Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-18
LEDGER LINES.

Opera House tonight and to morrow
night
Quite large number of Texas cotton
bales will be received in Memphis this
season.
Invincible Hose Company picnic at
the Exposition building next Wednesday
evening.
The Third Regiment Of Infantry, sta
toned at Holly Springs, has gone to
New Orleans.
The theater will open next Monday
evening with the Stetson combination in
Neck and Neck.
The circus carried off two or three
thousand extra dollars which it picked
up on the bluff.
The Gibson county prisoners were on
trial before United States Commissioner
Garrett to-day.
Nashville has its Industrial Exposition
open. The Memphis Exposition will
open next month.
Jurors are being summoned to attend
the Criminal and Circuit Courts which
open on Monday next.
Warm days and cool nights do not add
materially to the health of the city.
Beware of taking colds.
Changing prisoners continue to
dodge the guards and strike for liberty
down some convenient alley.
Poker" set back, keno" faro"
and other little cheerful games are in
dulged in quite freely ia this city.
So 1t will be Judge Porter and Horace
Maynard, with Horace some few thou
sands of votes behind in November
Singing clubs and societies are tuning
their voices by way of preparing for the
bowling season, which will soon open.
When Memphis bootblack gets
through with one boot he raps his brush
on the heel and says in an audible voice,
change cars.
Colonel James Coleman, formerly
superintendent Of the Western Union
Telegraph lines at this point, died at
Raleigh yesterday.
The Chairman of the County Court
visited the poor house yesterday and
found it in good condition and the luna
tics properly cared for.
Mass meeting in front of the Peabody
tonight for the purpose Of expressing
sympathy with the oppressed and out
ragged white people of New Orleans and
Louisiana.
In order to meet the demands made
upon our columns, the LEDGER will zap
pear in enlarged form tomorrow, pre-
senting an addition of over six columns
of reading matter.
Memphis will sympathize with New
Orleans tonight Several of our lead
ing street takers and ward orators will
be on hand to proclaim their adherence
of the Kellogg government.
A lost child occasionally makes Main
street resound with its bowls, because
the mother of the infant while engaged
in the absorbing business of shopping,
abaadons the young one to its fate.
The ha5eas corpus act is the great
stand by of the Memphis thieves and
marauders. The petition for the writ is
bound to be granted by the judge, as
the thief will swear to any petition writ
ten up by his attorney.
The street-cars are beginning to fall
back into the old slow time system, so
that now you have to wait from ten to
twenty-five minutes on a street corner
for the arrival Of the mule.box which
drags its slow length along.
The city authorities are on the pave,
and the Nicolson is being improved
little. Standing nuisances, such as
cavities, deep and dangerous, appear all
over the city by way of inviting the city
daddies to step in as a sacrifice to popu-
lar indignation.
Texas is as large as any five States in
the Union, and her products are cotton,
sugar and wheat Why should not Mem
phis reach out and grasp all this wealth
by securing the trade Of Texas2 The
cotton crop of Texas is estimated at six
hundred thousand bales.
The newly elected county officials are
taking their seats and are being envel.
oped in the robes of office, all of which |
they take to kindly. The ms +" go in
good humoredly, ard the "outs get out
in the same style, the entente cordiale
being preserved all around.
A telegram in the Avalanche of to-day |
states that Robert A. Skinner, mem