Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-14
LEDGER LINES.

yesterday capturing floating logs and
chopping them up for fuel.
Twenty arrests we're made by the po-
lice last night, principally on the charges
Of drunk and disOrderly.
The attention Of whom it may con
Germ" is specially called to the Arkansas
levee law in another column.
The Custom-house imbroglio is attract
ing general attention and comment
throughout business circles.
General James R. Chalmers has de-
clined the Democratic Congressional
nomination in North Mississippi.
Send in your advertisements in time
for Mondays LEDGER, which is the only
paper published in the city on that day.
The Casino Club concert in Court
Square last evening attracted a very
large audience of mu~sicloving people.
Ex.G Governor Pinchbeck, Of Louisiana,
was out to day with Bob Church and Ed
Shaw, taking a look at the city from a
buggy.
Judge Trigg, of the United States
Court, will be here on the 18th, Tuesday
next, to hear the Waddy Thompson
habeas corpus case.
Captain West Crawford has been re-
ceiving the congratulation of his friends,
on account of the appearance of an
heir at his house.
Sol Coleman is still driving a good
trade in his five cent cigars. They are
as good an article as can be bought any
where for that price.
Mr.. VIM. S. Moon has returned to the
city after a few weeks sojourn in Mid
die Tennessee. he reports fine crops and
high waters in hat section of country.
Since the business men commenced
paying privilege tax with police and FIRE
warrants that class Of paper has gone
up among the nineties, and is in de-
mand.
The fruit trade was never so brisk iu
this city as it is at present. Numbers of
dealers are at work night and day pack
ing fruit in boxes and shipping it to all
points North.
The French picnic, in aid of the suf-
ferers by the food in the south Of France,
will be given at James Park on Sept. 6.
Gentlemen will be charged only fifty
cents for admission; ladies free.
The soiled dove cases before Esquire
Hall, which were to have been tried this
morning, had to be postponed for hear
ing until Monday next on account of the
illness Of one of the defendants.
Company A, Irish Volunteers, ap.
peared in uniform last night and sere-
naded their commanding officer, Captain
Sullivan. The Volunteers present a SOL
dierly appearance in their gray uniforms.
Shehan and Clark, the roughs who
assaulted and cut with a knife patrol
Manuel a few nights since, we're com.
mitted by Esquire Hall yesterday after
noon in default of $4,000 bonds each.
Pinchbeck, the negro politician from
Louisiana, discoursed to his people at
the Exposition last night. His speech
was conservative in tone and sentiment
and was eagerly listened to by those
present.
Colonel Charley Mclean purchased
and planted e pear tree forty years ago
on his place near this city, and only this
year it bore fruit. This is a longrange
fruit tree, intended to produce cholic in
future generations.
A keeper of a questionable house on
Jefferson street, neal Third, was notified
by the police authorities yesterday to
remove to some other location, as a
female seminary was about to be estab-
lished in that vicinity.
The Memphis cotton markets. attract
ing considerable attention al Paris,
France, where the Exposition, Geograph.
ical Congress and Syndicates Of Trade
have recently been in session, and at
which Memphis delegates were present.
A well-known citizen, in referring to
the General Council proposition to
license questionable establishments and
tax them, remarked that the Aldermen
and Councilmen are nearly all bad gram
marians, and they are especially bad on
"syn-tax."
Cows in Chelsea are suffering from
wolf in the tail" o disease which pre-.
vents them from giving milk, and if un.
attended to will produce death. Esquire
Miller says the cure is to split the lower
portion Of the tail, place salt in the cut
and tie it up.
A street car driver was arrested last
evening on the charge Of drawing a PTS
toll and chasing a fellow mortal out of