Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-29

monthly business. With the returned
abseutees those city fathers who held
the fort all the hummer will be able to
get a quorum
Our reporter saw a sample Of a 6rst
bale from some county in Mississippi on
yesterday. The cotton had been picked
out Of green bolls, aud it was so green
that the bale was full Of cotton seed and
notes, and looked as if it had been GIN
ned with h%oop-poles or fence-rails. The
cotton was worth about four cents per
pound, owing to its horrible condition,
and was only fit for a c~otton.seed oil
mill. Such enterprise deserves censure
instead Of encouragement, but the raiser
Of the stuff wanted to send in the first
bale Of something.
At the next election several amend.
ments to the State constitution will have
to be voted upon by the people. One OF
them isto exempt from taxes manufac
turing establishments for six years.
This amendment if endorsed by the PEG.
pie will be submitted to the next Legis-
lature for adoption or rejection. We
understand hal the members Of the
Memphis Mechanics Institute will be
called together to take action in favor Of
the amendment, The Mechanics Insti.
tute ha1 been dead Tor sone years, but
now would be a good time to resurrect
80 useful a society aud place it upon q
solid basis.
1t is now asserted that the two mulatto
girls, Lula Moore anil Mamie Buckner,
who were supposed to have taken strych.
nine in beer out on Poplar street, did
not do so, but we're given c~antbarides, OF
powdered Spanish flies, and that the con.
v%ulsions which they fell into we're caused
from an overdose of the dangerous drug
1t is also asserted that this drug was
given to them after they had come back
rom that hack rice, and that the two
white hackmen who were with them out
on the Boulevard beer.drinking had
nothing to do with the matter. This is
a new development that may capse re
newed investigation on the part Of the
police authorities.
A South Memphis hen laid a double
egg a day or two since, probably through
A mistake or Observation-Disclosures, and the
residents of South Memphis regard the
act as something wonderful Last Sun.
day a hen in the southeastern portion OIL
the city laid two separate eggs, one oil
the usual size and the other about the
size Of q partridge egg. This being the
centennial year, these strange things are
to be expected. The SOUTH Memphis
hen was a contractionist and the south.
eastern hen an ina4tionist. We have
yet to hear from a Peter CoopAr-Carey
hen, but no doubt the Avalanche viii
annouce its efforts ct egg.laying in due
time. Then tn. temperance hen OF the
Green Clay Smith school will coma to
the front with its prohibition egg and
demand recognition.
Several well,knowa citizens are al
ready spoken ofin connection with State
Senatorial and Representative offices
Among those spoken Of on the streets
are John 0verton. NJ. D. L Stewart
John Donovan, John T.. Moss, John A,
Rous6, Captain Peters, Luke W. Finley
and Hugh L. Greer. OF course none o.
the above have as yet announced them.
selves, but on street corners they art
talkel Of and PROBABLY without any au'
thsrity. Cur city editor was requested
to offer himself as a candidate for the
f%our-dollars.a day office, with the prefS
Of Honorable, but he properly resented
the uninteutional insult by a curt refusa
and a request not to repeat the offensive
suggestion, he had not gotten down to
the hard.pau as yet, and o passably goot
newspaper man is, in his opinion, fal
superior to an average State Legislator.