Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-31
LEDGER LINES.

AuS moAthlJ hAH SNA'NNVNA" 80 "
arolnd tomorrow.
Msciinaw trout and white fish at Vic:
tor D. Fuchs, to-day.
A perceptibie improvements business
has taken place already.
Another lot OF fresh Baltimore oysters
received by Victor D. Fuchs.
The city fathers will assemble in ad-
joarned monthly meeting this afternoon.
Fresh Baltimore oysters received daily
at Madam V%incent's Crystal Palace sa.
loon. 1871
ThS Democratic residents of the Sixth
ward setected convention delegates last
evening.
The Nashville journals are as silent
as the grave over the Portercoupon
question.
H. Casey Young will speak at the
Poplar street market, Eighth ward, this
evening.
Convention delegates will be selected
in the Second and Third wards at a
meeting tonight,
New bales of cotton continue to com
in daily, so the cotton season may be re.
garded as fairly opened.
Emerson Etheridge and D. A, Mum
will crate in praise of Radicalism in this
city on Thursday, the 7th Of September
The game called futures" is playe,
extensively by cotton spectators. l
beats pedro, keno and faro, in genera
results,
To-day is the last of the summer sea
son, and tomorrow will be the CON
mencement of autumn, or what is know
in the United States as fall.
A new drink has been invented by
saloon keeper Of this city. 1t is Gale,
the coupon" and it is soll for its fac.
!, value, no matter what it cost originally
The Porter Rifles, of Nashville, hsv
accepted the challenge of the Chickasa'
! Guards to engage in q competitive dri
Z in tails city on the 9th of October mex.
A speaker at q late Democratic clu
meeting in this city pronounced the col
pon-purchasing troubles as a "tempesti
a teapot" but it resembles much NOR
a tornado in a porter bottle.
OLD Metbuselah saw nine hundre
Centennial Expositions, or one ever
hundred years, and yet he had nothin
to say about them except to answer Ink
a Memphian, and whisper, ITS a bi
Of thing"
* Even the babies of Memphis engage
u the base bawl busine IS, both as amateur
2 and professionals. Their mothers regaI
them as angels, and consequently the
z ought to be occasionally caught out c
at the "hy."
Herman Beckman, who was arrestt
Is on the charge of horse stealing, WI
K committed to Jail this morning by Il
" Recorder on the charge. In his saddl
Gu bags we're found a pair Of Mexican spur
et a knife and a pistol,
- The i%mpecuneous wbisky-hsad avail
RS with some impotence the nnounc
ments Of candidates, so that he can a
proach one, slap him on the hack al
say, "Old boy, I'm for you; you'll
elected can't you treat2'
Dorsey B. Thomas, Independent ca
u didate for the office Of Governor, is
J the city, but declines addressing our CT
zens from the t%wenty.cent platform un
he has an opportunity to do so in a joi
r. discussion with James D. Porter.
The First warders held a rousi
Democratic rally last night. Speech
~ we're made by General Chalmers he
H. Casey Young, John 7. Moss and y
Decker. Delegates to the Compression
and county conventions were selected
So far the campaign in this city
been a slow one, but in a few days
merous candidates for senatorial a
Legislative honors will be showing the
selves in the front. Then hand-shakI
and inquiries into family affairs will
in order.
OPP The steamer James D. Parker
start out on an excursion tonight