Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-30
LEDGER LINES.
Fresh o1stsrs daily At Mdm. Yipcsuts,


The County Quarterly Court has adj
journed at last.
Our oyster dealers would like TO see
the weather turn colder.
The last Of the Porter Rifles left the
city for Nashville on yesterday after
noon.
Misdemeanors and light felony cases
are on hearing to-day at the Criminal
Court.
The Stevens Comedy Combination will
appear 10 Doa Caesar Bszau at the thea.
ter tonight.
The number Of tramps applying night
ly at the sta~tion-house for lodging is
rapidly increasing.
An immense amount of cardinal red
appeared in the different churches Of
the city OF yesterday.
The Board of Health reports the total
number of deaths during the past week
at 24-whites, II; blacks. IL.
The General Council will assemble
next Wednesday evening for the trans.
action ~ofregular monthly business.
These moonshiny" nights numbers
of citizens repair to the bluff and admire
the view Of the river and the Arkansas
shore.
Daniel Deronda 20 cents at S~pangler's
news stand, 376 Main street. He keeps
on hand all back numbers of Lakeside
Library.
The matinee performance at the thea
ter this week will be given on Friday
afternoon, when the Two Orphans will
be presented.
The Continental Life Insurance Com.
pany, of New York, has been placed in
the hands Of a receiver, owing to inan-
cial embarrassment.
Attorney General Wright intends
trying the VIM. Mclean and the A.
Woodward cases during the present term
of the Criminal Court.
Now that Tweed is on his way back
and the Turco Servian war is progress
ing, il is time to give circulation to that
old joke, the "Boss.for.us."
It is authoritatively stated that nine.
tenths of the Memphis men who visited
hot Springs, Ark, this season were
afflicted with rheumatism.
The Circuit Court stands adjourned
over to next Saturday week, owingto the
absence OF attorneys at Jackson where
the Supreme Court is in session.
The Chicks" are growing considera-
bly, owe their hard fought battle and
we!!-Ton victory; and they say they will
do it again next year if necessary.
0ur heavy man and leading editor,
Captain j. Harvey Mathes, has returned
from a Centennial trip, and has again
taken possession Of the editorial tripod.
Mrs. MeriWether's letter on a late SC.
cial scandal, which appeared a few days
since in the daily LEDGER, will be pub
lished in the weekly LEDGER tomorrow
morning.
We regret to learn that many musical
instruments in our city are sadly out Of
tune, owing to the fact that of late moth.
ing but wsr-music has been sounded
upon them.
Toose of cur citizens who took down
their mosquito bars are putting them up
again, the westerly winds having blown
myriads of mosquitoes into the city from
the swamps of Arkansas.
The hszy weather in this latitude at
present is called Indian summer. 1t is
not political in its character, although
hazy. On to morrow week, the It'll Of
November, the atmosphere will wear a
bright Democratic appearance.
At the Star Clothing House, No. 33l
Main street, a large stock Of boys cloth.
ing, and a lot of hats, purchased at a FIRE
sale, are being sold at astonishingly low
prices. The goods are not damaged SO
as to injure them in the slightest degree,
bat they are being sold at almost give
away rates.
Papers. with patent outsides" or " in.
sides have been decided by courts both
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to be
not proper mediums for the publication
Of legal advertisements, inasmuch as
they are not printed "in the county" in
which the interests affected by such ad.
vertising exist.
The number of arrests being made by
the police each Saturday and Sunday
night ia increasing rapidly, The princi
pal charge is that of being drunk and
disorderly. There must be more money
in circulation than usual, because some
philosopher says tat the smoun of
drunkenness in a city is an evidence that
business is prosperous, and money is in
circulation in consequence.