Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-17
BREVITIEs.


morning next at 8 o'clock. The exer-
cises will be of most attractive char
acter.
The United States are ahead OF the
world in suicides for the year 1871.
Tennessee has contributed her quota,
and the Memphis delegation is not to be
ignored.
The grand Masonic picnic and baby
show on the oath, St. Johns day, con-
tinues to create considerable interest in
the public mind. The committees are
hard at work.
Sunday reading and all the fashion
and literary magazines for July. Home
and foreign pictorials and daily papers
from all points at Locke's lightning
news stand, 1864 Main street.
The second annual picnic given by the
Societa di Unione e Fratellanza Italiana
will be held on next Wednesday, June
2lst, at James Park. This picnic will
be given in commemorazione del Statute
d Italia.
The General Council Committee is
bordering over the elevator and bluff
removal questions. The result of these
cogitations will be announced in philo-
sophical and practical report at the next
meeting Of the Boards.
Go to Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monaoe for news goods, daily pa
pers from the North, South, East, and
West. illustrated publications and the
monthlies for July just received For
eigu papers received regularly by ocean
steamers.
The Grand Jury returned several in
dictments against the colored inhab-
itants of Rotton Row, on Shelby street,
near Gayoso. A dozen of the denizens
of this questionable locality occupy APP
artments at the county Jail, awaiting
the action of the Criminal Court.
ESQUIRE Miller was investigating the
replevin of coon this forenoon. Sew
eral eminent attorneys were engaged on
either side. The poor old coon was up
in court awaiting, with anxiety, the de-
cson of the court as to its legitimate
owner.
The heavy rain storm last night
clensed the streets and alleys and re-
duced the temperature of the heated
atmosphere many degrees. The Vivid
flashes of lightning purified the atmos-
phere to a considerable extent. These
results will improve the health of the
city.
Some poetical individual thus apos1
trophises Young Americas, who rob
birds nests:
"0h plunderersl whose radiant eyes
GLADDEN. and glOat above tn, prize,
grief for this comes by-and-by.
YOu III miss voice outside tine dOof,
flying shadow from the floor .
A birds son,y somewhere from the sky"
The County Clerk received the follow
ing marriage licenses during the week;
John Shelby and Miss Nettie d. Wilson,
C. Weatherford and Miss E. Heiskell,
G. W. Teager and Miss Maggie Will
shire, Edmund Rich and Mrs. Sarah
Jane Daily. Eight c,1lOred couples also
entered into matrimonial arrangements.
The commencement exercises of the
Memphis Female Seminary Mrs. E. C.
Tucker and Miss Nary McKane princi
pals were held vest erday on Courl
street The exercises were largely at
tended and were exceedingly satisfactory
to the friends and pair ons of the Sem
mary.
Emmons & Son, news dealers on Jefftr-
son and Beal streets, have received the
latest daily newspapers from New York,
New Orleans, st. Louis and other cities
English, French, German and Irish pa
pers and periodicals received. All the
popular illustrated weeklies can be fou nd
at their stands.
English sparrows, the deadly enemies
to insects, have been imported into Lou
isville, where houses have been prepared
for them. The busy motions of the
sparrow in summer and their cheerful
chirp in winter make them general
favorites. Who will import few dozen
of sparrows for Court Square2
The st, Joseph In6rmary, on Jefferson
street, and under charge of the Good
Sisters of st. Dominique, is the only
place in the city where our young men
who have no homes can receive careful
attention and good nursing when sick.
The Infrmary supplies want long felt
in this community by the sick and home
less.
A Greeley club is to be organized in
this city on the basis of universal suf-
frage, amnesty and what is known about
farming by the Tribune philosopher.
The new departurists are invited to fuse
with the back-sliding Republicans, and
by this means elect Greeley President in
1872 by way of the Vallandigham short |
line narrow-gauge route.
The United States Assessor has de-
cided that picnics must hereafter pay
for bar privileges. The parties who set
up bars on picnic days pay for bar
privileges in the city where they do bust