Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-01
LEDGER LINES.
The q%uinine trade has been brisk
the past two weeks.


during the past two weeks.
Duprez & Benedicts Miustrels at the
Greenlaw Opera House to night.
Coroner speIman held two inquests
yesterday, and Jet he is not happy. 2
The subscriptions for the. new grain
elevator are being taken up rapidly.
The Jewish New Year celebration is
over; next comes the Christians New
Year.
It is not as yet definitely settled
whether or not an Exposition win be
held in this city this fall.
The hunters can start out and slaugh-
ter quails and other game birds to-day
without being prosecuted by law.
In the First Chancery Court Addie
Boice has fled a bill for divorce against
A. B. Boice on the grounds of desertiOn,
etc.
Deacon Alfred Todhunter. OF the Epis.
copal Church, was raised to the priest
hood at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday
by Bishop Pierce, Of Arkansas.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis aud Colonel j.. NJ.
Heating, OF the Appeal, returned to the
city yesterday from the Northwest, where
they have been spending a very pleasant
time for some weeks.
Tomorrow morning Judge Flippin Of
the Criminal Court will deliver an opin-
ION on the right aud authority of magis-
trates to commit Migrants to the county
work-house for non.payment of fines,
etc.
Chairman c. H. Brooks, of the Poor
house Commissioners, purchases all the
supplies groceries and provisionsl for
the Poor-hoase where he pleases, and
at what price he p%lesses. A big bonanza
for somebody.
The black boards Of the Cotton Ex-
change show the following figures: Re-
ceipts for the week, 1890 bales; for the
season, 6028; shipments for the week,
27O3; for the season, 5475; stock on
hand, 1925; sales for the week, 1900,
principally taken by exporters.
On next Monday week the Memphis
Theater will open for the regular season
and on hat occasion Manager Brooks
will run cheap excursion trains over the
Mississippi and Tennessee and the Lou
%isville roads and bring into our city sew
eral thousands Of our couRtry cousins.
George Cox, a member of the No. 4
steam Fire Engine Company, on Main
street, fell dead on Front street yester.
day from an attack of heart disease. He
will be buried by the Fire Relief Associ-
alton this afternoon, OF which associa-
ton he was a member in good standing.
This morning in the Criminal Court
Thomas Gibson (negro), who has been
on trial on the charge Of murder, was
acquitted by the jury. Bill Davis
(uegro) was placed on tiial on iudict-
ment for the murder of John Goss,
which event took place on the 10Th OF
September last near the Charleston
depot, the prisoner stabbing Goss to
death.
The majority of the divorces fled in
our courts are filed in forms pauperis,
and the reason is that they are gener.
ally filed by women, and their rights Of
property are not well protected in this
State. The men control their X and
their wives property, and the women
have to appear in court as paupers when
they desire a divorce, although in fact
they may have a considerable amount OF
property but not in their possession.
Our legal reporter offers this explana-
ton Of the so-called mystery.
We publish to-day an article on Poor.
house affairs which contains several
good suggestions, but we do not indorse
the idea that the present management
under Esquire Brooks, Chairman of the
The Poor.house Commissioners, is a good
one. 1t has proven itself utterly worth.
less and incompetent to run Poor.house
affairs, and it should be changed by the
County Court, which meets on Monday
next. On Monday next we will review
Chairman Brooks famous pamphlet,
which has been scattered throughout the
city.