Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-20
LEDGER LINES.

The educational board will meet again
next Monday night.
Quite a crowd Of country people ar
rive in the city daily.
M~isdemeapor cases are on trial before
the Criminal Court to-day.
The forest leaves are beginning to turn
brown and yellow already.
The thermometers get down to $50 and
up to go these days aud nights.
The Memphis law class will meet to.
night at the Office of Henry Craft, ESQ.
For fine shirts and underwear, new
styles in mems furnishing, 20 to May,
the shirt tailor.
The damp, cool weather Of the past
few days has been very unfavorable to
the cotton crop.
The "0ld Folks of Shelby county are
enjoying a picnic and barbecue at EST.
val Park to-day.
The muscadine crop promises an abun.
dant yield. Muscadine wine will soon
be in the market.
Obituary notice for Smith-"He was a
sacrifice batter, a fine base runner and a
perfect gentleman"
About one dozen Memphians were at
Nashville taking a look at and shaking
hands with President R. B. a. and the
members OF his cabinet.
News has arrived from Bailey Springs,
Alabama, to the effect that General For
rest has almost recovered his health, and
is able to be up and out.
81. Seessel, Sr., & Son, corner of JEFF
ferson and Second streets, received 10
day a fine lot Of red snsppers, bass and
lake salmon. Lovers of extra good ish
should call and buy.
An immense amount of goods is being
shipped daily by our merchants. The
fall trade is %springing up in a lively man.
ner, although the cotton crop is about
three weeks behind time.
The palstisl steamers Grand Repub
lie and Carondelet were destroyed by fire
last night at the St. Louis landing. The
boats were getting ready to engage ia
the Memphis and New Orleans trade.
This time in the year 1864 many Mem.
phiaps attended the ball given at Chick.
amauga. In that bloody fight the
lsmented General Preston Smith, of the
Que Hundred and F~ifty.fourth regiment,
fell to rise no more.
A very large crowd of people will at.
tend the Mound City boat races on Sun.
day next. The race between the boats
of the Bluff City and DeSoto clubs i,
creating considerable excitement, spd
many bets have been made on the result.
The greatest name now known to Mem
phis history is that of Smith The
lynx-eyed reporters have been or the
war-psth in search of blood or the reason
why Horace F. s. jumped the town and
swan to the Texas shore, and the reason
~hy is as much of a my stery as ever.
The Fay Templeton troupe closed
their brief engagement at the theater
last night. Puck, a fairy bu%rlesque ex.
t~ravaganza, full of pointless jokes and
poor situations, vas presented before a
slim audience. The troupe leave TO-DAY
for Little Rock and other points South.
Several saloon keepers of the all night
sort swear by all that's good and bad
they will resist the ordinance and police
order closing drinking saloons at mid.
night. An effort will be made in the
general council to repeal the ordinance,
but such an effort will meet with a fitting
rebuke and a defeat.
Big arrangements are making for the
reunion aud barbecue to be given at Es.
tival Park on Saturday the 10Th instant
by the surviving members of the One
Hundred and Fifty.fourth and Thirteenth
Tennessee regiments OF the G. S. A.
Hundreds of invitations have been sent
out in all directions, and special invita-.
tons are being sent to ex. Federal sol
diers.
Since the police order for the arrest Of
tramps was issued not a tramp has ap.
piled at the station-house for lodging.
The fear Of the chnin-gsng has deferred
the trsmps, and scores of them have Jeff
for new pastures further South. A few
professional beggars or trsmps yet infesI
the streets and beg for a few nickels,
which when obtained are in a'few seconds
passed over the counter Of some ada
cent whisky shop, and the tramp nour
ishes the inner man.
The programme Of the Old Folks pic
/, mic, which is being held to-day at Estiva.
Park, consists of a basket dinner anC
barbecue at II o'clock, an Grafton by R
Dudley Frayser at 2 o'clock, music anC