Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-17
LEDGER LINES.

warm Gays n cool nights make up
what is known as the sickly season Of
August and September.
To-day Mayor FIippin received for
funding purposes, from the Manhattan
Bank of Memphis, $4,000 in old city
bonds.
The first of the, series of $1,000 gold
funding bonds has been issued to E quire
Boyle, q we'll known capitalist of our
city.
Commission merchants wishing to
make business on Tennessee river would
do we'll to address R II. Garrard, Swal.
low Bluff, Tenn.
Amos Mccall, an escaped negro pris.
oner from Forests convict farm on the
Paducah railroad, was arrested yester.
day by police Captain Weatherrord.
An imported bulldog is creating a sen.
salion in North Memphis, Many of those
who admire the animal resemble it no
little in physiognomy and disposition.
Quite a large amount of canned sal.
mon, lobster, GRADE, shrimps and oysters
are devoured during the yearin this city,
especially during the summer months.
The black and yell9w I~mmaculates had
a street parade on yesterday and a pic.
mic at the Exposition building last
evening. The colored folks enjoyed
themselves immensely.
Memphians at the springs ami water
ing places of the South complain of the
scarcity Of beaux. The boys have to
stay at home and work, while the bellies
drink water and sleep at the springs.
The prolific crop of blue grass in
Court Square is being cut and cured by
Court Square Keeper Heating, who is
determined to make hay while the sun
shines, no matter what the financial
condition of the city may be.
The Memphis Riversides baltel the
Helena club out Of existence on yester,
day; the score was 35 to O. OF course
the Helena boys know but little about
leather-pounding and are mere learners
while the Riversides are teachers.
The Louisville bar is somewhat agita
ted over shystering and unprofessiona
practice on the part of several member:
Of the legal corps. In Memphis the
shysters commit the most unprofes.
sional acts with seeming impuuity.
The British Rife Team have sailed fol
New York. Their names are Henry
Haliord, Colonel Peel, Colonel FELTON,.
Major Waller, Captain Boulby, Lieuten.
ant Fenton and Messrs. Armitage, Fer.
grson, Frazer, Glider, Greenhilll, Hum.
phreys, Miner, Piggott, Rigley and
Thompson.
Some half a dozen notorious negroes,
who have escaped from the Nashville
penitentiary, the mines or the convict
farms, are laying around Memphis, and
at night they engage in burglaries and
robberies. They are smarter than the
police and easily keep out Of the way Of
the latter, and thereby avoid arrest, while
hey rob with impunity.
The negro who was shot by Captain
Forrest aud guard. from Presidents
Island w%orkhouse, a few days since out
at the head of Beal street, is at the hos.
pital and will probably die. He was an
escaped convict and would not surrender
but attempted to flee. The ball from
Captain Forests pistol entered his back
and passed through his liver.
Mrs. Anna Lynch, q well.known old
beggar woman, committed suicide yester.
day afternoon in a coal shed on Linden
street, by taking an overdose Of NOR.
phine. She was q professional beggar,
and made her living by asking for
charity" along the streets OF the city.
Her faults and her virtues are now shut
out from the living world in a pauper's
grave.
The rules for the government of the
international rife match, so soon to take
place, have been adopted. They
mainly are: Rifles, any, not exceeding
ten pounds; minimum pull of trigger,
three pounds; distances 500, 900 and
1000 yards; number Of shots, thirty at
each range by each competitors no sight
ing sbols; match to last two days; CON
%petitors to fire fifteen shots at each dis
lance upon each day, commencing at 800
yards.
Yesterday afternoon Otto Siebert, a
%barkeeper at Lindemsnn's saloon, inter.
married with Miss Nellie Spicer in the
back room Of Charley Myers beer saloon,
on Monroe street, near Main. The oere-
mony was performed by Esquire Flem-
ing in a solemn manner, and the happy
pair, the Squire and the crowd took beer
and drank to the health, happiness aad