Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-11
LEDGER LINES.

Third street.
New buckwheat, Eastern, at Oliver,
Finnie & Co.'s.
The smallpox is prevalent in the
Northern cities. =.
Oliver Doud Byron in Across the Con
tinent at the theater this evening.
The prettiest girl in Memphis attended
Calvary Church yesterday morning.
The Ohio election comes of to-mor-
row. The result is anxiouslY awaited.
The Long Range Rifle Shooting Climb
was out again yesterday making bulls
eyes, c%enters, inners and cutters.
In the Recorders Court to-day, VIM.
Thurston, charged with larceny, was
committed to Jail in default Of $1,000
bail.
The last mosquito is singing his requi.
EN- while he goes on the war path as il
expecting 500 to be gathered to his
fathers.
The time has come when the young
male Memphisn takes an outlook toward
the approaching winter season and re-
solves upon matrimony.
A North Memphis boy swallowed a
nickel a few days since; he believed in
hard money currency. but the doctor be.
lieved in removing the deposits.
Mortuary report for the past week: To
tai deaths, 2%8-whites, III blacks, IL.
This is a considerable mortuary decrease
from the report Of the week previous.
Now that the Friar's Point war is over
the suffering world would, like to know
where hostilities will next break out
among ofice-seeking politicians of both
colors.
Sol Coleman, the cigar man of Mem
phiS, at 200 Main street, invites all the
country visitors to his depot, where they
will receive Rosa Concha cigars free of
charge.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary Of
the discovery Of America by Columbus,
1892, which event will be duly celebrated
tomorrow night by the Italian Society
of this city.
The Memphis Exposition Association
has passed out Of legal existence, and
the premises have been surrendered to
Messrs. R. c. Brinkley and John Over
ton.
The epizootic has made its appear.
ance in Cincinnati and is slowly spread
ing to other cities. Memphis may have
another horse sneezing epidemic this
winter.
Mrs. Looney, whose building was
burned on Lauderdale street yesterday
morning, desires to return her thanks to
the 6remen for the efforts made to q V
her property.
The delightful weather yesterday in
duced many a wicked sinner to 90 to
church. Our religious man ever discov-
cred several newspaper men on their
way to the Christian temples.
An old frame kitchen in rear of the
Jefferson street Hotel, No. los, was de-
stroyed by incendiarism at 9 o'clock on
Saturday night. The fire boys stopped
the flames from spreading to the ada
cent buildings.
One cause Of the courthouse FIRE was
that il the fifth story a very large amount
Of the old hotel furniture, beds, bedding
lumber, etc, was stored there. All this
should be removed at once as q precau.
tionsry measure.
The fish market presented the follow
ing quotations to our piscatorial reporter
to-day; Red snappers, Is cents per
pound; Lake Erie salmon, l29 cents
per pound; lake white fish and Macki-
nav trout, 10 cents per pound.
Everybody is drinking from Lolita
fountain in San Francisco, and this re-
minds US Of the fact that Colonel Elder
is going on soliciting subscriptions for
our own Court Square fountain, from
which Wolf river water will rise up and
sparkle in the sunlight.
Notwithstanding the fact that people
have been looking at sunsets during their
lives, yet hundreds visited the bluff last
evening to gaze once again at the beau
tiful scene.
TITS the unset of life that gives mystical
lore.
And coming events cast their shadows before"
Our item-hunting commissioner visited
the s%tation.house last night and found
siation.house keeper Forrest and turn
key Tory in a sad condition mentally.
But two prisoners were in prison, and of
the twelve cells the doors of ten we're
thrown vide open. Here was the
drunken young mems grand opening.
N. A, Bill, who keeps a grocery store
on the corner of Front and Auction
streets, was exhibiting and trying to sell
a pistol to a party Of two white and two
black men this morning. The pistol was
handed around and disappeared mystic
riously. The party went away, leaving
Mr.. Bill minus q pistol.
The mar who publishes q newspaper
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