Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-25
LEDGER LINES.

for Smith, but Horace apswereth not.
The city is being billed with Kelly &
Icons snowy posters and Autographs.
One hundred half.barrels and barrels
of new kraut at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
Thursday night next the school board
will meet and attend to school matters.
Misdemeanor cases and light f~elonies
are up for hearing at the Criminal Court
to day.
Playing chess over the wires is the
lightning way it is done in this city at
present.
The central committee of the Work.
ingmen's party will hold a council Of war
Is. night.
This seasou picnic o~ratory did not
flourish so grandly as it has done in sea-
sons past aud gone.
Sunday last was a sporting day with
many Memphians,w who indulgedin either
picnics, boat races or long range rife
shooting.
To day at the city hall ST., 67l.55 in
old bonds we're funded and exchanged
for new bonds by N. Long & Co Russell.
vile, Ky.
Bond funding continues to progress at
the City Hall. Yesterday Geo. Bergman
funded old bonds amounting to $ll ,246
So, and received the new issue.
Burglars and thieves continue tc
prowl around town, and gambling house
cappers" are increasing rapidly il
numbers and are getting ready for the
business season.
Young Ladies' Journal, Bow Bells
Leslie's Popular Monthly, S%cribner, ant
other late magazines; Middlemarch, By
George Eliot, complete in one volume
20 cents, at Spangler's, S76 Main street
The Bohemian Girl will be p~resente,
at the lheater if possible on the 9th auC
9th of November next. Miss Jenni,
Magevney will appear as the primo don
ma on the first night and Miss Hattie
Collins on the second.
LIB. Stem, of Henry county, was al
rested by the United States officers ant
was yesterday committed to Jail by thI
United States commissioner in default
of $1,000 bail on the charge OF dealing il
unstamped tobacco, etc.
Two Dig whart.boats now adorn tht
landing. The new wharf boat is the hui
Of the famous old steamer R, e. Lee tina
beat the Natchez in the grand twelve
hundred mile race on the Mississippi
river, between New Orleans and St
Louis in the year 1870.
l; is not probable that any varieties
theater will be opened here this season
The variety business has played oat o
late years, and only Aourishes in tht
Black Hills and other frontier places
1t is no great loss to the world, the va
riety business being grossly immoral il
its tendencies and teachings.
The celebrated aud seus %ational Clau
sen vs.. Clauson divorce case comes NJ
for hearing this afternoon before tn,
Circuit Court. During the progress o
the trial some interesting development
will be made with reference to certain
grades of social life in this city.
Says the Avalanche Of this morning
" In the lame Of charity they beg 70
bread-a deserted vile and four sick
starving children 10 front of the hos
pital. Because she is not fitted to enter
the comfortable asylums for the fallen, i;
she to be allowed to suffer-" Does virtue
ply3
The immoral man OF the Avalanch,
continues to talk baseball to the mora
man of the LEDGER The Avalanchian
has been out on a fly, and he now rails
at roughs and the demi monde, whom h,
says attended the Sunday regatta in "a,
greater numbers than they did the ecu
trail Park bas, ball contests"
Our chamber of commerce proposes
to call a postal convention TO be held it
this city n the I'd of March, 1878, apt
that delegates rom the towns and cities
Of the South and West be invited to at
tend. The object Of the convention is t
iudaoe the United States government t.
increase mail facilities by river and raj
in the South and West.
On &c morrow the LEDGER Will publish
the list Of cases for trial before the Albi
%iration Court, which viii meet in tbil
city on Monday next The cases on Ia,
list are from the Shelby county CHANGER.
docket, aud the attention Of lawyers j
called to the list SO hat they can cut i
out aud preserve it for court reference
The cases run from number 29S to 57l
Mr.. Ed Halfway who was with Horac
+. Smith in the ski6 when Horace Eel
,verb lard, publishes a lengthy commuui