Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-05
LEDGER LINES.

Chamber OF Commerce meeting vi
next Monday.
Are you delegate? is the question
most in vogue today.
The Recorder disposed Of thirty mis-
demeanor cases to day.
There were three alarms of fire last
night More incendiarism.
A false alarm brought out the FIRE
steamers at ten o'clock last evening.
The Mississippi is beginning to resem'
BILE bayou in size in front of the city.
Advice to political aspirants; II
charge thee, Cromwell, throw away am
bitionl
The Jefferson street Opera House will
open tonight with good troupe OF
variety artists.
Andy Boyd, charged with larceny, was
committed by Esquire Winters to- day in
default of bail.
The readers of the LEDGER are advised
to attend church tomorrow. 1t will not
do you any harm.
Immense posters warn the youth of
the city that the big circus will be on
the bluff on the 10th inst.
If you have anything to trade, to sell
or rent, or wish anything, advertise in
the LEDGER want" column.
The LEDGER is now the only paper
published in this city on Mondays. Send
in your advertisements in time.
Ed Smith was sent to Jail by the Re-
corder on the charge of stabbing Annie
Gallagher with intent to murder.
Homeless and moneyless wanderers
are beginning to crowd into the station.
house nightly in search Of lodging.
I'm the name of the prophet, figs" is
an appropriate saying in these days of
fresh figs, which appear on every street
corner,
When you see four or five huddled to-
gether at street corner and gesticulat-
ing fiercely you may bet that politics is
under way.
Mrs. Hartz, who was SO severely
burned by the explosion of coal oil
lamp on Exchange street Thursday eve
ming, died yesterday.
The General Council will hold another
"pow.wow next Monday afternoon for
the purpose of repairing the Nicolson
pavement with-gas.
Oyster lunches have set in already,
but it will be a real pleasure when you
are able to 90 to saloon-keeper and
order him to shell out.
Tuesday next the Congressional Con
vention at Bolivar will select success
sor to B. Lewis, who has misrepresented
this district in Congress.
The Freight Agents Convention, held
here yesterday, did nothing with refer
ence to Memphis freights, as this was
beyond the scope of their instructions.
Delegates are courted and treated by
candidates. After few days the pam
pered delegate will be ignored, and he
will find his occupation gone until the
next election,
Justin Scott, arrested for beating his
mule numerically, was fined ten dollars
at the Recorders Court this morning.
Cruelty to animals is of common occur
renee insthis city.
People have ceased paying any atten-
ton to the thermometer The barome-
ter is now more closely consulted, rain
being both needed and desired, as the
cisterns are all drying up.
The crop of candidates for the Legis-
lature is quite large, and is steadily in
creasing. The only way to find out
anything about it is to offer yourself as
a candidate and make the race.
This is the season when colds are en-
gagged for the season, consequent upon
either sitting on cold door steps or sleep
ing at night with nothing but mosquito
bar around you and the ceiling above
you.
The legal profession in Memphis furn.
ishes no exception to the rule that law.
yers as class are poorly paid, and that
it is only by indomitable will and extra
ordinary talents that competence and
fame are made.
Revenue Cutter who was slashed with
a razor so severely by colored person
on last Wednesday night, is recovering.
One slash of the razor opened the
shoulder and chest, while another split
open the thigh and leg.
A young man employed in a Front
street store who has been in the habit of
visiting an enchanting fair one down on
the coast found on his last visit that his
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