Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-08
LEDGER LINES.

The School Board will assemble in
convention next Monday evening.
The General Council will hold an ad.
journed meeting tomorrow afternoon.
Eii BsSEs, a strapping" darkey, was
arrested this morning for carrying ra'
zor.
The sale Of lots at the new town Of
Lucy on the Paduoah railroad, comes
Oh today.
Nashville has an ordinance prohibiting
the sale OF watermelohs 10 the fruit.
loving citizens.
The Memphis girls are in Gne frenzy
rolling-ten.pins at West Tennessee and
Virginia Springs.
The speed Of the Nicolson pavement
trotting horse cannot be brought down
below three minutes per mile.
The Confederate Relief Association
will give bal mAsque At the Exposition
building on the 18th Of September next,
The dull summer season is gradually
slipping by and business is already put
ting in an appearance on our leading
streets.
Court Square is often frequepted by
Objectionable characters after dark A
little police surveillance would have a
happy effect.
Dan Duay, mick" was captured
by the police to-day, and will plead
drunk and disorderly" tomorrow be-
fore Judge Winters.
The County Tax Collector announces
that delinquehts may rest assured that
he intends to collect the past due taxes
in Shelby county.
That SANDER upon sculpture, the bust
Of Jackson, in Court Square should be
removed to one corner Of the grounds,
and in its place a beautiful fountain
should be erected.
Infant bones, carefully laid away in
candle boxes and buried in cut of the
way places, are discovered by the anti
quarians of the city quite too often; it
hints at infanticide.
The cholera is making returning calls
throughout the country, wherever the in.
habitants have been imprudently indulg-
ing in the promiseuous and reckless use
of vegetables and fruits.
Grass-hoppers have appeared in count.
less numbers on the bluffs; the hopper"
is smaller and less lively than its breth-
rem of the Western plains that devours
everything within its line OF march.
This is hangman's day, and but for
the interposition Of Governor John
Brown, the body of Early j. Eason would
have been suspended, like Mahomet's
coffin, between earth and heaven.
The man has never lived who could
Gil the position Of local editor of Mem
phis daily and be perfectly certain that
nobody will take offense at his para
graphs. There are so many men in this
world who seem to be sitting on nettles.
The bayou boy who battles is an object
Of attention from the patrolman. Mod
esty in boy is an unknown virtue when
he has swimming on the brain. A few
arrests, however, will regulate the nui-
sance.
Mary Mcdowell, a wench, was arrested
this morning on warrant charging her
with an assault on Alice Bates. Mary
is the "pusson from whom little babe
was stolen some weeks since, and when
arrested brought the baby-a perfectly
white one-to the station.house with her.
In yesterdays LEDGER it was stated
that there were but four old Memphians
alive who inhabited the bluffs in the.
eighteen hundred and twenties. We are
pleased to be able to inform the suffering
public that there are greater number
of the old twenties in the land Of the
living
Now that the Wolf river water has
been examined chemically by DIR.
Hoerner and pronounced superior in
purity to Mississippi river water, the
General Council should accept the water,
the tests required having been very sat
isiactory to our citizens.
Sheriff Doyle was swindled out of a
fee Of thirty dollars to-day by the Exec
utive of the State, owing to the interpo-
sition of Executive clemency which
saved Eason from being hanged. The
Sheriff had standing offer of fifty dol
lars for an amateur hangman, and we
understand there were several volun-
teers.
Moonlight nights at present attract
the sentimental Memphians to the
bluffs that overlook the Father of Wa
ters Our City Fathers should place
number of seats on the bluffs for the
accommodation of visitors. Court
Square was donated for courthouse pur-
poses, but the bluffs we're donated by
the original proprietors for public park
or promenade.
Grand RRII at Raleigh Tonight.
The music, brass and string, will be
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