Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-18
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Nature, owing to the heat, persplred
with heavy shower yesterday.
Quite number of prominent local
politicians left to-day for Nashville.
Delegates to the Gubernatorial Con.
vention at Nashville left for that city to-
day.
The New York Evening Express calls
the Plymouth Church, IA He'll upon
Earth,
Clothing men and mlliners are ex-
hibiting their plates for the fall fashions
for dress.
Tomorrow the LEDGER will have spe-
cial dispatches from the Gubernatorial
Convention.
The Old Folks at Home will meet at
four O o'clock this afternoon at the Odd
Fellows Hall.
Chief of Police Athy has gone to
Louisville, Kentucky, and will be absent
several days.
Nothing of interest progressing in the
courts of record, no courts being in SEES
sion at present.
Mr.. Mayor, mend your ways-that is,
your highways and byways, the streets
and alleys of Memphis.
The city is receiving bids to repair the
Nicolson pavement either with wooden
blocks or rock and gravel.
Memphis weather is cool and pleasant
now, and will compare favorably with
that Of more Northern ATTITUDES.
Merchants are shipping large quanti-
ties of bagglng and ties to planters by
way of opening up the cotton season.
TIE next local sensation will be the
election of Congressional and county
delegates on Thursday, September 3D.
Happy Hollow will soon cease to be e
dwelling place, as all the arks and shan
ties are being torn down and removed
The State Fair of the Colored Ten
nessee Agricultural Association will
commence at Nashville, September 22d,
and continue five days.
Candidates should not treat their
friends to ice water; they may lose votes
by so doing, as ice water and coup de
soleil are nearly related.
There win be a meeting OF railroad
magnates held at the Cotton Exchange
in November for the purpose of getting
at cheaper rates of freight
The boys who went to the Austin war
are not yet done correcting each other
as to questions of rank, precedence and
warlike actions performed
Supervising Architect Mullet is catch
ing it all around, and is charged with
'jobbery' in the erection of court
houses, ETC., for the United States.
The heavy shower of rain yesterday
afternoon had quite an agreeable effect
on both the atmosphere and the Their
mometer. The cry is still more rain.
Mr.. B. Vaccaro and wife returned yes
terday from Europe. They went on the
pilgrimage to Rome. The other pill
grims from Memphis have not as yet re-
turned.
In the First Chancery Court Matthew
Hawks has filed bill for divorced against
Sarah Avis Hawks on the grounds of
abandonment without cause for two
years last past.
If Memphians keep on leaving as they
have been doing, we will have to give
personal notices to those who remain on
the bluffs ere long, as they will be largely
in the minority,
Colonel Kellar, General Wright, T. Fl.
Logwoed, J. Harvey Mathes, Hop John
son, NJ. E. Smelser and other knights of
the Faber No. pencil are en- route for
the Nashville Convention.
Now that tits certainty that B. Lewis
will be defeated in this Congressional
District, it is of some Importance to
secure the best and strongest man to
give him the coup de grace.
The city owes the 6remen and police
men many months wages. This should
not be. If bondholder can get his
coupons cashed by the city the working
man should also get his pay when due.
The banks and the city are fighting
ing over the bank privilege tax, and
writs of certiorari and supercedeas have
been issued on City Tax Collector
Schaper and made returnable to the
First Circuit Court
The Forrest City Times says gloomy
accounts reach us from the ridge eoun-
ties. Many crops are too far gone to be
revived by rain, and fears are enter.
tanned Of actual want and suffering in
some localities on the ridge lands.