Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-25
LEDGER LINES.

Victor D. Fuchs has some fine red
snsppers.
The best Of table butter at Oliver, Fin
ME & Co.'S.
To-day week Coles circus will camp
on the bluff.
Fresh oysters received daily at Madam
Vincent's Crystal Palace. I
Now that the watering season is over
returned Memphians dash it with brandy
and whisky.
Everybody is invited to attend the Old
Folks barbecue at the Leath Orphan
Asylum grounds on mex Thursday.
The postage stamp tale is told on our
legislative ticket nominees: "All right,
if the darned things will only stick"
W. c. Goode, who was arrested last
May on q charge of forgery, was to day
acquitted by a jury of the Criminal Court.
A number OF drunken men and women
lodged at the station-houss last night
and attended the Recorders matinee to-
day.
Eighty. nine thousand people, includ.
lug a number Of M~emphians, visited the
Centennial exposition at Philadelphia on
last Saturday.
The baseball match at Central Park,
yesterday, between the Reds and the
Blues resulted in a victory fer the former
by a score Of 4 10 q.
The mortuary report for the week
shows the total number of deaths to have
been thirty, of which sixteen were whites
and fourteen blacks.
If Huxley could see how a drunken
man is evoluted into a station-holse in
Memphis he would come to the %conclu-
sion that the connecting link is i've dol.
lars.
, To day the annual election of officers
of the Chamber of Commerce was in pro.
gress. The polls closed at 2 o'clock. AT
/ 4 o'clock this afternoon the annual meet.
. ing will be held.
. The Batesyille (Panola county, Miss
y
Blade says: IF no disease strikes the
hogs in this county there will be meat
= enough made here to supply the demand
for another year."
k The Old Folks OF Shelby county viii
# stand around a barbecue at the Leatl
Orphan Asylum grounds on Thursds,
d next. Captain C. F. Vance will delive
IS the annual grafton.
1t The blowing up Of the rock at Hel
e Gate, New York, yesterday was general
IF ly talked Of on street corners in this city
D. No report could be heard from there
o however, except a telegraphic one.
An open buggy, 10 which we're a bi
g fat woman and a young girl wearing
shortsleeved and very low-necked dress
attracted the attention of all the men o
j., Main street at 10 o'clock last night.
Callender's Georgia Minstrels will az
pear ct the Memphis Theater on the 5tl
9th and 7th of October, to be followed o
the 9th by Salsbury's Troubadours, EN-
lish comic opera being their specially.
1t is rnmored that a duel is to
n, fought between Governor Porter an
u. Dorsey Thomas, the rival candidates fC
the G%overnorship. Porter played
game of draw on Thomas, and the latt,
is mad about it.
Tue Nashville Banner of the 23d cay.
Richard HALEY, wSo is now engaged
scenic painting at the Opera House, vi
Of leave for Memphis at the conclusion
he bis work to repaint the scenery in Il
.ss Memphis Theater."
rs. The excursion to Fort Smith W
come off this afternoon. A number
70 Memphians will turn their faces iowa
We the setting sua and the home of Sittil
err Bull as they enjoy the scenery along 4
81. line OF the Little Rock railroad.
The equinoctial storms seem to
over. II was a revelry Of rain, althouI
my along tie Atlantic seaboard a revelry
lily wind made many wrecks. The autaI
ON nal equinox ushers in the fall seas
nd just as does the vernal equinox t
len spring season in the third week
am March.
The plan of selling goods adopted
a Spirit Lake, Iowa, merchant won
take well in this city, mo books q
!. kept, but when a customer desires ere,
he goes.to the desk and borrows mon,
for which he gives his note, payable vi
geo interest. he then buys goods and ps
10 for them"
We sent a check to-day to the msl
of Savannah, Georgia, for ffty,two d
lars, contributed by the following p
s1 sons: VIM. R. Moore & Co., fifty dolla
John H. Brown, " dollars. The
acknowledgement Of the receipt of
AZ check will be published in the LEpC
when received.
oh. A number of sporting Memphis
ont with guns, game-5ags and supplies, 8
bor accompanied by a big kennel of sett