Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-04
LEDGER LINES.

In port.
We are enjoying the first day of
autumn.
Merchants continue to 60 eastward
after goods.
Bond funding continues to progress at
toe city hall.
The cotton worm has appeared in the
country around Collierville.
Nothing of Importance occurred in
any of the courts Of record to-day.
Prevent cbills and rheumatism by
wearing Mays medicated flannel suits.
This morning Lou Selby (white) was
arrested and locked up on the charge of
drunkenness.
Next Monday night the school board
will meet in solemn session and attend
to school matters.
The general council will meet to.mor.
row afternoon for the pupose Of attend
ing to city business for September.
The cloudy and cool weather contin.
ues' but the planters say they want a few
more sunbaths for their cotton crops.
The slight showers of rain today are
not regarded as of promise with refer
ence to the cotton interest of the land.
The thermometer ranges around the
7O' point these days. This causes Mem.
phians to seek the neither sides of blank.
kets ct night.
The higher or mob law has been de.
fined to be "a law which allows doing
what one likes, when one doesn't like
what ones deirg."
The city officials are preparing Their
monthly statements for the general
council meeting, which will be held to
morrow afternoon.
There will be another concert at EST.
val Park tomorrow night, on which &C.
cssion Miss Emma Crauch will sing
many of her sweetest gems.
Mr.. E. B. McHenry, a deputy clerk Of
the Chancery Court, has gone on a TALL
trip to Missouri, his native State, and
will be absent several weeks.
A petition and proposition will be cent
into the general council to morrow with
reference to the establishment of a fire
alarm telegraph system in this city.
College boys are departing from home
and the public school children are count.
ing time OIL their fingers. The city
schools will open on the FIRST of October
this year.
On Saturday Richardson 4 Co. re.
ceived q new bale Of cotton from Friar's
Point, Miss. 1t was raised by Mrs. G. B.
Miller, on the Edgefeld plantation, near
the Point.
The long and weary months of sum.
ner have come to an end, aud it is a
somewhat remarkable fact that during
the whole sumuer We had not a single
thunder storm OF any consequences.
One thousand aud twenty convicts
now board and lodge at the Nashville
peniteutiary. Five hundred Of these
will remain there, while the balance will
be placed at mines in which the peniten
tiary lessees are interested.
AT the Circuit Court yesterday after
noon Richard Williams (colored) filed q
EDITION for divorce against Epsey Will.
Hams on the grounds Of desertion with.
out cause from the bed and board of pc.
t%itioner three times, and general cussed-
ness.
The tspe-worm referred to in yester.
days LEDGER was only ffty.one aud q
halt feet in length, and not that may
yards, as stated, VIXEN taken from u
patieRt 10 this city by DR.. Floto. A
mau who has a tape.worm should pay
double board.
Ere long it will be said of the new
party as a Shaksperean character said
of the witches on the heath:
" The earth hath bubbles as the water has
And these arc Of them; whittier are they
yanished2
Into the air, ard what seemed corporal,
A. breath into the wind ~
For the GFst time this season you
could see merchants walking around the
streets with locks Of cotton in their
hands and on their clothing t. day
Every mau wanted g small sample of
the new crop, "Hsle's to the new
CROP" was the i%avorite toast In saloons
On tomorrow the trial Of Junkerman,
the ex.County Court deputy clerk or
employe, will come of before Esquire
Galloway. Some startling Developments
will DO made, but whether the acts com.
mitted we're o%fTonses known to the low or
mere confidence games remains to be
seen.
Several members of the American AS.
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Science, now at Nashville, have been in.
vited by Governor John G., Brown to take
a Texas trip, and many of them have &C.
cepted. Memphis will be the general
rendezvous of the party and from Mem