Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-03
LEDGER LINES.

A light frost made its appearance IN
the suburbs last night.
The estimated school population Of
Shelby county is 22,l25.
Choice grapes, l2l cents a pound; ap.
Piles, 81 a barrel, at 2S7 Main.
The ChAncery, Criminal, Circuit and
County courts are in session daily.
Nothing of public interest transpired
at the Recorders Court this morning.
Shelby county had no county fair, and
Memphis had no Exposition this year.
Misdemeanor aud light felony cases
are on trial IN the Criminal Court to-day.
White clover comb honey (extra
quality, in small packages, at Lyle q
Shields. 20
The Memphis Reds defeated the Gin
cinnati Reds at Central Park yesterday
afternoon by ascore of 10 to-.
The kilograms announce that tealy
frosts appeared at New Orleans, Jackson
aud Vicksburg on Sunday night.
The Charleston railroad directory
meets in this city to-day, and the stock
holders will hold a meeting tomorrow.
The average married Memphian now
attempts to erect a stove in bis dwelling
and at the same time preserve his COM
posure and serenity.
Mother, Pray for Me To night" new
song and chorus, words and music by ].
7. Rut'eige, has Just been received at
d.. G. Hollenberg's music store on Main
street.
TIE Radical county Legislative con
v%ention is holding on Beal street to-day;
and the colored national convention Of
Odd Fellows is holding forth at Assem-
bly, Hall.
The State Comptroller announces
that warrants will be issued on the first
of January, 1871, to the various cour
ties of the State for their proportion O.
the school fund.
In strcetcorner political circles yol
can hear the names of Porter, Thomas
Nancy and Yardley mentioned, an,
often not in a very complimentary o
hattering n
Callender's Georgia Ministries will az
pear at the theater on Thursday ever
ing. Manager Brooks is hard at wor
fitting up the theater for the forthcoz
ing dramatic season.
About the most welcome visitor t
Southern cities at present is Colon'
Jack Frost, although out in the cotto
growing regions he is not regarded as a
accession to agricultural society.
It is rumored on the streets that til
r white Radicals who r~epudiated B. Lew
intend getting out a strong coRservatiV
e county Legislative ticket, provided ii
timber can be found in this region {,
tina; purpose.
Cotton is coming in at q lively rat
e and our farmers are also coming to tow
s and making purchases OF supplies. CO
ton picking is all the rage in count
districts at present, the weather beir
h most favorable for such exercise.
Yesterday Mr.. W. j. Wetter, constab
elect from the Fifteenth civil district, I
+ signed bis position owing to i'll healt
The County Quarterly Court appoint,
John Powell 10 gil the place until {
q vacancy could be filled by an election
the district.
y Four thousand people, of all classt
y creeds, sizes and %colors, assembled
" meath Coles circus and h~ippodrome tie
. last night. 1t was by long odds the bi
- gest crowd that has ever attended a C
Gus in this city, and yet it is whisper
. on the streets that the times are ha
~ and currency is scarce.
The bracing autumn weather seems
have q~uickened the blood of our pc
IA old draught horses and dray.mules,
Ie occasionally one of them throws its he
RI and tail into the cir aud runs a mu
"a through a public thororghfare, to I
a. great delight of Young America and I
annoyance Of older and wiser people
-, Two lost children were found wand
% ing about the streets yesterday, aud th
we're at once placed under the paterr
care Of station-house turnkey T
Hope, who took them to the circus, a
afterward discovering where their hon
D, were, took them there. Tim Hope
one of the best dry nurses in the CT
and takes care of ell lost children four
of wandering about town,
he Our river historian received a dc
ISIS possum from a steamboat friend vest
IS. day. The animal was slaughtered in
wilds Of Arkansas by the crew CT
70 boat after a long aud exciting chase
re moonlight night. Our maa had
or 'noasnm cooked in GOOD style and