Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-14
LEDGER LINES.
School Board meeting tonight.
General Council meeting this afte

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See in want column application Of R
W. Bradford as assistant bookkeeper.
The Memphis boys and girls never
spell the word as follows, " Matri
money"
Negro Radical State convention al
Chattanooga on Wednesday next, the
10th OF September.
A young physician Of this city will
soon be going to East Tennessee, and
will come back married.
That Christian statesman, B. Lewis,
has not as yet returned to the city to
engage in his canvass for Congress.
Memphians who have returned from
summer excursions are now hunting
Tom Collins up aud down Front street.
The dramatic season of the Memphis
Theater will open on next Monday even
ing, with the Stetson Combination in
Neck and Neck.
Our Hebrew fellow citizens have been
celebrating the Rosh-Hoshaua or New
Year, or the 5635th year of the world
according to Jewish chronology.
The Texas cotton crop is estimated at
six millions of bales. Why should not
Memphis receive her portion of this
staple2 All that is needed is an air line
railroad.
Owing to the late change in schedules
of different railroads and no Sunday
express, the funeral of Mrs. W. b.
Greenlaw is indefinitely postponed. Due
notice will be given.
Mr.. Gus Pennoyer, who has charge of
the management of the Memphis Thea
ter, has arrived and has gone to work
theoretically preparing for the opening
night on Monday next.
The thermometer in the LEDGER Office
says hot; the barometer says very dry,
but our Ledger Liner overcomes both
assertions in the manner best known to
the majority of Memphians.
Thirty editors, from Texas, werein the
city yesterday and were entertained by
the lest citizens Of the city. They left
for Chattanooga this morning via the
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
Tomorrow, aye tomorrow, the Dem
ocratic and G Conservative party of Shelby
county, will meet at the Exposition
Building and select candidates for both
Houses of the State Legislature,
You don't gwan' tole me dat Freed
man bank busted2' asked an astonish-
ed darkey few days since. Gone, you
say, clar gomez Well OATS what always
made me keep my money out o dat
bank.
Mortuary report for the past week
total deaths, 20. Whites, IA; blacks, IL.
Health of the city excellent, and no
special disease prevailing, and only one
white adult death outside Of the City
Hospital.
The establishment by Legislative en-
actment of the city and county Of Mem
phis would be popular move for Legis-
lators to make. All American cities
have to come to this favor at last, ifthey
desire TO flourish.
The Mendelssohns will begin musical
rehearsals for the season Of 1915 on
to. morrow evening. All musical people
are invited to attend and advance the
interests of art by establishing a supe'
rior musical society.
No Memphian will drink out of a
bottle without exercising all his senses.
He first hears the invitation to drink,
looks at the bottle, seizes hold OF it,
smells it and then tastes Of its contents,
exercising the five senses.
Will Memphis ever have cotton fac
tory2 She ought to have at least
dozen. If raw cotton can be carried to
New England and Europe and manu-
featured into goods, why cannot the
same results be accomplished at homer
The troubles in Gibson county were
caused by roast pig" If the white
men who originated these troubles at that
negro barbecue had ever read Charles
Lambs story of Roast Pig" they
would never have entailed so much
trouble on their fellow-citizens.
Our public schools, which are the
pride of the city, open tomorrow. Reli
Zious bigotry would, if it could, crush
Them out of existence, but thanks to the
liberal sentiment of the people of Mem.
phis they live and flourish, and will so
long as Memphis stands on the Chicka-
saw Bluff.
Are the Joneses back2' inquired
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