Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-11
LEDGER LINES.

The Troubadours 10 Patchwork at the
thea.er tonight.
The Memphis postmaster receives 8
salary Of four thousand six hundred dol.
lars per amman.
The General Council will meet again
tonight at I o'clock in order to wind up
unfinished business.
At the Chickssaw Guards armory on
Adams street last night a military hop
was INDUCED in by the Guards and their
lady friends.
The Buckeyes defeated the Memphis
Reds at Central Park on yesterday by a
score Of 9 to 2, thereby winning q
game out Of three.
The time has come when tho young
male Memphisn takes an outlook toward
the approaching winter season and re-
solves upon matrimony.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary Of
the discovery Of America By Christie
pher Columbus in the year 1892, three
hundred and eighty-four years ago,
Nashville has become suddenly moral.
Chief Of Police Yates oil Sunday last
closed up all the saloons, stationery aud
confectionery stores, fruit and cigar
stands.
The Louisville League Club, called the
Kentucky Giants, will arrive tomorrow
evening, and play the Memphis Reds
three games, Friday, Saturday and Sun.
day at Central Park.
1t has been estimated that not less
than three thousand dollars changed
hands on the three games Of baseball
played by the Ohio Buckeyes and Mem
> phis Reds this week.
White frost now appears every morn
ing, and ths lingering mosquito is sing
ing his requiem ere he is gathered to hi
: fathers, and so it is also with the livel,
. insect known as the cimex lectularius.
The competitive drill between th
Chickasaw Guards and the Porter Rife
: Of Nashville will come of in this city Of
the 9th inst. We are betting that tn
Porter boys will lose their coupons
= on that occasion.
Some curiosity has been expressed t
learn what kind Of a pistol it was whic
Governor Porter pulled on Dorsey I
Thomas. Was it a Colt, a Tranter,
- Smith & Wesson, or a deringer2 1t ce
tainly was not a little Democrat"
A wooden shauty INC a deep ditch no
disGgures the bluff, bu: the shanty an
ditch represent the custom house to b
As Hamlet said of future life, ITO be,
s. not to be! that is the question" but lii
IL tle custom.house question it Is a hsl
u one to answer.
People could not attend to busine
yesterday on account of their anxiety
hear from Indiana and Ohio. Even Il
~ courts adjourned at an early hour as Il
. judges, lawyers, clerks, clients, witness
jurors, etc, we're anxiousto get out on t
streets and talk politics.
A Geographic dispatch which aTriv
4, on yesterday announced that VIM.
Kerr, of GAINESVILLE, Tenn had be
es iound dead in his bed at the Enti
oe House, Baltimore. NJ. Kerr was t
le brother-in.law of Mr.. Sam Anderson,
we'll known cotton buyer Of this city.
Mrs, Gordon, wife of Attorney Gener
Gordon, Of the Bartlett Circuit Cou
died yesterday at Bartlett, of typho
fever. But FIVE weeks ago they we
20 married, and it is stated that Mrs. G.
don contracted the fatal disease while
70 the bridal tour. The sad occurrer
We eau es the most profound sympathy
err be felt for Gen aral Gordon in this CO.
II, muni,y.
Between the forty cents State plAtfol
nd aud the twenty cents Shelby comfy pl
rs, form Governor Porter, who will spe
.
the here tomorrow night, will have a hap
2st time in explaining bis views. You c'
not shove a forty cents platform do
the throats Of the people Of Shel
county. 1t is a worse obstruction t,
candidate than are the He'll Gate roc
to the Hudson river and Sound nj
ners.
The Radical county Legislative C,
vention met at Zion Hall, on Besl sire
yesterday, but adjourned without maxi
oo4 nominations. On tomorrow the Cow
ton will be held to fill the vacau
caused by the retreat of Barbour Lew
aid and it is probable tkat a Legislat
at ticket will be announced at that cow,
see ton. L. is reported, however, that
ing party nominations for the LegislatI
{ will be made, but that a number
:. streng Independents will appear in t
, race.
New attractions have bsen introduC
Oh into the circus business, On Frid
~ last Jour men we're shot OF Bristol, wh
Robinson's circus was exhibiting the
6 While a policeman was endeavoring
arrest samuel Hughes and Simon B
,ers nett his revolver was accidentally
! II charged, the bsll striking the eide Of