Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-18
LEDGER LINES.


James Park is postponed TO Thursday,
the Goth.
The St. Paul and Sioux City railroad
are planting cottonwood and box'elder
trees along the line Of their road.
Cincinnati has reduced the pay Of her
policemen from three dollars to two
dollars and forty-seven cents per day.
The locusts have made their appear
ance in North Mississippi, and already
the woods resound with their multitudin.
GUS voices.
A capias was issued this morning by
Judge Flippin of the Criminal Court for
the arrest of Lew Mass on an old charge
Of larceny.
Sheriff Doyle is making arrangements
for the hanging of Early j. Eason, which
will take place next month in the yard
Of Castle o Bannon.
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
TO them for seventy-fve cents per month,
or two dollars for three months
The complimentary benefit rendered TO
the Philo- Thespian Club, at the Green
law Opera House, on next Friday eve
ming, will attract large and fashionable
audience.
In few months Court Square will be
rendered additionally attractive by the
erection of a splendid fountain, brought
into existence by the generous donations
of the public.
The ladies of Memphis insist, with
painters and sculptors, that the curved
line is the line of beauty; hence they
appear on Main street in the shape of a
bow and attended by beau.
Whites Opera House, on Jefferson
street, is the only place of public amuse-
ment open in the city at present. Man
ager White has an attractive variety
troupe at his vaudeville theater.
Representative John S. Kerr has been
invited and has accepted the invitation
Of the colored association known as the
United Sons of Milton, to deliver an ora
ton at a picnic at Humboldt Park to-
morrow.
The creation and operation of the
Board of Health will have the effect of
causing the public to be bored with
health during the summer months, owing
to the proper enforcement of sanitary
laws throughout the city.
The number of professional and anna
teur vocalists and musicians in Memphis
is estimated at FIVE thousand. In the
musical line the piano pawers come first,
the fiddle scratchers second, the flute
blowers third, and the guitar snatchers
| fourth.
1t is with pleasure that we make cor
rection of the announcement made yes
terday that little son of Mr.. Henry, OF
this journal, was killed in Mississippi,
being kicked bya mule. Mr.. Henry, on
reaching jacksonville yesterday, found
that his son was still alive and out of
danger.
Harry Grammar, the best detective
that ever worked up case in Memphis,
has resigned. He was far above the ig-
norant, average detective whose idea of
business is to employ stool pigeons "
for outside work, and keeps young
thieves in pay to watch the older MEM
bers of the pilfering fraternity.
1t is complained of by the residents
in the southern suburbs of the city that
hack loads of lewd people make the
night hideous in their vicinity by pro-
family and wickedness. The police
should protect the residents of the sub
urbs from this growing nuisance by ar
resting all parties concerned.
The domestic hog, having been re-
leased from the city pounds on the
grounds of being a public benefactor as
public scavenger, waddles independ-
emily through streets and alleys with an
air as if it had been martyr to official
persecution for many months, but now
justice, the handmade of liberty, has
made hog of herself.
The ordinance creating the Board of
Health provides that the appointments
made by the Mayor must be Endorsed
by the General Council. and the hasty
adjournmento Of one branch ofthe Council
last Monday prevented the organization
of the Board. Mayor johnson intends
calling Especial meeting, when the APP
pointments will be submitted.
Who will be elected the next School
superintendent is one of the absorbing
topics among school people. The Office
of School Superintendent is a nice one,
somewhat of sinecure, fine salary, and
altogether such an Office as dozens Of
people in Memphis are looking and long
ing for. A man thoroughly competent,
and identified with our city and South
ern education, should be selected.
The Water-works Company has issued
an order to the plumbers to take out
license and give one thousand dollars
bond to save harmless the Company