Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-12
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| Garden truck plentiful, but beware Of
Iitunless II is fresh from the garden.
The Police Board will meet on Friday
next and settle some police matters
The Probate Court OF Shelby county
meets on Monday next, which will be the
last day Of The present term.
The annual concei. Of the pupils of
| ST. Joseph Academy viii come of this
evening atthe ASSEMBLY Hali."' ""
Paper collars ore inadequate to this
cAlOric weather, especially when the
wearer INDUCES in calisthenics.
The card Of Colonel Wintersmith,
taken from yesterdays Courier.J ournal,
win be found in another column Of this
paper.
Several minor cases were up before
the Criminal Court this morning, But
nothing Of an important nature trans
pired. v
The Philo-Thespian Club entertain.
ment for the benefit of the Church Home
at the Greenlaw Opera House t. NOR
row evening.
Several efforts have been made Of late
by incendiaIies to burn down the Mem
phis Theater. The police are on the
lookout for The villains jill Z
The June rise is coming down The
river, but me planters can stand the
raise and go few better, that is, hunt a
limb few feet higher.
Mr.. John r. Downs, well known
citizen of the First ward, has been suf-
fering from the prevailing disease, but
ives out on the streets to day.
Mr.. P. A. Jackson, 'he brickmason
who suicided yesterday, gave as rea.
son for the act, before committing it,
that he was "disgusted with life"
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
to them for seventy.fve cents per month,
or two dollars for three months.
In the First Chancery Court tc day a
petition for divorce was filed by Fannie
A. Barbour VS.. Edward Z. Barbour, on
the grounds of abandonment, etc.
Heavy rains throughout the South
have caused a marked advance in the
price of cotton at New York, Liverpool
and other markets. See kilograms.
A pigeon shooting club is to be organ
lied on the bluffs. There are hundreds
of sportstnen in the city who are 4 =
sirous of joining such an organization.
The Second Circuit Court will adjourn
for the term on Monday next. The r.
mainder of the present term will be
directed to winding up unfnish / bust
ness.
Whenever man enters saloon and
calls for "poney brandy" you can bet
all the money in your possession that he
has been down with the American
cholera. ~
"To follow items like sinking star
beyond the utmost depths of human
knowledge" is the way Sullivan, of the
Vicksburg Herald, puts up the daily hi.
tory of his rambles.
The children of the colored Sunday
schools turned out in force to-day in at
tendance on a picnic. The procession
through the streets was very creditable
to the colored race.
A number of our leading citizens are
confined to their rooms by severe attacks
of American cholera, but in nearly all
cases speedy recoveries are predicted by
the attending physicians.
The members Of the LEDGER staff r.
turn compliments to the graduates of
Gaines Institute for charming bouquet
of flowers redolent with perfume and
tasteful in construction.
Invitations to the local editor to call
and interview and notice inventions or
other objects of public interest must be
made through the LEDGER business office
o-Jo, . -ooo,un
Jake Leubrie is out to-day soliciting
for the Court Square foun-
tain and Court Square concerts. Let
each person give something and the oil
jects are at once accomplished.
The Memphis Theater scene, and APP
pointments are being taken out and
shipped to st. Louis by Spalding d
Pope, preparatory to turning over the
theater to the new management.
The Vice President of the Mississippi
Press Association was rambling through
own yesterday in search of an Alpine
hat, but finally compromised by pnr-
chasing one of the style la Modoc.
The exercises and concerts of the
class of Gaines Institute will
commence this morning, and will close
io-morrow evening. The concerts Ri
attract large and fashionable audiences
Rakish-looking straw-hats of fifteen
cent origin and circled with a cheap
band of ribbon, and withal broad in the
brim, is the latest vagary of female fash
ON in Memphis. Ii must be the Modoc