Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-13
LEDGER LINES.
Court SQUARE eoncert to.night.

in the police court.
The first bale Of cotton was received
here last year on the 18th of August.
Meeting Of Natoma Temple of Honor
tonight, Business ofspecial Importance.
Esquire Miller has returned 70 the city
from a trip to see his relatives in Ohio.
By moonlight to the Mammoth Cave
on next Tuesday. Round trip only
sl2.
Free trade and Changers rights are
the watchwords at present on the veg
etable snd fruit question.
A lover Of music says he would be sat
is6ed with the Court Square concerts if
he only knew what a "potpourri" was.
Pinchbsck, the famous negro politician
of Louisiana, and poker-player Of New
Orleans, will crate at the Exposition to-
night free of charge.
Early this morning q fire broke out in
and destroyed a stable on Poplar street.
A hack and a horse belonging to a negro
were burned during the c%onaagration.
Already several aspirants have an.
nounced themselves on street corners
and in saloons as candidates for the
offices of State Senators and Represent
%atives, the election to take place a year
hence.
Steamboatmen say that when the river
falls it will be a dangerous time for boats,
on account Of the immense quantity of
big trees which aoated down during the
high waters, and which trees will form
snags, etc.
The war made by certain ignoramuses
around the City Hall upon farmers who
sold their crops in the city has ceased,
the s~elfconstituted lawyers of the City
Hall discovering from the LEDGER that
they had no right to do so.
The theatrical season will open up on
the 18th Of September under the man
agement of Mr.. Joseph Brooks. No
stock company will be engaged. The
season will be filed up by stars who
have their own troupes and by combina-
ton companies.
The largest Transcript ola record ever
sent from a court in Memphis to the Su-
preme Court has been made up in the
case Of Sarah W. Bolton VS.. Thomas
Dickens ct al. 1t numbers l4OS pages
of legal cap paper, and the cost Of tran
scribing amounted to 1852.
The kilograms of this morning an
nounce the fact that Fitz William Ions
dale, one of the proprietors of the St.
Charles Hotel, died yesterday at Missis-
sippi City, Louisiana, of consumption.
The deceased was a nephew Of Colonel
j. G. Lonsdale, ST., of our city.
An old negro administered about fifty
lashes to his erring son at the station
house this morning, because the boy had
been stealing. The old man said: I'm
break you from dis stealth or I'll break
your id neck" He was permitted to
carry his boy home upon promise to ad-
minister a dose of correction daily.
The proposition made to allow the
Charleston railroad to lay a track down
Washington street to the river meets
with general approval throughout the
city, but we suppose that old Memphis
Freighting Company which stands in the
way Of the establishment of the custom
house, will object to the railroad track
and apply for business propositions"
The escaped negro convict Jackson,
who was shot and arrested yesterday
morning in a wounded condition, was
shot by Mr.. Kennedy, of South Memphis,
while Jackson was in the act of breaking
into his house. A double-barrelled shot
gun and buckshot did the work. Jack
sons arm and shoulder is in a terrible
condition, five buchsbot having taken
effect.
The black boards of the Cotton Ex-
change show the following facts and fig
ures concerning cotton: Receipts for
the week, l47; for the season, 32l, 1855;
shipments for the week, 1903; for the
season, 324,377; stock on hand, 32O9;
sales for the week, 25O. The Exchange
will move into its new room, on the cor
ner of Front and Madison streets, to-
morrow.
At an uptown wake last night a free
fight took place between the women who
attended on account of a remark made
by one of them as to the deceased.
Esquire Spelman happening to be pass
ing by at the time went in and arrested
two Of the female fighters and conducted
them to the Commissioners castle on
Adams street. They we're licked up,
but their friends o anneared and mt