Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-09
LEDGER LINES.

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Fresh Baltimore oysters received daily
at Madam Vincents Crystal Palace. Il
See W. A. Wheatly's comprehensive
list of stores and residences full line.
Next Monday week the Criminal and
Circuit Courts will convene for the Sep
TENDER term.
The Fifth Democratic warders intend
erecting a flag poll in the ward for Til
den aud Hendricks.
Summer absentees are returning while
quite as many others are leaving on trips
Northward to take in the Centennial
Exposition en- route.
The Memphis Reds defeated the Eek
fords at Central Park on yesterday by a
o Of five to two. During the game
white-washing was in order.
Four times has the General Council
been called together and four times has
it failed to furnish a quorum Of members
Of the Council. The Aldermanic Board
does better.
Newspaper proprietors and editors
from the surrounding country are com.
ing iuto our city in numbers seeking
advertisements from our business men
for the present business season.
We shall soon have the theater open
for the season, and then we shall again
hear the heavy william of the drama say
" keyind" for kind, "sah" for sir, and
simpul gull" for simple girl.
The average cost Of convicting a
criminal before our Criminal Court and
sending him or her to the penitentiary is
nearly 1920. 1t takes about 800 per
day to pay the running expenses Of the
Criminal Court.
1t has been estimated that the average
number Of chills in a forty pound water
melon mounts up in an almost incred
ibla manner. Eating watermelons al
the present season of the year is gene
rally followed by chills, ard citizens
should govern themselves and theil
families a~ccordinglv.
On Thursday last a little boy, son o
Mr.. Ellis Luster, who resides a few mile.
from the city, commenced eating tn,
seed of a poisonous weed known q
jamestown weed" or jimson weed
The child was taken violently sick, anC
} died in a few hours from the terrible
effect Of the poisonous plant.
One of the LEDGER staff was presente.
with a dog purp" this morning by
friend. The animal is part bull and par
setter. In the face, the little animG
bears q remarkable and astonishing r,
: semblance to a noted Radical political
; of our city. The future career of III
animal is entirely a matter of coDjectur
in consequence, but that he will turn OIL
badly is quite q certainty.
y Many saloon-keepers and others, {
: whom a political canvass is not ohjeI
/, ~tionable, complain as to %impecuniosit
of candidates for legislative honors, 4
; little or no money has as yet been sper
, by men who seek the bubble reputation
, even at the polls. Four dollars a da,
for about ninety days residence ut Mas
y vile, does not leave much margin e
%canvassing purposes.
Col j. NJ. Heating, President OF ii
s late Congressional Democratic ConveI
n ton, has appointed as o Congression
Executive Committee, the followir
named gentlemen, whose term of off
n will continue until the next Congre
sional Convention shall coIven,
Messrs. M. D. L Stewart, G. A. LefinI
well, ]. NJ. Brooks, Of Shelby; I. v
Jones, A. V. War;, of Fayette; Franc
Fentress and ]. NJ. Hubbard, of Hard
man counties.
The Memphis Blues and the Memph
g Reds will play a match game of ba.
Of ball at Central Park tomorrow ate
ID noon. The Detroit michigan club W
d expected here to play the Reds tonne
IS row, but they will not arrive in tim
ie Both the Blues and the Reds have be,
re strengthened by accessions receivu
from the Paris (Kentuoky) Mutuals; co
~sequently the game of tomorrow, it
expected, will be interesting.
Robert Carr, a negro larcenist, "
committed to Jail by the Recorder Ii
morning on the charge of larceny. Ca
has been in the habit of stealing me
out at the slaughte%pens where t
butchers leave meat hanging up all mig
ready for market in the morning. Fir
Bender, a private Waterman, took
stand for Carr and captured him VIII
in the act OF carrying of a quarter
y beef before daylight on yesterday moi
ing.
lie. a morning Contemporary does Vi
.er ence to history in comparing the par
ton of Poland to John Morrissey's NJ
because it was partitioned in a pri
fight, The partitioning of Poland v
rat the plundering work of Russia, Prus
and Austria, which governments diviC
lin Poland between them. A three.cor ri
prize.fght is something that has ne