Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-02
LEDGER LINES.

misdemeanor cases this morning
There is Dilletanti society in this
city composed OF amateurs in literature
science and art.
Since the business season has COM
menced people begin to speak of theat-
ricals once again.
Election day to morrow for delegates
to the Congressional and County Legis-
lative Conventions.
: Henry Mitchell (negro), arrested on
the charge of burglary, was placed I'M
der $4,000 bond to-day.
The watermelon season. has about
closed, but the cantaloupe yet retains a
position at the breakfast table.
New oranges, green colored and bit
ter, have arrived, but will soon become
golden colored and fit to eat.
Notwithstanding the short crops the
business men of Memphis are preparing
for heavy trade from all points.
Whites old variety Opera House, on
jefferson street, will be opened next
week. A good company has been en-
gagged.
Ed. Worsham has been appointed
secretary of the executive board of
Shelby county vice Heny j. Lynn, re-
signed
Lolita Crabtree has presented San
Francisco with public water fountain.
Will Memphis man or woman ever do
likewise for the Bluff City2
Religious services OF very interest
ing character will be held in the lecture
room Of the Linden street Christian
Church this evening at 8 o'clock.
Several good horse trots will come of
at the fernando Trotting Park, when
an effort will be made to beat three
minutes, the standard Memphis time.
The white Radicals of the city have
given up all hope Of re-electing B.
Lewis to Congress, and are looking
around for some man more acceptable
to the public.
The Eighth ward will have another
meeting to night to select delegates, the
action of the first meeting not being
satisfactory all around. The delegate
question can be settled at the ballot-box
tomorrow.
Sol Coleman, of 200 Main street, is
now doing a thriving business and his
receipts are increasing daily. he sells
the Rosa Concha cigar for five cents,
which is certainly made of pure Havana
filters. He is worthy of trial.
Several Front row and Union street
men armed themselves with pistols and
clubs to-day and went in search of the
notorious sIanderer, Tom Collins. "
Not finding Tom the slandered indi-
viduals treated the crowd.
A little darby fruit merchant peddles
the Tennessee banana, the "papaw,
around the city. By many the juicy
"papaw is preferred to the dry yet
overpoweringly sweet banana but we do
not desire to start any exciting contro-
versy on this fruitful subject
That Council committee raised for the
purpose of investigating and reporting
on little contracts between the city and
those holding office under it, has never
reported, but has pocketed the long
expected document Let it see the light
and let justice be done all around the
ring.
In Yesterdays LEDGER appeared an
error stating that of the cotton crop of
1884 Memphis received 425, 1927 bales.
Memphis received 429, 1927 bales, which
averaged in value per bale $76 So
total value of $50 1854, 9Sl. The crop
was an increase over that of las season
of l4,O72 bales
Unless the Recorders court and the
justices law shops furnish a greater num-
Der of items than they have done for a
month past, Memphis will soon be known
as the moral city" which appellation
will not be calculated to invite immigra-
ton from other portions of this wicked
world
The city has concluded to repair the
Nicolson pavement with gravel and
broken stone, contrary to the advice of
the City Engineer, who is of opinion that
a wooden pavement cannot be success.
fully repaired with stone and sand. The
broken stone business is a makeshift to
bridge over the indignant protests of the
business men and the press Of the city
The picnic season is over Alas for
those afternoons of dust and sawdust,
aud those nights when, beneath the far
ing lamps and the blaring of trombones,
the gentle maiden and the staggering
youth of the period wallzed away like &
pair of "trussed" partridges, swallowing