Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-31
LEDGER LINES.

built Immediately.
The sanitary condition Of the city is
excellent at present.
Stealing by negroes is prevalent in
the city and suburbs.
Parents, children and teachers are
just now stirred up about schools.
The autumn days will commence to-
morrow, this being the last day of sum-
mer.
Send in your advertisements for the
mammoth edition of the LEDGER to NOR
row.
To-day D. Lertora, residing near the
city, brought in the first bale Of new
cotton raised in Shelby county.
The big circus and menagerie posters
on the dead walls attracted the attention
of hundreds Of people yesterday.
None of the Memphians who dashed
through Europe on railroads and saw
everything at q glance lest a nickel by
the failure Of Duncan, Sherman & Co.
Cotton picking has commenced in the
country. The hundreds of idle tramps
and v~agabonds who infest the city have
nov an opportunity to make a living by
work.
The matter as to the placing o city
clock with four dials on the cupalo of
the 0dd-Fellows' hall is agitated. The
site is an excellent one, and a town clock
ia an useful institution.
Two escaped convicts from the Ten
nessee penitentiary, and who had to flee
from this city because the police were
after them, are now figuring around
fernando, Mississippi, at political meet
ings, etc,
The dramatic entertainment given by
the Sodality Association last evening
was largely attended. The attractions,
Robert Macaire, and the Man and Tiger,
we're well presented by the gentlemen
aud lady amateurs.
Last evening Isaac Talbot (nig.) was
arrested on board the Quiekstep on the
charge Of burning a gin and forty bales
of cotton near Dewitt's landing, Miss,
about n year ago, at which time he was
arrested but escaped from the negro
constables.
At the Recorders Court to-day John
Bryan (nig.) was committed on the
charge Of larceny in default Of $1,000
bail. Isaac Tolbert, arrested as a fugi-
tive from justice and charged with arson,
was committed without bail to await the
arrival of an officer from Mississippi.
DR.. Clarke, who became a raving ma
MAC on the subject of ~spiritualism q few
days since, and who was sent 10 the city
hospital, has been removed to the county
poor house for safe keeping and medical
treatment. He was becoming quite tur-
bulent and somewhat dangerous while at
the hospital.
Married ladies who act as newspaper
correspondents, either occasional or 9TH
%erwise, should endeavor, if possible, to
keep out Of their communications all
such smart sayings as they may hear
from their babies. The reading world is
tired of all that sort of thing and sab
scriberS are becoming hypercritical.
A white nan who believes that he has
discovered a buried treasure on Lauder
dale street applied yesterday to the
Chief of Police for permission to pillow
and dig up a portion Of the street. He
had received a spiritual communication
from the other world locating and de.
scribing the treasure. His superstitious
proposition was rejected.
H. Sessel, Sr. & Sons, whose meat
market is on the corner of Second and
Jefferson streets, keep a choice assert
ment Of fresh meats, the best that the
market affords. They invite their cus-
toners and che housekeepers generally
to visit their establishment and make
purchases of fresh or sailed meats, which
will be delivered to any part of the city
free of charge.
A lot of negro villains on the corner
of Seventh and Alabama streets, South
Memphis, are in the habit of indulging
in the illegal amusement of stoning the
residence of John Cassarette, against
whom they have some spite. They have
broken all his windows with rubber sings
and his children have been wounded.
These proceedings are carried on at
night and the villains have so far
escaped detection.
Old negroes whose children are ar
rested for stealing and committing other
depredations upon their neighbors, now
compromise these little departures from
rectitude by asking the police authorities
to give de chile a good whippen and
den turn him Iooeab Tho b1ook onok %