Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-09
LEDGER LINES.

The County Court was in session to-
day preparing to adjourn for the term.
In several North Mississippi towns
base ball is interdicted inside the corpo-
ration by ordinance.
The. levse is crowded with cotton bales
OF present, the local packets having
brought in large receipts las. night.
Memphis has subscribed about twelve
thousand dollars to the relief Of the
Savannah and Brunswick sufferers.
But thirty-one deaths occurred in the
city during last week, and of these
eighteen we're whites and thirteen blacks.
Grenada, Miss., lost two editors by
death-Gus Siguaigo, OF the Sentinel,
and j. L. Davis, of The Rural Gentle
man.
The School Board will meet tonight
and engage in the dispatch Of educa.
tional business connected with the city
public schools.
To-Day is the anniversary of the battle
of Savannah, fought in 1898. and in
which the Polish patriot Pulaski received
his death wound.
The initial soiree Of the F. f, F. social
club will be given at Cochran Hal 10.
night. The fortunate recipients Of inyi.
%tations anticipate q pleasant time.
The Memphis Reds will play the
Columbus, Ohio, Buckeyes again this
afternoon at Central Park, and will play
a third game on tomorrow afternoon.
Jim Mitchell, the %colorel porter at
Kaufman's clothing store, while standing
in a chair to fix the lamps on Salmd day
evening. fell and fractured his arm in
several places,
The Chsncery, Law and Criminal
Courts are in session again at the court
house, and CONSEQUENTLY lawyers, crimi-
mails, jurors, witnesses and litigants fire.
quent that palace of justice.
Much 10 the surprise Of nearly two
thousand people OF Central Park yester
day, the Memphis Reds beat the Ohio
Buckeyes by a score Of 8 to 3. Burka
lows pitching and Kenre ly's catching
did the work.
Patchwork" a musical meIange
containing scenes and songs from
sore Of English snd French conf.
operas. will be the attraction presente'
at the theater tonight by Salisbury
Treubsdours.
Hot free lunches now captivate th
hungry hummer and lunch iend ever.
forenoon. They are always .on hand
occupying front places and receiving tn
I, first plates, and occasionally they pun
chase a glass of ale OF the bar.
AT the Criminal Court today the Cal
michael Msdigsn homicide Ease is o
trial. 1t will be remembered that man.
months ago Madigan was killed by polio
officer Charmichael while the latter wa
attempting to arrest the former on
: warrant.
, Forty five hundred and sixteen bale
of cotton were received here from Satul
day at noon up to moor to-day. Tn
steamers Illinois and Hard Cash. due her
yesterday, have about four hundred bale
each on board, and they will be in thi
! afternoon.
Esquire Yardley, a black nan who
making an Independent race for th
Office of Governor, will speak at the Al
sembly Hall tonight, The negroes sui
pect him Of having Porterean procliv
ties and believs he ia otly running to al
Governor Porter's election.
Major W. J. Sykes, high tax man, lei
here q few days since at the invitatio
OF the State Democratic Executive Con
| mittee, 70 stump the State With Thomas
that gentleman having declined to NEE
Porter and his pistol agais On the stnmT
= but now Thomas also declines to divid
time with Sykes; so our fellow-citize
6 will have to return home.
Delinquent taxpayers whose propert
has been bought in by the State had bel
g ter lookout, as the State agent in thi
city is about to have wriis of possessio
, issued in some two Thousand case!
# Money is needed ia the State treasury
now that 100000 has been paid out t
the "coupon-purchasing ring" the hei
apparent of the old funding ring.
The Centennial Commissioners ha7
given great offence by the too free di
Z tributiou of awards and medals. 1t wa
r? like a lottery, every buyer of a tickC
being assured Of a prize. Eleven thor
e. sand bronze medals having been distrlt
T. uted, consequently the relative value
medals or awards amounts to nothing
The system of making the awards We
! like the race in Alice in Wonderland,
in which every one ran when he like
{, stopped when he liked, and when a
stopr ed at the word Of command, an
all won and all received prizes"
- The Police and Fire Commissions
have ordered the Chief OF Police and h
: subordinates to close up such houses
i%llrapute as have become offensive to ii