Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-15
LEDGER LINES.

S'u oo'opiiohSu bOUdccO mouse OF
Edmonds, Pettigrew 3 Co., has removed
to their old stand, 3O6 Front street.
Wandering Memphians are returning
daily to the bluffs, and they all repeat
the refrain; There's no place like
home q % GA& VI
Sheridan and Mack Novelty Troupe
matinee at t~hetheater to-day. Tonight
there will be a change in the speciality
business. 0~NwHlIaBg
The animal show and the circus left
last night. Hundreds Of boys followed
the elephants to the Louisville depot to
see them. get on board the train.
A well known newspaper man had to
go out today aAd work on the road at the
crossing on the west side of Brett's, he
being summoned so to do by overseer
Wright.
In the towns and villages adjacent TO
this city in this and other counties base
ballseemS to rage. The denizens of these
villages should recollect the words ofone
Of Shakspeare's heroes Base is the
slave that plays" ~
Sensational news from the rural dis.
tricts announces the annual appear.
ance of the boll-worm. This time the
eollhend made its appearance near Col
lierville. 1t is like the first bale-you
always hear from it in due time.
Davy Philip, an Appeal correspondent.
has been hobnobbing with Grant at Long
Branch, the summer capitol of the Ma
ton. Grant threatened to leave the
Branch if Philip didn't, but Philip left in
advance, he becoming disghsted with the
imperial style Of our would-be autocrat.
At nine o'clock last night a fire broke
out in some shanties adjoining Butt
sawmill, near the gas works, North
Memphis. The buildings we're DESTROYED,
but the lumber piles and sawmill were
successfully protected by the Gremen.
The fire was clearly the work Of an in
%cendiary.
To-day the Sheriff removed all the Gu.
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riosities from the circus side-show, which
had been attached for debt. The Sheriff
now has Beecher, Tilton, Charley Ross
| and his abductors, the Sleeping Beauty
md other noted persons done 7p l~ife.size
in wax, ard all these will probably be
sold ere long tothe highest bidder at
ton.
The neighboring village Of Browns.
vile will hear the lions and tigers roar
to-day. 1t will also have the privilege
Of laughing at the stale jokes Of the
clowns, and its juveniles will no doubt
enjoy the delightful emotion created in
the human breast when one slips under
the canvas and sees the circus for moth,
ing.
In yesterdays LEDGER appeared a no.
tice from the Field and Stream, a sport
ing journal, to the effect that the bird
close" season expires to-day, the 18th
inst. Our sporting cotemporary was in
error; the close" season for quail and
other birds does not expire until the LIST
Of October, after which the Strengthening
business will be in order.
A we'll known lawyer having lost some
Eve valuable chickens and discovering
them in a n%eighbor's lot, swore out that
great habeas corpus writ for all animals
except nan replevin-and recovered.
his property. Plato said that mar was
.bu I animal without feathers and Darwin
has asserted the similtude Of all animals,
mar included. If this be so, then the
habea corpus act as we'll as the replevin
act would apply, especially so when the
chickens were illegally restrained Of
their liberty. s''
The circus. side-show, containing .
number of curi0sities and monstrosities
Of nature, remains attached to the bluffs,
notwithstanding the departure Of circus
aud menagerie. The side.show, with its
dwarfs, fat women snakes, bower Of
beauty strongest man in the world,
learned hog, stuffed figures, and other
potent attractions, have been attached
by the original proprietors Of the show
on a claim for the purchase money
amounting to several thousand dollars.
The show may be sold out here, and
then the enterprising citizen can have
an opportunity to purchase any or oil
of the above attractions.
The k~oor-honse commissioners, JUS
tees Brooks, Herring and Elliott, who
went out to investigate did not reinstate
Dir. Beatty, but appointed Mr.. Williford,
who is drug clerk, as temporary super
intendent, and appointed a Mr.. Sparks
as assistant. 1t would have been much
better had they appointed DR.. Duncan,
the physician in charge, as supelintend-
ent until the County Court acted in the
matter, but the commissioners zone of
hom-Chairman. reOksTacquitted DR..
Beatty in the columns Of the Appeal be-