Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-17
LEDGER LINES.

Advertise in the Memphis Business
Directory.
=. 1t is now rumored hat 0sman Pasha,
the hero of Plevna, is an ex-Memphian.
President Hayes is an Odd Fellow, and
a member Of the Grand Lodge Of Ohio.
The law class VIII meet tonight at s
o'clock at Mr.. Crafts Office. A prompt
attendance is desired.
Advertisers should remember that the
Memphis Business Directory is uuequaled
as an advertising medium,
Frayser is the name of a new p~ostofice
established by the p. m. G. on the Padu.
cab railroad, in this county.
The fall business outlook presents a
promising appearance and betokens
commercial prosperity for Memphis.
New buildings are going up all over
town, especially in the suburbs, thanks
to che building and loan associations.
The physicians of the city are kent
busy at present attending to cases of
chills, malariSl @fevers, congestion, etc.
The equinoctial storms are on hand
for the autumn season, now that the sun
Is preparing to cross the equatorial line.
Memphis hunters are now on the war
path in search of birds. They shoot
them on the wing or the head-any.
where.
The Fay Templeton Star Alliance
troupe arrived yesterday afternoon from
Knoxville and will appear at the theater
tonight.
Thirty deaths are recorded for the city
by the board Of health for the past week.
OF the number Of deaths II were whites
and ID blacks.
If our business men would increase
their W and the city's business they
should advertise in the Memphis Bust.
ness Directory.
The Mississippi journals announce
that cotton is opening rapidly and that
planters are bending all their energies tc
ward harvesting it.
Attorney General Luke Wright has
gone to Mobile. Ala to attend a sick
child. In bis abseace Mr.. Sam Cannon
will act as attorney general.
1t is not every journal that processes
and %pretends to be the Workingmen's
organ is so really. The w~orkingmen
of Memphis thoroughly understand this
fact.
Thursday next the Old Folks will in
dulge in their annual picnic at Estiyal
Park. 1t will be a basket picnic and bar
becue, and all expected guests will be in.
vited.
For the Nashville Presidential visit
General Cheatham will be chiet marshal,
aud his aids.dt camp from West Teunes.
see will be jerome Hill and G. W.
Gordon.
Ed Young (colored) was brought BIZ.
fore the Recorder this morning on the
charge Of stealing q saddle. The proof
not being clear he was discharged from
custody.
The following citigels have gone to
Louisville for The purpose Of grasping
the hand Of President Hayes: A. ] KEEL
lsr, n. P0Dtsine, W. B Galbreath and
James Speed.
To day is known among our Jewish
population as "Yom Kippoor." 1t is a
holiday on which all, business is sus
pended, and religious services are held 10
thG different s%ynagogues,
A basket pieuic vas held by . select
party Of our Irish fellow.eltizns at Fits.
gibbons Love yesterday, The rains 10
the afternoon materially interfered with
the pleasure Of the pippickers.
Every merchant, manufacturer, n,,
ehanic, lawyer, doctor, hotelkeeper, ex.
press Office, steamboat, depot, etc, within
the country trading With Memphis will be
presented with q col Y Of the Memphis
Business Directory.
The cotton seed oil trade has increased
in The South. The Drtipla is largely
, shipped to Eurlna wLanoe a IL rs