Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-17
LEDGER LINES.

meet this forenoon. :
Sheridan and Mack novelty troupe
matinee at the theater tomorrow.
The Jefferson Street Varieties will
open on the 18th, tomorrow night week.
News-hunting throughout the city at
present is laborious work that pans out
nothing.
To-day the Police Commissioners ap-
pointed Fred Rasselmeyer a member Of
the police patrol force.
Two fair Memphians married yester-
day, and other bellies are spoken Of as
about to abandon single b~lessedness.
There will be an %annular eclipse Of the
sun on the 10Th inst, which will be visi-
BILE hereabouts if you rise early enough.
The address of Mayor League deliv-
cred at the French pinto has been pub
lished in circular form for distribution.
The heavy and continuous rains last
night and to-day indicate the approach
OF the autumnal equinox OF the 23d in
slant.
The old Bohlen & Huse ice house on
Main street, near Madison, is being torn
down to give place to q iaer business
structure.
The habeas corpus case of the boy
Turpin will be heard before Judge Hal
sey of the Second Circuit Court at 10
o'clock on Monday morning.
The hydraulic ram is being introduced
into stores for ~elevating purposes. Like
his brother of the fields, as an elevAting
and motive power be is immense.
The Shelby County Grange assembled
at the courthouse yesterday and held 8
secret session. From the outside the
services appeared TO be talking and sing
ing.
Mayor League went out to Robesor
street yesterday to Investigate the charge
of inhuman treatment of a c~hain-gan[
prisoner against one Of the guards, Johr
Twomey.
The Board Of Directors Of thel Expo
sition building will hold a meeting OIL
Saturday next, when it will be decided
whether or not there will be an Exposi
ton held here this fall.
But little was done at the Recorder
Court this morning. Moses Gardner
(nig.) charged with larceny and carry
ing deadly weapons, was fined $50 an,
committed in default of $1,000 bonds.
There will be no performance at tn
theater tomorrow night, and next wee.
the theater will be closed. But the wee
after it will open, and the "Trouba
dours" will make their appearance 70
the first time in Memphis.
Negroes are in the habit Of slaughter
ing COWS in the suburbs by striking ther
with an ak in the forehead. They Iii
the valuable animals for the purpose {
selling the hide. AS the fellow in tn
{ play puts it, Lay down the ak. Cattl
can be killed without it."
Justice Winters, to whom by agree
/ ment of counsel was left the decision {
the Washington street social evil case,
pocketed the papers and failed to NEE
the issue squarely. he now says as tn
Criminal Court will open on Monda
next no necessity exists for a decision
John Twomey, chain-gang guart
charged with beating a prisoner name
Riley, was tried before Esquire Winter
, this forenoon and placed under $50
bonds to answer before the Crimini
: Court, on the charge OF committing a
. aggravated case. of assault and battery
The blackboards Of the Cotton Z,
change show the following items of new
Receipts for the week, 575 bales; for IL
season, 856. Shipments for the wee
' lO4O bales; for the season, l44O. Stoc
oh hand, 1882 bales. Sales for tho wee
1900 bales, taken by exporters and spiI
ners.
Our Ledger Liner was requested G
yesterday to run for the Office of Mayo
/. but he mildly replied that he had not g
that low as yet, and he could not thin
OF abandoning the honorable professiC
Of a journalist in order to entertain Il
City Fathers with vetoes on the bsC
i. salary grab.
1t happened this week on Main stree
and the local poet embalmed it in vers
as follows:
Blowing and smiling she crossed the stree
With a love Of a tied back on;
Amelon rind glided from under her feet
And then her tied-back was gone,
She rose from her seat With a martyred air
r And gathered the things she wore;
She looked like one who was willing TO swea
Is But, ALAS she never swore."
Mayoralty candidates are appeariI
in numbers. Already at least a dozI
wise and otherwise, prominent aud n
prominent citizens are mentioned
connection with the vacant chair of 1877
A few Of the candidates declare their !
tentions to make the race, and each OIL
of them has sufficient vanity to belle
that he alone would make the best May
% and could draw the salary with the gret