Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-17
LEDGER LINES.

that latitude.
Quite number of "vags" and beggars
are in the city.
Candidates are swinging around the
circle" in town
Who will receive the second Shelby
county bale Of cotton2
A cool breeze drove somnolent citi-
zens under blankets last night.
Public schools and oysters from Mo-
bile and Norfolk will be opened next
month.
The Police Board met lest Saturday
and dropped three men from the patrol
force.
The Congressional Convention will
meet at Bolivar, Hardeman county, on
the 9Th of September.
A paying tenant for small cottage
in good locality can be found by ad-
dressing ID" at this office.
The school houses throughout the city
are getting renovated for their reoccu-
pancy on the lst of September.
The dearth of news is enough to wake
up profanity in reporter, which protan-
ity may have been slumbering for years.
Alexander Conyers (colored), arrested
for horse stealing, was discharged this
morning, no one appearing against him.
There will be rain storm, it is prog
nosticated, by the twentieth of the
month. This is not based on mere
moonshine.
Many ten cent notes have gone into
the pockets of druggists and confection-
ELS this season from the floating froth
from soda fountains.
Great Southern Circus and Mepagerie
on the bluffs next Friday Already
young America is gazing at the big
posters on dead walls.
GubernatorialC Convention at Nashville
on next Wednesday, the 18th instant
Delegates will leave tomorrow for the
capital Of the State.
Thirty three offenders, of various
grades. of moral turpitude and sundry
shades of color, we're paraded before the
city judge this morning.
The alarm of fire yesterday was
caused by the bursting of a coal oil
lamp in North Memphis. No damage
done except to the lamp.
The crops in the surrounding country
of Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas
are burning up. A heavy rain is needed
in both city and country.
A pair of colored confidence gamblers
we're fined fifty dollars each. They had
played upon the weakness Of farmer
to the extent of five dollars with FIVE lit
tie cards.
Northern journals have made the most
humorous mistakes about the troubles
at Somerville, Austin and Memphis
They get localities and riots terribly
mixed up.
Colonel Hosea Townsend, Chairman
of the Bartlett Executive Committee of
Shelby county, has resigned that posi-
ton in order to enter into the Congress
sional race.
Read the notice in to-day's LEDGER,
published by the Executive Board of
Shelby county, for the election OF dele
gates to the Congressional and County
Conventions.
Up-country Memphians write back
about sitting around fires up in the
mountains and on the verge of Northern
lakes. All this trouble they would have
saved by staying at home.
Lord Derby once said that he did not
think it the part of a public man to blow
his own trumpet, but if Derby lived in
Memphis he would become tolerably
familiar with that kind Of music.
Officer Bradley arrested seven va
grants last night-six colored and one
white-for sleeping on a lumber pile on
the levee. The Recorder assessed them
ten dollars each for their lodging.
On our street corners is seen again the
politician seeking whom he may devour,
after button-holing for half an hour
The politicians are candidates for Con-
gress, for the Legislature and the State
Senate.
Ed Mitchell, the -shootist, was fined
fifty dollars by the Recorder this mora
ing for carrying concealed weapons, and
was bound over to the Criminal Court in
the sum of $4,000 for assault with intent
to kill.
Jupiter and Venus are brightly shining
every night about three degrees south
of the moon and apparently near each