Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-06
LEDGER LINES.

Victor d. Fuchs has received a lot Of
i,esh oysters and red snappers.
The adjourned meeting of the Work.
ingmen will be held at Cochran Hall to-
night.
&sPatronize Memphis manufactures and
have your shirts made at Mays, No. 237
Main street.
There was q general brushing out Of
stoves and CRATES and q hunting up Of
coal yesterday and last night.
The number Of fires which occurred in
this city during last month was two. The
total loss was $50; total insurance, $1,000.
The total number of deaths which &C.
Cured in the city during last month was
l48-or whites, Ga; blacks, "a. Males,
80; females, 68.
There are within the city limits 9O9l
youths between the ages of six and
twenty years who are entitled to the
benefits Of the public schools.
Worms have appeared in the cotton
crop in many localities. The cotton
worm has quite as bad an effect upon
the crop as has the tape worm on man.
Up to the present time $75O,OOO in
d~ebtedness OF the city has been funded
into new bonds, thus making an actual
reduction Of the city debt nearly $780,.
900.
Says the bachelor of Memphis: "If
were married l would have nobody tc
court and no place to 90 at night" Ht
had an idea that a different result fol
lowed the pursuit and the possession.
The members of the association fol
the advancement of science, now al
Nashville, and who intend to indulge il
the Texas excursion, will arrive il
this city tomorrow and will leave fol
Texas Saturday.
The concert at Cochran Hall last nigh,
was not largely attended, owing to thu
inclement weather. The singing Of Mis-!
Emma Cranch was excellent; she re
ceived the applause and commentator
of the audience.
The call for ward meetings by the
WOrkingmen's party resulted in a izzit
last night. In a few of the wards a few
men got together aud selected three o.
their number as part of the central
executive committee.
To-day, the 9Th the dog days end-ou
paper and in almanacs. The Pilgrim
Fathers sailed from Plymouth, England
on the 9Th Of September, in the yea
1920. The two facts above given have
no historical connection.
The new rules of the cotton exchange
go into effect today. The rules vii,
further enforce the protection of cotton
on the levee, in warehouses, ct presses
depots, etc and while in the process o
receipt, delivery and shipment.
There are scores of men who are co
operating and taking the lead in thu
Workingmen's new party movement anC
meetings who are not workingmen il
any sense, unless getting drunk, loOfng
and engaging in ward politics is thr
definition of a workingman.
Messrs. Charles W. Mosby, Benjamin
Powell and Charles f. Smith have beef
appointed special supervisors by tn,
cotton exchange, whose duty it viii b.
TO see that the new rules are enforced
The appointments are good ones ant
will give general satisfaction,
The case Of Junkermau who is charged
with receiving money under false pr
fences, and issuing false Licenses IRON
the county clerks Office to saloon.keep
ers, who paid him for such bogus license
knowing the same to be bogus, was con
cluded t, lay by Esquire Galloway.
The average number Of pupils attend
inc the public echools OF the city durinl
the past year was $500, for who's
instruction sc teachers were employed
The average expenditure made 70
~instructing each pupil for the year wa
? about twenty dolls 's--say two dollar
, per month.
5 1t is 0 fact that not more than on
. third of the pupils in the city who ar
entitled to admission into tbs publ
= schools receive education therein. TIL
other two thirds are taught at the Cathc
, lie zee parochisl aud hilf pay school,
the private pay schools, Summaries an
colleges Of the city, ! wing, however
: quite a number Of children who atten
no school
R Several hanging gardens in Madiso
d street ' .ndows, between Main and From
look as if q polar !. ost had struck then
the plants, corn, cotton and flowers, al
shov iug the scar and yellow leaf. Til
corn crop in the ,ndows Of the Office
the board OF underwriters has been con
pletely destroyed by the bugs, moeqr