Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-31

excursion being for the benefit Of the
Heruando street Methodist church. The
trip will be a pleasant one, and will be
under the charge Of the ladies Of the
church.
A stranger named George Wilkinson
died on board the steamer A. j. White
at the landing on yesterday afternoon.
The body was iuquested by Coroner
Spelman and a verdict Of death from
congestion or malarial fever was returned
by the jury.
To.morrow's edition win be most in
teresting 1t will contain the annual
report Of the business season of 1876,
and will be filed with interesting and
readable matter. Send in your adver-
tisements 10 time, as a very large edition
will be published.
The musical s~ereaaders now go out
into the SUBURBS, and while sitting be-
meath the magnolia trees sing-"There's
a Light in the Window for Thee, Love"
at which the dogs OF the neighborhood
set up a bowling chorus and sing, my
Bark is on the Shore"
The receipts of cotton for the season
Of 1856, which season closes to day,
are 4s7, 376, and the shipments for the
season are 4S4,545, The stock on hand
at noon to-day wal 54O3 bales. The re-
ceipts for the season, it will be observed
reaches within 1924 bales of being half
a million.
The H~umboldters tackled the Memphis
Beds at Central Park on yesterday, and
were defeated by a score OF 40 to O.
The Reds amused themselves with the
Humboldt boys until mere amusement
became monotonous. The Humboldteri
should have played with some of ouI
minor amateur clubs.
A recent traveller says the coast 0
/. Sweden and Lapland is the paradise o
mosquitoes, and there they breed an,
swarm to an extent inconceivable il
other parts of the world. 1t they bree
and swarm there in a more lively mar
ner than they do in the Mississippi an
Arkansas swamps the Swedes and tn
Laps are deserving of the most profoun
sympathy.
Tie celebrated Paris (Kentuoky) NJ,
tuals, the champion amateur club {
Is Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, will arriy
in this city this afternoon and will pla
IS the Memphis Reds at Central Park O
tomorrow friday afternoon, and ais
RS on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
is expected that the playing will be vel
l. fine, and that the games will be close
n contested.
w Ia these days and nights of hen-roo
a. robbing by negroes it may be OF publ
Interest TO know that a New England
has invented q tin hen. He fills Il
thing with oyster shells, boiled star,
and extract Of carrot, winds it up, pu
it 10 its nest and awaits the result. II
tin hen has been laying an egg eve
vi day for a fortnight and can be regulat
80 that it can be kept from working
Sundays.
Mr.. 7. W. Davey, proprietor Of I
Memphis Theater, has made arrari
ed ments for numerous attractions for ne
a season. He has charge Of a circ
composed of the Academy OF Music a
ne Grand 0pera.house, indianapolis; WI
re. ney's Opera.house, Detroit; Ro,
0~pera.house, Toronto; Grand 0pe
nm house, Nashville, and the Memp
b;s Theater. In due time announcem,
will be made as to the numerous attr
tons presented here during the seas
Il AS in New York, so in Memphis, co
plant is made, and that justly, alb
the measures of beer sold to thirsty c
zens at five cents per glass, or ratl
half glass. To say nothing about
foam thai generally fills one.third Of
glasa, she glass itself often has a bolt
three inches thick, with an imme
y a convex dimple or bulge in its side,
.'9u that the amount OF beer you get is FIR
ace one.third to one.half a glass. 1t is a
n.y. noticed that beer glasses are gett
ave smaller every season and do not e.
saw with age. In Germany the governm
irlli has a standard beer glass measure,
ext woe be to the beer-seller who attem
hub to use a glass under the legal stand
,ou of size or capacity, or to him who de
,tin to sell foam for beer. A glass full
lore froth causes the thirsty citizen to
like the tabled Tantalus, up to WI
lrel parched lips the cool waters cont
,ery ously awelled, and then, as if in mt
,ipp cry, sank away rapidly ere a drop {
like was tasted.
"S "Great Reduction in Round Il
EIckess.''
q in The "Old Reliable" Memphis
eurs Charleston railroad are selling tic
,ard from Memphis
how To Washington City. a~............... .........s.
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