Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-14
LINES.

At the Nashville pool rooms pools on
the Saratoga are being sold nightly.
Hogs are being fattened on peaches in
portions Of Mississippi and Tennessee.
Open cotton bolls are arriving in town.
Already Vicksburg, Miss has received
her first bale Of cotton.
The city schools will not open until
the first Monday in October next. and
will close or the Grst Monday in June.
Not many Memphiaus went to Europe
this season, They are waiting for next
season when the great universal exposi.
ton will be opened at Paris, France.
Chancellor Eakip, Of Little Rock. has
issued an order restraining the Iron
Mountain Railway Company from inter.
tering in any manner with the Little
Rock railroad, or with its depot and
bridge privileges at Little Rock.
The Standards, Of Wheeling, West
Virginia, a fne base ball club, has been
disbanded by The directors, there being
no funds on hand to pay the players.
Several other Alliance clubs will be apt
to succumb to financial necessities dur
ing the next few weeks
Hereafter no child under six years o.
ago or n having auy contagious dis
ease will be permitted to attend the pub
lie schools of the city. The city school.
are not nurseries or hospitalp, although
heretofore many parents and %guardiant
seemed to have thought so.
1t is understood and arranged tina.
those unfortunate citizens who reside on.
near Central Park are again to be an
noyed by baseball playing on SUNDAY
with all its coarse, vile and r~ufianly sur
roundings, including vulgarity, profan
ity, drunkenness and blackguardism.
Private sewers are becoming popular
in Memphis, because no hope exists ever
in the minds Ct the most sanguire tina
the city government will ever constrac
public sewers. The city in its corporate
capacity is bankrupt, and is almost a E
subject for the bankruptcy court, tn,
debtors boneyard.
The thermometer yesterday Afternoon
and late last evening swung around tht
860 point. AT 10 o'clock q cool breeze
and q heavy rain came up from the
southwest and continued for seyera
hours, accompanied by brilliant flasher
of forked lightning and mutteriDg roll
of thunder in the southern heavens.
The educational board has accepted 9
proposition to put up u four.room build
ing on the south side of Monroe stree
between the bayou and Wellington street
for the purpose of furnishing greater &C.
eonmodation tothe colored children whc
attend the city schools. The board is t.
lease the building for five years at $500
per nun
Nine. Salvotti has departed, after hav
ing appeared at six concerts at Estiva'
Park. Nine. Salvotti has a magnificent
voice, and most unsteady has it been
cultivated. 1t might almost be said Of
her as a noted lawyer once said of q
chief justice of the United States: 81
know that she is very ugly, but l fee
that she is very great"
At Nashville as in other cities q party
colled tho Workingman's party has or
ganizad, with a view to put only work
ingnen in the field as candidates fol
municipal offices. 1t is we'll understood
that q patty is now being organized in
Memphis for a like purpose. A few old
professional politicians who wish to gel
back into Office are at the head and tail
of it.
The Tennessee Federal Soldiers As
ISOLATION will meet on the 18th day o.
next mouth at Mnryville. A poster
signed by General James P. Brownlow
as president, and Will A. McTeer as sec
rotary, announces the fact and calls
upon ex.Federal soldiers to come witt
three days cooked rations in theil
h~aversacks." A number OF distinguished
speakers have been invited, and are ex
pected to be present and address the as
ISOLATION.