Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-29
LEDGER LINES.

September.
A few Of the latest wanderers returned
home yesterday,
Schumann's Novelty Combination q
the theater tonight.
The Chamber of Commerce elected {
set Of officers yesterday.
The Thermometer was down to TO- al
10 o'clock this forenoon.
The County Fair next week and the
Exposition the week after.
Senator Schurz. of Missouri, has been
invited to attend the opening of our Elk
position.
Sixteen cases of misdemeanor were
disposed of by fine at the Recorder
Court to-day.
The Cotton Exchange is undergoing
renovation and painting preparatory for
the opening season,
Andy johnson is stumping the State
and is moving southwark. He will soon
speak in Memphis.
The sere and yellow leaf has appeared
on suburban trees, all of which is indica.
tive of an early frost.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the LEDGER counting-room and at the
leading news stands to-day.
Tomorrow week the eloquent City
Fathers will indulge in another series of
debates over municipal matters.
The Nonconnah Turnpike Company
case is on argument before Judge Heis-
kell and a jury in the First Circuit Court.
Yesterday many an enraged citizen
had to pursue happiness by chasing
Aeeting hat before a gust of northern
wind
Thursday next the day and night po-
lice patrols will swap ends. Captain
Weatherford will command the day
force.
The city schools, both public and pri.
vate, are under full Roadway. Over six
thousand children attend schools in
Memphis.
In the Criminal Court few light Grim
inal cases are being disposed of. The
court is now waiting for the Grand Jury
to cut out work.
The Austin (Mississippi) negro rioters,
who were arrested and confined in the
Jail, got out few nights since and gave
the Sheriff leg bail
Recorder Winters sat on the case of
drunken Indian this morning, the first
native American ever brought before his
Honor for judgment.
Three streetcar loads Of Daughters of
Ham and Zion, attended by colored
marshals on the back platforms, passed
down Main street yesterday.
That Bank Controversy is being
anxiously read by the people who are
unable to borrow dollar, not having
the collaterals to put up.
Hundreds of counterfeit nickels are
in circulation throughout the city, but
they are kept going, as no person re-
fuses to take bogus nickel in change.
The protracted meeting is in progress
at the Central Baptist Church. Ser
vices commence this evening at u
o o'clock by Rev. W. W. Landrum, Of
Shreveport.
The great conundrum in Memphis at
present is. What or who is working
man2" We opine the term is not the
exclusive property Of any one special
class of white men.
Now that the cool weather has arrived |
dozens of anglers are preparing to visit
the lakes and bayous over in Arkansas,
where, it is said, the trout, breem and
perch strike" freely.
Yellow fever has appeared at Key
West, Florida, but so far there have
been no cases at Mobile, New Orleans
or Galveston, nor is the fever expected
at these points this season.
Now that the county fair is drawing
near, the owners of CANNES are getting
ready for the bench shows, when it is
expected that every pointer will appear
as setter before the crowd.
The river man of the Appeal eats
grindles and prefers them to lake
trout and says they supply brain matter.
We have noticed an unusual brilliancy
in the Appeal river columns of late
The day after tomorrow will be the
first of the month, and the polite bill
collectors will be around like mosqui-
toes. If 'twere done when tbs dun,
then 'twere well 'twere dun quickly"
For the first time for months a man
was fined by the Recorder this morning
on the charge of cruelty to animals.
The ordinance prohibiting the beating
of dumb brutes should be enforced by
arrests.
The Memphis belle is not yet married,
because when she marries she ceases to
be belle. So, like the king, the belle
never dies; the mantle no sooner falls
of of one pair of shoulders than it lights