Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-24
G e CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY
MEMPHIS:
Monday Evening, July "a, 1876.
LEDGER LINES.

fESi ~AoiCShIoti was sent 10
Jail in default of bail by the Recorder
this morning.
The st. Louis Red Stockings faxed
out the Memphis Reds at Central Park
yesterday by a score OF 10 to 3.
The spirit of old Macbeth, who doth
murder sleep, must be in league with
the clerk of the weather nightly.
Yesterday Sunday vas remarkable
by there not being a single arrest made
by the police either by day or night.
The city mortuary report for last week
shows the total deaths to have besn 30,
of which q we're whites and u blacks.
The organization of ward Tilden and
Hendricks clubs throughout the city is
progressing in the most satisfactory
manner.
Yesterday the Hartfords defeated Our
Boys, at a game of base ball in the
northern suburbs of the city, by a score
of % to ID.
The Black Guards, a new military or.
.gsnization, INDUCED in a street parade
today, and will give a picnic at the Elk
position building tonight.
The orbed new moor hangs out her
silvery horns in the west nightly. AS
the horns are turned down somewhat a
wet moon is predicted by old-fashioned
weather people.
Muzzled dogs boldly walked up to DO.
licemen to-day and rubbed against them
but the unmuzzled cur generally skipped
off through an alley when the guardians
of the city were around.
Albert Lock, a negro %loafer, was ar.
rested bv the police Saturday and was
sent to Jail by the Recorder this morn.
ing, in default of bail, on the charge Of
being a suspicious character.
From an exchange we learn that the
Georgians are making Rome howl
with iron mills, Touring mills, iron fur.
naceH, etc. This spirit of manufacturing
is what Memphis needs badly.
A South Carolina statician has dis.
covered that three-fourths Of The duels.
or ARA nged for, in the South since the
war were about women, and the majority
of the %combatants had the title Of Major.
The wind from the east sprang up late
last evening and continued throughout
the night, thereby o~vercloudirg the
heavens and driving down the Their.
mometer many degrees toward the tenn.
perate point
The Criminal Court stands adjourned
to the 9th instant, when the Grand
Jury will present a report; then the court
will adjourn over to the next term.
which will commence on the third Mon.
day of September next.
A morning contemporary in its per.
sonal column is in the habit of "~wreakipg
thoughts upon expression by announce.
ing the arrival or departure of a live
merchant" in contradistinction we pre-
to the phrase a dead merchant"
The Louisville Courier,Journsl says.
There is nothing in the Hayes journals
about Frances Thompson, the Freed.
mans Bank, and the difficulty of raising
pork in the South, but there is plenty of
in them from Hamburg, S. c."
A number of roughs at Central Park.
yesterday, during the progress of the
baseball game, used SO foul language
those residing in the vicinity Of the
grounds purpose applying to the courts
for legal relief in the shape of an injunc
ton, etc.
At the Recorders Court to day D. W.
Davenport, proprietor of the Arkansaw
House, on Washington street, was fined
fifty dollars and bound over to the Grim
inal Court in the sum of five hundred
dollars on the charge of keeping a house
Of ill-fame.
On and after tt -day the unmuzzled
canine will lose his scalp, provided a po.
liceman a get within range of him or
her, or provided the animal can be in
duced to partake Of poisoned food. If
you have a valuable dog, purchase a
muzzle; if you have a worthless cur,
take off the muzzle.
The attendance at the theater Satur-
day night to witness the performance of
the Graco-Roman wrestlers, Messrs.
Rigal and Regnier, was not large. The
contest vas quite a warm one, the heat
being oppressive, Mr.. Rigal, in appear
ance, represented the heavy, sturdy
Roman, and Mr.. Regnier the lively,
Greek. The contest was one o.
main strength, no tripping or holds be.
low the waist being permitted, and it
resulted in a victory for Rigal, he secur.