Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-23

LEDGER LINES.


Last night was delightful, cool and
pleasant.
Brown & Jones, coal, Office 28z
Main street.
The court house is almost deserted.
One may walk through corridor after
corridor almost unnoticed.
A booming business wave is bearing
swiftly down upon the Bluff City.
She will ride it right royalty.
The Chicago excursionists are near
ly all back at home-telling people
how sweet it is by comparison.
According to the signal service
report we are to have a stationary or
lower barometer for a while and warm,
hazy weather.
1t is natural to wish to be rich. Buy
a ticket at the usual place in the
Commonwealth distribution company
and the wish may result in a reality.
The usual number of church-door
gazers were out yesterday staring with
their usual i~mpudenoe at every lady
worshiper who dared to run the
gauntlet.
The enterprising firm of Sherwood
& Co. have just received 300 dozen
dolls and a large lot of German toys
Of their own importation. The atten-
ton of the trade is especially invited
A sunshiny Sunday evening, a good.
road and a stylish turnout are ire
sistible attractions to the average
Memphis clerk. The livery stables
do a better business that day than any
other.
The mosquito still wears his war
paint, a stillettO and a tin horn. His
seranades, however, are much more
numerous, though not quite so pleas
ant as are those of the war-like Span
ish cavalier.
The Office Of the legislative council,
which has been removed to its old
place in the court house, is not half so
conveniently situated as when in the
Planters Insurance building. The
move was made as means aofeconomy,
the council not being able to remain
longer at the latter place without pay
ing rent.
We are likely to have something
unique, in shape ola lecture, on the
18th inst. Albert Thomas, a son of
Uncle Tom, of Raleigh, proposes to
deliver a lecture in this city, on that
night, for the purpose of raising means
to complete his university course. He
is highly spoken of by many prominent
citizens as a youth of high literary at
tainment and moral character.
The colored folks had a grand old
barbecue and picnic at Tallabatchie,
some fifty miles south of here, on
Saturday. Captain Pettibone, with a
detachment Of the Hannibal Guards
and their friends, went from this city,
and the railroad carried some eight
hundred people to the feast. The
attendance was estimated at Over two
thousand persons. They all went
home full of meat and good things,
and also in the best of spirits.
Two little innocents, Ethel Smith
aud Fannie Price, tripped off in their
little pink slippers yesterday to ex-
plore the wide, wide world. They
took a little red wagon along to bring
home their treasures. After being
treated several times to soda water.
some ice cream and cake, they wan
dered down to the river and were
found several hours after by the dis.
tracted parents, playing hide and seek
among the freight on a steamboat.
That would ruin any pavement il
the world" remarked a passenger OF
one of Barrett's boxes yesterday, al
the car at last regained its position OIL
the track after humping and tearing
away for half a block backward ant
forward across the track and over tn
new stone pavement on Main street
The car had run a few inches too ia
to miss the switch at the Court stree
curve, and rather than shove it bacl
so that the switch could be placed il
the proper position, the driver whip
ped up his mules, ~suatching the ca
completely Of the track and drigin
recklessly oyer the pavement.
The stone pavement on Adam
street will be ready for the big iro
roller in a few days. The last coat {
Tishomingo gravel has been laid dow
the entire length of the street, wit
the exception Of one or two place
between Main and Third streets. Som