Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-03
LEDGER LINES.

The General Council VIII assemble
again next Monday afternoon.
By the addition Of one cent. stamp
postal cards may be sent to Canada.
The colored braves OF the city are
making huge preparations for celebrat-
ing the Fourth.
The Sons Of Ham will picnic to-mor-
row at Humboldt Park. Distinguished
speakers will be present.
The General Council has again de-
creed that the big wharfboat shall be
removed from the foot Of Court street.
Is the next School Superintendent to
be a man or a woman is one Of the
side issues which will come up ere long.
Sam Gee and compatriots from the
Celestial Kingdom have established
Chinese laundry on Third street, near
Beal.
The Grand Jury has gone where the
woodbine twineth-in fact, disbanded
and resolved itself into the body Of the
country.
The Madison street money Modocs
are doing a thriving business to-day, and
three per cent. per month is the com.
mon talk. FH
Tomorrow, July 4th, no edition Of the
LEDGER will be published. The LEDGER
men will attend the orphans picnic at
James Park.
During the month only 1925 worth Of
property was destroyed by fire, which,
however, was covered by an insurance
of fifty dollars.
The same waxed floor that has been
used at all the great picnics at james
Park will be under foot at the Orphans
picnic tomorrow.
The next test of the Wolf river water
supplied by the Water Company is to be
chemical one. Its analysis will be
puDllsned IN que time.
New York begins her holiday to-day,
and ends it on Saturday night, in conse-
quence of which no cotton kilograms
will be received during that time.
Lunch fiends will be glad to learn that
an elegant spread is now made daily
between the hours of twelve and one on
the pavement at the southwest corner of
Main and Madison streets.
Tomorrow, July 4th, being national
holiday, the postofice will close at 10
am. Letter carriers will make one de-
livery and two collections. All mails
close at 10 am. and IL m.
The festive goat has get to pine in the
public pound. The hog of the period,
however, has been presented with the
freedom of the city, and has received the
appointment of city scavenger.
All dogs are to be muzzled from this
date, if their owners desire them to run
at large with impunity. The unmuzzled
and unmannered dogs will be regarded
as targets for police pistolpractice.
The Criminal Court, Judge Horrigan
presiding, attended to of some eight
or ten nuisance cases this morning,
majority of which were decided in
favor of the defendants, they paying
costs. HlEl s.bM
Colonel ]. Ivie Westbrook, editor of
the Brownsville Bee, and DR.. George A.
Mathes, of the Somerville Falcon, are in
the city to-day regardless of cholera
rumors, but wide-awake on the subject
of advertisements.
The Nicolson pavement is to be re-
paired at last. On many streets the
material used by the contractors was of
the poorest character, the wood being
spongy and green, and no wonder the
blocks rotted away months since.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis reached st. Louis
yesterday en- route for New York. He
had not been in St. Louis since 1887,
but had been there prior to that time, in
1928, as Lieutenant of Dragons, and
was stationed at Jefferson Barracks.
Frank VOORHEES,, negro, and Antonio
Brizzolari, o peanut merchant, had
lively set-to on the corner of Main and
Jefferson streets this morning about
eleven o'clock, and we're both Gala
boosed by officer Scott. Frank will
spend his Fourth of July in durance |
vile. Tony put up forfeit
A well-known gentleman who had
a prescription to be filled, spent two
hours this morning, between one and
three O. clock, in fruitless efforts to arouse
the prescription clerks at the different
drug stores on Main street. south of
Madison, but did finally succeed in pro-
curing the desired medicine at Hoerner's,
on Beal street.
Cushings' Manual of Parliamentary
Rules has been adopted by the Board of
Aldermen as a textbook OF instruction.
As parliamentarians many of our Alder
men hold a high grade. The little
which usually takes place
on field day in the Board, affords in
finite amusement to visitors, and useful
to the younger members of