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

Fresh Baltimore oysters received daily
at Madam Yincent's Crystal Palace. t
The monthly meeting of the General
Council will be held on tomorrow after.
noon.
Ga yesterday at Somerville Emerson
Etheridge made a speech in favor Of
aud Wheeler.
Cooler and clearer weather is predic
ted as among the meteorological proba.
bilities for this latitude.
Fifteen arrests were made by the
police yesterday and last night, princi.
pally for misdemeanors.
King Cotton has now again taken pos
session OF the city under his new reign
for the commercial year of lS76-77.
Thursday evening next Etheridge,
Mum and other great lights Of Tennes-
see Radicalism will crate in this city.
Hon. Casey Young will speak tonight
at eight o'clock in front of the Peabody
Hotel. Let there be a large turnout.
Next Monday the public schools of the
city will open up for the reception Of
pupils, and to the very great satisfaction
Of parents.
The yellow lever is increasing at sa'
vannah, Ga. All adjacent cities have
established quarantine regulations as
against the plague-struck city.
II is the intention of General Myers
cold Prob') to increase the signal ser
vice in the cotton States and other agri
cultural sections of the country.
Mr.. W. R. Mcclure, the newly %electei
Secretary of the School Board, engaged
in the duties of his office at the Schoo
Visitors meeting held last evening.
Mayor Flippin was at Brownsville OF
yesterday, whittier he had been sum
moned from New York in consequence
of the sickness of one Of his children.
The work Of putting down a ston,
pavement on Poplar street, between
Main and Second, is progressing to-da!
under the direction of City EDginee
Meigs.
Another scandal, with a side issue o
refusal to wed IN the ground of not be
ing personally responsible for the conse
quences, is talked Of aro6nd town by tb.
followers Of Madame Scandal.
Congressman H. Casey Young will dc
liver a speech in front of the Pesbod
Hotel tonight and will give an accoun
Of his stewardship Of the peoples interei
during his official career ia Congress.
Local politics are stirring up agail
and candidates for Legislative Office
are already in the field, taking time b
the forelock-taking voters by the hant
and saying, shake; how is your mother
in.law2"
.Wharfmaster Ed Shaw announce
himself at a meeting held at somervil
on yesterday as a candidate for Coz
j gress, but Barbour Lewis has the insiC
track on Shaw and all the other brethre
for the nomination by the convention.
The School Board has refused to abe
ish the expensive high schools in q
cordance with tie wishes and suggestion
q q ofreform mode by superintendent Leaf
Q and the Board also refused to dispen
with the teaching Of French and Germl
in said schools.
Many are returning from the Cente
: NAL, while others are going there. II
teter.board of life and travel goes up al
down as it did thousands of years ago
the days of pre-Adamic centennial Gel
brations, when ssurians we're kept in t
aquariums Of the wealthy citizens, a
when mammoths we're exhibited in C
= cuses.
A Chelseaite turned his horse loose
I. the commons adjacent to his residen
= a few days since, but the animal v
stolen in less than an hour. Yesterd
- while he was searching through Chefs
n in order to purchase another horse
ie walked up on a negro who was ridi
the stolen animal. The Chelseaite
90 rested the negro and conveyed him
ut the station.house.
b The Governor Porter coupon purch
\. ing matter is the topic of discussion
at the streets. You can find men both
Us and against the purchase of coupe
~ but those against il seem to be largely