Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-29
LEDGER LINES.

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at Oliver, Finpie & Co.'s.
The Criminal Court is grinding way
on misdemeauor and light felony cases.
The season for comfortable fires in
your bed and sitting-rooms has arrived.
But three misdemeanor cases appeared
on the Recorders Court docket this
morning.
Albert Seessel will open a frst-class
meat store tomorrow On the corner Of
Vance and fernando streets.
The grafton delivered at the Old Folks
barbecue on yesterday by Captain c. F.
Vance was highly interesting.
At the base ball match yesterday at
Central Park the Memphis Reds defeated
the Eekfords by a score Of q to 0.
The Old Folks and their friends en-.
joyed a delightful picnic and barbecue at
the Leath Orphan Asylum grounds yes
terday.
Do not forget to attend Mrs. Meriweth-
er's lecture at the theater tonight in be-
half of the yellow fever sufferers OF Sa-
vannah and Brunswick, Ga.
The wind whipped around to the north
west last night and blew a little gale.
Early this morning there was =" a nipping
and a biting air" and almost a frost.
Colonel Edward Breathitt, an old and
we'll known citizen, died on yesterday at
the residence of Mrs. Carroll, No. 90
Court street. The funeral will take place
at 3 o'clock to-day.
A gentleman who attended the Old
Folks barbecue yesterday insists hat the
idea that women are akin to angels losei
its force after a man has seen a party o
girls en6lading a section of barbecuet
pig and a dish of baked beans.
During the twenty.four hours proceed
ing six o'clock or sunset yesterday after
noon the Hebrews of the city had to al
stain from food and drink, and occup
their time in meditation and prayer.
was a long fast aud was generally oil
served.
Assistant United States Supervisor
Architect Cochrane, with a number {
citizens, took a survey Of the river shor
and the islands above and below the cit
{ yesterday. 1t was : little excursio
gotten up for the entertainment Of M
Cochrane.
Esquire Miller issued a warrant to-dt
for the arrest Of a negro named D.
Perry who is charged with administeriI
poison to bis wife, who at present lies
a most critical condition in c~onsequep.
s thereof. The officers have not as y
| arrested Perry.
Memphis is undoubtedly a sober tow
. if the station-house records are go,
u evidence Of the fact, as but few arrei
are made by the police for drunkenness
{ 1t is also said to be a very moral tow
> but as to that point the testimony is u
z 80 convincing.
A blind negro fiddler and a neg
bapjoist and vocalist are the ~peripatei
musicians hat infest our city at preset
IT music be the soul Of love, play Oh
said the lover in Shakespeare; but he q
not know anything about our blind neg
fiddler or baDjoist.
The Radical negroes of the First wa
held a meeting last night. The nor
a nation Of Barbour Lewis was una
|. mousiy indorsed. The meeting W
addressed by Malone, the negro who
Ed Shaw charged with being an exec
d vict, and by Tom D. Eldridge (white),
A correspondent writes; IA hundr
years ago when you called on a girl s
kissed you goodbye, but now, if J
suggest anything Of hat sort, her mt
- relatives call you into the library a
Il ask you what you are worth. Are We
nation, or merely a confederation
States2"
On yesterday the business houses
all the Jews in the city were closed
consequence of the day being a helidi
known as Yom Kippure. When
= business houses of the Hebrews on MG
street close up the street has q Sundi
like appearance.
The obituary writer Of the New
IL leans Times paid the following tribute
a dead soldier: General JEFF Thor
son is dead. AT ST. Joseph, Mo-, at {
o'clock last evening, that genial, who
souled, deviLmsy-care personifcation
eccentricity climbed the golden stair.
The Nashville American says that
o' 1928, 900 Of the interest on the State d,
have been paid in that city, and it is
'sS lieved hat nearly all of the $500, 600
49, been Maid in New York to the DO
j., holders and coupon clippers OF
70 ring who purchased the coupons
speculation.
Candidates are getting lively on str
corners, but they will be thicker a
Tuesday next, when the RAIDS get
their ticket. AS a poet expresses it:
~ "Who shtands der streets und corners ror