Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
THE It
LEDGER LINES.
Grapes 7c per pound at 2s7 Main.

All the magistrates elect pass int
on the fret of September,
The only good or bad Indians in this
city can be found standing in front Of
stores.
The Reds and Riversides play a match
game tomorrow at Central Park. Ad-
mission, twenty-five cents.
The County Republican EXECUTIVE
Committee met yesterday at the custom
house aud discussed the pl>n Of the No
vember campaign,
Cloudy weather and rain areas are pre-
dicted for to-day. The rain areas will
no doubt disturb those servants who have
of Easements.
The constant showers of rain which
have fallen during the past two weeks
cause the planters to grumble no little
in many water-favored localities.
Commissioner of Election Ed Wor-
sham has received notification of a con.
test over the offices of Magistrate and
Constable in the Third (Lucy) district.
The poisoning of unmuzzled dogs by
the police continues without intermis.
sion. Every morning scores Of dead
CANNES can be found on the streets and
alleys.
A Nashville journal says that the AID.
%jutant General will be engaged for the
next week in attaching the Governors
signature to three thousand magisteriaI
commissions.
j. B. White and Wiley Thompson
charged with larceny, were committed
to jail by the Recorder this morning
Jack Scott, arrested on suspicion of lar
ceny, was also committed.
No one knows better than Judge
Brooks, Of the Appeal, hat the scissors
cuts out news, political, mercantile, ma
rine and miscellaneous for the people
and that the paste-pot sticks it into them
On many avenues and suburban
streets society seems deserted, owing t.
tie fact that numbers of the popular
bellies and other fashionable people have
goue touring Eastward aud Northward
Croquet does not flourish this season
in Memphis as it did last year. Som,
new lawn game will have to be invented
for the young folks who desire to engage
in outdoor sports.
A pair of steel l~eg-braces, such as ar
used by persons who suffer from NAL
formation of joints, can be seen at tn
station.honse. The braces are suppose
to have been stolen by a negro womaI
from some residence.
The game Of pedro" has become tn
popular card game with Numbers Of jolt
citizens. 1t has taken the place O
euchre, seven.up, casino and whis
especially when the cigars and drinks ar
the objective points.
Madame Rumor and her back-bitin
train are busy circulating news Of littl
social scandals into the ears of all thos
wishing o listen. AS a gallant but bluI
dering Irish Peer of the last centuT
said, THE only way to look at the fault
of a pretty woman is by shutting yor
$ eyes,"
On u genealogical table appears g
apple tree branch twelve inches j
length and bearing fourteen large a.
ples in q cluster and of a fine species
fruit. The apple tree grows on IL
. grounds of Mr.. A. =. Hill, on McLemo.
avenue, q few miles out in the suburI
Of the city,
The State Gubernatorial ConventiC
convened at Nashville to-day for Il
| purpose of adopting a platform for q
November election, and selecting a ca
didate for the office of Governor, a.
also appointing Electors for the State
large, as well as for the respective Go
I gressional districts.
We call attention to the card
Messrs. Hogan 4 Jordan in our wan
column. They are both young men, b
by no means inexperienced in their Ii
OF business, as is attested By the har
some trade they have built uPin SO sh'
n time. Their place of business is N
1876 and 1877 Second street.
A legal contest will probably come
with reference to the act of the Legis
>. ture abolishing the Office of City I
he Collector, while the city charter ProviC
nd for the establishment Of sqch an off
City Tax Collector Schaper continues
collect taxes as usual, he being adyiI
by lawyers that the city charter ann
the said Legislative act.
Those thinking Of going West to @
fornia, the so.called Eldorado, will TIL
A. atherw;se whom informed that there