Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-06
LEDGER LINES.

Choice grapes, l2lc, 2s7 Main. 81
Red snappers at Victor D. Fuchs.
Fresh oysters daily at Mdm. Vincent's.
The General Council. will meet again
tonight.
C~allender's Minstrels will appear again
at the theater tonight.
Keep your eyes on your wood pile aud
coal house these nights.
Fifty barrels of the finest cultivated
cranberries at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S.
The Little Rock Gazette announces
that a colony of sixty Russians arrived
in that city en- route for Fort Smith.
Mr.. W. B, Waldran, President Of the
Old Folks Society of this county, is
dangerously i'll at his residence on Pop.
lar street.
Our hotel registers record the passage
and presence of a number OF Eastern
drummers, who are aaoat in the land on
business raids.
The Knoxville Tribune, in view Of the
fact that Em Etheridge is going to East
Tennessee to preach Radicalism, calls
him the " coming man."
In these days of chills end congestion,
instead of saying How are your the
better and more sensible firm Of saluta.
ton is, How is your liver27
The county quarterly court stands adj
journed over to next Monday, when the
minutes Of court will be signed and en-
adjournment had to court in course.
The Criminal Court stands adj aurned
over to next Monday, owing to the noise
made By the workmen who are putting
heating pipe connections through the
court house.
The annive ssry celebration and pa
rade of the Grand Lodge Of the United
Order of Odd Fellows took place to day.
1t was a very creditable affair, and at
tracted no little attention on the streets
"Stare-E Woman-in.tb Face" q
young brave who loafs on street corners,
has not as yet left on his summer cen.
%t9unial tour. he sill remains in his
agency aud belongs &c the idiot tribe
The chills are shaking a good many
laborers in the country and are shaking
up numbers of Msmphiaua also. TIT
, chills interfere Nth cotton picking il
many sections but create a demand 70
quinine.
: The first annual soiree Of the F. F. F
CLUB, composed of the first young gen
tlemen Of the city, will begiven at Coch
> ran Hall next Monday night. A humble
of invitations have been issued, and
plea 'ant time is anticipated.
a The dummy engine, purchased by tn
Charleston railroad company, for tn
Washington street track, is at work dali
1t pulls lengthy trains and heavy load
up that steep grade at the foot Of Wasl
ington street with apparent ease.
u A colored excursion party from Nasl
:. vile arrived in this city to-day for IL
purpose of participating in the celebr
ton by the National Grand Lodge Of Il
Grand United Order of Odd Fellow
which is in session at the Assembly Ha
Tuesday next the RAIDS will assemb
again in convention and make anoth
attempt to get ont a county Legislari
ticket. On Thursday next they "
meet in Congressional convention
order to gil the vacancy caused by t
withdrawal OF Barbour Lewis.
Old political hacks who have axes
ar grind don't like the independent cour
III Of the LEDGER in pulling down the nal
1T of Porter from the ticket, ut m
III hurt something or somebody" We
"a let her hurt. Dirty linen should
lie washed at home instead Of letting t
tO job tut to Radicals. The LEDGER is
In pack CT hack horse for political del
beats to ride.
The mortality of Memphis for
month of September was; Whites, {
blacks, SO; total, ll9. The rate or m,
g > tally for the K months ending June
1875, was 22.l6 per 1000 per annu
The rate of mortality of white popu
at ton wes only 1902 per 1000 per annu
-S2 while the rate of mortality CT the c
ored population was 1904 per 1000
the same period.
DR.. It'd. Witharspoon, SO esteemed
n this city, is expected here to lecture
the 10Th or 20,h of this mouth for
benefit of the new Lauderdale Pres
terian Church. His subject will be,
Fortnight in the Alps" giving his O.
experiences. DR.. Palmer, of New
leans, will lecture here shortly on a." NJ
monism." The lecture season is abb
to set in well.
a. The following correct description