Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-04
LEDGER LINES.

Il haN aAhNh'o hNNeJs
Judge Halsey has an intricate cotton
case before him 10 day.
81. Georges Association picnic, at
James Park yesterday was largely at.
tended.
The General Council will assemble in
force at the Exchange building this
afternoon.
The changing was vibrating on
Main street this morning, and did eifec.
tive service.
The street railway concern is repair
ing the Nicolson between the tracks on
Poplar street.
Nothing doing at the banks or in the
staple to-day; for that reason we omit
our detailed commercial reports.
Nothing Of interest occurred in Police
or Criminal Court circles to-day. The
Modocs are basking in the shade.
The latest style of summer suits worn
is Japanese fan, a light umbrella an d
thirteen yards of linen; worn by men
exclusively. q Nf
The green.eyed monster has been
squirting throughout the city during the
past few days. He will eventually wind
up at the divorce courts.
At one o'clock this afternoon there
were just eleven gentlemen on Madison
street, between Main and Front. Seven
Of them were curb.stone philosophers.
The General Council should take some
action at their meeting this afternoon
with reference to blocking up the levee
with salt. Steamboatmen complain that
they do not have the room they pay for.
When two citizens meet on a street
corner at present each gives to the other
diagnosis of his condition beneath the
diaphragm, thereby carrying on very
useful if not intellectual conversation.
G. F. Train wrote to Lecture Manager
Tracy, of our city, yesterday, and signed
himself 1.-THE coming dictator" AS
he was at the time of writing starting for
trip around the world, the signature
should have been the going dictator"
A National Convention of Irish
born citizens is to be held at
Cleveland, Ohio, on or about the 10Th Of
July for the purpose of forming league
or union similar to that which now
binds together the German born citizens
of this Republic.
European tourists continue to leave
the Bluff City weekly. We hope some
one of them will in book-form give an
account of his wanderings while he
was doing" Europe out of railroad
car widows, from the decks of steam
boats or out of the upper story windows
of hotels.
Judge h. E. Hudson, we'll known
lawyer and formerly Judge of the Crimi-
nal Court, is lying dangerously i'll with
the prevailing disease at his residence on
Orleans street. The rumor of his death,
so prevalent on the streets this morning,
we are happy to state was without foun-
dalton.
The outrageous thing known as the
tree of heaven" is said to be detrimen-
tai to health and our local vandals are
crying out "cut down that tree" and
the gentle woodman spares it not, but
when he does so with his little Ratchet
let him follow the example of the father
of his country.
Lou Leubrie is going to have foun-
tain in Court Square, if it takes ali
summer. His idea now is to get up a
huge dramatic entertainment, in which
he will be assisted by the Garrick Club
and quite a number of amateur must
clans, the entertainment to be given at
one of the theaters.
Imported cabbage from New Orleans
contains the germ of an untold number
of cholera-morbus cases. The cabbage
should be returned to the Crescent City
via the Mississippi. Our sanitary force
should make it walk the plank" after
the manner of the Vicksburg sharpers
and desperadoes many years since.
Since Ben Donohue escaped from the
clutches of the law old habeas corpus,
that honorable citizen who was present
at the difficulty between the English
Barons and King John at Runnymede,
has been receiving hard knocks from
our morning contemporaries. The cor
pus of old habeas can stand it, as it has
done for hundreds of years.
Two saffron colored Egyptians of the
male persuasion pounded each other for
few minutes at the landing this morn
ing, and upon the appearance of po-
liceman both ran. One was captured,
however, but acting upon the suggestion
of some of his colored friends, he made
a break for liberty and got it, notwith-
standing the warning that came from
the policeman's pistol.
There is a young ladies' temperance
society in Memphis. The members sing
a refrain as follows:
THE lips that touch wine,
Must never touch mine"
This practical tribute to cold water does