Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-07
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County Legislative SonFen'io" AZ tne
Exposition building tomorrow week.
The planters have no time to come to
town; they are picking the heecy staple
The Quorum Court met to day and in
Quoted several of the county officers into
their seats.
George Thoma-not George Thomas
as incorrectly reported-is one of the
delegates from the Ninth ward.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
found at the countingroom and ct the
leading news stands tomorrow morn
ing.
At the Chamber of Commerce meeting
this afternoon committees will be ap'
pointed to select officers for the ensuing
year.
Streets, alleys and sidewalks need re-
pairs badly. 0, City Fathersl why will
ye not agree upon some plan to repair
all such?
Cotton .pickers are wanted in the coun.
try; SO there is no excuse for either white
or colored Migrants begging or loating
around town.
A score of intoxicated and disorderly
persons found themselves in the station
house last night enjoying the hospitali-
ties of the city.
The delegates to the Congressional
Convention left for Bolivar this morning
to assemble and select Congressional
nominee tomorrow.
Mr.. Ben Coleman, Clerk Of the First
Circuit Court, and his sister, Mrs. Colonel
M. D. L. Stewart, returned from Long
Branch last evening.
A mounted police patrol in the suburbs
at night would be able to- detect the in
cendiaries and protect large amount
of property from destruction.
The mortuary report for the week
shows the total deaths to be nineteen
whites, eight; blacks, eleven. The health
of the city was never so good as at pres
ent.
Charley Beehn, the well-known job
printer, returned from trip to his ma
tive soil, the State of Pennsylvania,
where he has been fishing and hunting
for several weeks.
The man who first spelled September
with an "r" deserves the gratitude of all
bivalvular Memphians, for had he spelled
it without we would have had to wait
until October for oysters.
st. Louis received lO3,74l bales of
cotton during the past season, thanks to
her Iron Mountain railway, which taps
Texas. When will Memphis have an
air line to the Lone Star State?
Forty cases of DRINKS, disorderlies
and misdemeanors generally came be-
fore Recorder Winters for adjudication
to-day, and were settled by the collection
of fines or work on the chaingang.
Several hack loads of fast boys and
girls we're pulled in last night. OF
course they were doing nothing as they
rode through the city only singing in a
most discordant manner that overdone
hymn, the Mulligan Guards march.
The cimex lectularius and the mos
quito make it lively for the somnolent
Memphian at night; the former make
raids from below and the latter from
above, so that the sleeper, attacked both
in front and rear, is utterly routed, even
beneath the stars and bars.
The citizens Of Sardis, Pamela county,
Mississippi, are canvassing for funds to
build cotton factory. Twenty thousand
dollars have already been subscribed.
Why is it that Memphis, which receives
and sells nearly half million bales of
cotton, has not a cotton factory2
Tomorrow, the 9Th instant, will be the
anniversary of the first settlement Of
Boston, Massachusetts, in 1880. The
name Boston is a contraction of Bo-
tolph's town and the English Boston.
Bostonstow took its name from a monas-
terry founded by St. Botolph during the
middle ages.
The stage carpenter and other at
taches of the Memphis Theate- have
arrived and will proceed Immediately to
nut thetheater in condition to receive
the amusement-loving public on the
night of the 2lst instant, when the dra-
matte season will open with the Stetson
combination.
Since the delegates left for Bolivar
this morning we miss the smiling coun-
tenances of several candidates and the
care.worn faces of delegates from the
corners Of Main and Madison, but the
delegates to the County Convention will
hold the city until the boys get back,
and they will accept al the free treats
III -, lo,., "a thev can stand IN