Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-02
LEDGER LINES.
Fresh oysters daily at Mdm. Vincent

most to an insect since the cold spell set
in.
Systematic, persistent and ~judicious
advertising is the sure road to success in
business.
The General Council will meet next
Wednesday evening at half-past seven
o'clock to transact regular monthly bust
ness.
The Reds and the Blues gave a ball
tossing exhibition at Central Park yes
terday which resulted in favor Of the
Reds by a score of 8 to O.
An exchange aptly intimates that
physical belligerency now finds an outlet
in baseball clubs, and Intellectual btlli.
gerency in debating clubs.
The Criminal Court is engaged in
hearing a pistoltsting case to-day, or as
it is calledby the Criminal Court boys,
"a Governor Porter case"
The Board Of Health mortuary report
for the past week shows the total deaths
to have been twenty. five, Of which there
we're thirteen whites and twelve blacks.
Times ought to be easier in this city,
since a paper collar that a few weeks
since would wilt in two hours, now looks
happy and confident after a weeks wear.
The Chancery Court, Judge Morgan
presiding, commenced the October term
today. Fifty hearing docket cases we're
called, and the calling will be continued
tomorrow.
The courthouse has been adorned
with a sheet.iron smoke stack, eighty-six
feet in hight, as a funnel attached to the
steam-heating apparatus now being put
in for winter purposes.
We are indebted to the officers OF the
West Tennessee Agricultural and Ne.
chanical Association for an invitation 10
attend their fifth annual fair, to be held
at Jackson FIVE days, commencing the
24th of October.
To-day three hundred and s~ixty-three
years ago, 1913, Balboa, The Spanish
mariner, discovered the Pacific ocean.
-" with eagle eyes
lie stared at the Pacific, and all his men
Looked OF each other with a wild surmise.
Silent upon a peak in Darien."
The partridge and prairie CHECKER
shooter is out on the wal path. There i
a brushing up Of rusty cid breech an(
muzzle leaders and a purchasing Of wa.
material going on thai must disturb tn,
pc ace Of the feathercd tribe 10 this vi
entity.
Cyrus s., Oberly, editor Of the Csir.
Bulletin, and an ex-Memphian, puts tbi
conundrum into Tennessee politics
Why shouldn't Governor Porter b
permitted to carry his little six-shoote
as well as the balance of the Tennessee
boysY
Just at this season Of the year conf
gra'ions are prevalent, as fires are lighle
in Offices and rooms before aues are ez
amined or cleaned out. Too much car
cannot be taken by our citizens as t
chimney aues and building fires in stove
sa G~re.places.
/. VIM. Howard (negro) was arrested b
the police yesterday on the charge {
knocking down and robbing a white ma
b Of seventeen dollars in South Memphi
b on Saturday night. Thirteen dollars {
: the money we're found in possession {
' the negro highwsyman.
i The Memphis party that went
Duval's Bluff, Ark, a week ago returne
last night, having killed and shippe
ll8O prairie chicken, besides qusils, etc
. three deer and numerous squirrels. Th
i, is q big report and rather ahead Of an
q thing we have heard Of recently.
TIE dsy and night patrol forct
: changed time at IL m. yesterday. Cap.
: Arrata and Sergeant Haggerty hav
charge of the day force, while Captai
: Wetherrord and Sergeant MeElroy con
mand the night to.ce. The change wi
:, c%ontine for three month";, as usual.
There is a Chinese Democrat in tow.
and he says the Chinese would like
get naturalized. W. ca questioned as
what party he would join, be answereI
"Democlat,' and added; LepublicO
;. no goodee; him all same niger; al
same one name; ella no good for Oh
nsman."
OIL Our Arkansas exchanges notice th
lie fact that almost daily scores Of Wagon
IS freighted with people can be seen o
their way back from Texas, whittier the
went to get rich, but did not. There
0 no place in the Mississippi valley, ate
e all, like this side Of the river-except
r be the other side.
A poor white Of and child o.
tanned lodging at the s%tation-house la'
night. She says that she came from til
. Black Hills, where she lost her husbaui
!" aud is trying to make hsV way to BentO
county, Arkansas, where she says 81
} has relations who will take care Of h,
and her child. Both are in very desl
tute eiicum ranc's.
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