Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-05
LEDGER LINES.
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by the average American.
Next Monday afternoon the Genera
Council will resume business.
Rev. DIR. Wheat. OF 81. Lazarus Church
has resigned, and will preach his fare
we'll sermon tomorrow.
Mayor johnson is paying the coupons
for interest on the bonds Of the city due
July LIST, 1872. on presentation.
Every citizen took little Fourth OIL
July yesterday A few inconsiderats
persons took little too much.
The Raleighites and a number OF in.
vited guests enjoyed an old fashioned
bran dance and barbecue yesterday.
A wise-looking darkey proclaimed yes
terday that he was celebrating the dis,
covery Of dis county by de colored folks.
The School Board viii hold its regu.
lar monthly meeting on Monday next.
Important business will be transacted.
Quite a number Of Cinnamon have
located in Memphis, and are engaged in
the laundry business and in the manu-.
facture Of fans.
The Louisville lottery drawing comes
of on Tuesday next. At least fifty
thousand dollars worth Of tickets have
been sold in Memphis.
Messrs. Slaughter, Pickett, Leath,
Miss Clara Conway aud many others are
mentioned in connection with the Office
of Superintendent Of the city schools.
A colored thief pleaded absence of
mind" in larceny case before Recorder
Winters to-day. If he had had presence
Of mind he would have pleaded absence
Of body.
The first cotton.boll has been received
at the LEDGER Office. 1t was picked on
the plantation of Captain G. P. Boon,
of Boon's Station, Memphis and Charles
ton railroad.
A colored pick-pocket got perforated
with bullet near Humboldt Park yes.
terday while plying his avocation in the
vicinity of the coat-tail pocket of col
ored brother.
The way Memphis girl accosts her
acquaintance" Well, how are your
who do you lover and what do You
know" and then follows double and
troubled ocean of small-talk.
The Temple of Love, organized for the
advancement of temperance and the
reformation of inebriates, held a meet
ing at the Linden street Christian
church last night. The exercises were
largely attended.
In the suburbs yesterday the sharp
pinging of pistol balls drove many resi-
dents from front yards and porticos.
The intelligent African ignored in many
instances the blank cartridge business,
and loaded with ball.
Hereafter patrolmen will slaughter un.
muzzled CANNES provided they resist an
arrest and attempt to escape. The pat
rolman can now take Shakspearean
attitude and say: "Unmannered dogs,
stand thou when command"
No reliance can be placed in the Their
mometers used by private parties, as the
mercury is generally located where it is
affected by reflected heat. The Signal
Service Bureau thermometer is the only
correct standard to be governed by.
But little was done at the Narrow
Gauge Railroad Convention, held in this
city last Thursday A committee will
issue an address at an early day and
pave the way for a future convention,
which will grasp the subject in bust
ness like manner.
The bonnet of the period is minia-
ture kitchen garden; it is decorated with
cherries, grapes, blackberries, little car
rots, bits of parsley, long pale green
beans, sorrel, marjorem, and other vege-
tables familiar to the professors of the
culinary science.
The young men of the morning jour
nails enjoyed tipping the light fantastic
at the orphans picnic yesterday. The
Register man this morning came out
squarely in favor of round dances. AS
a waltzer, schotisher and polkaer he has
no superior on the bluffs.
At a meeting held last evening in
Banner Lodge, No. lat, l. o. o. F., the
officers we're elected to serve
he ensuing term: VIM. Henry, N. G..
;. Gross, V. G.; F. Starr, R. and P. S. /;
ieo. A. Waring, 7. 7. S. Jukes was re-
elected representative to the Grand
Lodge.
Will not somebody start the fashion that
when birthday falls at an appropriate
eason of the year, it win be celebrated
" the friends Of the party collecting
md planting one or more trees in front
# his dwelling? This would place Mem
This completely in the shade within ten
ears.
The ninth census shows that ninety |
indians reside in Tennessee, and that
hey usually remain upon their reserva-
ions, located on the stone steps of prom
nent buildings and in front of cigar
lands. They are engaged in selling