Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-24

terday while he was examining the
weapon. The ball, after passing
through the hand, ranged up the arm to-
ward the elbow, thereby inAicting a
painful but not necessarily severe wound.
When it was telegraphed on Monday
evening that B. F. c. Brooks was hold
ing an independent Cooper-C Carey con-
veution at Nashville all by himself, a
gushing Memphis politician Of Iade-
pendent views, but Of Radical tenden.
cies, left on the first train in order to
make up a quorum. It was a proxy
meeting, and was not attended for want
of funds. The c. c. party may be put
down as = patent fraud or humbug.
A sick white man reached the city last
night in search Of a hospital. BE was
sent from Brinkley, Ark, over the Little
Rock railroad, on a pass issued BY Su-
perintendent Smith. The authorities
are waking up to the necessity Of en-
forcingth law which prohibits railroads
and steamboats, from bringing sick pau.
pers to Memphis and making our city a
general hospital for people who get sick
within a radius Of one hundred miles.
Furbish's Fifth Avenue Combination
has been reorganized aud is to make a
tour next season with Mr.. Days plays,
Divorce, Alike, Article Al, Madelein
Morel, Mau and Wife and Monsieur AL.
phonse. The Two Orphans has been
shelved. Kurdish will also manage the
Kate Claxton Combination, and for q
portion OF the Season a combination sup
porting John 7. Raymond aud the Flor
ences, who will visit Memphis this sea
son.
Some time since it was stated in thu
LEDGER that the Lincks, of Nashville
had offered to play any Southern club
match game for three hundred dollars
aud that the Memphis Reds would Ell
gage them on such a basis, etc. Tn
N lshville Banner. in reply, says: "Th
LEDGER is mistaken about the challeug
of the Lincks. They would play an
club in the State except the Memphi
clubs" We make the correction as
matter of justice to the Lincks,
The Memphis Reds we're tackled b
the Collierville Athletics on YESTERDAY
but the game did not interest the Red
= the score being as follows: Reds, /!
| Collierville. O.. Nine goose.eggs wei
, captured by the Collierville boys durir
, the contest. They felded and bate
tolerably well, but they need an immen.
e amount Of practice in order to becou
experts. Our leading amateur clubs.
Riversides and Eckfords-cau easily d
J, feat the Colliervillians, provided tn,
develop no more strength than was do.
q on yesterday.
A gentleman who has been throu
the North and East on a Centenn.
tour says that be found no lager beer
equal that served up in Memphis, wht
the beer is kept in ice cool refrigerati
CELLARS, and is forced up to the |
L through cool pipes with hydraulic pr
p sure, and where the beer glasses are kt
clean in ice water. In Northern cit
the beer and glasses are hot, aud con
Of quentIy create a n%auseating feeling
the stomach Of a thoroughbred M
IS. phian. On beer, Memphis can SC
m any number to 0 of other cities.
The moonlight excursion last even
in on the river, under the management
he Mr.. Frank Van Horn and others, "
90 as anticipated and promised, a deli9
full affair. They failed to furnish
,re moonlight SO exquisitely depicted
ar. the programme, but there were so me-
~ bright and sparkling eyes among
merry dancers, that love inspiring
was entirely forgotten. At a late,
rather early hour in the morning
boat returned to the landing, and
tired jewellers wendell their way hol
ward, highly pleased with the mids'
mer nights entertainment.
D7 A we'll known citizen is raisin.
~. pointer puppy on a bottle, its mater
ancestor having retired from this
from the effect of poison. The pu
oil chases the bottle around the house
takes to the india rubber mouth-p
xiii with the eagerness and a%licrity so STIR
will ly developed in infaptile human
Ter. Should the dog hang on to the bottI
} in after years as closely as do those hu
r to beings who we're raised with similar
all roundings, that dog will never nose
will or flush a bird in a field so long as al
lem bottle remains in it, or so long as
hunter carries one in his gamebag.
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