Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-12
LEDGER LIKES.
Use sslfrising b~uckwheAt.

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Victor d. Fuchs to-day.
New selt-rising buckwheat now ready
at Oliver, Fiunie & Co.'s.
The Washington Street Varieties will
be opened out on next Saturday night.
A score of citizens were arrested on
yesterday for not laying down sidewalks.
Governor Porter will speak in his own
defense at the Greenlaw Opera House to
night.
Tomorrow afternoon the Leuisvilles
will play the Memphis Reds at Central
Park.
The CarmichaelMadigau homicide
case still occupies the attention Of the
Criminal Court.
Shell oysters from Norfolk are now
sold here for thirty.fve cents per dozen
on the half she'll.
A number Of persons were arrested
by the police yesterday on the charge of
dOing business without license.
The County Court met to-day for the
purpose Of fixing up the bonds of County
Trustee Rawlings as Tax Collector.
Nathan Gresly (negro) was committed
to jail by the Recorder to-day Oh the
charge Of stealing a horse and wagon.
Many cisteFns about town are getting
dry in consequence Of the absence Of the
usual fall rainsat this season Of the year.
Notwithstanding The imperative order
Of the Police Commissioner the dens O.
infamy on Washington street yet remain
undisturbed.
The Shelby county law docket of the
Supreme Court for the September tern
will be found published on the fret peg,
Of the LEDGER.
A divorce petition has been fledi in th,
Circuit Court by s.. Is. Boice agains
Mrs. Rachael Boice on the grounds 0
abandonment, abusive language, etc.
Nine hundred and eighty-fou year
ago to-day Christopher Columbus dis
covered America, or rather the islam.
of San Salvador, in the West Indies.
Overt in TIE Arkansas swamps you ca
fad fine b%ullfrog FERNS in q fine state {
cultivation, but yet the proprietors G
settlers are continually crOaking abou
something.
The Radical Congressional Convel
ton is in session at lions Hall on Bel
street to-day for the purpose of nom
: mating Barbour Lewis Old line Wing
or some other man,
The General Council will attempt
assemble orcs again 70 night. No gu,
rum ives present last evening, the Aide
J men and Councilmen having their heat
' full CT election business.
1. is rumored that several Memphisr
who LEFT for the Centennial not long sinc
have been discovered sojourning at Il
Hot Springs OF Arkansas. They wei
to Philadelphia by the way of the ives
Numbers Of hats, drinks and oyste
were bet by Memphians on the result
the Indiana and Ohio elections. Even
few dollars, ranging from FIVE up to OF
hundred, we're put up on the sumo resul
The street railroad officials are nc
%cultivatiDg Aldermen and Coancilmen-
q o thing they have not done fer years b
fore, at least not since 1872, when Il
Y city entered into q contract with Il
muIe-box monopoly.
6 A young lady from The rural distric
'' left this city a few days since for NJ
U York and the Centennial. Before lea
ing she informed her friends that she /
tended to go to Pittsburg BY boat al
then take a steamship for New Yor
g She thought the He'll Gate explosion h
3 opened Up g water route through t
- ALE Il eny mountains.
The Irish citizens Of Richmond, VI
e are raising funds for a monument to t
II late ex Governor Wise, in recognition
1. the stand which he took against t
Know Nothing party when he was
leader in Virginia politics. Numbers
the Irish c.tize1s Of Memphis will co
tribute literally in aid oil the monums
to the memory of the distinguished V
ginia patriot and statesman.
Numbers Of Mempbiaus sat up un
Il o'clock last night awaiting electi
dispatches from Indiana and Obi
They scanned the b%ulIctil board at t
Avalanche office aud atuddied eve
:. figure just as If they could stare
figures out of %counienance. They
full oil figures and full Of something e
in consequence, and IS a final Iesl
they made the figure eight az tb
4. wendell their way homeward.
A Nashville pap! r says that CAPITA
Duncan, Of the Chickasaw Guards,
Memphis, has informed the Captain
the Porter Rifles, of Nashville, that
will be impossible for bis company
az meet the Rifles in the challenge dl
yhich was arranged to tssa place
't' Memphis on the 18th inst, The Riff
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