Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-20

Neither the Appeal man nor his ex
PLANTATION, on the Court Square fountain
question will hold water.
The Police Board will meet and selec
a keeper for the Adams street station
house at o'clock on Friday next.
The German Lutheran Sunday school
picnic at Humboldt Park yesterday wal
a delightful affair for the children.
The bursting of the hose prevented
the FIRE plug test yesterday. The pres
sure was too great for the gutta perchs
hose.
Mayor Johnson, who was attacked
with cholera morbus yesterday, is uT
and about to-day, attending to oficiaI
business.
The Grand Opera House is for rent
during the summer months for school
exhibitions, lectures and public enter,
tainments.
At the Church Home festival, at No,
269 Main street, tonight, the young PEG
pie can indulge in dance to the music
of string band.
The police force yet wear the heavy
winter clothing, but on the LIST proximo
the members of the force will come Out
in summer costumes.
Ham Carter, an ex-Memphis negro
politician, will be candidate for Gov
ernor of Mississippi before the Radical
Convention in July next.
Floral decoration to-day at Elmwood
to the memory of the dead, and to per
petuate the principles that are engrafted
upon the tree of liberty.
The new postal cards are in circula-
ton throughout the city. In England
invisible ink is used in the correspond
ence carried on on postal card basis.
The Philharmonic and Mendelssehn
Concert Clubs have consolidated, on q
musical basis, which will "pan out " a
number of some stirring concerts ere
long.
The time-honored water tank, on the
bluffs, has been ruthlesSly torn down by
some Goth, who had no idea of the value
Of the antique when in its normal con.
dition.
The exterior and interior of Calvary
church has been undergoing repairs for
some time. The church presents a
pleasant appearance since the painters
touched it up.
Straw hats have appeared on the
streets, by way of aiding spring in her
effort to catch summer. A straw hat on
the head is quite as cooling as straw in
the mouth.
A bar meeting was held at the Second
Circuit Court room at IL m. to-day,
when committees were appointed to draft
resolutions with reference to the death
Of Judge James Phelan.
The chap whe in dull times could do
all the business he wanted to without adj
vertising has been compelled to adver-
tise at last. The new advertisement is
headed "Sherif's Sale"
Owing to the illness of Mayor johnson
and President Dent, of the Aldermanic
Board, the Police Board did not meet
and select keeper for the Adams street
station-hogse Yesterday,
Next Friday afternoon the baby show
at the Exposition building will bring out
in force numbers of these little carved
representations that one sometimes sees
blowing trumpet on tombstone,
Strawberry festivals every night, of the
Church Orphans Home at No 267 Main,
opposite Court Square, Of the Central
Baptist church, on Second, near Beal,
and of the Central Methodist church, at
Rocco Hall.
Weather hot; buy ice, purchase fans,
keep cool if possible. No man walks on
the sunny side of the street at present,
unless it is for the purpose of avoiding
creditor on the shady side-newspaper
men always excepted
The late Christian Brothers E1pssi-
ton festival brouph t in between two and
three thousand dollars. One gentleman
has donated one hundred dollars toward
the success Of the college, and mOdestly
declines to give his name.
The organ-grinders find that Mem
phians have an acquired taste for music,
When the latter is brought into existence
By turning a crank; and in consequence
the musicians intend fighting it out on
this line during the summer.
The Fire Relief Association, compris.
iug the members Of the FIRE department.,
marched but &c Elnsood to-day Tor the
purpose Of paying a coral tribute 10 the
memory Of the late Chief Keno, Of the
Gre department The boys we're dressed
in their nev Relief Association suits,