Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-17
LEDGER LINES.

hc VI tlC idlC JUN ~ AASAA
yesterday was largely attended.
The Bluff City Minstrel troupe at the
Greenlaw Opera House tomorrow night
The big tents have disappeared from
the bluff and are spread in Forrest
City, Ark, oday.
The last man or woman has not as yet
returned to Memphis from the springs
or mountains Of the North.
The sale Of reserved seats at the Mem
phis Theater for next Monday night be-
gins to. day at the box-oifice.
The Trenton, Gibson county, prisoners
will be on trial before United States
Commissioner Garrett tomorrow.
Victor D. Fuchs has received fine
lot of celery at his oyster and game es-
tabliehment, No. Al Jefferson street.
Young and old Memphis attended the
circus last night. At least three thousand
people sat under the canvas and watched
the clown.
Senator Brownlow will in few weeks
revive the old Knoxville Wing, jour
nal which welded no little power in
years long past.
The Independent Invincible Hose Co.
No. 5 will give picnic at the EXPOSE
ton building next Wednesday evening,
the 23d instant.
The members of the Memphis bar met
yesterday afternoon and passed resolu
tions with reference to the death of the
late John S. Kerr.
The meeting of the Teachers Insti-
tute, to have been held here on the 2lst
inst, has been postponed sine die by the
State Superintendent.
Lawyers. clients, witnesses and pro.
fessioHal jurors are waking up and pre-
pairing for the terms of court, which
open on Monday next.
Our candidates were placed at the
head of the LEDGER yesterday, and there
they will remain until they walk over
the political course in November next.
We publish to-day brief sketches of
the county nominees of the Democratic
and Conservative party, which sketches
will be continued and concluded in to-
morrows' LEDGER,
A few days since Wetter's base ball
club beat the Eckfords at the Fair
Grounds by score of 20 to l6. A con-
siderable sum of money changed hands
on the result of the game.
Is the Shelby ticket Andy or anti
Johnson2 is the question of the day.
The Shelby delegation. will go for the
best and strongest representative man
for the United States Senate.
The negro villains who robbed and
outraged the family of Mr.. Durant on
the Pigeon Roost road not long since
we're committed yesterday without bail
to answer before the Criminal Court.
Notwithstanding the departure Of the
circus, it still rains. General Myers,
Chief of the Signal Bureau, should
attach a dozen circuses to his weather
department so as to scatter them around
and bring about rain when needed.
The New Orleans papers are publish
ing death notices by the dozen in conse-
quence of the late coup de etat in that
city. These notices are headed, KILLED
in the cause of the people" Killed in
defense of the peoples rights" etc.
The news received last night that the
negro Radicals at Chattanooga nomi-
mated Horace Maynard as their candi-
date for Governor created but little ex-
element, as it is well known that Judge
Porter will be elected Governor by
heavy majority.
Last night Grand Captain General Ed
Worsham, of the Cyrene Commandery
No. of Knights Templar, was pre-
scented with a regalia by his friends Of
the Commandery. The outfit consisted
of a sword, baldric, chapeau, belt,
gauntlets and spurs.
Parties hunting with dog or gun on
the grounds of the Deadrick, Meath or
Cooper places, near the Fair Grounds,
will be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law as trespassers. These grounds
have been leased and reserved by the
State Sportsmen's Association for the
dog trials in October next.
The decision of the New York Finan-
cial Chronicle as to the cotton crop of
1874, which decision was published in
the LEDGER of yesterday settled the
pool" question in this city. The for
tunate man who guessed nearest to the
last crop of 4ls5,534 bales carried off
many hundreds of dollars.
Our hest Constitutional lawvArs assert