Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-21
LEDGER LINES.

49, these days.
General Council meeting this after.
noon at 4 o'clock.
Fresh oysters received daily at Madam
Vincent's Crystal Palace. I
No longer do suburban residents COM
plain Of dusty streets and roads.
TIE equinoetisl storms Of rain are in
order at present in this latitude.
Merchants say that the fall trade has
opened in quite q lively manner.
Our country cousins of both sexes are
beginning to come to town in numbers.
The next noted arrival will De Jack
Frost, a gentleman who is engaged in
almost every business.
What to Wear and the Port Folio Of
Fashion for fall and winter, has been re
csived at Mansford's news depot.
Sheriff Anderson left for Nashville
yesterday in charge Of several convicts,
who we're sentenced at the last term Of
the Criminal Court.
Professional tramps aud street begcars
continue to annoy citizens daily. These
We grants should be arrested by the police
and sent down to the Island Home.
DR.. ]. W. Rogers will lecture on the
" Inquisition at the tbeater to night
The subject is au interesting one, and
will no doubt be most attrsctively pre-.
sented.
Among the names mentioned 10 con.
nection with the vacancies on the county
representative ticket are those Of
Messrs. James Roosa and Hon. Jacob
Thompson.
In view of so many approaching we'd
dings in this city it might be we'll to
recollect the word OF "a French cyuic
who said, marriage is a tiresoms book
with a very ine preface"
Wade Bynum (%negro), who shot and
killed a white man in Lauderdale county,
Alabama, some years since, has been ar.
rested IN this city by the detectives and
will be SEM back to Alabama for trial.
This is the anniversary of the battle of
Monterey, Mexico, 1876, u.tthirty years
ago to-day. The first regiment of Ten
nessee, under Colonel VIM, B. Campbell,
won for itself the name Of the "old
bloody first"
Many Of the leading Radical negro
politicians are loud in their denuncia
/ tons Of Barbour Lewis on account OIL
his nomination for Congress by the
packed convention. They assert that
they will work and vote against him, and
will support Casey Young, the Demo
. cratic nominee.
Quite a rdmber Of colored Memphianl
now spend few days out in the country
picking cotton. When they get a few
. dollars ahead they return to town for tbt
. purpose Of spending the money. Cot
ton pickers can make good wages for
couple of months or more, provided the!
understand the bueiness.
Yesterday ground was laid off out OIL
the Poplar street Boulevard With a view
5 to erecting a cotton factory thereon. 4
stock company composed of Memphis
= capitalists has the matter in charge. |
is intended to erect q irst-class cottor
$ mill of great capacity. The time will
7 come when Memphis will be almost sur
rounded by cotton mills.
A drove OF wild horses wns driven @
lightning speed down Madison street t
the landing yesterday. TIE driver
cracked their whips and gallope
%furiously after the drove, aud yet tb
v%iolators Of law we're not arrested by tn
police. Numbers of pedestrians cam
s. very neal being run over by the drov
lie and the reckless drivers. Where wer
the police?
! The professional juror once sgai
II UNITS the courthouse with a view to
!. situation as juroFin either the Crimiua
or Circuit Courts, A professional juto
: will try q criminal case with the sam
alacrity as he would try a civil Csc
Such a worthy never, Of course, make
up his mind on any subject in advance
he never reads the newspapers so tina
he might become disqualified as a juror
he never forms or expresses an opinior
against any prisoner or as to his guilt 0
innocence; in fact, be is Z patent juror
warranted to fit any case, and guaran
teed to collect his fees as a juror wit
u regularity.
Convention delegates are again on toI
now that it has been decided to call tbel
together on Saturday next at the Exp,
oe sitiou. Building for the purpose of film
,e. vacancies caused by the destinations
,st Ben Eisemau and David P. HaddeI
Democratic nominees for the Legisl
ture. Tue delegates are visited an
In button.holed as Of yore by the friends
different candidates. All that the del
gates have to do ia to nominate two frs
class men and then adjourn sine di
tn The RAIDS will assemble in convantiC
no on next Tuesday and trot their nomine
for Representatives out on the polite