Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-26
LEDGER LINES.
Bad weather Cor matinees.

a telegraphlc wire now connects meln'
phis and Somerville.
The colored murderer, Robert Bascom,
will be hung at Bolivar to-day.
Election of officers for the Chamber
of Commerce will take place next Mon
day.
The Memphis Bethel Concert has
been postponed until next Thursday
night.
Haverly Minstrel matinee to-day and
closing performance to night at Assem-
bly, Hall
Captain Bill Forrest is one OF the party
in pursuit of the Gads Hill or Hot
Springs highwaymen.
Neck and Neck matinee at the theater
to-day, and tonight the Stetsons will ap-
pear in the French Spy.
The Recorders docket did not pan
out single news item this morning,
only eight cases appearing.
The continuous rains indicate that
the Autumnal Equinoctial storm is not
yet over. 1t often lasts ten days.
In our rural exchanges can be seen
written the thanks Of the leading editors
for watermelons, turnips and turnip-
salad.
Hundreds of darkeys have left the city
for the country, where they are picking
cotton for seventy.fve cents hundred
pounds.
Since so many female poets have come
to the front in America, London critic
intimates that Pegasus must now wear
side-saddle.
Justice Miller disposed of an impor.
tant dog case yesterday, in which case
the possession of an unborn purp was
the great issue.
The sales of cotton in this city during
the present week amounted to 6,l00
bales, of which $500 were taken for
Liverpool and Manchester account.
The cotton receipts since the LIST of
September amounted to 1886 bales,
which is nearly three thousand bales
over the receipts for the same time last
season.
The visitors at the Cotton Exchange
yesterday were Messrs. Moses NJ. Green
wood and R. T. Saunders, of New Or.
leans; j. j. Hope, of Shreveport, and J.
7. Trezevant, of Arkansas.
The next week has been set apart as
week of daily prayer and preaching
by the Central Baptist Church, Second
street, near Beal. Prayer-meeing at
10 am, and preaching at y, commenc-
ing Monday.
The NoncoHnah Turnpike case, on
trial in the First Circuit Court, has been
continued over until next Tuesday morn
ing at nine o'clock, owing to the death
of child of one of the jurors in the
case, DR.. A. E. Kenneday.
We will soon have joint discussions
between the Conservative and Radical
nominees for Congressional and State
Offices. These stump" discussions sell
dom if ever convince or change voter.
The press does all this in these days.
The dearth OF news is clearly appa
rent when you look over the daily jour
mails. Writing about nothing and
endeavoring to make, believe that you
have subject is no ordinary task. 1t
is like chasing an igriis fatuus or trying
to make rope out of sand.
Mr.. Pink Bryson carried off the Bluff
City Shooting Club prize pitcher yester.
day by killing nine birds out of FIVE
double birds eighteen yards rise and one
hundred yards boundary. The pitcher
has to be held for six consecutive
monthly matches before it becomes the
absolute property of the holder
To-day twelve months ago there was a
bank panic in Memphis and heavy runs
were made on many of our leading mon
led institutions. The Freedman's bank
closed under orders from Washington.
the opening of the Memphis Theater
was postponed, the new hospital opened
under charge of DR.. Blackburn and
seven deaths from yellow fever were
announced officially.