Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-23
LEDGER LINES.

Floral cross exhibition and concert b,
the children Of the Central Baptis
Church tonight.
j The next picnic will be on Monday
when 81 Georges Benevolent Associa
ton viii hold forth at James Park.
Merchants, cotton men and those pos
sessing sufficient capital, are leaving oil
summer tours TO the North and East.
The Police Board will meet at the Elk
change building this afternoon and dis
cuss police and station-house matters.
| The Wolf river water distributed
throughout the city continues to present
q muddy appearance, such as will make
il unfit for use as beverage.
1t has become the thing with the fash.
ionable Memphian to wear rosebud in
the button-hole Of his coat; Of course,
placed there by some fair lady.
The Coleman House and Franklin
Hotel, at Raleigh, will be opened with
an entertainment aud hop" this even
ing by the proprietor, Mr.. McKeogh.
The mercurial thermometer at the
Signal Service observatory at this point
indicated SO Fahrenheit yesterday; to-
day it will go flirting up among the
nineties.
The Catholic Sunday schools picnic
yesterday at James Park was delight
full fete for the children, their teachers
and friends. 1t attracted large con-
course Of visitors.
The great baby show at the Exposi-
ton at o'clock this afternoon, the
promenade concert at u, and the social
hop at 10 p M tonight. Do not fail to
attend, with or without babies.
When all the awnings, beth old and
new, are removed from Main street that
thoroughfare will present a wonderfully
improved appearance. In many cities
awnings are prohibited by ordinance.
The alleys throughout the city are in
a filthy state, decomposed vegetable
matter being scattered all over them.
Our sanitary officers should have the al
leys cleaned up and washed out if pos
sble.
Memphis newspapers can dicount the
press of any city in the ldin publish
ing lengthy and elaborate reports of pic
MICS. Every ribbon is noticed by the
lynx-eyed reporters, and even the de-
tails of female dress escape not their
acute vision.
In fit Of very proper Indignation, the
Appeal man asks, Is that beautiful and
soulinspiring custom to fall into desue-
tude?" At the risk of being incorrect,
we say certainly not, nor shall it fall into
anything else of like fashion, if we can
be of any assistance IN preventing such
catastrophe.
The friends and acquaintance of G.
F. T. in Memphis will regret to learn
that he, the President of the Commune,
the Pagan priest and the next President
of this great Republic, is confined in
New York lunatic asylum. ( Cause, too
much brains; but yet the festive George,
ike Hamlet, has a method in his mad
ness"
All physicians, surgeons and dentists
having an income of eleven hundred
dollars are liable to State and county
privilege tax, and all who have not paid
up will be notified within the next few
days to come forward and settle as re-
quired by law. Those not liable will be
required to make affidavit or furnish sat
isfactory proof of the fact.
The Knights Templar, Cyrene Com
mandeTy, under Commander Mellersh,
paradedIand went through the evolutions
of commandery drill on Main street yes
terday afternoon. The Templars pre-
sented fine appearance, but would not
be able to exterminate the Modocs
Later in the afternoon the Templars at
tended the Cumberland Presbyterian
church and listened to discourse from
Chaplain Sir Knight White.
Tennessee was so called in 1896 from
its principal river, the Indian name sig
nifyipg curved spoon" 1t was formed
from the Territory of North Carolina in
1890; adopted Constitution February
6, 1896, which Constitution was amended
in 1885; admitted into the Union June l,
1876; area $4,000 square miles; popula
ton in 1870, l,25s, $50, of which 632l3
were negroes, and 100 Indians.
A press dispatch to this mornings
Register announces that the executive
committee of the Grand Army of the
Republic, who have the floral decors-
tions at Arlington National Cemetery
in charge, have given public notice that
such attempt by the friends of the
rebel dead to strew flowers on the graves
of the rebels on the 3Oth inst. will not be
tolerated" The jaekals of the Grand
Army of the Republic continue to prey !
upon the dead.
Now that the postal card system has
been introduced into Memphis, how to
impart a degree of privacy to correspon-