Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-05
LEDGER LINES.

The General Council stands adjourned
over to Monday, the 10th inst.
The centennial men will assemble at
the Chamber Of Commerce this after
nOO4IBOL HmDlOJ 0t A
Next Monday night the Educational
Board will take up monthly school mat
ters.
All the courts adjourned to day out Of
respect to the memory Of the late Judge
II. e. Hudson.
This is respectable tropical weather;
the days and nights oppressive and
sultry in the extreme.
Attend the Echol school exhibition
and concert at the Greenlaw Opera
House tomorrow evening. dr.
Gus Mcdonald, arrested for grand
larceny, had his bail fixed at $1,000 by
Judge Winters this morning.
Councilman A. ]. White has been
elected Alderman from the Eighth ward,
vice Alderman NJ. Burke, resigned.
On Tuesday next, the 10th instant,
the annual celebration Of the Hebrew
picnic will come of at James Park.
An addition to the Exposition Build
ing is to be erected during the summer,
preparatory to a grand display this fall.
Lightning and thunder, but no rain,
last night The lightning purifes the
atmosphere by destroying certain nox-
ious gases.
During the present month the Philo-
Thespian Club will give an entertain
ment for the benefit of the Episcopal
Church Home.
Recorder Winters paid his respects to
eight individuals this morning who in
dulged too freely yesterday in benzine,
and assessed the usual fines.
The cornerstone of the Masonic Tenn
pie will be laid on the oath instant with
appropriate ceremonies. Hon. John G.
Breckenridge will deliver the grafton.
The average picnicer seems to have
retired for the heated term. Dancing in
the woodlands when the thermometer
indicates 800 in the shade is rather vigor-
Gus exercise.
Leubrie's petition to the General
Council on the Court Square fountain
matter, was referred to the Committee
on Squares, which will report at the ad-
journed meeting.
In every newspaper, on every fence
and dead wall the words, cholera med
icine" greet the eye. The public eye
should be respected even if the public
stomach is not.
At the International Typographical
Union Convention, in session at Mon
treal Canada, Mr.. George E. Hawkins,
delegate from this city, vVas elected Cor
responding Secretary.
The General Council attempted to
create Board of Health yesterday, bat
the matter was referred to, a committee
of the Council with instructions to re-
port on the 10th instant. gwYw
Albert Jones, arrested yesterday after
noon for obtaining money under false
pretenses, was discharged from arrest
this morning, there being no prosecutors
when his case was called.
The fashionable hour for croquet at
present is that just before sunup but
how to get the daughters up to enjoy the
game is the domestic puzzle yet un-
solved in Memphis suburbs.
But few denizens of Memphis have es-
capped from being introduced to the pre-
vailing disease. The chief topics of So
cial conversation are internal conditions
and cholera morbus remedies.
The cheerful conundrums, Does cholera
exist in Memphis; and if so, in what
form2 are two of those things that no
fellah can find out by even applying for
information to the medical men.
The Knights of Pythias will be drilled
tonight by Chancellor Commander Div
yer at Bohlen 4 Huse's ice house, on
Water street. The drill will be big
thing on that slippery substance.
The man or boy at the nozzle is the
squirting nuisance of Memphis. Pedes-
TRANS object to taking Wolf river water
on their clothing, but as to its being a
good beverage the objection is not raised.
Oil lamps continue to explode through
out the city. A local savant gives as a
reason the peculiar state of the atmos-
phere, which is favorable at present to
the generation of gases. The reason is
clear and explicit.
The sprinkIing Modoc was busy all
over the city this morning with his little
squirt. On Union street, short dis
lance beyond the Nicolson, he used
enough Wolf river water to make the
mud two inches deep.
The Confederate Relief Association
will meet this evening at the Office of
Mr.. Goodman, Planters Insurance Com
pany building, No. Al Madison street, in
order to make arrangements for the an
nual picnic of the Association.
Doherty's saloon, on the corner of De-
Soto and Gayoso, was the scene Of an