Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-19
LEDGER LINES.

tonight.
Jefferson Opera House (varieties) is
open every night.
The half.shell oyster season will open
on the first proximo.
The incendiary failed to put in an
appearance last night.
A thunder storm, accompanied with
wind and rain, swept over the city last
night.
Memphis Thester opens next Monday
with the Stetson Combination in Neck
and Neck
The Mississippi, like a politician, is
seeking its level, and will soon be down
to low water mark.
Do not forget to attend some church
tomorrow; it will prove beneficial both
to the mind and body.
Memphis indignated" last night
over the expressions and wrongssuHered
by the people of Louisiana.
The election for Congressman and
State officers will be held in this State
on Tuesday, the Sd of November.
The city government says that the
financial prospects Of the city looks bill.
ious, from tax collecting standpoint.
Alas, poor Yorickl"
The trial of the Gibson county pris-
oners closed to-day in the United States
Courtroom before United States Com
missioner S. S. Garrett
Chief of Police Athy desires to know
the whereabouts of John Sullivan and
Martha Jane Bowen, whose relatives are
making inquiries concerning them.
The irregularity of the street cars is
becoming topic of conversation within
city and suburbs. Come, Mr.. Superin.
tendent, move your old mule boxes up
to time.
The LEDGER puts out an enlarged
form and improved appearance to-day,
thereby keeping pace with the spirit of
the times end the demands of the bust
ness season.
At. the examination of the Gibson
county prisoners yesterday the negroes
swore positively as to the identity of the
men, but the prisoners proved quite as
positively an abb in each case.
The Bluff City Minstrels (amateurs)
appeared at the Greenlaw Opera House
last night before large and fashionable
audience. The troupe will give closing
performance tonight which will be
largely attended
If, according to the Avalanche, the
pen is not mightier than the sword, it
must be admitted that the Louisiana
Penn can swing the sabre de mou pere
as deity as Mr.. Grant or any of his car
pet-bagging satellites.
The executed marriage licenses re-
turned to the County Court Clerk during
the present week are: Geo. W. Harri-
son and Miss Bette Young, G. ]. Wise
and Mrs. Matilda Ostman, W. w. Truett
and Miss Nancy Carter.
The white scholastic population of
Memphis for the years 1928 was 6479;
black, 1902; total, 1880. Our public
schools give an education to thousands
who without such would be brought up
in ignorance and drift into crime.
The Criminal and the two Circuit
Courts will open up the September
terms next Monday, and will furnish
items for the reporters who are wearing
out their boots hunting news for the
public between Pinch and Fort Picker
ing.
The Shelby County Agricultural Fair
will open next month, when the Tennes-
see Sportsmen's Association will give
pigeon matches and dog shows. The
Exposition will open on the 18th of Oc-
tober and continue until the 18th of
November.
Young gentlemen and ladies who,
lover-like, sit in parlors with windows
open, are now troubled with marauding
bats. The young man seizes the broom
and slaughters the winged messenger of
trouble, while the belle sits under the
piano with six-inch square lace hand |
kerchief on her head.
The cost Of repairing the Nicolson
pavement with new wooden blocks is
81 So per square yard, but the cost of
laying down a solid rock pavement on
Beal, between Main and Shelby, is but
81 80 per square yard, which is a solid
difference in favor of rock over woodin
price as well as durability.
The usual greeting IN Memphis when
two friends meet is, Whats the news"
As they hold hands the answer comes,
" Nothing new" The hands fall of and
separate. Both parties look around and
say nothing for few seconds, when the
awful stiffness is broken by one who
says, "Weil, must go up town. Where
are you going to be after a while2"
Since the highway robbery of passen-
gers in the stages running between Lit.
tie Rock and Hot Springs, all Memphi-