Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-08
LEDGER LINES.

Cooley and Peterson for November at
Spanpler's.
Wild pigeons have already commenced
flying southwark.
The cold rains of yesterday it was
feared would bring heavy frosts.
Felix, 292 Front street, receives daily
by express choice Norfolk shell oysters.
Sorgham sugar making is being carried
on in West Tennessee among the farmers.
In Arkansas cotton pickers are gather.
ing the staple at fifty cents per hundred
pounds.
The Vlcksburg Herald says: Cater
pliers are devastating the corn fields #
Mississippi"
Tonight Our Boys' will be presented
by Dillon and the Stoddart comedy com.
pany at the theater.
The grand jury is displaying consider.
able activity in finding indictments
against criminals Of all grades.
Game of all kinds is being received
here in large quantities from Arkansas
and from the Mississippi bottoms.
The Criminal Court to-day is engaged
in trying a Ease Of shooting with intent
to kill wherein a couple OF negroes were
the actors.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching around in the suburbs of town
and are stealing everything either in
sight or reach.
Cotton jumped up from one.eighth to
one-quarter to day owing to an advance
and excitement in the Liverpool and
New York markets.
Six hundred end eight bales and one
hundred and n~inety-two Snakes" OF
bags Of cotton were received by river
since Saturday night.
Quite a large attendance at Harmo,
NAL Hall last night, on which occasion
Mrs. Hawks delivered a trance inspira
%tional lecture on the subject OF spiritism
Ths fall meeting of the Nashville
Blood Horse Association will commence
on Monday October 18th, at the Nash
vile race course and continue six days
The legitimate business opens up to
night at the theater. A leading actor,
supported by a strong comedy company
should draw large ho1ses during thu
week.
The number Of deaths which occurred
in the city during the past week were q
of which number IL we're whites and Il
blacks. No special disease is prevailing
at present.
Several congressman elect from Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas passed through
the city yesterday en- route for Washing
ton City to attend the called special ses
sion Of congress.
Those of our fellow-citizens who visit
ed Washington City as witnesses in tn,
Sawyer Brooks case have returned home
The per diem and mileage paid all thI
expenses Of the trip.
The baseball tossers were in troubl
yesterday, the rains and mud spoilinI
aud preventing the proposed game a
Central Park. In wet weather baseball
should be playe ed inside Of house or IN
der a shed.
Police patrolman Charley 7. Smit
has resigned his position on the force
and has gone to work as special police
man of the Cotton Exchange for the pur
pose of enforcing the new cotton rule
and regulations.
Ten-pins now attract and fascinst,
the man who imagines that he needs ez
e~rcise, and hat rolling a big ball dow
an alley is just the thing to bring out tn
perspiration, enlarge the muscles an
improve health.
To. night the fathers Of the city wi
meet in solemn conclave around tn
boards Of the City Hall, and will discus
city affairs of any magnitude-from tn
erecting Of a lamp post up to the builc
ing Of an union depot.
The focisl sensation Of the preser
week will occur on next Wednesda
Afternoon at haf past three o'clock
the First Metho list church, at whic
time aud place u doubl, wedding wi