Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-14
LEDGER LINES.

We advise all good citizens to attend
their respective churches on tomorrow.
Call.at Sol Coleman's and get a nice
score book for baseball games free Of
charge.
Next Monday night the Stevens Ora
matte Combination will appear at the
thsater in LED Astray."
The Louisville League nine and Mem
phis Reds will play base ball at Central
Park to-day and tomorrow.
The cloudy weather and balmy spring.
like atmosphere indicate rain; al least
60 the barometers are said to predict.
Red fish and red snapper can be had
at Victor D. Fuchs, Al Jefferson street,
Sunday morning from 8 to IL o'clock.
The Troubadours will present The
Brook, an attractive musical extrava-
gauza, at the theater matinee to day and
again tonight.
At the Criminal Court to-day prisoners
were arrsigned for trial. No trial cases
were taken up, but on Monday the trial
o. cases will be renewed.
To-day week Dorsey B. Thomas, Inde-
pendent low tax candidate for the Office
of Governor, will address the people Of
Memphis upon the important issues of
the day.
The Blue Jeans edition of the LEDGER
yesterday was all the rage throughout
the city. A thousand orders for the
paper came in after the edition was ex.
hausted.
Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co., mercantile
agency, have issued q valuable business
outlook for the first nine months Of 1876.
1t is valuable paper of reference for
all business men.
"Whar De Orange Blossoms Grow
plantation song aud chorus, by John I.
Rutledge, is the latest music out, very
good, and for sale by H. G, H%ollenberg,
music publisher and dealer.
The lunch fendg who hauut saloons
daily forget the Spanish proyerb which
ssy3that "a cigarette, a glass Of fresh wa.
ter or a kiss of a pretty girl will sustain
a man for a day without eating"
1t is rumored that a strong indie.
pendent Legislative Ii ket, composed o.
low tax business men, will soon make it;
appearance in this city in opposition t
the regular Democratic nominees.
A month ago the ice dealer was az
object of aattering attention, but now
the coal dealer is the object OF attraction
and is'cultivated by im%pecuneous citi
zens as well as by their more wealth.
neighbors.
A week ago a MemphiaR found a pear
in a shelloyster aud he has been eatin,
five dozen of oysters each day since, bu
his efforts in search of another pear
have not been crowned with success 81
far as heard from.
We are authorized by G gentleman q
this city TO state that be will make th
following bets: $25 that Tildsn an
Hendricks will carry New York; $25 tina
Tilden and Hendricks will carry Indiana
$25 that Tilden and Hendricks will b
elected. All of the above bets to b
taken together,
Governor Porter's speech did not sal
isfy all who listened to him at the Green
! law Opera House. Hundreds of peopl
+. believe that be should not have gone int
that coupon purchasing affair, and o.
: election day Governor Porter will dis
cover that his rash act will meet with
! reblke il ballots.
To-day is the anniversary Of the battl
U of Hastings, England, fought in LOG
and in which the Anglo.Saxons we're d,
feated by the Normaus. It is also th
D anniversary Of tho death of Edwar
Bruce, the Scottish King Of Ireland, VIII
was de'eated and slain by the Englis
forces in the year 1918.
Mr.. James E. Baily, of Clarksville, wi
speak at the Greenlaw Opera House tt
, night from a high tax platform. He vii
discourse about the honor of the Stat
and will insist that the people are abb
to stani a high tax-but the people d
not think so, aad right there is where M
Baily and the people differ materially.
The LEDGER rooster croBed long an
loud yesterday over the Democrat
. victories in Indiana and West Virginia
, The rooster adorned the head of tn
telegraphic column of the LEDGER, an
. it was the " early village cock that thric
1 did ss~latetion to the morn" = whic
s opened up a vision Of the defeat Of Rae
ioalIsm in November next.
NJ
The retail game and fish and celer
l markei to-day furnishes the followin
quotations: Oysters, in can, from fort
to sixty cents; Quails, twenty to tweut,
fvs Gems each; squirrels, twenty cen.
each prairie chickens, seveuty.fve cen
per pair; red sDappers and white fs.
fifteen cents per pound; salmon, twelV
aud a half cents per pound; celer
ninety ceats per dozen,
Ill., El.~-s. l.. ..t-..nI f-a~, l.