Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-24
LEDGER LINES.

Inc ponce and hre commissioners
meet this afternoon.
See advertisement of fine rockaway
and hack for sale cheap.
Fresh oatmeal, cracked wheat and
graham -four at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
The crop of bad boys in Memphis
promises to yield an abundant harvest.
But three feet of water in the placid
Arkansas, says the Little Rock Gazette.
Tonight week Kelly & Icons min
will open the theatrical season in
this city.
Tonight the school,boarders will meet
al the Odd Fellows Hall and engage in
discussion Of business.
Look out for chills and rheumatism
and get medicated flannel underwear
made at Mays Memphis shirt factory.
The mortuary. report of the city for
the past week numbers the deaths OF IS,
OF which q we're whites and IA blacks.
II is stated in social circles that three
or more young ladies OF our city will ere
long make voyages to the matrimonial
state.
Tie chamber Of commerce elects off.
GERS to-day, and the annual meeting o.
the. chamber will be held at 4 o'clock THU
afternoon.
Many saloons close their doors at Il
o'clock at night, but many do not. The
ordinance should be enforced generally
or not at 81
The Confederate Monumental Com
mittee has invited proposals or bids foi
the erection OF the monument at Elm
wood Cemetery.
This morning the Recorders Cour
opened at 9 o'clock, and will continue I,
be opened at that hour during the fal
and winter season.
Saturday next the reunion of the One
Hundred and Fi,ty-fourth and Thir
teenth Tennessee regiments, c. S. A..
will come off at Estival Park.
Yesterday afternoon quite a larg,
number Of our German fellow citizen
enjoyed themselves at Fitzgibbon's grove
by indulging in a basket picnic.
A dispatch from Captain Hicks t,
Bradford & Ely this morning states tina
he has secured the Sender, and vii
leave Memphis for New Orleans on tb,
18th prox,
The man who sells oysters on the hall
she'll at twenty-five cents a dozen thiJ
fall and winter will secure a rush of Gus
tom that will astonish him and put she
kels in his purse.
The Porter Rifles won the prize ban.
ner at the St. Louis State fair competi
tive drill, There was no competition
no other company appearing on tn,
grounds. 1t was a walk over the track
for the Rifles. rr
The fine weather on yesterday caused
people to seek out-ofdoo recreation
The churches were well attended, hun
dreds visited Elmwoed Cemetery, anC
some six hundred people attended the
Mound City boat race.
The Howard Association of the city
has sent $3.50 to the yellow fever suffer
ers Of %Fernsndina, Fla, and informed
the authorities Of that plague-str cEel
town that a further sum of $3.50 awaited
their order, if necessary.
Now that the moon sheds her r%eiuIgen,
brightness nightly gay parties tf mer
aud women in hacks drive around towr
until after midnight, and between drink,
make the silent streets echo with their
laughter and snatches of Bachanaliar
songs.
The festive tramps o seek the su
burbs OF night aud occupy all the I'm.
occupied houses so that they may be our
of range Of the scope Of the ordinance
ordering their arrest. The tramp a bt
put to good use and can be utilized in
working on the streets and alleys.
A well-known reporter of one of oul
morning journals, while shooting ovel
the ore hundred yards range, at the
Mound City regatta IN yesterday, made
a bplls eye in the air. II any person il
found dead in the woods, the coroner
jung can return a verdict Of accidental
death"
AT the Criminal Court to. lay Charles
Mynatt, charged with breaking into 9
house and committing larceny, pleaded
guilty to petit larceny, and was sentenced
to n years Imprisonment in the peni
Tertiary The court is engaged in try ,ne
misdemeauor aud light felony cases thil
afternoon.
Merchants wishing o contribute pro
visions, satables, etc, to the barbecue o
the One Hundred and Fifty.iourth ant
Thirteenth Tennessee regiments. to be