Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-27
LEDGER LINES.
The circus is coming.

Inc anAtomlcal pull-Dack SKIRT IS
going out of fashion in Memphis.
! The bayou Gayoso has ceased to be a
navigable stream and has gone dry.
Colonel Jacob Frolicb, jr., Of the
White County (Searcy) Record, is in The
city.
Mr.. o. H. P. Piper is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever at bis residence, on Vance
street.
Another bale of cotton from Missis:
sippi, was received yesterday, this time
by Estes, Fizer & Co,
The Second Chancery Court, Judge
Stockton presiding, stands adjourned
until Monday next.
Lyde Bolton (nig. was committed in
default of $4,000 bail by the Recorder
this morning on the charge of larceny.
The fund collected by the Casino Club
committee being exhausted, the popular
Court Square concerts have been absn-
doned.
The French picnic for the benefit of
the sufferers by foods in France comes
off on the 9Th Of September, at James
Park.
The fremen have a tradition that one
fire always brings two others on success
sive nights, three fires being the curious
number.
Mr.. VIM. M. Harrington has been
elected President of the Peoples Insu-
rance Company, vice W. B. Greenlaw,
deceased.
Many citizens believe that Barney
Hughes shipped those two first bales East
in a sleeping coach. He assures us that
such is not the fact.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the
Kansas City fair. He was invited by
both Democrats and Radicals.
Absentees are returning much earlier
to the city this season than heretofore.
Whether they found other places too
cold or too expensive we are unable to
state.
The social evil crusades have ceased
for the present by agreement of counsel,
who, after a dozen trials, have exhausted
the subject, and they do not like to re-
peat at that bar.
In the next County Court to be con.
vened on the first Monday Of next month
the other half of the magistrates of the
county will assemble in accordance with
the late act of the Legislature.
In another column we give some infor-
nation to merchants and brokers ON the
police and fire scrip question that we
defy any person 70 successfully contra
dicted. 1t may be regarded as official.
Migrants can get plenty. of work in
the country at present, the cotton pick.
ing season having about commenced.
Many Of the vags. can swear like that
fellow in ShakSpeare-"by these pickers
and stealers."
The LEDGER will be enlarged on the
LIST of September, and will contain the
business statement of the commercial
year. Send in your advertisements N
time, as a very large edition Of the
paper will be issued.
A stalk of cotton on exhibition at the
Cotton Exchange, has on it 2O5 bolls and
shielded blooms. 1t came from the plan
tation Of John W. Jones, Auburn
Landing, Arkansas river, and was
brought here by the steamer Legal Ten
der.
The black boards of the Cotton Elk
change show the cotton receipts for the
week to be 1913 bales; for the season,
32l, 447; shipments for the week, 35I;
for the season, 1926, O9S; stock on hand,
268O; sales for the week, 45O bales, taken
nv sninners
One hundred and sixteen citizens owe
just $500,6l2 45 in back taxes to the
city. All the above owe wei $1,000, as
appears in the list being prepared at the
Mayors Office, and the amounts range
from $1,000 to 5 1000. No wonder the
city is in bad financial condition.
One Of those incendiary fires broke
out at one o'clock last night al
Aitzfeld's store, on Second street, Jeffer
son block. The fire was extinguished
before any damage could be done. Thi:
is the fifth or sixth time this year thai
a fire has occurred in that neighbor
hood.
That fine horse Of the No. rs which
got scerched on Georgia street at the
wood works FIRE on Wednesday night
presents a woeful appearance, the hair,
-