Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-16
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE II
LEDGER LINES.
Choice watermelons at 287 Main.

Camp meetings are all the rage out in
the rural districts of the Stale.
The Reds aud the boys of Moscow will
play agame of baseball at Central Park
today.
Several of our most exquisite beaux
are doing the agreeable to watering place
bellies.
Numbers of residents are suffering
from chills, colds aud bilious attacks at
present.
The Radical G"ubernatorial Conven-
ton will convene at Nashville on the
Oath instant.
Henry Floyd, arrested on the charge
OF the larceny OF a goat, was committed
to Jail by the Recorder this morning.
Money is tight" on Madison street,
and occasionally people follow the ex.
ample Of money in the same locality.
The City Of Augusta's excursion on
the river tomorrow night, under the au
spices Of the u. D. Club, will be a pleas
ant affair.
General Siegel fights nit Tilden, as he
adopts the St. Louis platform. General
Siegel has hundreds of German friends
in Memphis.
AT the Chancery Court this forenoon
a petition for divorce was filed by Mag
dalena Juncker against her husband
Louis Juneker.
The ex.members of the old Seventh
Tennessee regiment of cavalry will have
an annual reunion at Covington on the
2lst of September.
The private and public schools of thu
city are getting ready for the forthcom
ing scholastic term, which will com
mence in September.
Dog.poisoning by the police, it is said
closed on yesterday, but the unmuzzlec
dog of the period had better look befor,
he eats on the street.
County Register Griebel has returned
from q Centennial tour, and can now b,
found daily at the county court hous'
aud at his official desk.
The dearth of news is telling severed,
upon newspaper reporters. To get up
column of local nev1 in these days G
dizziness requires industry.
Ex.A Attorney General Horrigan re
turned from the Hot Springs this morr
ing, at which locality he has been spenC
ing a few weeks in search of health.
The much hoped.for and ~loug-expecte
arrival is the new frst-bale Of cottoI
Less than ten thousand bales of oil
stock are on hand at present in our cit!
VIII Memphis have any Expositio
this fall2 is a question which a countr
correspondent puts to US, and WHICH "
are unable to answer from the preset
outlook.
The magistrates elect are hard at VOL
studying the codifed laws of the Sta
and other elementary works of law, |
way OF preparing themselves for the ]
dicial tripods.
A light shower of rain fell this for
10 noon while the sun was shining bright
and while the sky overhead vas almo
cloudless. The rain fell from a dal
cloud that passed rapidly over the city.
He or she who usesa three cent stan
III when a two cent one would suffice,
serves the thanks Of the country (
making a practical move toward spec
payment by wiping out tho national de
to the amount of one cent.
" Many men of genius, inhabitants
this burg, go around town with the
pants tucked up and with their bo'
or shoes unblacked. These peeuliarlti
are suspected as being evidences Of
N cenlriciiy or genuine genius.
The Radical county mass conyenti
will be held at the Assembly Hall tom
row for the purpose Of appointing dc
gates to the State Radical c%onventi'
and also appointing delegates to the
trict Congressional convention.
ire, Autumn is drawing uigb, and alrea
the the knights and ladies of the sock a
md buskin ere getting ready to tread
'Fi mimic stage and give theatrical FeE
sensations of the times aud the m
ners. Even the stout and well-poi
h.oL, HOFFMAN 10 hrnehins the al