Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-24
LEDGER LINES.
Thermometer s40 to day.


votaries yesterday.
The public and private schools will be
reopened on the LIST of September.
The weather has settled again, but the
intense heat has departed for the season.
Clean up your premises and do not
wait until the Health Officer pays you a
visit.
The circus and menagerie yet remain
on the bluff-having become attached"
to the place.
The Y. NJ. S. Club give private pic
mic this evening at Leath Orphan Asy-
lum grove without fail.
A villainous correspondent Of Gin.
cinnati paper says, Memphis girls have
more beauty than style.
The corner of Winchester and Main
was the scene of several free fights yes
terday. Too much whisky.
That Beecherism, Tiltonism and Moul-
tonism, Iwish was dead, has become
slang phrase in Memphis.
Prospective Congressman, State Sena-
tors and Representatives should an
nounce themselves as soon as possible.
Mayor League has ceased his raids
on the Magdalens and has gone back to
the study Of city finances and coupons
again.
Bales of new cotton begin to appear
by the dozen on Front and adjoining
business streets. The cotton season has
opened
The State, county and city license
taxes on a circus amount to the amaz-
ing sum of two hundred and fifty dollars
per day.
The Memphis Theater will be opened
to-day four weeks, September 2lst Stet
sons Combination will appear in Neck
aud Neck.
The professional juror and the profess
sional bond-maker should be closely
watched. This business should be
broken up by the courts.
Nothing new in the Courts of record.
The Criminal, the two Circuit Courts
and the Quarterly County Courts
will open up next month.
Lowenstein, on the corner Of Main
and Jefferson, is adding to his establish
ment by taking in the store adjoining
and fitting it up as department.
The Memphis public is beginning to
get disguised over the Beecher-Tilton
matter. There is not decent man or
woman connected with the scandal.
The big rains have had a good effect
on the crops; the streets and alleys of
the city have been washed out, and the
health Of the city has been improved
In the Second Circuit Court today
Betsy Nelson filed bill for divorce
against N. F. Nelson, on the grounds Of
abandonment and failure to support, etc
The question, "Whom will you vote
for as United States Senator" will cut a
figure when candidates run before the
nominating convention for the Offices Of
Senators and Representatives.
Barrelli's comet will make desperate
effort to pass the perihelion tomorrow,
the 25th inst. The comet has no tail,
ard can only be seen with telescope
in the vicinity of the Little Bear.
Governor Browns correspondence on
the State debt and other questions in
answer to request made by Memphis
merchants, is now being distributed in
pamphlet form to the country press of
the State.
The Appeal and Register, following
the example set by the LEDGER, have put
Judge Porter's name at the head of their
columns The Avalanche has not as
yet run up the Porter flag, although it
advocates his election.
The Cows" who did not receive the
nomination at Nashville have returned
and have explained satisfactorily why
and why not. The reason why Memphis
did not get the nomination is because
we have too many great men.
1t is rumored that few Office seekers
or convention avoiders will run indie
pendently in November next, but we
assure them that they will not run worth
cent as against the nominees of the
Democratic and Conservative party.
Bayou Gayoso was bankful on Satur'
day morning, and rushed like a torrent
into Wolf river and o ut into the Missis
sippi. The banks and bed of the classic
stream we're cleared Of dead animals
aud other deposits of like nature which
20 to make the bayou most disagreeable
to sensitive obligatory nerves.
A prize fight between a Magdalen and