Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-16
LEDGER LINES.

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That coy and blushing maiden named
Spring Is lettering around these parts.
The Chelsea ghost still walks by night
aud plaques the HAmlets Of the suburbs.
All our. courts will be in full blast on
next Monday, to the great JOY q the
professional juror.
Tho Library Association is increasing
in membership; its rooms are we'll at
tended every evening. it
The next picnic comes OF at James
Park on Tuesday next. II will be given
by the Typographical Union.
Attend the oratorio Of Esther tonight
at the Memphis Theater; the tableaux
are worth tho price Of admission.
Exposition building picnics, inaugur-
atod last night by the Christian Brothers,
will be popular during the season.
On Wednesday next the great picnic
Of the Societa di Unione Fratellanza
Italiana will be held at James Park.
The decoration of the graves of the
Confederate dead at Elmwood cemetery
has been postponed until Tuesday next.
Messrs. J. j. Dubose and ]. G. Mac
cabe we're to-day sworn in and admitted
to practice law in the First Circuit
Court.
The local politicians are all at sea on
the subject Of the next Msyoralty cleo
ton. Many of them will be stranded
ere long
Every few days a citizen or two slips
away for Vienna. Meeting Chickasaw
buffer in Vienna would suggest a gen.
eral "smile."
Ladies and gentlemen attending the
Esther Oratorio tonight can also attend
the Christian. Brothers festival at the
Exposition building.
Memphis is noted for the learning
ability and eloquence of its bar.
Many of its brightest lights practice OF
both sides Of the bar.
The Memphis suicide, as a genera
rule, selects the pistol or the narcotic.
The East Indian method of cremation
has not as yet been introduced.
The word boss" which has been in
troduced in the South since the familiar
one of msssa played out, is of Dutcf
origin, originating in Arnheim, Holland
1t is rumored that the morning news
paper reporters contemplate starting
temperance society. The object is com
mended by our strictly temperate Ledger
Liner.
The Christian Brothers festival at thu
Exposition building last night was Target,
attended by the best people in the city
The festival will be continued to night.
The Bourbon is taken down in Spair
Just as it is in this land of ours. TIL,
Spanish Bourbon is not as good or a
pure an article as the old Kentuck.
brand.
The announcement in yesterday
LEDGER that city justice was spokel
of as a fit man to be Chief Justice Of tn,
United States caused q commotion il
magisterial circles.
But few planters appear in the city a
present. The crops prevent thei
coming either on business or pleasure
The scarcity of labor " is felt through
out this and adjoining States.
The Indian maidens who sell bea'
work on the streets have become object
of interest since Captain Jack starte'
his Modoc war. To be descended iron
Pocahontas is again becoming boast
The ladies of St. Peters church con
template giving strawberry festival er
long for the purpose of assisting in tn
purchase of furniture for the new dwell
ing in course of erection for the priest
of St. Peters.
The attachment bond question i
. the case of the Polk estate vs. the Jack
son Insurance Company will be brough
up again tomorrow before Judge Ha
sey, of the Second Circuit Court. TIL,
. result will appear in the LEDGER.
The garnishments issued by the Unite
States Court against the city at the il
stance of the Nicolson pavement mar
7. E. Brown, were dismissed yesterda
by Judge Emmons. The effort made t
tie up the city funds proved unsuccesi
full
In July, 1876. our Republic will hav
' been one hundred years old; those Q
our citizens who desire to attend tn
/ forthcoming centennial celebration a
Philadelphia had better make arrang,
ment in time, as it will be impossible 70
them to attend the next.
A critic while observing the portrai
of O'Connell at the Exposition buildin
last night, was heard to remark to lad
q friend: "The epic spirit has left GU
= canvases; the idylic, too, has vanished
and in their stead we find merely cleve
9 limitations, in detail, of nature. "
Those interested in the late coal "a
troubles will be pleased to learn that b
c recent experiments at Berlin it has bee
!. proved that the escape Of twenty-fv