Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-12
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
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MEMPHIS:
SATURDAY Nvening. August ~, 1879
LEDGER LINES.

AhhhNlllt dA labbs |
See advertisement Of house wanted
bS a prompt-paying tenant.
Free lunches at saloons are going
rapidly out Of fashion in this city.
Ella Williams, colored woman, was
arrested and committed to jail to-day
Oh the charge Of larceny.
Magistrates and eonstables elect are
invited to step up and get their certifi
Gates from Commissioner of Election Ed
Worsham.
Spangler, at 376 Main street, has oil
the latest popular reading for Saturday
and Sunday. Lakeside Library con
plete from No. l to the latest.
There will be a lecture by Rev. Father
Magevney, for the benefit of St. Peters
Parochial School, tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock, at St. Peters church.
At the Recorders Court this morning
John Lucas, negro larcenist, and John
Dennis, negro, charged with larceny
from the person, were committed to Jail
About this time Generals Terry and
Crook, with their commands, are Skin
mishing with the warriors of the Caudal
Poised Bovine out in the Bad Lands Of
the Yellowstone.
Next Monday night the School Board
will meet in monthly session for the pur'
pose of making arrangements Tor the
next scholastic year and for other i'm,
portant business.
The RAIDS will hold a mass.meeting in
q few days for the purpose of selecting
delegates to their little Gubernatoria
Convention, at which they intend t.
nominate a man for the purpose of being
beaten.
Billy Lieben still keeps in the leac
with the latest papers and magazine
from all sections Of the country. I,
get a supply of the freshest and bes
reading matter call on Billy at 236
Main street.
The Nashvill Banner says: 9TH
shining baldhead Of the old chiettain c
Shelby county will be the headlight {
the Democratic train this trip. Loo
out for the locomotive when you hea
the whistle blow"
Rice birds from the Carolinas are tn
s delicasy with gourmands at our restal
rants at present. The rice bird is abol
as large as the end Of your thumb, an
it takes a few dozea Of them to furni'
forth a square meal.
The Pine Bluff Press says; CAPITA
W. S. Moon, civil engineer, of Memphi
who has been sounding our river al
surveying our city front, tells us that
can permanently protect our wharf al
q prevent further caving Of the bank I
about 1900"
At the base bali game between
Reds and Riversides at Central Park "
terdsy, the result wa in favor OF t
Reds by a score Of Is too. Nine goo
eggs" were captured by the Riverside
Owing to the threatening weather the
=. abundance on the grounds vas not larl
n An alteupt was made yesterday att
noon to bold an adjourned meeting
the General Council, but no quorum
ing present It proved q failure Con.
o%uently those in attendance became Q
"a gusted and adjourned over to tbe ne
regular meentiAg, on the first Wean
day in September.
A big row and fee fight took place
the May1ower saloon on Main sire
9r near Poplar, last night, In rear OF
saloon, in the alley, is a vile den
infamy inhabited by a lot OF wi
women of a very low grade. ON
Doughcrty, while attempting to make
III rests. was assaulted by u OF the r
ers. Three of them were arrested {
locke1 up.
1t is rumored that the newly cleo
6. Superintendent of Public Schools I
James 7. Leath, will continue 10 hold
Office as Police and Fire Commission
but his friends deny that such is a f
lp' and claim that he will not hold two
fees, but will give his entire care and
%tention to the important office OF SUI
intendent of schools, an Office which
the quires all the attention that any one l
and can give it.
'Sri- The Mullett headed architect has b
defeated by the appointment oil ia
G. Hill to the office Of United st
NJ Supervising Architect by the Secrs