Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-10
lARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Thursday Eveuins. AugustIO, 1875
LEDGER LINES.

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The grasshoppers have appeared on
the bluffs.
In the suburbs a robbery or two takes
place nightly.
The new digest Of our city ordinances
will be out mex week.
The corn and cotton crops are being
injured considerably by the rains.
The General Council will meet again
tomorrow afternoon at the City Hall.
Turkey is the sick man Of the East, but
Sitting Bull is the live man of the West.
Everybody, planters included, is cry.
ing out to the clerk of the weather to
dry up"
The weather permitting, o game Of
base ball will be played at Central Park
this afternoon.
Continuous rains, warm spells and
thunder storms are the probabilities for
this point at present.
Ex-Governor Harris has been nomi-
mated Elector for the State at large by
the State Democratic G%ubernatorial Con
vention.
AT present you can find a M%emphian
at almost every watering place, seaside
resort or fashionable spring in the East
or North.
Mr.. j.. W. Clapp, Of our city, has been
selected as Elector for the Tenth district
to represent the Tilden and Hendricks
ticket during the Presidential campaign
We hear it stated that a picked nine
from the Germantown base ball clubs
will engage the Memphis Reds next
week.
Owing to the rainy weather the bast
ball game which was to have taken place
at Central Park between the Reds anC
Riversides has been postponed until to
morrow.
About the first Of September an an
nual review Of the cotton trade and gen.
eral market of Memphis for the year
will be published in the LEDGER. Thar
edition Of the LEDGER will be very large
offering unusual attractions for adver.
tisers.
Several OF our local divines are absen
from the city at present recuperating il
the country. On Sunday last, Dotwith
standing the changeable weather, tn,
spirit triumphed over the flesh and leat
hundreds of people to the temples of tn,
Lord,
The stolen mule found in the posses
sion of the negro Zack Scott has beer
recognized as the property of Mr.. j. c
Jones, who resides neal LaGrange, from
whom it was stolen a few nights since
lack Scott claims that he picked up tn,
J mule on Linden street.
An exchange says: Plunge the ripe
raw tomato into hot water, so as to max
the skin come off easily; put the plum.
skinned fruit on ice; do not cut it unit
the sauce is on, and you will no longe
wonder why, years ago, the tomato wa
called the love apple"
The delegates will begin to arrive her
tonight from Nashville. Several of tn
boys intend stopping over at Bon Aqu
Springs to day for the purpose of Ell
gaging in a fox hunt tomorrow,
Memphian can take as lively an intere.
in a fox hunt as he can in a convention
and Uice cerSd.
The poetic Small Talker" Of Il
Louisville Courier journal embalms
IS ~well-known Memphian in verse as fc
ID lows:
There was q young woman named Frances;
She lived somewhere dow about Memphis;
To Congress went she,
And all did agree
To send on some troops to guard Frances.
The station.house badly needs a roo
for the detention OF white women wi
are occasionally arrested for beii
drunk. The present cells are not Il
placa Is for this class OF offenders. TT
II sum of fifty dollars would be sufficient
prepare one Of the rooms in the fro
part of the station-house for this PIT
pose.
"a It's rumored that a secret effort is /
ing made to bring about the abolishme
of the Police Board and do away wi
the Police Commissioners This is to
done, not in the interest Of the citize
: at large, but in the interest Of n few
piring ward politicians who wish to &C
troll police matters MS they may see
NJ Some few do not like the Police Co
~missioners' system, because,
"No n that's felt the halter draw
Ter had q good opinion Of the law. y
ire,