Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-16
LEDGER LINES.
Nothing new in the courts TODAY.

The Mimiques at the theater again TO-
night.
There will be no Exposition this fall,
nor will there be any fall aces
During the present week business has
been brisk throughout the city.
The river is rising again and creep.
ing over the Arkansas sandbar.
The Police and Fire Commissioners
will meet at 81 o'clock tomorrow.
The last arrival from the springs or
watering places will soon be announced.
No war has as yet broken out 10 Mis-.
sissippi. So say Mississippians who are
in town.
The drill, promenade concert and hop
Of the Irish Volunteers at the Exposition
building last night was largely attended.
At the station-house can be found q
false set of teeth in rubber, which were
found by officer Boyd, on Union street,
last night.
People can get married at a cheap
rate in Memphis. The license costs
So so and the parson and magistrate are
willing to take any fee ranging from
fifty cents up to FIVE hundred dollars.
The Chief of Police will enforce the
law compelling drivers of vehicles to
pass to the right of all other vehicles
when meeting, the violation Of this nee.
esssry law Of the road in a city often
causing fatal collisions.
The late French picnic realized three
hundred dollars, for which the French
Society extend their thanks to the people
Of Memphis. The money will be for
warded at once to France for the benefit
of the sufferers by floods in that historic
land.
A planter, in town a few days ago
was purchasing some agricultural i'm
plements, but unfortunately he saw the
words Rockford, ILL.,, printed thereon
he refused to perfect the purchase, al
Winnebago county Grand Army of The
Republic implements did not suit biz
land.
The Turpin case recalls TO our mine
the definition of a b~lood-money seekei
or " i%nformer," as given by Curran, thu
celebrated Irish advocate and orator
"a fellow who lies buried as a man IN
til he is dug up as a witness; one WIT
for reward lies in legal wait for human
life; a Judas Iscariot Of modern juris
prudence"
The ordinance providing that in al
churches, theaters, public halls, ETC., tn,
doors shall be hung so as to swing out
wardly, has not been complied with b,
any of the churches Of the city so far
The time for SO. doing without a penalt,
attaching expires on the lst of October
alter which time the ordinance will b,
strictly enforced in every instanc,
against all violators Of the necessar,
and life-protecting ordinance.
Two Italians who we're following il
the wake Of the circus passed over tire,
hundred dollars in counterfeit ten dolla
bills on a number of saloon keeper
residing on Beal and adjacent streets
The showers of the queer" purchased
few drinks and cigars and received tn
change. The bills we're generally Of
the National Banks of Lockport an,
Poughkepsie, New York, and FRS
National Bank of Philadelphia. TIL
bills we're passed on Monday after bank
ing hours, and the scsmps immediatel.
fed from the city.
Our reporter visited the county jai
yesterday, and from the j%ailer's in
g%eniously constructed prison gaug
found the number of prisoners c%onine,
in the jail to be las, Of whom there ar
thirty-seven white males, four whit
females, eighty.seven black males an,
seventeen black females. A wire screer
is being put up in front of the barre
grating inside the Jail, through whic.
the prisoners and their friends are pei
mitted to hold converse, but the screeI
prevents the visitors from passing il
pistols, files, saws or money to the prit
oners, a thing which has been done here
tofore. The prisoners are disguised wit
the new improvement.