Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-15
BREvITIEs.


phians at Raleigh Springs to-day.
Engineers were making surveys Of
the bluffs yesterday with reference tc
the establishment of an union depot.
The bayouS and lakes Of Arkansas
reflect the countenances Of number Of
Memphians who are engaged in pisca
torial pleasures, iililIiit6g 90
Rev. David Walk, pastor of the Lin
den street Christian Church, left this
morning to hold series of meetings in
Chicago, to be absent two or three weeks
The Butchers Union picnic is pro-
crossing to-day at James Park. The
utmost enjoyment may be expected du-
ring the day by all visitors to the park.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main, has the
latest daily newspapers from all points.
Magazines and illustrated weeklies from
all parts of America and Europe just
received.
| Go to Mansfords, corner of Second
and Monroe, for news goods, pictorial,
fashion and literary newspapers, and
the latest daily and weekly home and
foreign newspapers.
Sig. Bullet, sculptor, has taken a
plaster of Paris cast of ex.President
Davis. The cast will be sent to Rome,
where the bust of Mr.. Davis will be en-
shrined in the purest of marble.
There will be grand Hebrew picnic
at James Park on Tuesday, llth Of
July next. The committees are already
industriously at work making all neces.
sary arrangements for the fete.
Local politics is putting in an appear
ance again. 1t is fortunate that we have
in our midst a sufficient number of self
sacrificing men to fill all the Offices
which may become vacant during the
next century. They are willing to &C.
cept the official situation.
Emmons & Son, the veteran news
dealers on Jefferson and Beal streets,
have received all the latest papers-pic-
torials, magazines, scientific journals
and literary periodicals from all points
in the United States. French, German,
English and Irish newspapers received
regularly by ocean steamers.
Last evening a driver Of loaded
wagon ran his horses into buggy at
the corner of Second and Madison. The
buggy went on uninjured, but the wagon
team was tumbled over, one horse being
hurled on top of the other. After some
time the team driver got his horses up
and proceeded down Second with rather
mixed ideas about the theory of col
lisions and their results.
Memphians are leaving every day for
the upper Mississippi, the great lakes,
the Northern springs, and the sea coast.
Hundreds have gone to the country for
the summer season. A few thousands
will remain on the bluffs to enjoy the
heated term and court the refreshing
breezes that come up the river from the
Gulf. Not few of our citizens intend
touring it through Europe until fall.
Memphis is, at present, the most or
derby city on the continent-thanks to
the determination of our citizens to
frown down and suppress crime, and the
police system, which forms striking
contrast to the old Metropolitan politi-
cal force. The present Grand Jury of
the Criminal Court is composed of our
best citizens, and its members are hard
at work ferreting out evil doors, and un-
dermining social evils which form the
groundwork of all crime in our midst.
Rev. Chas. White, pastor of colored
church in this city, was placed under
5000 bonds by Esquire Miller to-day,
because the reverend brother threat
ened to make ghost OF his mother-in-
law Esquire Miller also bound Simon
White (no relation to Charles) over in
the same sum, on the charge of threat
ening to turn his landlord into sausage
meat if the aforesaid landlord dared
again to ask for rent. The black White
family is becoming belligerent.
The citizens of Memphis owe debt
of gratitude to the city press, which is
ever foremost in advocating public i'm
provements, and in aiding individual en-
terprise and prosperity. A large amount
of this work is done for nothing, the
proprietors of our enterprising journals
paying thousands of dollars annually
toward these necessary ends. Every
article published in newspaper costs
money and it cannot be safely denied
that the proprietors expend more money
in this direction than any other class of
our citizens.
A morning contemporary compares
its reporter to awell. 1t calls him our
man of depth" If like a well, why2
and if so, how deep2 1t is to be hoped
that the old fable remains good, and
that truth can be found at the bottom
of that well. Upon this point it may
be well to rise and explain" that the
lightning, learned, musical, religious
and profane reporters are enveloped in
one suit of clothes. And so it is with
tba ,b;opitous representatives of all the !