Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-03
LINES.

Building and loan associations are be.
coming numerous in Memphis.
The different churches we're we'll at.
tended yesterday and last night. Il
The thermometer indicates a dropping
from the ninety to the eighty point.
Grand steamboat excursion for the
benefit of St. Patrick's church this
evening. r
The cold spell of weather, which has
prevailed since Friday last. is suggestive
of early frosts.
A tape worm fty-ono and q half yards
in length was taken from the body of
Tom Forest yesterday by DR.. Floater.
The mortuary report Of the city for
the past week shows the number Of total
deaths to have been forty-whites, nine.
teen; blacks, t~wenty-one.
The September days have come, and
soon we will hear the melancholy sound
Of the falling leaves that will become
crisp, yellsw and scar beneath the frosts
Several Memphis wanderers returned
home on yesterday, among others Col
D. A. Brewer, Of the Avalanche, who
has been dancing the German at the
Virginia springs.
A very large number Of people visited
Estival Park last night to hear Miss
Emma Cranch, a charming vocalist,
sing. The singing was excellent, as was
also the Instrumental music by the
band.
The bill collector is on his monthly
grand rounds to-day. Treat him politely
even il you can't pay him. Politeness
costs nothing, and it will even soften tie
heart Of the most remorseless bill col
%leetor.
II was rumored on the streets yester
day that Judge Barbour Lewis, now o
Salt Lake, Utah, would be invited to tax,
the place made vacant by the death o.
the old Mormon patriarch, Brigham
Young.
1t was noticed at the churches yester
day that nobody lett the ediGces whill
the parsons we're delivering their dis
courses. The motto is: Always stay away
or remain when you do go to church un
til the services close.
The LEDGER Of Saturday last was gen
: orally complimeuted on account of it
clear statements of commercial affairs
interesting reading matter and genera
makeup. 1t was pronounced the hand
soonest and most interesting paper pat
ished on that day.
! The committee, heretofore %appointe,
at a meeting held on Saturday last for tb
purpose of getting up a reunion of tn
survivors Of the One Hundred and Fit,
fourth aud Thirteenth regiments Of Cor
federate infantry, will meet on WedneI
day evening next at No. 10 Madiso
street.
To-day Hill, Fontaine 4 Co. receive
a new bale of cotton from Robbey & Co
y o. K. Landing, Tunica county, Mis-
The firm also received q dispatch tbs
the first bale out of White river had bee
. shipped to them by Hicks, Lyttle & Co
4. Searcy, Ark. The bale will arrive her
" to morrow.
At Goodyear's drug store early th'
;, morning a big rat was seen inside tn
show window eagerly engaged in eatcI
ing and eating flies. The rat eyidentl
did not live on drugs, and consequent
had to make raids after fresh meat. TIL
rat, like the base bsllist, was out on Il
fly"
The Appeal man is Of the opinion thi
peelers sleep on their beats at nigh
Does the Appeal man want n peeler
sleep on some other fellows beatP Or
patrolman can sleep while the 9th,
listens for the sound Of the horses fee
which heralds the approach Of the ca
airy arm Of the service, the captains al
serseants.
A gang Of unruly boys, white al
black, frequent the corner Of Main al
Vance daily, aud especially at nigh
They annoy the entire %neighborhoo
* steal rides on all the street ears passiI
'i' that point, plumber ice and fruit WACO
and make themselves generally dis
greeable. The police should abate d
IL nuisance by making a few arrests.
The new party known as the Workiu
men will meet again on Thursday pig
next. On Wednesday night the VOL
#, ingmen will hold ward meetings for t
IS: purpose Of selecting three men fro
each ward to form a central executi
'OC committee for the purpose Of putting q
mn candidates in the municipal electiC
which comes OF in January next.
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'Sz The colored waiter Ellsworth, who "
N. so ~savagely stabbed by Bacon, the be
as waiter Of the Peabody, has been Z
- charged by his physician. To catch
, DS con and punish him to the extent Of
any law is the next thing. Are the pol
able to catch him; or will the police