Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-20
LEDGER LINES.

Finnie & Co.'S.
Fresh oysters received daily at Madam
Vincent's Crystal Palace. I
Is not Barbour Lewis and his gang be-
coming a dead issue and a little fetid2
AT a base ball game at Central Park,
yesterday, the Reds defeated the Blues
by a score Of 6 to 8.
The Nashville journals announce tina.
the Memphis Blues will play 10 the for.
mer city in about two weeks.
DR.. Rogers lecture on the Inquisition
will interest a large audience at the
theater on tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow, the 2lst instant, is known
as the first day Of the autumnal equi-
nox; consequently rain and other storms
will prevail for some time.
The General Council committee on
accounts has reported that the amount
of total taxation necessary for this fiscal
year is one dollar and ~seventy.two cents.
The great aim Of many young public
speakers as well as old one is to find
6~ve-syllable words enough to express
their one-syllable ideas. This is espe-
cially 60 in the Radical camp.
The golden torch of Hymen has been
set blazing IN Memphis, now that the fall
season has set in. On to-moa.ow even.
ing a we'll known cotton man will en-
bark upon the sea Of matrimOnY.
At the Criminal Court to day Wm.
Moore, negro, was found guilty on two
indictments charging grand larceny, and
William was sentenced to three years
Imprisonment in the State %pehitentiary
in each case.
The admirers Of Vic Woodruff in this
city will be pleased to learn that she has
obtained a divorce from her souls atm
ity, Colonel Blood, ana is once again q
free woman. Blood had too many afini
ties TO suit the Woodruff, and in conse
quence she sent him adriit.
On Saturday text at 10 o'clock a m
the Shelby county Democratic Conven
ton will assemble at the Exposition
building for the purpose of filling thu
vacancies on the Legislative ticket
caused by the designations of Messrs
Ben Eiseman and D P. Hadden.
On to morrow and Friday next, a
Covington, there will be a big reunion
aud picnic of the boys who wore the gra.
in the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Tennel
see Confederate regiments. Friday wi
7 be the big day. These regiments wer
organized in this portion Of West Tel
nessee.
Memphians who expected to see til
ex Empress Eugene and the Prince In
perial in this city ere long will be incol
/ solable at receiving the following new
, which was cabled over to this continen
from England: "De lImperetrice Nap
leon ne viendra pas en- Amerique cetl
R AIMEE"
J. A large aud fashionable audience a.
Z peared at the Central Methodist churc
last evening on the occasion of the eel
e bration of the marriage Of Mr.. w. v
James and Miss Minnie Bowles. tt
attendants we're W. G. Nice and Mi
Mamie Bowles, Fred T. Anderson an
Miss Marie James, Sam A. Pepper al
Miss Ida Speed, Ed P. Clark and Mi
, Jimmie Treadwell.
Things is getting mixed about here
!. said O country darkey at the Radical co
/ v%ention on yesterday. First ome
c~atty.piller, den de chicken kolera al
e de grasshopper, den de white folks wa
to get all de offices from de PublicS
party, and de odder day | hear dat a nj
q ger was pisened by a mushmillion. Flo
God, / 'blieve Mr.. Barbour Lewis W
spile dis country yitl'
THE Nashville Banner refers to d
0. late base ball game played in tais ci
between the Nashville Lincks and Me-
Is phis Reds in the following name
St " The Lincks whitewashed the Reds 70
innings out of the nine, and would ha
4 kept their side down much lower
Bolts their pitcher, had not Civ
g out. Burkslow, the pitcher of the Rec
i is a regular riAe.shot, so our boys ca
for the first six strikers of the Line
went out on strikes"
The new Digesto of laws and ordinanc
I. of the city is far inferior to the Dig
complied in 1873 by William Fl. Bridgu
The new Digest does not contain al
notes to the city charter, which moi
: should embrace most useful reference
court decisions in relation to the p
|. visions thereof. These notes Of imp
Of tant decisions should have been attach
8. to the new digest in order to have ma
ID it satisfactory and complete, but as
s. stands at present it is meageT and b
rem Of all such useful information, and
consequence Bridges Digest will contir
to be regarded as a superior work Of
81 ference. The new Digest was gotten
upon too economical a plan, and in c.
sequence is a literary failure,