Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-28
LEDGER LINES.

The Porter Rifles leave the city today
for Nashville.
Fine new Yarmouth bloaters at Oliver,
Finnie & Co.'s.
The Tennessee S~piritualists are hold
ing a convention at the Assembly Hall.
The taxpayers and working men are
against Porter in this section of the
State.
The Democratic Legislative candidates
will speak at the Greenlaw Opera House
tonight.
A number of colored men purpose
organizing a Tilden and Hendricks club
in this city.
Five thousand people visited Olympic
Park yesterday: and witnessed the COM
petitive drill.
The Stevens Combination will appear
at the theater next Monday evening,
when Don Cesar de Bazan will be pre-
scented.
The o%verpowering and ~enervating, yet
thrilling and captivating, scent of the
orange blossoms still hangs in the air
around the city.
The First aud Second Ward Demo
cratic clubs meet to night for the trans
action of business. Good speakers will
be in attendance at each ward meeting.
R. H. S~pangler, S76 Main street, has
all the latest leading illustrated papers,
dailies, magazines, etc, Daniel De-
ronda," in Lakeside edition, zoe, double
number.
The Appeal is in error rs to Nm. NJ.
Randolph's legal title. 1t is not Assist
ant Attorney General Of the Confederate
States; it is Confederate States District
Attorney.
A. the Bethal last night quite a large
audience was in attendance and listened
to an eloquent and instructive lecture
on Might HE among the Young" by
Rev G.. A. Lotion.
Hon, Duncan X. McRae. who, while a
re ,ident Of this city, was a Grant mar
and Radically inclined in politics, is
now a resident Of Chicago and is making
sp ,eches for Tildon aud Hendricks.
About one hundred Ntshvilliaus are
in the city at present. Tb ey came down
with the Porter Rifles to witness the
competitive drill. The Nashville felix's
are receiving the attentions OF our citi.
z}us.
The Fay Templeton Troupe will ap.
pear At The thester matinee to-day in
Pulk, and will give their farewell per
formance tonight, the attractions being
Kathleen Mayourneen and Memphis
Firemen.
We beg leave to assure the bowling
opponents of Dorsey B. Thomas that
the Porter Rig as were not defeated on
yesterday on account of any prejudice
that may exist here on account Of the
name of the Company.
Next year we hope to see the competi.
tive drill contest engaged in by not only
the Chiekasaw Guards and Porter Rifles,
but alse by the Bluff City Greys, O'Cou-
ner Zouaves and other crack military
companies of the State.
A few evenings since a brilliant wed.
ding party assembled at St. Peters
Church to witness the nuptials Of Mr..
George G. Coyle, Of Baltimore, and Miss
Mollie A. Bolger, daughter of the late
I. E. Bolger, of this city.
We are requested by Hon. j. ". Clapp
to state that as no notice has been given
in the city press of his appointment to
speak to night, and no arrangements
made for a hall, the appointment, SO far
as he is concerned, is withdrawn.
The Porter Rifles gave an exhibition
drill on the parade ground Of the Chicks
saw Guards, on the bluff, at moor to-day.
The drill was perfection and was ad.
mired by crowds Of citizens, who cheered
our gallant visitors vociferously.
Base ball is played out in Memphis,
and the different clubs are disbanding
for the season. Whether or not base ball
will be the national game next season is
a matter Of considerable conjecture, but
/. there are some doubts about it,
Among the prominent Msmphisus at
tending the ~Spiritualists Convention
now in session, are the Rev. ]. M. Pee.
bles, Rev. Saml Watson, Minor Meri-
wether. j. B Robertson, NJ. Hawks, Mr..
Glenn, DR.. Booty, Mrs. Anna 7. C.
Hawks.
The piano war resulted in a collision
on Main street last evening, between Il.
G. Hollenberg and j. E Perring, jr
+ Ne gore was shed, but we understand
some tall cursing was INDUCED in. The
men brought up to claw the hOrse.teeth.
j paw the worries aud play fantasies frou
. operas, SHOULD not engage in war.
In yesterdays LEDGER it was stated
3 that a negro named West Banks was ar
n rested en- the charge Of cotton stealing,
; aud that he sold the cotton to a grocery
= house on Vance street. The cotton was