Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-07
LEDGER LIES.


General Council meeting tomorrow
afternoon.
Get your printing done at the LEDGER
steam job Office.
The burglary business has been I'M
usually inactive for several weeks.
Mr.. a.. ]. Hendren has been elected
Lord Mayor Of Brownsville, Haywood
county.
Watermelons and cantaloupes are be-
ginning to get scarce as the season is
drawing to q close. w GM4
The French Society picnic at James
Park last evening was a grand success
both socially and financially.
About half an acre of the bank OF
landing in North Memphis tumbled into
the river yesterday afternoon.
New oranges have appeared in green
garments at the fruit stands. In a few
weeks the orange tint will appear
Merchants are head over heels in bus.
mess receiving and arranging their
stocks for the fall and winter trade.
It is a penal offense in Virginia 'tc
shoot or kin a mocking-bird." This
should also be the law in Tennessee.
The big Hopsield sandbar is stretch,
ing out towards our bluff, and will soor
extend nearly half way across the river.
Very hot and very dusty and very dull
from a news furnishing standpoint. Both
the planters and the city folks neeC
rain.
The English courts have decided tina.
a man must believe in the devil to par
take Of the sacraments in the Established
Church.
Tomorrow night week, the 18th inst.
the concert and hop of the Irish Volun
teers will come of at the Exposition
building.
The cold weather up North is empty
ing hotels and watering places, ant
Memphians are returning home to EMO,
800 in the shade.
The Recorder disposed of twenty. Gv,
cases this morning, of which fifteen werr
DRINKS and disorderlies. Nothing o
Importance transpired.
The only Memphians who visit water
ing places now are the milkmen; but tn
brandy and watering places are visitel
by many other citizens.
We received to-day the card Of invita-
ton of the Irish Volunteers to thei
concert and hop which comes off mex
week at the Exposition Building,
Manager Brooks is finishing up hi
theater in a rapid manner, making
ready for the opening by the Sherida
and Mack Novelty Combination on mex
Monday night.
Mr.. Amos Woodruff and Mr.. j.
Freeman, formerly of our city, have b,
come l%essees of the Missouri peniter
tiary. The Waddy Thompson party ha
been superseded.
A hydraulic ram is being put dow
and attached to the water.works pipes i
Center alley, back of the Frank building
for the purpose Of working the elevator
in both stores of the building.
On the LIST proximo the building know
as the City Ice House, on Main stree
near Madison, and owned by BOILER
Hnse & Co., is to be torn down and i
its place aafne brick business block wi
be erected.
In another column appears the deaf
notice of the infant son Of j. G. ar
Elizabeth Handwerker. The funeri
will take place at 4 o'clock this afte
noon from the late residence Of the d
ceased, in Chelsea.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, Colonel Wi
Adams, of Vicksburg, and Colonel j. \
/: Heating, Of the Appeal, left yesterda
for Kansas City, No, at which place NJ
Davis is to deliver an agricultural a,
dress in a few days.
Several hundred citizens visited til
bluff yesterday afternoon to witness tn
departure of Captain Lees coast packt
Phil Allin. The Allin steamed up
the point aud then turning came pa
the landing at a sIashing pace.
The VicKsburg Herald of recent dat
says: Much Of the cotton oyerfowe
in the bottom lands remains fresh an
green, and will pan ont better tina
: was recently expected, and the san
may be said of the lori overaowe
i. lands"
Outside of the candidates for Ii
Mayoralty for 1876 but little interest
felt in the matter as yet throughout Il
city. 1t is we'll enough, however, f
: would-be Mayors to come to the front
8 time, or else they might be ignored an
forgotten.
s A Memphis halter looks criticizing.
/ at your tile, a shoemaker at your feet,
clothing man at your figure, a saloc
keeper at your nose; each is desirir
to supply the apparent necessity, pr
vided your pocket contains the necessal
amount of circulating medium.