Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-11
LEDGER LINES.

Victor D. Fuchs is selling choice fresh
oysters at Coo per can.
The damp, changable weather has
caused many bad colds.
The many summer excursionists are
returning like stragglers after a cam
paign.
The mex school board meeting will be
held on the night of Thursday, Septem.
Der 9th.
The canned oyster season has arrived
and has opened. The shell oyster has
not as yet appeared.
A copy of the Memphis Business
Directory" will be sent to every busi-
cess and professional man trading with
Memphis.
Did 0sman Pasha ever reside in Mem.
phis2 Did he ever hold Office therein2
Did he pay his taxes? Was he ever a
ward politician2
Star.gazing is literally INDUCED in at
night by those who have studied astron-
omy. To be able to point out Venus,
Mars, Mercury and Jupiter is something,
At the city hall you can hear Of moth
ing but bond funding. For a man who
has no bonds. and who never had any,
the voice of the bondholder has no es.
pecial charms.
The Turkish minister at Washington
has settled the matter by stating that
0sman Pasha was not o Tennesseeau
but a native of Asia Minor, born Of Mus
SULLIVAN parents.
The average Nemphian will bet OF
anything. This was verified yesterday
at the boat race by two men who bet OF
two pieces Of wood which were seer
floating down stream.
Almost nightly you can see a crowd o
men and boys of all colors stuck agains
the Court Square fence on Main stree
listening to the reheersals of the 30
hemian Girl across the way.
The workingmen purpose giving Mem
phis a mayor next tins. Many thanks
but trot him out on the track. We hop,
he will not turn out to oe IA ward poll
tician with Radical prcclivities.
> There are over forty bridges through
1 out the county which were either washed
away or badly damaged during tn
, foods of the past season. All thes,
bridges will have to be rebuilt or re
paired.
The city fathers will hold a seauce 10
. morrow afternoon at the city holl. 1t i
be hoped that their will be no fights o
Z rows over seats in the aldermanic boar,
like unto the row which occurred at tn
!. last meeting.
Monday next, the Day of Atonemen
or Yom Kippur, will be celebrated b,
= our Jewish fellow.citizens as a day o
fasting or prayer. Business will be sus
pended on that day and religious ser
vices will be held.
Yesterday afternoon, via the Littl,
Rock railroad, Harris, Mallory & Co
received the FIRST bale Of cotton iron
Carlisle, Prairie county, Ark. 1t wa
. shipped by Curtis & Emonson an
classed SIS %"middling."
;, The reunion of the One Hundred an
Fifty-fourth and Thirteenth Tennessee
Confederate regiments will take plac
at Estival Park instead Of the fai
grounds, as first intended. The park
a better place, being more central an
within reach.
CT Mrs. Ed Clarke, nee Strattou, has bee.
i very i'll for several days with congestio
of the brain, at the residence Of he
, father.in-law, DR.. S r. Clarke, on Bet
street. To day for the first time som
. hopes are entertained of her recovery
l She is better, but not out of danger.
The boat race above Mound City ye
T. terday afternoon was attended by severl
81 hundred people who knew all about tn
regatta businsss-the stroke, the tim,
the feather;ng of the oar, etc.-althoug
% many Of them never saw anything of th
kind before outside OF Wolf river, wher
% boys in ski6s engage in slow contests.
There will be issued in this city earl
next month q book that will be very va
liable TO the business and professions
men within the scope of country tradiu
L, with Memphis. 1T is the Memph
Business Directory and Book Of Info
nation" 1t is also unsurpassed as a
~ advertising medium for our business an
- professional men.
Quite a commendable zeal and rival
exists between the coroner and magi
! trates over inquesl-holding. The ma
who first. gets on the ground holds Il
~ inquest. 1t is gratifying to be assure
that no person can die in want Of an i
quest in Memphis. Thirteen of the
! standing all around are ready to do
,So1G just as soon as the breath leaves Il
Ill body and life gives way to death. II
!. question Of fees cuts q big 6sure in