Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-02
LEDGER LINES.
The matrimonial market was not very
brisk last week.

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General Council meeting on next
Wednesday afternoon.
You al purchase watermelons now at
any price from FIVE cents up.
1t is about sink or swim with the
planters in the Mississippi bottom lands.
Mor.uary report for the past week:
total deaths, 29-whites, IA; blacks, Is.
Yesterday thirty-two prisoners, includ
ing eight women, were inmates of the
station-house.
The different churches were well at
tended yesterday and last night, thanks
to the cool weather.
The dirty condition of the street cars,
both inside and out, has become a sub
ject of general comment.
The first bale of Shelby county cot
ton will soon startle cotton circles by
putting in an appearance.
Tomorrow evening Arnold's band will
give a concert in Court Square under the
auspices Of the German Casino Club.
As far as can be learned, no bank or
person in Memphis has been effected by
the failure of Duncan, Sherman & Co.
The reports of the various Boards Of
Health throughout the South for the past
month indicate a heavy mortality among
| children.
Sheriff Anderson leaves for Nashville
today with a batch of nine %convicts,
whose terms of service in the aggregate
amount to 493 years.
A coal fire burned brightly and cheer
fully at the station-house last evening,
owing to the sudden sinking Of the mer-
curry in the thermometer.
The next political sensation will be
the appointment of an United States
Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of Andrew Johnson.
W. S. Rogers is delivering the Illus
trated Family Bible to subscribers. The
work is a 6ne specimen of typographical
art and is invaluable to a household.
Bartlett wants a new jail, and the
Grand Jury of the Bartlett Circuit
Court want it as well as an insane asy.
lum adjoining the county poor house.
General Meyers, old Prob" should
not be held responsible for the weather,
although he continues to predict cloudy
and rains daily for this latitude or area.
Many gentlemen dotted their busters
and donned their overcoats on yesterday
which was an October day in every sense
of the term, but to-day is one stolen
from November,
The Avalanche keeps an Arsene
Houssaye to do up its Sunday column Of
society news. Should the real Houssaye
see many of the personal paragraphs he
will commit suicide.
The darkies and socialrighters of Mem.
phis have adopted q genealogical reform
by changing the name blackberry pies
buildings, ETC., to "colored-berry pies
c%olored-berry buildings"
Among the prominent prospective
candidates for the Office of Mayor in
! January next, the name of j. M. Petit
grew, President of the Chamber of Com
merce, is favorably mentioned.
T-day is known in church history as
the Feast of Portiumcula or Our Lady
of Angels. The Feast will be duly cele.
brated to-day by the Franciscan Order
of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
Complaints are made that the mosqui.
toes work ferociously upon the Waddy
Thompson jury nightly, but whether
they are operating in behalf Of the State
or the defendant remains a mystery.
David NJ. Philip, a wen known ex.
newspaper reporter, left yesterday on a
trip North for the benefit of his health.
During his absence he will represent the
Appeal as one Of its correspondents.
Captain Ed r. Jack, of the Ledger es.
Enlistment, left yesterday for Indianap
oils, Indiana, with a view, as it is ru.
mored, to commit the fearful act o.
matrimony, but this may be a canard OF
duck story.
Late on Saturday afternoon a brilliant
rainbow appeared in the Eastern heav
ems, Immediately preceding a shower
A rainbow in the evening is said to be
indicative of clear weather and a cessa
ton of storms.
Tom 0'Sullivan, the liquor importer
on the corner of Second and Washing
ton street, has ordered a Remington
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