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

State Comptroller Burch is III the
city.
A few drunken men are arrested
nightly.
The Thermometer indicated e4' at Il
m. to-day.
The grasshoppers, or picnicers, have
retired for the season.
In New Orleans the street car drivers
charge regular fare for dogs.
The jefferson street Opera House is
open nightly for the amusement of the
public.
But fifteen misdemeanor cases APP
peared on the Recorders docket this
morning.
The Memphis Theater will open on
next Monday week with the Stetson
Combination Company.
When will the sleepy city government
consider the fact that Memphis needs at
least four additional fire steamers2
Cotton picking is the chief amusement
in the rural districts at seventy,6ve cents
day or dollar hundred pounds.
The town is getting horribly dull in
criminal matters since the negro outrage
on the Pigeon Roost road on Monday
last
The Criminal and the two Circuit
Courts will be open on Monday, the 2lst,
on which day the regular fall terms will
commence.
The next sensation will be the County
Legislative convention, to be held at the
Exposition building, on next Tuesday,
the 10Th instant.
The Grand Council of Red Men is in
session at indianapolis. Among the
delegates or officers are VIM. F. Mea-
cham, of Tennessee.
In the Second Circuit Court Susan
Stamps (colored) filed her bill against
her absconding husband, John Stamps,
and prays for divorce vinculo.
Peter Lowry, a wife-whipper, was up
before the Recorder to day and was SEN
fenced to fine of fifty dollars, or one
hundred days on the chain-gang.
The marriage bells will soon ring for
the married bellies Of Memphis. Several
of the boys and girls contemplate mat
rimony within the next sixty days.
Schools are being reopened all over
the city. Next week the public schools
of the city will reopen and then several
thousand children will cease to be seen
on the streets.
The grasshopperS have invaded Brad
ley county, Tennessee, and the locusts
have come to their assistance At last
accounts they we've moving westward
and southwark.
H. Casey Young will beat that dead
beat, Barbour Lewis, three thousand
votes in this Congressional district, COM
posed of the counties of Shelby, Fayette
and Hardeman.
The desire for rain has become general
since the cloudy weather setin. People
after predicting rain and finding out that
their meteorological knowledge is at
fault become incensed.
The experimental repairs of the Nicol-
son with wooden blocks is not carried
on in scientific manner The job is a
bungling one, and the way the blocks are
put down is not the right way.
When white man commits an out
rage upon a negro it is all wrong, but
when the negro commits outrages on
white people it is all right. Such is the
doctrine of the Radical party in Mem
phis and Shelby county.
Business at the numerous justices
shops is dull, SO that magistrates, con-
stables and the host of special consta-
bles have nothing to do except to play
checkers, chess and game of F." sell
out at some convenient beer saloon.
A few nights since Magdalen, resi-
ding on De Soto street, having been
repudiated by her dear lover swallowed
cold poison with intent to take summer
tour to the next world, but the physicians
pumped her out and saved her valuable
life.
A Memphis belle has fifteen pairs OF
shoes. Some curious wretch knowing
the length of her foot to be nine incEes,
has calculated that if each shoe was
arranged heel and toe, it would form a
straight line of twenty-five and half
feet
Candidates for the State Senate and |
Legislature are emerging from private
life in the hope that by being nominated |
and elected a career of glory and ambi-
ton will open out before them at the
ro4a of fonr dollars ner diem durinp the |