Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-13

AaNA0 AouAAn6 VASES
Plenty Of smiles among the republi-
cans to-day. 1t is their time to smile,
The children amuse themselves just
now picking up many tinted autumn
leaves.
Some of the finest Jersey cattle in
the land are on exhibition at the agri-
cultural fair.
The medical college here opens the
season with auspicious prospects, over
twenty-five students attending.
Receipts of cotton here, since the
first of September, are now 2O,2Os
bales in excess of 1877 at this date.
The republicans hold a grand jolli-
fcation meeting to. night on the bluff.
Colonel A. A.. Taylor and others will
speak.
The great Sells circus with its
electric light attachments and other
~curiosities, to be here on the 10th Of
next month, exhibits at Selma, Ala
bama, to-day,
The genuine solar tip" children's
and school shoes are sold by Zellner &
Co., and every pair is warranted by
them. They are just as cheap as any
other kind of shoes, but last twice as
long.
A directory Of all the houses of i'll
repute and liquor saloons has been
compiled by the police force. The to-
tai number of bagnios is twenty-seven
and the total number of saloons one
hundred and fourteen.
A carpenter, a farmer and porter
will each work for the city twenty
days for getting drunk. They go to
the Island this evening where they
will be given a harp and join in a hal
lsluiah with twenty other saints.
Mr.. A. L. Arundel, of Chicago, who
has spent a day or two in Memphis
very pleasantly among old and new
friends, leaves this afternoon for Lit
tie Rock, Galveston, New Orleans
and other southern points.
Professor Saxby's dancing academy
is open at 1874 Main street. Children
and misses class 81 pm, gents class
81 pm. OF the same days. He also
will open a class next week at Mrs.
Aliens school on Lauderdale, and
Mr.. fuckers school on Wellington
streets.
Eastern cotton dealers are guessing
at the probable yield of the prestent
crop, and figures Wildaud wide,
ranging all the way from 5,250,0O0 to
6,75O,0OO bales. One dealer says any
New Orleans estimate is sure to be
100000 bales short of the result,
A statistical chart full of facts,
figures and valuable information pre-
pared by the celebrated statistician
Edward Atkinson, has been received
at this Office, through the courtesy of
Messrs. Marx & Bensdoir agents of
the Travellers Insurance Co., by which
corporation the chart was issued.
Nearly one hundred seats we're sold
at Brownsville, Tenn, in less than an
hour yesterday, when THE box Office
opened for the sale Of tickets to "0ur
German Senator" which will be there
on the 10th inst. The new theater at
Brownsville is a neat structure, and
the inhabitants are naturally proud
of it.
The Memphis Lodge No. 6, l. O. o.
f, the oldest in the city, enjoyed a
fraternal visit last night from their
brethren Of Schiller, Banner and
Chickasaw lodges. The ceremonies
of the occasion were quite impressive,
and extended towards eleven o'clock.
0dd-Fellowship is in a fourishing
state in this city.
The circus ground on the bluff has
been smoothed, swept clean, and every
vestige of the show debris has been
removed, To look at the spot, a Wis.
itor would not be able to discern that
a show Of any character ever exhib.
tied there. The work Of raking of
the ground was left by the circus man.
ayers to Mr.. E. j Moron, who has
performed his work well, and in Q
highly creditable manner.
On inquiring at the water Office to.
day as to the progress in the matter o.
improving the pressure, we were
shown a telegram received yesterday
from the Blake manufacturing com
pany, conveying the provoking infor.
nation that in subjectiug the last en-.
zine There are two) to the required
test. a portion of the casting proved
defective, and will result in ten day
delay. The water company is much
annoyed by the disappointment. I'm
der the written contract, which wa.
also shown us, the engines were to
have been shipped October End, and
the company fully expected to have
them running by the 18th inst.
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