Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-30
LEDGER LINES.

So far there has been only one fire
within the corporation line during the
present month.
Quite a number Of citizens secured
pictures Of the "Newsboys at Head
quarters taken by Ogden.
An aged Memphian says ~politeness is
the mother Of peace, and often keeps
familiarity and impudence from being
kicked to death.
A locomotive snorted and pulled down
Washington street to Main yesterday.
It pushed a train of platform cars loaded
with rock and gravel.
The newsboys injunction case of
Bethel VS.. Lewis will be heard before
Judge Morgan Of the First Chancery
Court on Tuesday next.
Purchase your tickets for the dramatic
performance to be given in aid of the
Texas sufferers at the theater next Mon
day and Tuesday nights.
The week after next several excursion
trains will reach the city over the differ
ent roads. Crowds of people will take
advantage of the cheap fare.
~Salsbury's Troubadours closed their
engagement at the theater last night,
and left for jackson, Tenn, where. the
Supreme Court is at present in session.
This is the Jewish New Years day,
and consequently quite a number Of bus
mess houses will be closed, so that the
proprietors can celebrate the above
event.
Peter Branch, who killed frank Null
Inns, mate of the steamer Illinois, some
time since, arrived here from Vicksburg,
Miss, yesterday in charge of a special
officer.
The questions, Wilt thou take this
buffer for thy husband2" and wilt thou
take this. bluffess for thy wife2" will be
answered afirmatively by several bellies
and beaux ere long.
In the suburbs the season for busting
carpets and cleaning out sooty stove
pipes and hues has arrived, and is being
celebrated with vigor in one neighbor-
hood to the great annoyance Of another.
On the I'd Of October, 1850, Major
Andre was hung as a spy by General
George Washington, on account of the
treason Of Benedict Arnold. AS the
Tr~oubadours would say-"He took him
in"
Many Of the trees around Court
Square are dying on account Of the hack
, stand being in that immediate vicinity.
In a year or two not q shade.tree will be
found around the square. Is not this az
. act of vandalismP
y "0h, these widowers," said one of our
wittiest charmers a few evenings since,
are perfectly irresistible. l advise all
timid young gentlemen to become wild
overs before attempting matrimony.'
Who can beat that2
\ Tomorrow the close game season
ends, and already hunters are whistline
up their dogs and cleaning up their shot
guns with a view to raid after quails, etc.
3 which are numerous in the country
surrounding the city.
A gentleman from Grenada informs
our reporter that an immense amount o
chills and fevers prevails in the country
o both among the whites and blacks. Or
I numbers of plantations not one.fourth o
the working hands are able to 60 out tt
= pick cotton.
The Illinois has chauged her leaving
days from Fridays to Thursdays. She
will arrive Wednesday and leave Thurs
day evening for Vicksburg and the bends
y and makes direct connection with th'
packets for New Orleans and Yazoo anG
/ Tallahatchie rivers. q
: There viii be several new shell oyste'
sslosns opened in this city this season
One gentleman has made arrangement
4 to receive the celebrated Lynnhaver
bay and York river bivalves by the cal
load from Norfolk. There will be quite
a revolution in the oyster business her,
this season.
" Yesterday was Michaelmas day, OF
l which the tensntry Of England usually
pay rent to their landlords, and by way
. of making him %lenient tender him
stubbled goose, called the MichaelmaI
goose, which is eaten for dinner. Ii
this land no such ridiculous and slavisf
custom prevails.
Several citizens, after preparing
, stained glass the night before, got W
early yesterday morning to witness thu
eclipse of the sun, but the most enthusi
astic astronomer failed to discover am
shade or blemish on the face Of tina
luminary; nor could they see the orbeC
moon pass across the suns disc.
. But one case came before the Re
I corder this morning, as only one arres
had been made in the city by the polio
during the preceding t%wenty-four hours
The arrested man was drunk, but he wa
= discharged by the Recorder because h