Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-14
LEDGER LINES.

month.
That sandstone cheat-ths Memphis
custom.house.
Loafers are requested to stay away
from this Office.
There are thirteen county offices to be
filed at the August election.
Remember Miss HArman's Honey.
moon at the Memphis Theatpr tonight.
We are indebted to the Southern Ex,
press Company for late Eastern papers.
Last night the Murphys secured sew.
enty-four additional names to the list Of
total abstinence.
Within the past Eve years the fruit
trade of West Tennessee has become an
important feature.
Miss Kate Harman's Honeymoon at
the Memphis Theater tonight will be a
pleasant entertainment.
The Circuit Court has adjourned until
Saturday, when the minutes of the ses.
sion will be sigued by Judge Heiskell.
How to rid an editorial room Of bores,
dead'beats, and other peripatetic visitors,
is the question most interesting to jour.
%nalists.
The sanitary regulations should be
rigidly enforced by the board Of health.
An ounce OF preventive is worth a pound
OF cure.
The weather for the past twenty four
hours has been cold and gloomy. Fires
flannel, overcoats, cloaks and shawls are
in demand.
Peter Mitchell has brought suit in the
Circuit Court against the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad Company to recover
damages to the amount of $4,000.
Captain Charles H. Arthur, captain of
the lost steamer Shannon, was arrested
Monday in Nashville, his former home.
He is charged with issuing fraudulent
bills Of ladiug.
Victor D. Fuchs, Nos. 80 and Al JeAer
son street, received a large shipment of
fresh pompano fish by last nights *.
press, which he offers for sale very low.
Call early and get some of them.
The confirmation Of General M. T.
Williamson. as marshal of West Teunes.
see, has no. yet been made. lie the
meantime other candidates for the Office
are held in interesting and thrilling sus.
pense.
The editorial rooms Of the LEDGER are
daily visited by l%oafers, idlers and intel.
lectual paupers, whose presence is by no
means desired. Hereafter all persons
who visit the editorial rooms must come
on business.
Query-What was the matter with
the young man on the night of the
Chickasaw concert, who climbed over the
back fence of Estival Pork, and sat down
on the Memphis and Charleston railroad,
waiting for q street carl
D. 7, Porter, W. F. Taylor and G. W.
Macrae, partners, Doing business under
thu firm name and style Of Porter, Tay.
Tor Il Co., have instituted suitiR the Cir.
cult Court to recover damages in the
sum of $4,000 from Shelby county.
B. F. Fly, F. R. Laiuer, Isaac SaGa.
rams, ". B. Waldran and j. C. Grifing
have filed in the county registers Office
a petition of charter for the "Sauto Ig-
natio Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany," which is designed to operate in
Mexico and the United States.
The revival at Collins chapel, First
0olored M. E. Church, on Washington
street, near the corner Of Orleans, is
still progressing. One hundred and
thirteen have protested faith in Christ,
and one hundred aud three have been
added to the Church. The prospects for
more good is promising, the meeting
going on.
According to the new schedule which
took effect on the 18th on the Louisville
and Nashville and Great Southern rail.
road, the express train Except Satur.
days. leaves Memphis daily at l1:3O
pm, and arrives at 4 pm the mail
train leaves every day at 10 a m and
arrives at s:l5 am. The Humboldt &C.
cOmmodation Except Sundays) leaves
at 4;4O pm.
Washington Nelson (colored) was ar.
rested this morning on the charge Of
pulling down a smallpox sign, which had
been put on his house in Dunlap street,
in order to warn people Of the danger.
Nelson, though afflicted with smallpox,
left his house and twice came up town,
visiting the Offices of Drs. Erskine and
Mitchell. BE has recovered from the
smallpox, aud is now in the Adams
street stsliou.honse.
The new professional Forest City Club
Of Cleveland contains the following base
ball players; Gross, catcher; Salisbury,
pitcher; Phillips, first base; Laird, sec
ond base; Walford, third base; McGin.
ley, short.stop; Ely. left field; Luf for
merly of the Memphis Reds), center
fcid; Riley, right field. The club played
its opening game on Monday Of last
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