Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-09
LEDGER LINES.

Fine table butter 10 Eve pound jars at
Oliver, Finnie q Co.'S.
Strangers and Pilgrims" will be DR..
Walks theme Sunday night.
The County Quarterly Court stands
adjourned until next Monday.
Oliver Doud Byron in Across the Con.
tinept at the thester next Monday.
There should be an opening for young
men-the ladies have had their gala day
on Main street.
The LEDGER is the only journal print.
ed in Memphis on Mondays, a fact that
advertisers will recollect.
Fresh oysters" is the sign that now
swings from many doors, inviting hun
CRY humanity to a feast on the halfshelI.
In another column will be found the
card Of thanks to the FIRE boys from
Chairman Holman, of the County Court,
1T is rumored that the Grand Jury Of
the Criminal Court is investigating the
Superintendent Beatty county Poor
house scandal.
The incendiary with his torch under
took to burn down the Courthouse once
again last night. Somebody is interested
in destrying records.
The statement that the Merchants In
a Company sustained a loss BY
the Courthouse fire is a mistake. The
company had no insurance on the build
ing.
The fire at the courthouse last nigh
adjourned all the courts for several day
until offices and papers can be rear
ranged and the damaged building re
paired.
Several new attractions, among otheri
Miss Abbie Farnsworth and Charles I
Ellis, will make their appearance a
Myers Variety Opera House on mex
Monday evening.
The Southern Catholic fer this week i
crisp, newsy and sparkling. 1t is YER
independent in politics as we'll as eccle
siastical matters, and gives some Of tn,
brethren a lively rasping.
Our pencil singing brother Hop John
son, Of the Appeal, has returned from
the Coahoma county war, having safel.
passed through the campaign known a
the Alcorn.Ames ofice-seeking contest
Quite a. number of drunken men too
up quarters at the station-house las
night. For some hours they howled Wig
orously behind the bars, but the stony
hearted turnkey would not let them GU
to 60 and see the courthouse fire.
The Charleston Railroad Company ha
received permission from Mayor Losgu
to use an engine on Washington stree
for construction train purposes, convey
ing materials, etc. The permission wi
be in force twenty days, and the cor
Struction train will not travel at a create
speed than three miles an hour.
The Supreme Court will not render al
opinion on the constitutionality Of tn
law a~bolishing the Second Circuit an,
Second Chancery Courts for several days
The case was argued before three judge
and the argument made by counsel il
the causes are said to have been tn
most able and brilliant ever delivere
before the Supreme Court Of West Ten
nessee.
The Centennial bale Of cotton, 70
which the Cotton Exchange offers
prize Of one thousand dollars, must b
Of the product of 1875, weigh not les
than 45O pounds and be delivered to tn
committee before the lst of March, 1875
The prize is open to competition fror
all portions Of Tennessee, Mississippi
Arkansas and Alabama trading wit
Memphis.
The surviving members OF the Sevent
Tennessee Cavalry, who INDUCED in
big reunion at Brownsville YESTERDAY
organized into an association and electe
the following officers; Judge James A
Anderson, President; Captain H. I
Livingstone, Vice President; Colon,
W. T. Taylor, Treasurer; Lieutenant r
j. Black, Secretary. The next reunio
will be held at Somerville on the secon
Thursday in September. 1876.