Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-21
LEDGER LINES.

arrivals at three of our city hotels
yesterday.
Cotton fell l 16c in New York this
forenoon, and advanced l-16c in Liver
pool. 1t is nominal here.
1t was raining this forenoon at
Nashville, Little Rock, Cairo, Cincin-
natl and in northern Texas.
Cinderella" next Monday night
will be the next attraction, not count
ing the showat the GreenlaW tonight.
Mr.. j. R. Porter and a young lady
married in Hardeman county yester-
day with 140 matrimonial policies
over them.
W. F. Tucker, a graduate of the
Lebanon Law School, was sworn in by
Judge Horrigan yesterday as an at
torney at the Memphis bar.
1t was the finest looking body Of
men ever assembled here in a conven-
ton, but the interior delegates we're
handsOmest on general principles.
The Commonwealth Lottery, of
Louisville, holds its usual monthly
drawing next week. They scatter
prizes like the rain, which falls on all
alike.
Barrell Brothers again to the front
with a grand hop at their pleasure gar
den this, Thursday evening, Sep
TENDER q. All lovers Of the light fan
tastic are invited to attend dancing, to
commence at s o'clock. The best Of
music will be furnished. Ladies free.
To-day is equinox, and equinox
comes only twice a year. The draw
ings Of the Little Havana Lottery
takes place twice a month and the next
drawing takes place next Tuesday.
The Jewish Day of Atonement will
occur on Saturday, and Sol Coleman
will consequently close his cigar store
to morrow friday afternoon at six
o'clock and remain closed for twenty
four hours.
The way a United States Senator
can talk for the b~ondbolders, may be
understood by attending the Greenlaw
OpefahOuse to night. when the Hon.
Il. L. Jackson and his coadjutor the
Hon. Ebenezer A. James, open at
the temple of amusement.
The seasonable ceremony of the sun
crossing to the south Of the equinootial
line to-day, is accompanied by the
usual disturbed state of the elements,
though scientists assert that nothing
has ever yet occurred to show that
there ever was, or ever will be, an
eluinoctial storm.
Several lots in the Stewart sub.
division, at Looney switch, in the
suburbs, will be sold by order Of the
Ohaucery Court, in front Of the court
house, on Saturday. These lots are
situated in one OF the best of our sub
urban neighbOrhoods, and as such offer
superior attractions to those desiring
to build a home.
The handsome cottage residence Of
Mr.. Thos. II. Allen, jr., situated on
Lauderdale street, neal Georgia, has
been sold within the past two or three
days for $4,000. The residence of Mr.
+. S. Davis, on Vance street, was sold
zen days ago to Mr.. W. B. Mallory fol
$4,000, one-third cash, the balance OF
short credits.
The fallacies about katydids and
co~ckleburs foretelling the frost period
are like nearly all Of the popular
proverbs respecting weather changes
The influence of cockleburs and katy
dds, like that of comets, auroras ant
the moon, after having been tested BY
observation, is unsupported by
facts and unworthy Of the slightes
credence.
The mercury was down below 60
carly this morning, a dozen degrees
cooler than yesterday morning. TIL,
range yesterday was GO to 800. w,
had a fresh, nOrtherly, eleven mil.
breeze this morning. Along the uppel
Mississippi and Missouri rivers tn,
temperature was below the frost point
and at st. Louis it was only a few
degrees above.
Criminal Court docket yesterday
Conrad Rainey, grand larceny, nolle.
Wesley Reeves, petit larceny, nollt
Shelby County Turnpike Company
foe n dollar and appealed; Posey
Cooney and Jim Cooney, assault and
battery, reset for September 2lst; Bsr
Wynn, assault and battery, forfeiture
on bond; V. w. Williams, T. D. Har
rison and j. Il. Douglass, fined five
dollars each; Thomas Gill, assault and
battery, not guilty Wesley Welliford,
assault and battery, reset for Septem.
Der 10Th; Eta Cooper, keeping bawdy
housa, fne five dollars; W. Welliford,
assault and battery, not guilty; Chas
Lelat d. keeping gambling house, fined
fifty dollars; Joe Wetter, keeping
gambling house, fued fifty dollars;
I. p. Cole, carrying concealed weap
ons, dropped; Carter johnson, grand
} larceny, not guilty.