Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-14
LEDGER LINES.

The United States Court has adjourned
over to November next.
The cold-blooded Memphian appeared
in an overcoat yesterday.
The Knights of Pythias will lead the
grand Exposition parade tomorrow.
The sanitary condition of the city is
excellent and the health was never so
good.
Belphegor the Mountebank, will be the
dramatic attraction at the theater to-
night.
Let the Exposition Art Gallery be
filled with paintings and statuary that
represent art.
Judge Emmons will open the United
States Court on the first Monday of
November next.
When your thermometer indicates 46o
you may bet that frost has appeared,
that being the frost point.
Stove cleaning and coal purchasing
were INDUCED in by thoughtful Mem
phians yesterday and to-day.
Before adjourning yesterday the
Grand Jury Of the United States Court
presented complimentary address to
Judge Trigg.
Hundreds of people are suffering from
colds caused by the sudden change of
weather and leaving bed room windows
open at night.
The crowd of dodgers continue to in
crease nightly at the station-house.
Sleeping out of doors is beginning to be
not appropriate to the season.
At the Police Court to-day Susan
Fleming, charged with larceny, and Gus
Clinton, a fugitive from Mississippi JUS
tice, were committed to Jail.
Linden street Christian Church will be
open this evening for special religious
services. Strangers and visitors in the
city are cordially invited to be present.
The would-be reformers are going
around begging respectable men to ran
on their Radical ticket. but the request
is invariably refused or declined with
thanks.
The new courthouse, the 0verton
Hotel, will be ready for occupany within
two weeks. The cost of turning the
building into a courthouse is about
s23, 800.
The fellow who brags that he is the
workingman is generally
a fraud of the first water-a chap who
works one week and remains drunk |
throughout the next
A Memphis belle is described by an
enthusiastic admirer as "a plump blonde,
with face exquisitely tinted" We are
unable to inform the public what partic-
uidl blduu VI paint cue USES.
A contemporary charges that Memphis
ladies' are in the habit of sleeping in
their corsets for the purpose of preserv.
ing their figure. How did this man know
anything about what he so earnestly
The mosquitoes have been driven away
BY Jack Frost. A few nights since they
we're particularly savage and blood.
thirsty, no doubt indignant and angry at
he approaching frost which was to her
aid their hegira.
The Clerk of the Criminal Court has
ssued twelve mitimusses TO the Sheriff
% convey the same number of prisoners
o the penitentiary, these prisoners hav-
ng been convicted and sentenced during
he present term of court.
The new moon set in the southwestern
heavens at halfpast seven last evening.
t presented crescent shape, with the
lorns turned down, which, according to
I'D weather prophets and superstitious
people, indicated wet season.
The new management of the theater
Jay considerable attention to scenic
fleet and costuming, all Of which reflects
redit upon the management To dress
piece well costs no little amount of
money and considerable labor.
Next Monday night the Lingards will
pen up an engagement at the Memphis
1heater. Mr.. Lingard, Alice Dunning
Lingard) and other members of the
company are favorites in Memphis, and
gill, as heretofore, draw well in Mem
This.
Some scientist has discovered that
aud rheumatism can be re-
eved by directing a stream of water
rom force pump against the part
ffected. Should this be true hundreds
{ Memphians would be saved the trouble
nd expense of visiting the Hot Springs
very season.
The grand Exposition parade to-
morrow will be participated in by all
be civic and military socities in the
ity. a general suspension Of business I
ill be observed, as everybody wishes to :
ttend the opening of the Exposition,
hitch will attract thousands of people !
D Memphis. I
Tho EIo,al HILL at tho Evnoe;t;o,, Ill