Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-14
LEDGER LINES.

President Hayes will not visit Mem.
phis.
Advertise in the Memphis Business
Directory.
The past has not been a successful pic
mic season.
The present hot spell of weather
p%leases the planters.
The Fay Templeton Star Alliance
troupe will appear at the theater next
Monday hight.
Everything is quiet in police circles,
except a little LEGAL politics being worked
up by a few of the boys.
Advertisers should remember that the
Memphis Business Directory is unequaled
as an advertising medium.
If eur business men would increase
their own and the city's business they
should advertise in the Memphis Bust.
ness Directory.
Quite a number of curiosity.seekers
and ofice.hunting Memphians will visit
Nashville when President Hayes comes
to that village.
Brushing up for the fall trade is pro.
crossing in oil business circles at present
The merchants anticipate a heavy trade
this coming season.
Another season Of summer. 1t must
be Indian summer, the atmosphere by
day and by night presenting occasionally
a hazy, smoky appearance.
Several gentlemen of our city are try.
ing the recently discovered cure for bald.
headedDess-an application of crude
petroleum oil occasionally.
The executive committee Of the Mem
phis and Shelby County Bible Society
will hold q meeting this afternoon at four
o'clock at the Cumberland Presbyterian
church.
The Little Rock Gazette of the 18th
says that Albert Beer and Louis DaltroH,
two Memphis newspaper men, we're in
the city yesterday along with the Mem.
phis base bsllists.
Summer abseutees are returning daily.
They recount the glorious times they en-.
joyed while absent from the city. These
stories are listened to attentively, but are
not always believed.
The City Brewery, Of Louisville, was
destroyed by fire last Wednesday. Total
loss, $4,000; insurance, S42, 200. Ten
thousand dollars worth Of beer was con.
sumed in a few hours.
The length of the days during the
present week will be twelve hours and
thirty.eight minutes, being a decrease Of
eighteen minutes on the length of the
longest days Of last week.
To-day voluntary petitions in bank
ruptcy we're fled with the United States
Court clerk by j. e. Thelon, Trenton,
Gibson county, and Bryant, Jackson &
Co Milan, Gibson county.
1t is earnestly hoped that all young
men who have been waiting on ladies all
summer with serious intentions will con.
elude their ooRrtipg by the first of rext
month and unite heart and hand.
A special invitation will be sent to the
ex.Federal soldiers to attend the reunion
and barbecue Of the One Hundred and
Fifty.fourth and Thirteenth Confederate
regiments at Estival Park on the 10th.
The presentation of the comedy One
Hundred Thousand Pounds by the So.
dality Dramatic Association will take
place to night at the hall of the a%ssocia.
ton on Washington street, heal Third
Since basketball played out in this city
ten.pins and billiards flourish more than
heretofore. The balltosssrs call ten.pins
horss.billiards," while the lovers Of the
latter sport call base ball "iackass ten
pima"
This morning Henry Smith, the negro
who was arrested on the charge Of muir
dering CLANCY Long, in Fort Pickering
a few days since, WAS brought before th'
recorder, who committed the prisoner t.
Jail without bail.
Every merchant, manufactures, mt
chAnic, lawyer, doctor, hotel-keeper, ex