Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-07

Manager Brooks will reach here to re-
main during the season. 1t is probable
thaa the season will be opened by Sauls-
Troubadours, now called the
American Vokes.
Prof. Huxley, the famous English
scientist, will lecture at Nashville on
protoplasm, evolution and other abstruse
subjects, involving the theory or secrets
Of life and its results. Why cannot the
famous Englishman be induced to visit
Memphis and open up the sealed book Of
science before a large, fashionable aud
intelligent audience2
At a bar meeting held yesterday at the
courthouse and presided over by Charles
Kortrecht, Esq, to take action with ref.
erence to the death Of a brother member
Of the bar, N. W. Campbell, Esq, a
committee on resolutions was appointed
and the meeting adjourned, to assemble
again at the Law Library rooms at 10
o'clock on next Saturday morning.
No quorum was present at the regular
monthly General Council meeting held
yesterday afternoon. Consequently an
adjournment was had over to 10. morrow
afternoon. There is a quorum Of mem.
bers of the Boards in the city, but why
they do not attend is a mystery. The
mo pay" Aldermen and Couucilmen
are not quite as vigilant and attentive
to public business, so far as attending
all meetings are concerned, as were the
" pay" boys of last year.
Numbers Of meteors shoot athwart the
sky every night, much to the admiration
of lovers who sit beneath the trees in
front of suburban residences. These
aerial phenomena the lovers point out
to each other, but too often "'tis gone
ere one can say it lighteus;" and when
either lover fails to see the shooting star
so often pointed outb by the other and indi-
Gated by the expression, Look at thstl'
the reply is generally "Ch, pshawl'
The water supply to the Court Square
drinking fountain is furnished free Of
charge by the Memphis Water Company
quite a generous contribution tothirsty
humanity and thirsty animals generally.
The water as it bubbles out Of the foun-
tain, as it we're, sings and laughs in o
musical manner, and in eastern land,
this is believed to be the voice Of some
water nymph or sprite greeting the
thirsty traveller in a joyous strain Of in
v%itation to slake his thirst.
Yesterday was the anniversary of thu
invasion of Maryland by General Lee
and the Confederate forces in 1872. 1
was also the anniversaries Of the assem-
bling of the first Continental Congress
at Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia, il
l774, and the payment of the last OF th,
French war indemnity to Germany, OIL
which the German troops we're with
drawn from France, but retained tn
| provinces of Alsace and Lorraine an,
annexed them 10 the German empire
, The Franco russian war indemnit,
, amounted to $1,000, OOO, 900.
The sorghum sugar crop is again CON
; ing into use in many portions Of GU
{ State. The sorghum molasses equals th
New Orleans sugsrhouse, when properl
manufactured. Every farmer in Shelb
county eau, with very little trouble, rails
his own cane and make his own molasse
and sugar. The cane will fatten b
stock, aud the sugar and molssses will
j the joy Of his family. While sittin
under his own vine and fig tree, a sci
supporting institution, be a be tt
n monarch Of all he surveys, unless b
d vision extends over his neighbours liz
! fence.
1t makes the heart and soul Of a new
paper editor beat With joy when SON
s grangerian or mercantile friend senC
n him a cotton.bloom and follows it .
o with q ~Gotton-boll in due time. The e
itor Of course is then enthused with gre
expectations, fondly believing that Il
n theory Of progression will continue uni
d it blossoms into a bale Of cotton, but Il
last link Of affection is never receiv,
by the pencil.slinger. This proves
the editor that DarWin's theory as
progression won't do as 10 cotton, al
r. the beautiful thought about the oloor
It the boil and the bale is destroyed fC
a. ever. The idea blooms into a boil, b