or Granger.
The County Fair will commence on
Tuesday next at the Fair grounds.
Trains will run over the Charleston rail
road to and from the grounds.
Congressman Lamar, of Mississippi,
declines, on account of previous engage
ments, the invitation to deliver an ad-
dress at the opening of the Shelby county
fair.
Barbour Lewis, our last Radical Con-
gresham, will arrive here tomorrow
and will at once enter upon the cam
paign snd take survey of it from the
stump.
The fall meeting of the Blood Horse
Association of Nashville will commence
on Monday next. Quite large number
of our horsemen will visit Nashville
during race week.
Now that cool weather has set in,
church revivals are progressing through
out the city, in order to win back those
who had fallen away from grace during
the summer months.
Harry Cranmer has been appointed to
the head of the detective force of the
city. The appointment will give general
satisfaction, as Cranmer thoroughly UNI
derstands his business.
The West Tennessee Changers hold
Convention at Humboldt tomorrow,
which meeting will be attended by sew
eral of the Patrons of Husbandry who
do business within the corporate limits
of Memphis.
Attention is called to the published
annual statement of the Royal Insurance
Company, of which Harry 7. Tomlinson
is agent. The statement develops the
total assets of the company to be nearly
fourteen millions of dollars.
The only wanderers from the bluff not
as yet returned are a few invalids at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, who are getting
along swimingly in hot water. They
will soon come back looking as red as
Holsters from the effects of the boiling
process.
Tomorrow the hunters of the city,
accompanied by their dogs, will be shoot
ing all around in the suburbs at wild
pigeons and partridges. The game laws
go out of force to-day and the powder
and shot scatterers will be out in force
tomorrow.
A few evenings since several persons
undertook to discover the guilt or inno-
cence of Mrs Tilton by laying hands on
a table and begging the spirits to tell
the truth. The developments made
startled the crowd; the table sat in the
lap of one of the inquirers and sepul-
chral voice was heard saying, 81 wish l
were dead.
Three sick men with permits to the
County Poor House have been staying
at the Adams street station-house for
three days awaiting the County Poor
House wagon, which has not appeared
for several days. What's the matter
with the Poor House smnibus2 The
city cannot afford to support paupers
for the county.
Next Monday the following courts
will be in session; Criminal, First and
Second Circuit First and Second Chan
Gerry, United States Court, Probate
Court, County Quarterly Court, Record
er's Court, besides dozen or more mag
istrates' courts. Who will dare say that
our people cannot have a sufficient
amount of law to enforce their rights?
The independent candidates for the
who are to receive the sup
port of the Radical party, by private
agreement between the sorebeads and
Radical leaders, have not as yet appeared
upon the political race-track. The trade
is being made, but the TRADERS" are
doing their best to escape discovery and
publication, but they will not succeed.
The Weekly Southern Catholic has
changed proprietorship. 1t is now owned |
and controlled by Messrs. Burrow, Pow
ell & Harrington. The Catholic is live
journal, full of news most in
teresting to the people of the Catholic
faith. We wish the new proprietors that
success which they undoubtedly merit,