Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-17
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Tomorrow will come of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum picnic at James Park.
The Second Circuit Court will ad-
journ for the term tomorrow morning.
The monthly calls Of the Gas CompA-
ny's collectors is called the charge Of the
Light Brigade.
Captain Athy was at his Office this
morning attending to his duties as usual,
though hardly able to do so.
Emm Brown was found drunk last
night, for which she paid ten dollars this
morning in the Police Court.
The official report Of the proceedings
Of the General Council last evening will
be found on the fourth page.
The WEEKLY LEDGER at the counting
reom to-day; single copy in wrappers
ready for mailing, five ceuts.
The wet weather and the grass are
about to destroy the cotton crop in the
counties adjacent to Memphis.
Mr.. IS. M. lobe, Of the Eighth Ward,
has been elected Councilman vice A. j.
White, promoted to Alderman.
The First Chancery Court stands adj
journed until next Monday, and the
Second Chancery Court until Thursday
The clerk of the weather muet be in 9
melancholy mood at present, If the fire.
quent rains represent his tears. dc
should dry up.
Gentlemen in gum waterproof coats
and under immense umbrellas paraded
the streets to-day and talked Of October
weather in June. oT VRNUtI
Hereafter hogs, on account Of Their
being public scavengers, will be per
mitted 10 run at large, but goats are yet
on the prohibited list.
Chancellor Commander Diver desires
every Knight of Pythias who intends to
participate ON the Oath to attend drill
promptly at o'clock tonight.
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum-
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
to them for seventy.fve cents p er month,
or two dollars for three months,
Billy Quinn, the fireman who was SO
terribly shot several weeks since in a
Main street beer saloon, has been out
several days, and is getting we'll fast.
The city is filled with mosquitoes,
bugs and insects, brought into existence
by the continuous rains and warm
weather that contain the germ of life.
The police gobbled up Eugene Quinn
this morning on a charge of disorderly
conduct preferred by Bachmann. Eu-
gene deposited forfeit and went his
way.
How many people are in the condition
of Oliver Wendell Holmes who wrote:
~ never like to make fuss,
And always be complaining.
But hang me if my temper stands
This raining, raining, raining.
Mad dogs are numerous in the rural
districts, and the people, in view thereof,
90 armed on all occasions. tits time to
enforce the anti.dog law in Memphis.
Muzzle or die.
One of the Smith family, John by sur
name-no kin to the lineal descendant
of Pocahontas-paid fine of five dol
lars this morning for filling himself with
shotgun whisky.
To-day, the 18th instant, is the ami
versary of the combat at Quartre Bras,
and tomorrow, the 18th, will be the an
niyersary of the battle of Waterloo, a
fight that settled the hash of the Little
Corporal.
The COMMENCEMENT exercises Of Mrs.
McGehee's school, the. Memphis Ladies
Institute, will be held this evening at
Goepers piano rooms on Main street.
None but invited guests are expected to
be present.
The total receipts of cotton in Mem
phis for the season up to to-day lacks
just five bales of being 100000, against.
receipts this time last year of 37797l.
Stock on hand to-day, 2O694; this time
last year, 1908.
Next Tuesday, the oath inst, the at
traction will be the Masonic picnic at
James Park, and the ceremonies incl
dent to laying the cornerstone of the
Masonic Temple, on the corner of Madi-
son and Second streets.
On the 9th inst. David Burns, vii
famous negro, outraged the person OF a
little negro girl on the Fowler planta-
ton, near Friar's Point, Mississippi.
He was afterward captured and com
mitted in default Of $1,000 bail.
The resolution of Alderman Robbins,
that the city subscribe five hundred dol
lars to the Court Square fountain, was
referred to the Committee on Parks yes
terday, and report will be made at the
next meeting of the General Council.
Mr.. William Henry, of the LEDGER
Office, received letter last evening con-
veying the sad intelligence that his little
son, aged four years, had been killed by
kick on the head from mule, at Hud-
ssnville, Marshall county, Mississippi.
The rains have rained upon us