Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-21
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Horseback riding after dark has few
followers at present
Judge Trigg is holding United States
Court at Knoxville.
Were it not for the circus, we would
say give us plenty of rain.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in Middle Tennessee.
Wolves are killing sheep in Hatchie
bottom, near Brownsville,
The Appeal horticultural and Granger
calls watermelon berry
The time for acquiring colds for the
fall and winter seasons is at hand
I Young ladies of Memphis do their
shopping in squads of two and three.
I There are $50 colored schools and 630
colored school teachers in Tennessee.
Jawes Fitzgibbon of Pinch was bound
over by Esquire Spelman to keep the
peace.
Another horse trot at the fernando
Park this afternoon, Mile heats, best
two in three.
1t is runored that Tom Hamilton will
be the gubernatorial nominee of the
negroized party.
Alas no truthful citizen can say to
any of the Memphis aspirants; How
are you, Gov2'
Go TO the circus and menagerie on the
bluff to-day. Performance this after
noon and night.
Burglars are still around and doors
and window. shutters should be securely
fastened at night.
New bales of cotton continue to ar.
rive from all points. The cotton season
of 1915 has opened.
The item gatherers for the morning
journals have hard time of it to FIJI up
their columns at present.
Recorder Winters bound over Thomas
Berigan to the Criminal Court for an
assault with intent to kill
j. A. Jenkermans case before Esquire
Spelman for assault and battery has
been continued until Tuesday next.
The Magdalen and Heloise question,
stirred up by Mayor League, causes a
hutter of excitement in both certain and
uncertain circles.
On the fret ballot taken in the Guber
material Convention Shelby county voted
26 for Porter and 40 for Bailey Of Mont
gomery county.
VIM. Daniels, one of the nations
wards, was placed under three thousand
dollars bonds by the Recorder for carry
ing concealed weapons.
Nearly eight months wages are due the
police and iremen. The men need the
money for the support of their families,
and should be paid in full.
Thirty suits against merchants have
been brought by the State of Tennessee
in the First Circuit Court for non-pay-
ment of privilege license.
The New Orleans Bulletin says;
F" Reports say that the white men who
FASTENED from Memphis and Mississippi
to take a hand in the Austin fight were
all dressed to kill"
The fall days, the saddest of the sea-
son, are approaching rapidly, and local
poets will have to sharpen up their wits
aud pencils in order to do annual hom-
age and justice to the subject.
Every white man-Democrats, Con-
and Independents-are sitting
on the State platform of the
Democratic and Conservative party, and
they are also taking Porter in theirs.
Charles and Frank Dalton, two
Swedes, were bound over by the Re-
,order this morning for stealing keg Of
peer from the front of Henry Luhrman's
saloon and sent to Jail in default of
bonds.
Eating unripe fruit has caused the
leath of many children in Memphis.
In Brooklyn the authorities seize the
lnripe fruit which is eaten by the city
authorities and police, and the children
IRE saved.
Messrs. Estes, Fizer & Co. received
,o.day the first bale of cotton from Pa
nola county, Mississippi, 1t was raised
IN the plantation of ]. T. Knox, and
was shipped by c. F. Chapman 4 Co., Of
Pope's station.
Those who voted for the Bartlett ticket |
1t up country springs and brandy water
ng places, are writing back how they !
drank to the great victory, which would |
have been greater had they remained in
Memphis few days longer.
lot avery white man in Shelby county |