Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-09

and of real property $3l, 66l,6 77.
Next Monday Charley Pope and St.
Louis Dramatic Company will occu-
ny the boards of the Memphis Theater.
The streets are quite dusty at present,
which reminds the Memphian of his
origin and ending, according to the Book
of Genesis.
The courts of record all stand ad-
joured, and the judges, clerks, jurors,
clients, lawyers aud witnesses have gone
to the Fair Grounds.
One hundred and twenty eight citizens
are confined in the county Jail and have
been refused permission to 60 to the
County Fair and enjoy the holiday.
The white children of the city schools
will visit the County Fair to-day. Yes
terday the negro school children visited
the grounds and enjoyed themselves.
Some one wants to call convention
Of funny newspaper paragraphists, We
regret to state that the local and river
editors of our merning contemporaries
will be unable to attend.
Matinee at the tbeater to-day and
closing performance by the Stetson peo-
pie tonight, when the Marble Heart will
be presented. The theater will be closed
tomorrow until Monday next.
The number of dogs taxed IN Shelby
county is 4Ol5, for which tax of 5000
was levied for 1874, but yet there are
over FIVE thousand CANNES of all colors
and breeds in Memphis alone.
There are IL, 1896 white and 1926
black school children in Shelby county,
forming an army of 81 ,675 young persons
who are in the pursuit of knowledge
whether they capture it or not.
Among the latest marriage announce
ments in counting circles may be men
toned that of j. E. Harris, deputy clerk
Of the Criminal Court, and Miss Addie
NJ. Dawson, of Paris, Tennessee.
Get your things ready for the Mem
phis Exposition on Thursday next. The
display will be the best ever had in
Memphis, and will attract thousands of
visitors from the surrounding country.
In Memphis you can find hundreds of
men who wouldn't loan you quarter of
a dollar if yofwere starving, but if you
state that you have had chill there are
several thousand persons who will in
form you about remedies and how to take
them.
Messrs. E. Stamford, II. V. Newcomb
and W. B. Caldwell have been elected
directors of the Louisville and Nashville
Railway Company. The salary of the
President was reduced to $500 per
annum and that of the Vice President
abolished.
Claiming Richards, who in Radical
days was one of the Police Commission
ers of Memphis, is now assistant United
States District Attorney for Southern
Ohio, and it might be added that when
Police Commissioner here he was the
least Objectionable of the trio of worthless
who then ruled the bluff.
At the Fair Grounds to-day the young
ladies of the bluff will show the young
men how they can cook a break
fast or dinner, and will prove to
the incredulous world that man was a
slanderer who said that Memphis belle
did not know how to boil an egg or cut
the end off Of a loaf of bread.
This is a general holiday, so say the
Mayor and the Presidents of both the
Cotton Exchange and Chamber of Com
merce, but the unfortunate newspaper
men have no holiday, neither have they
time for such decisions When the
pencil singer goes to the Fair Grounds,
it is not to enjoy himself, but to work.
We admit that there is such thing as
poetry but it must be used with discre.
ton, and for this reason we respectfully
decline to publish four stanzas of some
thing original, which opens out in the
following style.
uWheu summer has fed and the lisping winds
Set out from the neiguboring woods so grey;
/ see my love. with a brighter blush.
Crossing the streets in her streamers gay"
The school tax proper is almost
doubled by poll and dog taxes. Just
imagine the patriotism and humanits-
rianism Of the canine race when it puts
mp over eight thousand dollars in taxes
in Shelby county for the education of
the youth of the land. Love me, love
my dog" now becomes a truth OF peeu-
liar significance.
The number of polls in Shelby county
pan out just II, lis, which at two dollars
a poll, amounts to a considerable sum OF
money; but whether or not the polls will
average two dollars in actual value to
society, is a deep question for philosO-
pliers to consider. We know Of many
hundred polls that we opine would be dear
at five cents a scalp.
A squad Of the great organizers of the
grand independent back-kicking anti
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