Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-05
LEDGER LINES.

afternoon to court in course, the 10th
inst. rA
| The Centennial committee will meet
a! the chamber of commerce next
Wednesday. '.. z.
4 A dull summer business season is
among the events recklessly predicted by
the business Memphian just now.
The Quarterly Court is in session to-
day considering the issuance Of the third
100000 series of certificates to the
Selma railroad.
The Memphis Typographical Union
purpose giving picnic the latter part
Of this month. The day has not as yet
been definitely fixed. aa
The Lewis Vaughan bogus murder
mstinees have been transferred from
Memphis to Helena. The Helenites
have our commisseration. rt
Several Memphis delegates LEFT for
Vienna last week, and within the ensu-
ing ten days q number Of others will fol-
low them across the salt sea.
The Selden Irwin comedy company
will open up weeks engagement at the
theater tonight. in Our Irish Cousins
and a side-splitting afterpiece.
When will memorial day be celebrated2
And when will the May Sunday school
celebration and the Court Square baby
show come Off No echo as yet.
The movement toward establishing
the cotton exchange of the Chamber of
Commerce is progressing favorably. A
committee on organization, etc., will be
appointed in a few days.
The literary man of the Appeal says
can agent for the sale of Stewards
Travels in this city is wanted" Seward
must have travelled incog. on the bluffs,
and in spirit with the Appeal local.
Horsemen, race horses, jockeys, pool
sellers and transient CHANDELIERS have
gone where the woodbine twineth, since
the spring races over the Chickasaw
Jockey Club course closed last Saturday.
Alderman Davis is tearing down the
water tanks on the bluffs, and purposes
hereafter to use Wolf river water in
sprinkhng the streets; the water to be
furnished from hydrant ON South Court
street.
The creeping Modocs, the caterpil-
lars, are rapidly increasing in the coun-
try, and are scalping all vegetation; ere
long they will invade the railroad tracks
and stop trains, which they did so effect
ally last spring.
Colonel DuPre, the archaeological edi-
tor and Indian mound digger of the APP
peal, having been appointed Commits
sioner, will leave the Chickasaw mounds
and bluffs in few days in order to ex-
anime the Modocs Of Vienna.
What is known as the Cotton Com
press Ring has been partially shattered
by the withdrawal Of few of the presses
by their owners. The combination to
put up rates will eventually break down
or other presses will be erected.
A tea made from the sole of shoe
and given to a sick negro woman yester-
day morning on Washington street
separated body from soul within few
hours. The Coroner called it soulless
act, yet a less amount of sole within the
body of the patient would have deprived
the Coroner of the pleasure of stating
the paradox. HAnin So
The city Finance Committee heard
the proof and arguments of counsel in
the case of Mayor johnson last Saturday
evening, and decided that the charges
were notsustained. The committee will
present an elaborate report to the Gen
eral Council, which will assemble in the
City building next Wednesday evening.
Hundreds of people visited the bluffs
yesterday and last night, and watched
the silent Mississippi, the distant Arkan-
sas shore, and the incoming packets from
the coasts. The bluffs should be ter
raced in front and on the surface should
be planted trees, the whole enclosed by
deeentlooking fence; the bluffs would
then become a park unequaled in any
city. ~
Since the Vaughan-Hindman matter
is at an end in Memphis, what will be
the next soul.stirring sensation2 Can
not some enterprising patriot slaughter
few citizens some forenoon for the
benefit of the LEDGER reporters2 Gen
tlemen, remember that il citizen is
"Modoct" between the hours of two
in the afternoon and three o'clock next
morning the LEDGER loses the item, and
the morning newspaper fends will
straugle it to death.
Plumbing and Gas Fitting.
Joseph Flannery & Co., the we'll