Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-28
LEDGER LINES.

ing.
The Probate and Quarterly County
Courts will he in session on Monday
next.
The number OF bales Of cotton re
ceived in the city to-day amounted tC
l743.
1t is altogether a girl, and weighs
eleven pounds. For further particulars
see George A. Mathes.
The First and Second Chancery
Courts will be in session for the October
term on next Monday morning.
City Tax Collector Schaper says;
Wednesday next is the last day Of
grace for delinquent taxpayers"
Double monogram envelopes are being
circulated around town. 1t is suspected
that there will be few weddings soon.
Now is the season when men are seen
at depots as late trains come in to make
sure their wives do not return unexpect-
eddy.
Elmwood Cemetery was crowded with
visitors yesterday. The City of the
Dead presented melancholy yet charm
ing appearance.
The mortuary report for the past week
showed total deaths, 20-whites, 10;
blacks, 10. Health of the city excellent,
with no special disease prevailing
The United States Court was in ses.
sion for few hours to-day, but nothing
was done, save hearing a few motions
and continuing large number of cases.
As an amusement week the last was
not success, owing to the heavy and
continuous rains, which prevented the
bellies and beaux from coming out in
force.
Extensive preparations are making
for the opening of the Exposition on
Thursday, the 18th proximo. The grand
parade of civic societies in the forenoon
will be brilliant pageant.
The election for officers of the Cham
Der of Commerce is progressing. The
polls will be closed at 8 o'clock. The
regular ticket will be unanimously
elected, no opposition ticket being in
the field.
The Haverly Minstrels played to large
audiences at the Assembly Hall last
week. The troupe is one of the very
best travelling in the South, and in our
city they received the patronage of our
very best people.
A gentleman in lovely state of in.
toxication and in hand cart, having as
an escort couple of policemen, at
tracted no little attention on Main street
this afternoon as he was being hauled
down to the Causey street station-house.
The spoiled children of fashion will
appear in the dress circle this week.
The lorgnette iends are ready to play a
stareing engagement all over the house.
The man with the button-hole bouquet
is also ready to waste hissweetness from
seat to seat.
A dozen chieken.roosts out on Poplar
street near the tollgate, have been plum
dered within the past three nights.
Even game chickens have fallen by the
dozen before the charges of the negro
chicken thief brigade that infest the
suburbs Of the city.
Our Nimrods are brushing up their
old rusty shotguns and are giving their
lame pointers an extra bone in view Of
the lst day of October, on which day
the game laws cease to have effect. The
surrounding country is filed with part
ridges and wild pigeons.
They have all come back from rural
izing. Miss McFlimsey has returned in
furs from the North and Miss Sentiment
has returned in muslin from the South.
Mr. Muggins has come back from the
East in sober state, while Col Buster
has come out OF the West looking as
ragged and as dirty as an Arkansas bear.
A petition is circulating amongst the
crusty old bachelors who attend the
theater occasionally, praying that the
management will interGict the appear
ance of squalling children in the dress
circle or psrquette. These chaps never
heard of the California miner who, when
child yelled at mountain theatrical
performance got up and said, Stop the
id performance and let the child cry.
| have not heard such sweet music since
| left the States"
The fire department turned out at 8
o'clock last evening to extinguish con-
fiagration which seemed TO be bursting
forth in the eastern part of the city near
the corporation line. A bright light
blazed up and the engines rushed out
the different streets to The Charleston
railroad, when it became evident that no
FIRE existed. Luna, the golden orb Of
night, rose in stately majesty over the
tree tops as if to laugh at the boys who
mistook her flaming garments for burn
ing dwelling.
The negro, Bob Bascem, who left our