Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-14
LEDGER LINES.

Peaches 75c a box at PSI Main. +
See house wanted" by = good tenant.
Choice bananas, SOC dozen, 287 Main,
Cleans Of sunshine enlivened the city
to day.
Bananas are esteemed the healthie.t
Of fruit.
Milk and peaches are now being served
up to the hungry diner.
The School Board meets tonight to
transact official business.
The would-be oyster eater, remember
lug the old saying, spells this month
with an ~ -"Aurgust,"
Now that the business reason has
reached the lower depths of dullness q
reaction must soon take place.
The city mortuary report for the past
week shows the total deaths to have been
20; or, whites IS, and blacks IL.
California plums, prunes and pears
have appeared in our market, where
they command a high price on account
Of being early fruit.
This is the kind Of weather described
by the poet when he wrote about the
land Where sunshine and shadow are
chasing each other"
Since the county election and the
G%ubernatorial Convention local politics
have evoluted' or become passive, az
George Francis Train would say.
On Friday last over one hundred
commissions we're issued from the Office
of Secretary of State at Nashville to
magistrates elected in Shelby, Upton
aud 0bion counties.
The City Of Augusta excursion yoster
day afternoon up the river was enjoyed
by nearly two hundred people, who took
advantage OF the opportunity to escape
from the confines Of the city.
Stanley did not find any wandering
Memphians out summering on Lake
Victoria Niyanza, owing to the fact thai
they are all at the Centennial, or Ten.
uessee and other State watering places
The base ball excitement is rapidly
abating in this city; in fact, the season i
about over. Were one or two up-coun
Try clubs to come here and play it woulc
get up come excitement in b~all-tossinj
circles.
In California they are making sugar
out of melons, and the yield Of sugar i
much larger than that given by beets
In this m%ellon.raising valley of thu
Mississippi this industry will be put il
active operation ere long.
! Quite a Jorge number Of young mock
ing birds have been caught and Gagged i
this city within the past few weeks. u
North the Southern knocking bird CON
mauds o high price on account of it
superior singing qualities.
The CarrOlIton (Miss.) Conservatiy
saws the caterpillar or cotton.worm ha
made its appearance on some of tn
. cotton farms o. the Mississippi rive
district, and threatens destruction t
the whole crop il that vicinity.
The Avalanche says: We beliey
both political parties, who pretend to b
national, unfit aud incapable to restor
peace to the whole country" II tb
National Democratic or Republican pa
ties cannot do it, probably ne" eoul'
The news dealers received Saturda
evening a second installment of II
DAVIS Doiugs containing the life an
pictures Of Crutchy Thompson in bot
sexes. and there was another rush for
Crutchy is a strong campaign documen
/ 1t has been remarked by strangers tn
there are cities in the United States thi
1--WE evidence of cosmopolitan progre
in the true American sense OF go
headitiveness." The cities are Ne
York, Chicago, San Francisco and Mel
phis.
The Recorders Court did not pan o
a. any startling items Of news this NOR
ing. A large number of arrests we
made by the police on Saturday and Su
i. day nights, principally for drankennei
be and these had to pay fines this mornil
al or 90 to the lookup.
Meteors shoot athwart the sky night
At present the earth is passing throu.
the meteoric belt or ring, which is es
mated 10 be over one hundred thousal