Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-30
Monday Evening, August 80. 1850
LEDGER LINES.

Sultry weather.
A rain would be pleasant.
Many merchants have laid in fall
stock.
Brown & Jones, coal, Office %.
Main street.
No gravel yet on the uncovered
spaces on Adams street.
Several private schools will oper
for the fall season next week.
The streets are beginning to look
much like the busy September season
Zellner & Co. are selling summer
shoes at cost, and all other goods al
great reduction.
1t is understood that Winchester
cemetery will soon be enclosed with
a barbed wire fence.
Two colored military companies,
zouaVes and Mcclellan guards, went
to st. Louis yesterday.
The churches were very well at
tended yesterday considering the
warmth Of the weather.
Many absentees have returned,
worn out with "the springs" and hap
DIV to be once more at home.
The committee having in charge
the arrangements for the grand ex-
c%ursion to Memphis, will meet at
Gaston's this evening.
The drawing Of the popular Com
monwealth distribution company takes
place tomorrow. Get tickets to-day
at the usual place.
Patrick McCarty and Miss Cathe-
rine Dolan, and two colored couples,
we're licensed to marry Sunday, and
one colored pair this morning.
Some Of the club rooms are mos
popular on Sunday than any Other
day. Billiards and pool are the favor.
ite games /; good shots, the favorite
plays.
The Jail and the hospital should
have some more easy way of cOmmuni.
eating with the balance of the world
II is almost as hard to hear from
either as from China.
The mortuary report for last weeI
shows the total number of deaths t
be l6-white, 3; colored, Ii. OF thil
number one was stillborn and fouI
died at the city hospital.
A barbecue will take place st Tro.
baugh's, Shelby county, next Wed
nesday, when political addresses vii
be made by Hon. Casey Young, Col
A. j. Kellar and Mr.. Harry Hill.
Quit claim deeds were recorde,
Saturday from Z. Plunkett to Dora
thia Wolf j. f. Berlin, trustee, t,
G. R.. Daneri, ct. al; and from S
Sturm, trustee, to e. A.. Patterson
trustee.
Court square is fast becoming al
evening resort. 1t is true that Heb.
looks a little streaked, and the littl
naked gods look more like human &c
bras, but then people need not tax
any notice of the fountain.
Sheriff elect P. R.. Athy sent in hi
resignation as chiefof police Saturday
and Captain w. c. Davis was appoint
ed to fill the vacancy. Sergeant I
Hackett was promoted to the rank q
captain, and PatrOlman Scott to SCI
geant.
The people residing along the Por
lar boulevard are bent on hayin
street car privileges, even if the
have to build the line themselves
They wish our street car company t
extend their line out a mile or so be
yond the city limits. If the compan
is unwilling to extend, it is under
stood that a charter will be apple
for, and another line built.
A mind wreo ked person created
sensation in the Peabody vestibult
evening before last by appearing ther
with his feet painted in varigate
colors in lieu Of shoes, also with fan
tastic fixtures about his person. II
inquired earnestly for the great mora
Snowman, Dan Rice, and hen hustle
out. Later he went on board Of
steamer at the landing, wrote a not
to the captain saying he would be o
hand next day to dine, and then too
a bee line up the wharf. The ma
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