Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-12
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Advertise in the Memphis Business
Directory.
The present weather is good for chills,
mosquitoes, physicians and druggists.
Advertisers should remember that the
Memphis Business Directory isuuequaled
as an advertising medium.
News continues to come in with refer
ence to the successful raids made on cot
ton fields by the cotton.worm.
The scientists are travelling in Texas
but they will pass through Memphis on
their return some time next week.
May, the shirt tailor, makes the medi,
Gated underwear, which prevents chill,
and Rheumatism, at 237 Main street.
II u business men would increas,
their own and the city's business the,
should advertise in the Memphis Bust
ness Directory,
Sallie Hart and Maggie S. Hates, two
black women, were arrested by officer
Chambly this forenoon on the charge O,
disorderly conduct.
The general council will haze a re
union and will enjoy a barbecue, of an
intellectual and orstorical character ,thi.
afternoon at the City Hall.
Another race is arranged to take place
between the DeSoto and Bluff City boat
clubs for $3.50 a side. The contest will
come off probably next week.
The grand opening of Converse 4
Jones Billiard parlors, corner of Main
and Monroe, will take place Saturday
night. Lovers Of billiards should be on
hand.
In the rural districts ~muscadine.
grape picking is in order. The grape.
juice intermixed with a certain amount
OF whisky makes what is known as mus.
cadine wine.
Last night the Bluff City Grays, under
Captain Cameron, were out drilling on
Main street. The Grays show rapid i'm.
provement in movements and the man.
ual Of arms.
Next Monday evening the Fay Tenn.
plet'n dramatic troupe will appear at
the theater. The regular theatrical sea.
son will open on the lst of October under
the management Of Mr., Rickaby.
At the Office of the clerk of the United
States Court to-day the bankruptcy Pc
tition of James D. Read, of Browns.
vile, Haywood county, was received,
with the signature of Judge Trigg affixed
thereto.
Every merchant, manufacturer, m
chanic, lawyer, doctor, h~otel.keeper, ex.
press office, steamboat, depot, ETC., within
the country trading With Memphis will be
presented with a copy Of the Memphis
Business Directory.
Late last night a gentleman passing
down Center alley from Madison street
was attacked by two unknown men who
struck him on the head with a stick and
attempted to rob him. He resisted aud
managed to escape.
A drunken darby broke through a
heavy French plate.slass window at a
machine agency on Second street,
opposite Court Square, last evening. He
was so intoxicated that he did not see
the glass, and be walked through it sue.
cessfully.
The marriage season has again opened,
now that summer is past aud gone. Quite
q ngmbev Of weddings among the young
are he9ly talked Of, and even the
names Of several widows and widowers
are mentioned in connection with the
matrimonial tie.
There are ct present about 1925 con
victs on the books Of the ~penitentiary at
Nasty lie. A minority OF the prisoners
colored, and o large number of both
and blacks are engaged at work
in mines and on farms of different indi.
living in this State.
The chain-Ianggusrds yesterday after.
permitted a notorious character,
Jack Regap, to leave the gang at the foot
of Jefferson street aud cross the river
ia e skif. Regain had on at the time one
Of The patent doublt'aetion, n%onrescaping