Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-18
LEDGER LINES.

ne zolh instant VIII be the longest
day of the year.
The Police Board will meet again on
Saturday next.
New and ripe cherries appear for sale
on the fruit stands.
The wards are waking up on the
delegate question,
Mayor League has been suffering from
an attack of cholera morbus.
The White horse.stealing case is up
for trial in the Criminal Court.
Firemens Relief Association picnic
at the Exposition building tonight.
St. Johns Day, the oath instant, will
be celebrated by the Masonic lodges by
giving picnic at James Park.
The Supreme Court, not being able to
agree as to the constitutionality of the
lawyers tax, ordered reargument of
the case.
Mayor League presided at the Recor-
der's Court to-day, vice Recorder Win
tiers, who is absent from the city on
business.
When a pedestrian on Main street
says How are you, Governor" a
dozen or more gentlemen turn around
to greet the man who accosts.
Thirty misdemeanor cases were dis
posed of by fine at the Recorders Court
to-day. Several colored larcenists were
bound over. The Mayor adjourned court
over to O. clock this afternoon.
The trotting over the course of the
Memphis Trotting Park Association on
the 26th instant for the FIVE hundred
dollar purse will attract large attend
ance to the grounds.
Memphis had no official head yester-
day, the Mayor being sick and off duty
Alderman Robbins, President of the
Board, was Mayor pro TEN, but did not
act in that capacity.
The Police Boerd has suppressed
several houses of i'll fame where thieves
frequent on Washington and Poplar
streets. The inmates we're arrested yes
terday by the police.
The white man who hangs on to the
negro party in the coming election may
as well hang up his political aspirations
for few years to come. Swallowing
the negro will choke him to death.
The bears have formed a ring and
have been bearing" city bonds for
some time. They will become bulls "
ere long; the thing is mysterious, sus-
picious, and smacks of official manipu-
lation.
Hand me over that instrument which
is mightier than the sword" is the way
Press Associationist invited hotel
clerk to jerk the pen from behind his
right auricular organ, so that he could
register his name.
Five grades Of cotton were adopted
by the Augusta Cotton Conventions ordi-
nary, good ordinary, low middling, mid
ding and good middling. All other
grades known in bypercritical cotton
circles we're ignored.
That slang phrase in Lois Carroll,
p" bowling jelly" is something new in
literature. What it means no fellow
has been able to find out Were it used
by dancing dervish instead of by
young lady it might be pregnant with
The Avalanche gives Mayor Leagues
answer in the police middle case. The
answer occupies half column, and is
headed "What he knew" Were it
headed "What he didn't know" the an
swer could not be confined to so small a
space by many columns.
The Gubernatorial convention will be
held at Nashville on the 18th of August.
Already twenty or more aspirants fondly
believe that they are so formed physi-
,ally as to fit exactly the chair of State.
There may be Bogardus kicker be-
meath it which will pay its compliments
20 few of them.
The Avalanche editorially calls the
negro party of Shelby county A Radi-
,al offshoot of the Republican party,
and libel on the Republican party" 1t
would be well to state how the Republi-
,an party could be successfully libeled
BY the most generous use of the English
language.
Memphis, since the heated term set in,
needs morgue for bad eggs, but yet
many of our citizens would incur a risk
hereby. The only way to eat an egg at
present is scrambled, as a bad egg
ian be utilized by the cook just as well |
IS the freshest in the scramble" ar
Yesterday Hans Marperum noted |