Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-27
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Directory.
Wake up, Phenixl 1t is getting rather
late Tor a picnic.
At the Criminal Court misdemeanor
cases are on hearing.
Quite a large number Of country PEGS
pie are in town to-day.
The Memphis Tbester is undergoing
improvements on a large scale.
The reporters and the public a~nxiously
await the next scandal or sensation.
1t has developed that there are tricks
in boat racing as well as in any other
sport.
Augusta, Ark, will have a postal
money Office on and after the LIST of DC
tober.
The unfortunate infant Of the Clausen
VS.. Clausen divorce case notoriety has
red hair.
The red-headed men Of the city are
organizing a social club for mutual pro.
lection.
The bootblack nuisance continues to
flourish daily on Madison street, between
Main and Front.
At the school board meeting to.nigh,
the question as to abolishing the high
schools will be discussed.
AT the United States Court to-day the
argument of counsel in the Brown Mic.
olson pavement maudamus cases was
engaged in.
1t is said that Professor Tice is now
ready to furnish picnics, barbecues, cir.
cuGes and church sociables with weather
representations at low rates.
The heavy thunder, lightning and rain
storm which passed over the city lasI
night purified the atmosphere and made
clean the streets and alleys Of the city.
The Pamela County Miss True Pa
triot says: The cotton picking season
is here and an effort will now be made to
save what the freshets and worms have
left"
Mr.. Henry Graft, of this city, hos been
appointed by Governor Porter one Of
the three judges of the Arbitration
Court, vice Mr., Howell T.. jackson re.
signed.
AT the Chancery Court to-day a divorce
petition was fled by Annie Boylsn (col-
ored) against Ohm Boylan on the grounds
Of abandonment, cruelty, general "cuss-
edness," etc.
The argument Of counsel on the Nicol'
son pavement cases, on hearing before
Judge Trigg of the United States Count
to-day, attracted quite a large number Of
citizens to the courtroom.
The Chickasaw Guards aud Bluff City
Grays will act as escort to the members
of the old One Hundred and Fifty.
fourth and Thirteenth Confederate regi
ments on Saturday next.
The squad Of Memphians who went to
the Arkansas prairies on a hunting ex.
petition a week ago returned last night.
They killed 40 prairie chickens, $50
quails and s deer. This was fine sport.
The naturalization business continues
to be exhibited among the faithful in this
city as usual, No longer are the skepti
cal and practical newspaper reporters
invited to attend and expose mediumistic
frauds.
The big barbecue at Estival Park on
Saturday next will be worth witnessing.
The boys of the One Hundred and Fifty.
fourth and Thirteenth Confederate regi.
ments are doing the reunion up in gene.
rous style.
If it takes a captain and eight police.
men to let a negro criminal escape from
a hotel which they had surrounded. hcw
many captains and policemen would it
take to arrest the negro2 This conum-
drum IS open for solution,
The Workipgmen continue to hold
ward meetings, and it is proposed that
the central committee will ere long iRsue
an address to the citizens Of Memphis on
the subject Of capital and labor and the
next municipal election.
The work Of laying the underground
story Of the cuatom house is progressing
slowly but surely. Tie bea'y blocks Of