Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-06
LEDGER LINES.

jail windows.
The courthouse is a dull building at
present, now hat all the courts stand
adjourned.
Wind and weather permitting, the
Casino Club oncer will come off at
Court Square to night.
To day is the O'Connell centennial
anniversary, but it was not celebrated in
this city in a public way.
Quite a small number Of offenders ap-
peared before the Recorder this morning,
and but small ofenses we're to their
credit.
We understand hat the French society
will oon give a grand celebration for the
benefit of the sufferers by the late foods
in France.
And it shall come to pass that every
American citizen shall have his own CEN
t@ennial celebration sometime during the
next succeeding centuries.
The robbers who entered the dwelling
Of the Rev. David Walk a few nights
since carried off sundry articles Of wear
ing apparel and all the money the Doc
tor had in his possession.
Although the rise of the river has been
deliberately discussed in the newspapers
and on the streets for over a week, yet
no two men have been found to agree as
to the probable results,
Bayou Gayoso would be a navigable
stream from its mouth to its source were
it not for the bridges. But these obstruc-
tons to commerce should be removed
during high water.
Filling the local news columns Of a
journal six times a week during the
present dull season is not one Of the
easiest works imaginable, except to the
uninitiated or non.professional jour
%nalist.
The Irish Volunteers propose to give q
grand dress drill promenade concert and
hop on the 10Th Of September, assisted
by the Chickasaw Guards. A number of
distinguished guests are expected, includ.
ing the Governor and others.
The Merchants Protective Union at a
meeting held last night elected P. c..
Rogers as collector for the association.
We a recommend Mr.. Rogers to the
business men as competent in every
respect for the responsible position.
The Cotton Exchange b~lack-boards
show the following figures: Receipts of
cotton for the week, l54 bales; for the
season, 32l sos; shipments for the week,
I'll; for the season, 324, 274; stock on
hand, 3l,6O5. The sales for the week
amounted to but 200 bales.
Colonel Enoch Taylor, formerly the
jolly agent Of the Great Western Dis
patch, but now superintendent of the
same company and located at Cincin-
natl, is in the city, and looking the pic
ture Of good humor and good health.
The signal service report at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon from up river points
created no little excitement in cotton
circles. The unprecedented and unex-
pected rise of ten feet six inches coming
out of the Tennessee river at Paducah,
KY, was the chief topic Of conversation.
The 0'Connell centennial takes place
tonight at the European Hotel, on Sec
ond street, under the auspices of the
Irish Literary Association. A commit
tee is busy at work to-day making all
the necessary arrangements to insure a
pleasant and highly creditable reunion,
To-day one year ago (the 9th of Au-
gust the Bartlett ticket swept the city
and county on the color line inaugurated
by the LEDGER and defeated white and
black Radicalism by over four thousand
majority. This is the anniversary of the
famous victory but alasl there were no
"hoodoo picnics in those days.
The Appeal says: Josh Billings is
coming to Memphis" Now is the time
for the Memphis shooting clubs to distin-
guish themselves, and instead Of mur.
deripg poor little pigeons, slaughter this
man Billings at thirty yards rise, one
hundred yards boundary, and thereby
make the civilized world their debtors.
During the thunder storm yesterday
lightning struck the machine shops Of
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad,
giving several Of the workmen severe
shocks and scattering them in every
direction. A street car driver out in
front of the shops was severely shocked,
and had his arm and side paralyzed for
some time.
A w~all.nnetad ootton man osso,4, tbot