Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-05
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ell will be held tomorrow.
The two ChancerY, First Circuit and
County Quarterly Courts are in session
daily.
Everybody is eating shell oysters once
again and paying for them at the rate Of
fifty cents per dozen.
The County Court has appointed A.
L. Wright as Constable of the Seventh
District, to fill a vacancy.
Our hunters are engaging in squirrel
killing in Arkansas aud in the Tennes-
see and Mississippi bottoms.
The first barrel Of the new molasses
crop has been received by Brodie, Nc.
Intyre & Co., Of Front street.
Our West Tennessee exchanges say
the mast in the bottom lands is abundant,
which is good news for hogs.
You that have coal to shed prepare to
shed it now, or else the thief Of the
period will save you the trouble.
King Cotton is beginning to show bis
power in business circles, which present
a lively appearance all over town.
The last belle has come back from the
springs, she having successfully wealth.
cred the close Of the watering season.
1t may interest the literary belle oil
Memphis to know that pull-back skirts
we're in use in the fourteenth century.
Several drug stores are out Of q%uinint
in consequence of the haayy demand
made upon them by those having chills
Since the cool spell commenced there
has been a visible increase of applica
tons for nightly lodgings at the station
house.
Suburban leaves and flowers, that havI
withstood many q sentimental phrase
from lovers, have a whitening tendency
at present.
Considerable rivalry exists among
many of the churches of our city as tt
which one will have the best and mos
operate choir.
Several sporting Memphians have lef
for Nashville to attend the races Of tn
Blood Horse Association which are pre-
crossing near that city.
A considerable amount Of petty thiev
ing is being practiced throughout TIL
city. The Presidents Island work.houst
is the place for such Migrants.
The Recorders Court failed to furnish
an item Of interest to our reporter to
day, o did the courts of record develop
anything Of a startling nature.
The law library at the COURTEOUS
contains 1886 volumes. 1t is a very use
full and convenient institution for judge
and lawyers who are seeking authorities
A number of marriages made il
heaven will be consummated here within
the next month; at least, such is til
society talk among the beaux an,
bellies.
A Colorado editor says, sententiously
JEFF Davis appears like a man fror
whom little harm may be feared, whar
ever slumbering fires are i%nclosed in hi
brain"
This time last year Memphis an.
Shelby county we're indulging in a car
vaSs to elect a Governor, Congressma.
and a lot Of State Senators and Repre-
sentatives.
The ordinary necessities Of life-bein
fed and clothed-will keep some kind
business active in Memphis in spite G
dull tines. One must keep on goo
terms with the market man, clothier an
coal dealer.
Fire Chief McFaddeD, of our city, be
been elected n of the vice president
at the third annual convention Of fir
engineers and chiefs, now in session i
New York city.
Nc. R. r. Catron, city editor of tt
Avalanche, left today on a trip to hi
old home in Missouri. Rumor has
that when be returns he will bring som,
body with him.
The Masonic Temple stakeholder
have elected q new set Of officers, as 70
lows: President, D. P. MADDEN; Dire,
tory, S. Il. Brooks, A. B. Treadwell, T
G. Craig, H. j. Lynn.
Next Monday, the 18th, will be the al
hiversary Of the discovery of Americi
which event took place three hundre
and eighty-;hree years ago. The Italia
residents OF our city will duly celebrat
the great historical anniversary.
In the United States District Court q
Baltimore it has been decided thu
rent owing by a bankrupt is a p~refsrre
claim, and a distress warrant, issue
after the marshal came into possessio
of the bankrupt's effects, was allowed.
The longest river in the world is th
Nile, which is $500 miles long. II
Mississippi, with its afluence, the Mi
souri,, is $500 miles, and the Amaze
400 miles, but the latter a thousan
miles from its mouth, is twenty miles i
width.
Colonel James Elder has returne