Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-31
LEDGER LINES.

"aru meetings are all TIC rage 81
present.
New York buckwheat, maple syrup,
and fine butter at Oliver, Finnie 4 Co.'S.
The General Council will meet to.mor-
row night for the transaction of regular
business.
There will be grand Democratic rally
in the Fifth ward tonight, corner of
Beal and fernando.
Nothing Of public interest transpired
at the Courts Of record or at the Rs
cOrder's Court to-day.
The Democratic nominees will address
their f~ellow.citzens at the Greenlaw
Opera House on Thursday night.
Baseball is over for the season, and
now Shakspeare's saying comes in good
time-"Rase is the slave that plays"
At the Chancery Court to-day Chan.
cellor Morgan granted a divorce in the
case of Louis LaGrill vs.. Ellen LaGrill.
To day week the big centennial cleo.
ton comes of, end Tilden and Hen
bricks will be elected over Hayes and
Wheeler.
The marriage bells are ringing daily,
and the society bellies are answering the
call With an %alacrity that speaks we'll
not only for the present but the future
generation,
On Monday, November 9Th, the Demo
cratic and Conservative party of Fayette
county will indulge in a grand rally at
Somerviile. Distinguished speakers will
be present.
We advise our Mississippi readers to
60 and register so that they may be en-
abled to vote on mex Tuesday, the 7th
of November,
Complaint is made that drays are not
numbered distinctly, and several are
without numbers altogether. The police
a~uthorities should look into the matter.
Numbers of new buildings are in pro-
greIs of erection throughout the city.
The cost Of the new buildings will prob
ably average three thousand dollars each.
A colored Hayes and Wheeler club
was organized in Fort Pickering last
ni2ht. The club pledged itself to sup
port the Democratic nominees for State
and county Offices.
A negro vas arrested last night by the
police on the charge Of shooting q pistol
ball into the cabin Of another darkey
with whom he had a personal difficulty
on yesterday afternoon.
Piles have been driven along the levee
front aud grading and paving are pro-
crossing. The improvement will give
several hundred feet of additional land.
ing to the commerce of the city.
Barbour Lewis leaves the negroes of
Memphis to go and join the saints at
Salt Lake. What Barbour loses in the
back step he will make up in the shufle
He will make an elegant Mormon.
Quite a number Of arrests have been
made Of late on the charge Of obstruct-
ing the sidewalks. These cases are
wherein merchants leave goods on the
sidewalks to the obstruction Of travel.
The ladies and physicians of our city
are just now investigating the Eureka
Canopy at Bryson and Camps old store,
to the great CONSERVATION and disgust OF
the late mosquito brigade from Arkan.
sas.
Q1ite a number Of Memphians have
received Of late the benediction of pa.
ternity; and consequently they are sing
ing the following paraphrsse. of Tenny-
son:
Ring out. wild bells, and tame ones too;
Ring out the lovers moon;
Ring in the little worsted socks;
Ring in thebib and spoon.
Messrs. W. W. Coleman and 7. G..
Lowe have answered that they are not
in favor of sbolishing the Board of Pc
lice and Fire Commissioners or making
any change in the laws creating such
Board. The other nomirees have not as
yet answered, and the question why2