Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-28
LEDGER LINES.

The mammoth circus and menagsrit
will be here on the 18th Of next month
John Forrest (nig.) was committed by
the Recorder this morning. on the charge
of larceny and house breaking.
The steamers charged through the
town at two o'clock this morning in
search of a fire, but the alarm was false,
These cool nights are perfectly de.
lightful for sleeping, we're it not for the
aggressive mosquitoes hat sing loud and
long around your couch.
This and next month are known as
meteor months, as hardly a night passes
but that you can see the fiery meteors
pass athwart the starry heavens.
We are in RECEIPT Of an invitation to
attend the Woodruff County ARK Agri.
cultural and Mechanical Association
meeting, which opens October 18th.
Major Freeman, Clerk of the Supreme
Court, is in the city to-day. The next
term of the Supreme Court will com
mence on the fourth Monday Of Septem-
Der next.
In the railroad column will be found
the new schedule of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. The changes made
in train time are important to the travel.
ing public.
1t is estimated that an active billiard
player walks two miles around a billiard
table every hour he plays, and no instru-
ment brings SO many muscles into play
as the cue.
Many are now bordering over the
good times we will have this fall and
winter, when money and credit will re.
ioice together, and the hungry business
and empty purse owner will weep with
unfeigned joy.
The First Circuit Court will open on
the third Monday in September. All
suits brought to the next term must have
writs issued before the 10Th of Septem-
Der, or five days before the 10th, the
commencement day of the term.
The Second Presbyterian church, cor.
ner of Beal and Main streets, is closed
temporarily while undergoing repairs.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Boggs breaches at the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church on
Court street.
The General Council will meet on
next Wednesday afternoon to inter
change compliments and discuss the
merits and chances of the ten candi-
dates for the Office of Mayor, who squat
around the semi-circle of tables in both
boards.
The question, who will be our next
Mayor is being answered mentally in
favor of themselves by at least twenty
aspirants for the Office. Many men
aspire to the responsible position, when
they are in fact not fit to be Mayors
clerk.
Attacks Of bilious fever and chills are
quite common in the city at present, but
no sickness of a serious character pre-
walls. 1t is supposed that the waters
left in the bottoms by the late rise will
create a considerable amount Of sickness
this fall.
Wednesday next will be the first of
the month, and the bill collectors a
take their solemn rounds, asking for
money and promising to call again at
definite or indefinite time, as this
is known as fly season, when to have
money makes you a grand exception to
the general rule.
Some days since a negro passenger on
a Memphis steamboat took a seat at the
cabin table in the midst of the white
trash. In a few minutes he discovered
that he had forgotten something on the
boiler deck, and that "he didn't want no
dinner nohowI'
Last night the residence of DR.. Bas-
kerville, at Horn Lake Depot, Miss,
twelve miles south of this city, was
burglarized by negroes, who carried off
the clothing, pistol, watch and chain Of
the Doctor. Another residence adjacent
was also entered and plundered by the
robbers,
The dog muzzling ordinance, which
passed the General Council, was never
promulgated, and now the dog days have
passed and no especial necessity exists
for enforcing the ordinance. The killing
Of about ten thousand ours of low degree
would be most beneficial to the city, but
our city authorities are endeavoriug to
make a big bonanza out Of the dog tax.
News was received here late yesterday
afternoon that James A. McNeal, an ex-
Memphian and planter, residing eighteen
miles below the city on the river, was
shot and killed bv some unknown assas-