Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-08

yesterday AFTERNOON the thermometer
indicated 81 in the shade; rather high
toned weather for September.
Railroad passengers arriving in the
city complain Of the suffocating dust
along the different railroad lines.
Petty larceuies are becoming frequent
again throughout the city. The work is
principally done by negro thieves and
Migrants.
Postmaster General Jewell has abol-
ished pie and fruit stands in the vesti.
bules Of postofices, and proclaims them
nuisances.
The first bale of cotton from Marshall
county, Miss, was received to-day by
MessrS. Gage & Fisher, from Levy & Co.,
Of Holly Springs.
The municipal fathers will set around
the Council Board this afternoon for the
purpose Of winding up unfinished
monthly business.
Tomorrow the theater box.ofice will
open for the sale of seats for the Sheri.
dan and Mack Novelty Troupe engage.
ment next week.
To-day is feast celebrated through
out the world by the Catholics. 1t is in
commemoration of the Nativity of Mary
the Mother Of Jesus.
The Quarterly County Court will meet
in October next, when the Poor-house
matter will be investigated by a full
bench of magistrates.
The Little Rock Gazette, of the 7th
instant, says. angelo and John Marie
will soon open a parlor, sitting and read
ing room in the Metropolitan Hotel.
Esquire Winters has not as yet de-
cided the Washington street social evil
cases which were submitted to him in
briefs by the attorneys over a week ago.
Wanderers are still receiving the con.
CALCULATIONS of their friends on their
improved appearance, but the wanderers
complain Of the hot weather we are hay.
ing just now.
In South Memphis there is a strange
animal that displays a curious freak Of
nature. 1t is a nanny goat that has a
horn six inches long growing out of the
backbone midway between the head and
tail.
Whenever any investigating commit
tee is organized it would be well to send
a LEDGER commissioner along as the
historian of the investigation, as then
the public will learn what has been going
on behind the whitewashed screen.
The following inscription over the
grave of Shakespeare is a warning to
grsve-diggers:
Good friend, for Jesus sake forbeare
To digg he dust enclosed heare.
Blest be y man y spares thes stones,
And curst be he y moves my bones"
During the past and present months
nearly two-thirds of the bills filed in the
Chancery Courts we're divorce cases.
Attorneys practicing in these courts dur
ing the heated term will have to study
Bishop and Robertson's text books on
divorce.
The board Of directors of the Charles.
ton railroad and the General Council
committee on railroads had a meeting
yesterday with reference to the proposed
railway down Washington street to the
landing. 1t is rumored that an agree.
ment had been arrived at and that the
committee will report ~favorably.
In our reports as to the Poor-house
Investigation it was stated that Esquire
Heron was the brother-inIaw Of Super
intendent Beatty. This was the opinion
of many magistrates from whom our rep
resentatlve received the information.
Esquire Heron is only the friend of the
superintendent, but no relation,
Our reporter heard yesterday of a
wealthy West Tennesseean who travelled
to New York on business, remained there
a week, and only carried as baggage a
paper bundle in which was a pair of
socks. he had on a colored linen shirt
and a patent steel flexible collar, which
latter could be washed white every morn.
ing. When he returned he had on the
same shirt and collar, and had the origi.
nal pair of socks in his paper bundle.
The Second Chancery Court, Judge
Stockton, is in session to-day. The
next terms of the First and Second
Chancery Courts will commence on the
first Monday in October next. The
First and Second Circuit Courts and the
Criminal Court will commence the next
terms on the 10th inst. The next term
of the Supreme Court will begin on the
fourth Monday Of September, but the
return day is the second Monday in
September. The Probate Court is in
session daily hearing habeas corpus
cases.
The autumnal equinox will commence
on the I'D instant. The equinoctial
points are the two points wherein the
celestial equator and ecliptic intersect
each other. The one being in the first