Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-05

Quoted with great good humOr and often
in quite a learned financial manner.
Finance is a much less exciting topic to
discuss than politics.
Firemen have a saying that zone Ere
brings on two others in rapid success
sion." The adage concerning the three
fires in succession and on succeeding
nights has PANIED out correctly in
scores Of instances.
The sum Of $4,000 was appropriated
by the last Congress for the purpose Of
making the necessary survey Of the
Memphis harbor, wharf, ETC., and com
petent United States engineers will be
here in due time TO make the survey with
a view to be able to make a full report to
the mex Congress.
The fashionable white Centennial era
vat has been introduced here by returned
Centennialites. 1t gives the wearer a
religious and clerical look not often in
keeping with the present vearers. On
the Centennial grounds the cravats are
hawked about aud sold By me Of all
nations, including the Acknowledged Ce-
@lestial fromChins, at three for a quarter,
either hard money or g~reenbacks.
Congressman Fl. Casey Young ad.
dressed the Chamber Of Commerce yes
terday afternoon on the subject Of the
Memphis Custom.house, and referred to
the number Of letters, anonymous and
otherwise, received from Memphis pro-
testing against the Custom-bouse being
erected on the bluff site. The names OF
these writer's and the contents of their
letters would make cheerful reading, and
we understand Congressman Young has
both in his possession.
The game of base ball played between
the Paris (Ky.) Mutuals and the Mem
phis Reds, which resulted in a victoty
for the latter by 9 to 4, was not q goot
game to bet on, and many assert that thu
game was sold by somebody. Peopl,
with superior opportunities for judginI
can, it is asserted, always bet on tn
right side. The pitcher Of the Mutuals
Burkalow, has been engaged by the Cen
trail Park Company, vice Lud, dis
charged. Miller, the catcher, and Mack
the first baseman Of the Mutuals, hav
been secured by the Memphis Blues, an
the Paris club left for home last nigh
minus their three best players.
One Of our justices had to dispens
law tempered with equity this mornin
in a case wherein o man had his wife an
son arrested on the charge Of commi
ting an assault and battery upon hin
The wife admitted committing th
o%ifeHse, and put in a plea of ju~sti6catio
that her husband was in the habit of ge
ting drunk. The Justice recollectiu
the able judgments OF Soloman di
charged the wife from custody and az
vised her not to whip her husband agail
and advised the husband to keep sober
He then advised both to live in peac
and love each other as they should do,
as they did when they became man an
9 wife in the years gone by.
Information has been received thi
three convicts, one Of them Lewis Jefe
son (negro) of this city, have escape
the %penitentiary, or rather from the W
{ can coal mine, the owners of which ha'
3 a large number of %convicts in their ell
ployment. Scores OF convicts have bee
turned loose upon the community durir
the past year, owing to the system pu
sued of hiring them out on public worI
and to private parties. 1t costs Shell
j county many thousands Of dollars
d convict these culprits, yet numbers
them have been re-arrested here with
a few weeks after they were sent
n Nashville. Another strong objection
hiring out %convicts is the fact that CO
vict labor is brought into contact wi
honest labor, aud thereby tends to
grade the latter.