Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-11

house order and it will make 9 differ
euce of from $1,000 to $500 in cash to
the Tennessee club alone, as the
sum named would have been necessa-
rily paid had the decision been the
other way.
The talk now is that James Lee, ir.,
will not builda theater on Main street
below Poplar, and that the Jockey
Club will not move from the race
track now used, known as the Agri-
cultural Fair Grounds on the Char
lesion failway three and a half miles
east of the city. High priced people
ask too much for the grounds they are
not anxious to dispose Of, for race
track purposes, and steep figures asked
for property near the proposed theater
has blocked that project.
Among last weeks Supreme Court
decisions is one which fsyors the
cruelty to animal society, the case
being that Of Matt Bransford, a driver
for James Rounds. The latter was
quite wrathy at what he considered
the unwarranted interference OF the
s. P, G. A., aud he secured Justices
Judgment for Sc damages, which was
thrown out of the Circuit Court on
appeal. The Supreme Court sustains
the Circuit Courts action, and the s.
P. G. A. moves quietly along in its
good work, all of which is approved
By the courts and humane people.
About hundred tons, more or less,
of guano has been discovered in a cave
under Magazin mountain, on upper
White river, and Captain M. Harry
has a claim upon the entire deposit,
which is valued at $50 per ton In
Vulnerable bull bats have roasted in
that cave for uncounted ages. The
project of catching the birds for traffic
or sale to shooting clubs, and of form
ing a company to take the guano to
market is under consideration, and it
is thought by those familiar with the
situation that there is more real money
in it than there is in Sellers Asiatic
eye water, or in Cowden'S proposed
outlet scheme.
"You fine editors who know SO much
about the profits OF farming and what
farmers ought to produce for market,
ought to cast your eye over my &C
count of sales from Chicago, which
reads:
CT r -. I
Freight z 50; commission S50.... ......... % W
Net proceeds. Is
Now, after paying for the pkgs and
labor OF gatheringI didn't have enough
LETT to buy seed for next year or feed
for mule toplow up the patch, but |
expect you'll be writing up long yarns
on the subject of the great profits
realized in truck growing And the
disguised farmer went off, with the air
of an editorial nabob who revels in
wealth and knows exactly how a farm
should be managed.
About 5000 bbIs Of potatoes went
North by rail last week, chiefly to
Cincinnati. That market to date is
the only one for which there is an
active demand for the Tennessee
tubers. Chicago, st. Louis and other
cities which usually want liberal con
signments, are still using supplies from
Louisiana, Alabama and Texas. The
crop grown about Nashville is reported
heavier in quantity and as good in
quality as ours OF this vicinity, aud it
extends in area for more than thirty
miles around that city. The rate Of
freight from this city is Cor l0c per
Dbl higher than last year, while present
values are 81 80 to 81 70 per Dbl
cheaper, and the growers are not 10
pleasant humor over this piling on at
one end and nipping off at the other.