Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-22
LEDGER LINES.

Judge Trigg opened up the United
States Circuit and District Courts to-day.
Judge Trigg opened up the United
States Circuit and District Court to-day.
John w. Cochran has been elected
President of the Exposition Association.
The Overton will be ready for the
courts and legal fraternity ia November.
Invincible Hose Company picnic and
ball at the Exposition building to NOR
row night.
Mr.. j. G. Lullman has been elected
vice-President of the Memphis Exposi-
ton Association.
Several of the courts adjourned yes
terday out of respect to the memories Of
the late John S. Kerr and John W Smith.
Concert for the Memphis Bethel at the
Greenlaw Opera House next Friday
evening. Tickets for sale at Boyle &
Chapman's.
Last night the Memphis -Theater was
opened for the season by the Stetson
Combination, who appeared before a
large audience.
Neck and Neck at the theater to-
night; tomorrow night we will have that
Tiltonian idyl or society play entitled
Griffith Gaunt.
1t was apparent yesterday (the Day of
Atonement) that when the Hebrews
close their stores Main street looks as if
it was for rent or to let"
Several persons have resurrected their
overcoats and appearin them after dark
A general brushing up of winter gar
ments is progressing throughout the
city.
Iced drinks are becoming things of
the past; soon hot Scotch and other
warmed up liquids will become the fash
ionable beverage of both the day and
night.
j. w. Workman, former resident of
Whites Station, was waylaid and assass-
mated by some person unknown, near
Carson's Landing, Mississippi, last
Saturday.
The trial of the Nonconnah Turnpike
Company case, which involves the right
to charge toll on Nonconnah bridge, is
progressing before Judge Heiskell and a
jury in the First Circuit Court.
A burning hue created an alarm of
fire on Adams street, near Main, last
evening The Adams street fire boys
turned few buckets of water down the
fue and the fire was washed out
A frost has been predicted by some
local meteorologist, who says we will
have it this month. He has but eight
days to either prove himself prophet
or an-well, the opposite of prophet.
Since the new jailer took charge it
weuld seem that it is a pleasure to be
jail-bird in the Shelby county bastile,
and that fellows will commit all kinds of
acts so as to become inmates of the
prison.
There we're hundreds of applications
made to our new Sheriff for positions as
deputies and special deputies, but unfor-
tunately the vacant appointments were
not sufficient in number to go around
the hungry crowd and give each a place.
All courts except the two Chancery
Courts are now in full blast, and the
questions arise: "How has the pro-
fessional juror fourished2 or has he OBJ
tanned a situation in the jury box2 or
does he yet walk impatiently up and
down the halls OF courts2"
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, " Ireland,
has arrived in New York. He will prob
ably visit the Lord Mayor of Memphis"
before he returns to the Emerald Isle.
During the August campaign in this city
the Lord Mayor of Cork cut quite a
prominent figure on the political chess
board.
The demand for the annual circular
Of the Cotton Exchange has been so
great that Secretary Toof intends get
ting it up in chart form, which, when
framed, will adorn many a business
Office throughout the United States as
well as those in several portions of Eu-
rope.
Two divorce petitions were fled in the
First Chancery Court to-day. Thomas
Ellis against Mary C. Ellis, and Martha
Thomas against Andrew j. Thomas. In
both cases abandonment and other
trivial causes are the grounds alleged
for divorce from the bonds of matri-
mony.
The political canvass is progressing
slowly, as candidates for Legislative
honors know full well that four or six
dollars day for about ninety days will
not 90 far to pay board in Nashville and
treats in Memphis, but yet these dry
ward politicians are thirsting for a can
didate who has money to throw away.
Several members of the General
Council have solicited the Mayor to call
a special meeting of the Council for the
purpose of adopting some measure to-
ward repairing the wharf. The Mayor