Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-28
LEDGER LINES.

Wanamaker's samples at 287 Main.
Advertise in the Memphis Business
Directory.
Monday next the public schools will be
reopened.
Croqust is called IAN amusement With.
10 reach of TIE feeblest intellect"
When you lose money at the faro bank
table in Memphis the gang calls it "blow-
ing it in"
No little Of the fashionable, vulgar
hosiery of the day is exhibited daily on
Main street by pedestrians.
The upward progress in the price of
coal in this city is indicative OF a coal
blackade and bearing the market this
winter.
Mr.. c. W, Woodruff has been elected
a member Of the school board from the
Second ward vice S. B. Robbins resigned
ard removed from the city.
During dhe thunder storm early yester-
day morning a bolt shot from the clouds
and killed a valuable horse on Colonel
Lyles' place on Trigg avenue.
1t does not follow because no arrests
appear on the statiou.house docket that
the city is remarkably quiet. mo ar.
rests" can be explained on other
grounds.
In nearly all cities brace or swirdliDg
games of fsro are broken up by the au.
thorities, but in Memphis such games
flourish to perfection without let or him
drance. Wby2
Tomorrow the veterans of the One
Hundred and Fifty fourth and Thirteenth
Tennessee Confederate regiments, with
their invited guests, will enjoy a reunion
and barbecue at Estival Park.
Let US have no more social scandals,
If you please, ladies aud gentlemen.
The public is sick and weary of such
disgusting affairs. Wash your dirty
linen at home" is an old yet good motto
At the recorders court to day the fol-
lowing cases we're disposed Of: Joseph
0rrick (white), drunk, fine s.; Henry
Valentine (White), sleeping out, fine S.;
Francis Foster, assault and battery, dis
charged.
A scandal is in circulation, in which a
bank man, a widow and a colored ser.
want who pretended to be asleep are said
to be the actors. 1t is also rumered that
the affair will be developed in the courts
ere long.
There has been trouble among the doc.
tors Of this city about quiuine; but in
Europe it is so high in price that doctors
are using instead the liquid solution Of
stryohnine, and they ind it nearly as
~eficacious and much cheaper.
To-day at the Criminal Court, Jim
jackson, Tom Buford and Frank Eergu-
son, negro dray drivers are on trial on
the charge Of stealing several barrels of
-four belonging to Sledge, Mckay l. Co.,
from the elevator Of the Memphis and
st. Louis Packet Company.
FIevna, which our readers know so
much about, contains 1900 people, ten
churches, nineteen mosques, nine nina
rets. One thousand four hundred and
seventy : two houses are inhabited by
Christians and 1921 by Mussulmans.
Several members Of the Memphis Rifle
Club went over to the Hopt6sld sandbar
yesterday afternoon and engaged in tar.
get practice at l20 yards range. Out OF
a possible twenty-five the highest score
made was nineteen. The shooting was
not good, but few bull's,eyes being made.
A committee composed Of DR.. N. c..
Perkins, R. W. Mitchell, r. A. Spicer
and Alex Woodbridge, which committee
was appointed at q meeting held last
night, will wait upon citizens to-day and
solicit aid for the soldiers reunion and
barbecue to be given at Estival Park on
tomorrow.
The newspaper reporters hunger after
a sensation. They now wish TO tackle