Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-21
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l8S- l85- 1918 8-lS8 -l88 -I8S.
Beware Of unripe fruit at this season
Of the year.
Next month, on the third Monday, the
Circuit and Criminal Courts will be in
session.
We are now enjoying the ~dog-daYs,
when Sirius, the dog star, reigps in the
heavens and on earth.
Father Magevney will lecture tonight
at St. Mary's Catholic Church, corner Of
Tdird and Market, at s o'clock.
This forenoon Alonz. Stewart, a black
~drayman, was arrested by pstrolman
Elliott on the charge of larceny.
The grand picnic for the benefit of the
Church Orphans Homo will come off at
the Talbot place on Thursday next.
Many a dead.beat and ward politician
in Memphis now proclaims himself the
friend Of the w~orkingmen who strike.
In another column will be found the
advertisement Offering &e Memphis
Theater and the old postolice building
for sale.
John Delley, o colored man, residing
near Elmwoo1 Cemetery, brought fine
samples of open cotton bolls to the city
today. His cotton fields are becoming
as white as snow,
When the Harmonial Hallites settle
the question es to The 3" origin of the
spirit the world will move along as
usual, and the materialists can exclaim
that's what's the matter with Hannah. I"
Or the streets yesterday and to-day
Postmaster General Key received mauy
censures on account of his speeches
made on his New England tramp. There
is no use in eating dirt and then swear
ing that you like it.
To-day j. Evans, a merchant residing
at Alamo, Crockett county, was brought
before United States Commissioners Gar.
rett and bound over in the sun OF $1,000
TO answer the charge of dealing in illicit
tobacco and whisky.
Baseball excitement has worn away
in Memphis. No longer do you hear
the base ball oracles give vent to their
opinions as to the prowess OF some
leather.pounder. The baseball bores
are silent for a time.
r. H. Spangler, at 376 Main street,
has Leslie's Popular Monthly, Demorest,
and other monthlies for September
Also Guy Livingston, " Uncle Silss,"
THE Queen Of Hearts, by Wilkie Col.
Inns" and the Nickel Library" for SC.
New bonds for DID," is the cry at the
City Hall. The home bondholders should
step up and make the exchange and
thereby set a good example to the foreign
bondholling creditors of the city. Don't
be backward in coming forward, gentle
men.
Already bald-headed and near-sighted
theater-going Memphiaus are excited
over the announcement that Lydia
Thompson aud her undressed blondes
have been engaged to appear 10 bur
lesque opera at the Memphis Theater
during the coming season.
At St. Mary's (Catholic) church to.
night Rev. Father Magevney will deliver
a lecture. The reverend gentleman is
one Of the finest pulpit orators in the
United States. The subject of the lee
tuce Sunday night was the Monastic
System Of the Catholic Church"
The best news item furnished this CEN
fury is that published in the local col
umn Of the Avalanche of this morning:
" Avalaschian headlines give on index
to the news beneath, and not to the
opinion Of its editors thereon" The
world thought otherwise until to-day.
On tomorrow night q river excursion
will be given on board the steamer Vint
Shinkle by the ladies Of the conGrega-
ton Of St. Patrick's church. A large
number of tickets have already been
sold, and the gentlemen who have taken
the matter in charge are confident that
| il will be the largest excursion of the