Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-27
aNLEpaRR LiNEs.

picnic at James Park tomorrow.
Fierce duns form the burthen Of the
, song on many Memphis postal cards
Attend Col. Duncan McRaes lecture
on next Friday evening at the demphis
Theater. " y ILlA4AU0 US 20
The corn crop is where the shoe
pinches in Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas.
A well known Memphian who is noted
for his powerful memory often forgets to
remember the poor.
News editorsinsist that illegible writer's
are undesirable acquaintance = their
characters are bad.
Oranges are being organized
throughout West Tennessee, North Mis-
sissippi and Eastern Arkansas.
Owing to the rain yesterday the st.
Georges picnic was postponed inde6-
nitely. The time will be announced
hereafter by the committee.
Every citizen, for the sake of his own
health and comfort, should have his
premises thoroughly cleansed. The use
Of some disinfectant should not be neg
lected.
This evening Rev. Mr.. Huxley, Of
New Orleans, will lecture on the Sweden
borgian doctrines, at the Waldran block,
No. $50 Main street. Subject, "Resur-
ection."
A New York exchange has it that the
French residents of Memphis intend
celebrating the anticipated withdrawal
of German troops from the soil of
France on the 9th of September.
Every prudent Memphian remaining
in this climate during the spring season.
when he goes out promenading, should
carry an overcoat; umbrella, linen duster
and fan, in order to be prepared for all
kinds of weather.
Our facetious friend of the Avalanche
not long since claimed that he had
patent for the words Standard and
g Blewis." 1t is now Hon. Barbour
Lewis. This is quite an improvement,
and in much better taste.
On and after Sunday, June LIST, two
trains will run daily over the Little
Rock railroad. Mail train will leave at
5:l5. pm; arrive 9:25 am. Freight
and accommodation train daily, except
Sunday, leave an, arrive $3.50 pm.
Sleeping cars on mail train.
James Hampton Sullivan, the poet
and journalist, and at present city editor
of the Vicksburg Herald, delivered
temperance lecture few evenings since
before the Y. M. T. A. of that village.
Subject: The Shoo-Fly" beer glass Of
the period, with illustrations as to its
practical use. ta
English clergymen who have adopted
the fifteen-minute sermon system call
their brief discourses sermonettes,
which is good way to distinguish them
from heavier and more labored efforts.
The sermonette system is not in
vogue in Memphis by at least three
quarters Of an hour.
In our Criminal Court indictments are
often found charging the crimes of OBJ
tanning money or goods under false pre-
lenses, just as if pretense could be
other than false. Under the rule of
grammar that two negatives are equal
to an affirmative, the indictments really
charge that the money or goods were OBJ
tanned honestly.
The examination of Frank Dennis, on
the charge of killing his daughter,
Fanny Dennis, will take place this after
noon at three o'clock before Judge Hal
sey, Of the Second Circuit Court A
post norton examination will probably
be made in order to discover the real
and immediate cause of the mysterious
death of the unfortunate girl.
The following telegram was sent to-
day by a young lawyer to Colonel II.
Clay King, who is in attendance on the
Supreme Court at Jackson: Come home
soon; your King has got queen" AL
though born in republican country the
young princess may be a Bourbon; but
if so, she is of the good old Kentucky
brand-the best in the world.
The United States marshal is after at
torneys who have neglected to pay the
United States license to practice. The
license and costs now amount to from
fifty to sevsnty-fve dollars, and the issue
is pay or go to Jail. Several attorneys
put in pleas of mon est factum, which
they could safely do if their practice
can be taken as test Of their profession.
Our Irish fellow-citizens are grati6ed'
to know that Field Marshal Maurice
Mcmahon has been selected as President
of t's French Republic. Heretofore
McMSi,on has been suspected of Bona
partisan, but the death of Napoleon set
tied that question, and Mcmahon has
but little use for the so-called Legitimists,
the divine right Orleanists and Bourbons.
Many Memphians use the slang phrase,
"You are a brick" without knowing
that Il has the advantage Of at least