Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-06
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Memphis Theater opens on next Mon
day night with Sheridan and Mack's
Combination troupe as the melo.dram-
attic attraction.
Some misereant entered the hot and
green-house on Second street near Beal
last night and wantonly destroyed a lot
of rare flowers and plants.
The Poor-H House investigation in an
other column presents cheerful reading,
for which the public can thank the en-
terprise of the independent LEDGER.
A few drunken and d~isorderly men
and women occupied apartments at the
station-house yesterday morning, they
having been pulled in" during the
night.
At the County Poor-House there are
lis inmates, one-third Of whom are fe.
males and one-third Of the negro race.
This includes twenty-five insane of both
sexes.
The Board of Directors of the
Charleston railroad will meet to-day to
confer with the General Council com
mittee, on the subject Of the Washington
street railway track to the landing.
There was a heavy rain storm at Raj
eigh yesterday afternoon. The rains ex-
tended to within three miles north Of
this city. A little rain down this way
would not be Objectionable in these hot
and dusty times.
Old John Robinson's circus will camp
on the bluffs in November next. Mr..
Sam II. Joseph, his avant courier, is in
the city making arrangements for the
coming of the big show. See notice in
another column.
Captain Bob Wise, of the steamer
James D. Parker, has invited the La
dies Centennial Commissioners to use
his boat, free of charge, for a Centen-
NAL excursion on or about the 10Th Of
October. This is a generous offer, and
will 10 doubt be accepted.
The ordinance with reference to hang.
ing doors of theaters, churches, halls,
assemblies, ETC., so that they will open
outward, is not being carried out. The
time for so doing expires on the lst of
October, and after that day the authori-
ties will enforce the ordinance by prose-
cutions.
Two young negroes arrested for steal
ing we're whipped at the station-house
to-day by Uncle Mitch the black cook,
at the request Of the boys parents, who
obtained an order for their release on
these terms. Mitch" gave each OF the
chaps about forty lashes in the rear with
a leather strap.
Yesterday the German Benevolent As.
ISOLATION installed the officers elect as
follows: John A. Roush, President;
Martin Bilger, Vice President; Charles
Decker, Cashier; R. Stotz, Secretary;
Joseph Emerich, marshal. The asso-
citation has received one hundred new
regalias of very elegant design.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the total deaths to have been 30;
whites, 20; blacks, 10. The Secretary
Of the Board of Health says in his re.
port that "the increase in malarious
fevers during the past week is no doubt
attributable to the intense solar heat and
the rapid fall Of the river"
Co. A, Irish Volunteers, will give a
promenade concert and hop at the Ex-
position building on Wednesday week,
the 18th inst. The Volunteers will be
assisted by the Chickasaw Guards. The
Guards and the Volunteers are the crack
military companies of Memphis, and are
composed Of our enterprising young
men. ~
DIR. Clark, who became insane some
weeks since, was visited by our commits
missioner at the County Poor-House
yesterday. Our man found the doctor
very wild on the subject of religion, but
be recognized our representative as a
friend and a LEDGER correspondent, We
understand that the Doctor will be taken
to Nashville to-day by Sheriff Anderson.
A pointer and hound on Vance street,
having been trained to ebey the calls
made on q whistle, break over the fence
and follow the police captain or SER
geant all over town nightly, whenever
they hear these officials whistling up
their patrolmen. The dogs take the
police officials for bird and fox hunters,
but the Quadrupeds do not know that the
police only hunt human birds Of prey
and human foxes.
Last evening a negro named Walter
Brinkley, who had been suffering from
consumption, dropped dead as he was
sitting in a chair, near the corner Of
Lauderdale and Jefferson streets, A
sudden attack of hemorrhage came on,
and he died almost instantly. The cor.
oner held an inquest on the body Of the
deceased last night, and the jury re-
turned a verdict in accordance with the
above facts.
The chain.gang and other prisoners,
both men and women, at the station.
house are needing clothing badly; in
deed, several of both sexes are almost
in a state Of nudity. The charitable
people of the city could relieve their
wants in this respect by sending to the
station-house any old cast.of clothing
hat may be convenient. The city can
make no provision for furnishing cloth
ing 10 thls unfortunate class oil persons.
Mr.. Bronson Bayliss returned to the
city on Saturday after a four months
s%ojourn in Europe. He represented
Memphis at the Geographical Congress
at Paris, France, and at the Exposition,
where he secured space for the exhibi.
ton of Memphis products, ETC., but by
some mistake or mismanagement the
only things Memphis exhibited were
samples Of cotton sent to Paris last year
and a framed map of our city. The
cotton samples, cotton seed oil, silver
ore, etc., which we're to have been ex.
hlbited at the Exposition, never reached
Paris in time, all Of which was exceed.
ingly Notifying to our representatives,
who spent their own money in the inte-
rest Of the Bluff City and who did their
utmost to place the Memphis cotton
market in a most favorable light before