Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-06
LEDGER LINES.


annual meeting yesterday afternoon.
Under the Gaslight at the theater to.
night, with Mr.. Stetson as Smokey"
Thursday week the Memphis EXPOSE
ton will open up in a most attractive
manner.
The German National Bank of our
city has been selected as the Govern
ment Depository.
In the First Chancery Court tomorrow
the first fifty cases on the hearing docket
will be called for trial.
The membership fees of the Chamber
of Commerce are twenty dollars for
firms and twelve for individuals.
The Shelby County Fair opened up
to-day. Trains run regularly to the
grounds from the Charleston depot.
A philosopher asks, why should not
opera glasses be allowed in church, If, now
that new fall bonnets and dresses have
appeared
AT the Cotton Exchange to-day there
was on exhibition a sample of California
low middling cotton, raised by John L.
Strong, of Mercer county.
Speaking of the dressing by the Mem
phis bellies, an observing critic remarks:
Partial culture runs to the ornate;
extreme culture to simplicity"
Colonel A. ]. Kellar, the leading man
of the Avalanche, has returned from the
great lakes, and has assumed position
once more on the editorial tripod.
Numbers of Memphians now own
joint fish rods, which can be concealed
under their coats as they go to Arkansas
on Sundays to catch the fnny tribe.
Cotton pickers are wanted in the
country at good wages, so that black
idlers and Migrants need no longer have
any excuse for remaining in the city.
The wedding ring is one that is not
abused by all parties. Quite a number
of fashionable weddings are expected to
take place within the next three weeks
Tomorrow aye, tomorrow, their High
Mightinesses the City Fathers will assem-
BILE around two boards and cogitate and
crate over cNy affairs from a monthly
standpoint.
Major Will Woodson, the Associated
Press Agent at this point, has returned
from pleasure trip up North, and is
once again swinging lead pencil on
news matters.
Tomorrow week, Wednesday, the 18th
instant, the Hamilton County Fair will
commence at Chattanooga We are
indebted to Secretary John A. Hart for
the premium list.
1t is now asserted that the first steam
boat that ever assembled the Mississippi
river from New Orleans was stern
wheeler, the Enterprise" built at
Brownsville, in 1914.
Our fellow-citizens, H. Casey Young
and Barbour Lewis, are out among the
Changers discussing the political ques-
tons of the day, with view to defeating
each other for Congress.
At Horn Lake, Mississippi, Metho-
dist revival has been in progress for
several weeks, and with such effect that
but two or three sinners remain out of
the fold within radius of five miles.
Those who have been attending St.
Peters church will regret to learn of
the death of Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, the
we'll known sacristan, who died at Chi
cago few days since of intermittent
fever.
The stockholders of the Masonic
Temple elected Board of Directors
yesterday, as follows Messrs. H. H.
Higbee, President; G. B. Church, S. II.
Brooks, j. NJ. Pettigrew, John Gent, R.
W. Shelton.
The weekly matinee at the theater
will be on Friday afternoon next, in
stead of on Saturday, as heretofore,
owing to the fact that the Stetson people
will have to leave here on Saturday
morning to appear at New Orleans on
Sunday.
Nothing of interest on the Recorder S
docket this morning. Several unfortu-
mates were fined for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct, and being unable to
pay the fines, had the chain gang charged
up to them at the rate of fifty cents per
day.
A religious revival is progressing at
the Central Baptist Church, on Second
street, under the supervision of Revs.
Lotion and Landrum. The latter gen.
tleman is on his way to his pastoral
charge at Shreveport, La, and is ac.
companied by a charming bride.
A telegraph wire now extends from
the Adams street engine-house out to
the water.works, so that an alarm can be
given and the pressure turned on the
water in the mains. The old system of
telegraphing by opening a plug does not
work satisfactorily.
Next Thursday morning at 9 o'clock
a Mozarts Requium High Mass will be