Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-19
CITY CIRCULATION
MNNPHTs:
ThursdaY EvsnInE, jay 10. 1877.
LEDGER LINES.


again.
Soft peaches by express every day at
Oliver Finnie & Co.'s.
Buy your shirts at Nays Memphis
shirt factory, 2S7 Main street.
Alderman John W. Cochran aud fam.
lily left to-day for Bailey Springs, near
Florence, Alabama.
The orphans cOncer will take place
to morrop nfghtif the weather favors, of
which there are good indications.
The Chancsry Court, Judge Morgan
presiding, has adjourned over to court
in course, the first Monday in October
next.
At the Office of the clerk Of the Uaited
States District Court s. W. Harper, of
Trenton, Gibson county, has filed his pc
titiou in bankruptcy.
"Good.byel I'm off for the springs"
can be heard daily on the streets. I'm
hold the bluff till you come back" is
generally the response coming from the
non.capitalist.
Mr.. A, j. Kellar, Of the Avalanche,
has been elected a member Of the board
of directors of the Western Associated
Press, which was recently in session at
Detroit, Michigan.
Attic Main street market, 326 Main,
can be found the best assortment of the
freshest and incest vegetables and fruits
kept in this city. Nearly all we're raised
on Mr.. Reeds own farm.
A petition is in circulation, and is be.
ing numerously signed recommending
Alderman Henry G. Dent for the position
Of custom.house officer, now held by
General W. j. Smith.
The Church Orphans Home concert,
which was to have been given at Estival
Park last night, was postponed indefn.
itely, owing to the rains. Due notice
will be given o. to the concert before it
comes OF.
To day the following cases we're dis
posed Of at the Recorders Court: Geo.
Hartmees, trespass, ined So; Edward
Hayden, assault with a knife, fined So;
Il. Hilman, drunk, fined s.; Joseph Sny.
der, sleeping out, case continued for trial.
The Adams street engine house bell,
which a generation OF Memphians has
listened to with pleasure as it tolled the
solemn midnight hour for nineteen years
past, and which was silenced for a week,
pealed forth joyously at midnight last
night, as it did Of yore.
The public landing will 1901 be lined
with wart boats from the mouth of Vol
river down to the St. Louis packet com
pany's elevator. Three new wharf boats
will appear at the landing in a few days.
permission having been granted for such
arrangements by the general council.
A band Of gipsies is camped in the
suburbs. The men trade horses, the
women tell fortunes ind the children
steal anything that can be found in the
vicinity of q portable character. They
are peripatetic Migrants OF the mos,
worthless character.
The mayer Of the city will ride of on
the ir.u horse to night, bound for the
East, for the purpose Of eiEecting a com
promise with the city's creditors. So
far the creditors at home have given the
city more annoyance with msndamusep,
etc, than have the foreign or Eastern
bonded creditors.
The city tax collectors assert that dur
ing the past two weeks not a sufficient
amount OF money has been collected for
taxes wherewith to pay for removing the
dead dogs which line the streets aud
alleys. The tax payers are paying 10
scrip and other city indebtedness, which
they can purchase at q discount.
In the case OF Jefferson Davis VS.. j.
Il. D. Bowman, executor Of the estate OF
Jos. E. Davis, recently decided in the
Supreme Court of Mississippi, Justice
Simrall has filed o dissenting opinion.
An application for a reargument, or re.
hearing of the case, has been filed in the
Supreme Court and will probably be
heard in October.
Mr.. M. D. Welch, q well known lawyer,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against DR.. S G. Snyder for defamation
Of character by publishing circulars regs-
Iarly attacking the character OF said
Welch. Mr.. Welch has replied to several
of the %defamatory circulars, and both
series Of circulars have been eagerly
read by the public, who we're then no
wiser concerning the cause Of the troubles
between Mr.. Welch and DR.. Snyder.
1t is needless to state that every Mem
phian indorses, ever without understand.
ing, the following choice bit of sentiment
taken from the Louisville News: Those
usages and customs which shape society
in q symmetrical and beautiful develop
ment need encouragement, and those
s%oulless and irrational forms, shams and
deceptions, vices and improprieties,
which are SO startlingly prevalent, should
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