Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-19
LEDGER LINES.

NASHVILLE IS 10 nave q puohc fountain
just like Memphis.
The best table butter in Memphis at
Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S.
Fresh oysters received daily at Madam
Vincent's Crystal Palace. I
Arnold's brass aud string band will be
ia attendance on the soldiers reunion
to be held at Covington Friday next.
To morrow afternoon the General
Council will assemble once again in
order 10 wind up important monthly
business.
A game of base ball was played Sun
day at fernando Park between the Bluff
City (Gresns) and the Memphis Greys,
resulting in a victory for the latter by a
score Of q to 0.
This is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish
new year. II is also called the Day of
Memorial. The Jews close their bust
ness houses to-day and attend services
at the s%ynagogues.
Next Thursday night Or. J. W. Rogers
will lecture at the theater on the subject
of the famous Inquisition. BE will dc
liver another but different lecture on the
same subject at the same place Sunday
night
At the General Council meeting held
yesterday a resolution wa adopted re-
questing the resignation Of all Council
men and Aldermen who fail to attend
the meetings, with a view to give place
to citizens who will attend to the peoples
business.
Messrs. L. B. Horrigan aud 7. b.
Edgington are spoken of as prominent
candidates for nomination as Represent
atives from this county by the County
Democratic Executive Committee, to Gil
he vacancies caused by the designations
Of D. P. Hadden and Ben Eisoman.
On Thursday and Friday next, at
Covington, there will be a big reunion
and picnic of the boys who wore the
gray in the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth
Tennessee Confederate regiments. Fri
day will be the big day. These regiments
were organized in this portion of WesI
Tennessee.
On Monday next an excursion trair
will leave this city for Fort Smith, Ark.
via the Little Rock railroad. 1t will b.
a very pleasant trip, and will give ou
citizens an opportunity Of taking a lool
at Arkansas. The advertisement in an
! other column gives all the necessar'
; particulars.
Captain Cameron, of the Irish Volun
: teers, drills his company almost nightly
with a view to make the boys thorougI
soldiers and get them up to a point
from which they will be enabled to en-
gage in the competitive drills for tn
championship of the State. IL take
hard work to make well drilled men.
Mr.. Loudon, who has the contract 70
%repaving the landing, has to Begin tn
work by the 25th inst. and finish it b.
4 the 9th of November. Dir. Loudon j
D to be paid for his work monthly, bu
, twenty per cent. is to be reserved unit
the work is completed. ale has also
S give a bond to the city guaranteeing tn
E completion of the work,
1t was stated in the LEDGER Of yestei
day that the occupants of the bugg
which was::wrecked on Main street nee
South Court by q runaway horse wer
8 Mrs. B. Rocco and another lady. On
reporter was misinformed as to the OF
cupants, two other ladies instead of tn
above mentioned being the subjects of th
accident. We take pleasure in maxim
the correction.
Our reporter had to 60 on a man
/. bond yesterday. The man wanted
marry, and had, as is the custom, to Civ
a bund to the County Clerk to the efet
that he had no wife living and that th
y county should be relieved of the charg
: of any paupers in the dim future. Or
coupon clipper aud bloated bondholdt
signed his autograph to the bond in thi
style so boldly prominent in the sigu'
y ture of several names attached to th
n Declaration of independence.
No man should be put in nominatio
n by a convention unless it is an esta'
lished fact that he will accept if nom
le mated, because it places the delegat
Se who puts q man in nomination in q p
Il culiar position not to be envied. n
one should present the name Of a ma
to for nomination without authority, nj
should any man pledge any other ma
=. to abide nominations without having Il
u same gold foundation to stand upon.
The County Democratic Legislati'
Convention nominated two merchant
Messrs. Haddon and Eiseman, as Repr
10 sentatiyes, but they have declined
make the race. The question is now.
will The County Executive Commits
fill the vacancies, or shall the city del
gates TO the past convention be call
together once more to fill up the ticke
nd The latter plan is probably the bett
rs. one, and it would in oil probability gi
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