Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-11
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
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Friday GgasInG August IL, 1875
LEDGER LINES.
Grapes &c per pound at 2o7 Main.


Grapes &c per pound at 2S7 Main. +
The delegates, or "aligators," are re.
turning from Nashville in large mum.
bers.
The Recorders Court failed to furnish
forth its usual number of items this
morning.
Chickasaw Guards dress parade and
drill postponed on account of the in
clemency of the weather.
We continue to be placed under obi
cations to the Southern Express Com
pany for tie latest New York journals.
Memphis Reds and Riversides at
Central Park this afternoon, provided
the weather is favorable to field exercises
Mr.. Charles Layton, who accidentally
shot himself on the lat OF July, has so
far recovered as to be able to resume his
business.
The City Fathers will assemble at the
City Hall this afternoon and will engage
in city business, provided a quorum can
be secured, which is very doubtful.
In Kentucky they are having Tilden
and Hendricks pole and flag raisiups,
with big speeches and meetings. Why
not raise a Tilden and Hendricks pole
out on the bluff ?
The Avalanchian reporter has discov.
cred hat the street cars leak badly
during the rainy season. The reporter
shoull have raised his umbrella in the
car while enjoying his ten cent ride.
A negro boy, Robert Dalton, nged
fourteen years, was arrested to-day for
picking the pocket of another boy and
stealing a nickel. He is charged with
larceny from the PERSONA high felony.
The County School Directors met at
tie court house on yesterday and agreed
upon q series Of regulations presented by
Superintendent George B. Fleece. The
regulations will be published in pamphlet
form in due time.
Somebody wants to know why q street
car has never been stolen, and somebody
answers that old -four barrels are equally
good for kindling wood, and on the whole
are better for lighting fires and are
easy to carry off without discovery.
The little %statuette of Diana which
adorns the drinking fountain on Main
street, in front of Court Square, is sadly
in. reed of washing. The fountain in
the square is beginning to present a thin
coating of Wolf river mud not very
charming in appearance.
A special dispatch to the Courie.
Journal of the 10th, says: Hon Robert
L. Caruthers, for many years Chief jus
tice of Tennessee, in ante bellum days
and Governor during the rebellion, has
been dangerously i'll at the Girard House
Philadelphia, for several days"
The excursion on the City of Augusta
next Sunday afternoon will extend t
the cutoff, some twenty miles up the
river, Everything will be made com
Portable and attractive for the guests
The round trip will only be fifty cents
which ought to crowd the boat to its ut
most capacity.
An effort is making to get up q boat
race on the river. There are n or tw'
good boats here. The DeSeio No. 3 en-
CINE boys have a f%orty.nine foot gig, elk
cared, and any crew that wants a squirt
can be accommodated. A few year
since the DeSoto boat was the cracl
flyer of the port.
The Appeal on Thursday morning il
noticing the attendance Of Esquire ?
M. Winters as a delegate by proxy a
the Gubernatorial Convention, aud tn
Independent candidate who defeated th
regular Democratic nominee for the ofic
of magistrate for the city at large, il
dulged in an immense amount of gus
on the subject of political conversion
and performed the rite Of Apotheosi
over one convert from Radicalism. /
reminded our religious reporter Of til
parable of the Prodigal Son.
A philantbropic citizen occasionall
leaves AT the LEDGER Office a half dolla
or a quarter for the purpose of stalk
ing " bursted newsboys. The boys some
times get out of funds and are unable t
pay for a few papers, and in such case
a draft is made on the " stake fund 70
ten or twenty cents, and the young mel
chant once again engages in business
/. Notwithstanding his previous baul
. ruptcy. In each instance the boy
d made to promise that he will return tn
amount of money advanced.
1t is charged that police patrolme
throw poison to dogs that are chained
/. back yards. The dog poisoning ord'
does not give any person a right
L poison a dog chained on the premises
!, its owner. The order applies only
dogs uumuzzlel and running at larg