Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-11
LEDGER LINES.

| afternoon.
Front yards are being sodded all over
the suburbs.
Bluff City Shooting Club meeting to-
morrow.evening.
St. Peters Sunday school picnic at
James Park tomorrow.
A fire lighted up North Memphis at
two o'clock this morning.
Soda water sells at FIVE cents glass
in every city except Memphis.
Picnic of German Lutheran church
school at Humboldt Park next Monday.
The mud cats are the leading family
of fish in the Mississippi and Wolf
rivers. an6 98s mr
On dit, the Knights of Pythias will
give a picnic at James Park within a
few weeks.
Those who intend to leave town this
summer are already discussing routes
and locations for Ay-time.
Colonel J. NJ Heating, Of the Appeal,
is favorably spoken of as a candidate
for Criminal Court Clerk. rei
There are nearly fifty Chinese resi-
dents iu Memphis, All of them are en-
gagged in the laundry business.
The police will soon appear in their
summer uniform, blue blouse coats, pants
and vests, black, high crowned hats.
The race men, horses. stable boys,
jockeys, pool sellers, 'sharps and fats,
have left the bluffs for Lexington, Ken
lucky.
German Maifest at James Park tc-
day. Speeches and amusements of all
kinds will be INDUCED in by those in at
tendance.
Strawberries, ice.cream, lemonade
dashed. soda water with syrup are the
liquid and solid spring luxuries enjoyed
on the Bluffs. soI
Toast of the General Council, Here s
to the overAowed sufferers; we deeply
sympathize with them" Bat how much
no fellow can find out.
Messrs. S. B. Beaumont and A. P.
Curry, well known ex-Mempbians, but
now citizens of Arkansas, belong to the
Brooks wing Of politicians.
Amateur dramatic performance for
the benefit of the sufferers by overflow
at the theater tonight. The Lancashire
Lass will be the attraction. 1a1'
Professor Mueller will give an exhibi-
ton of terpsichorean art at the theatre
next Friday evening" His little pupils
will appear in grand fairy ballet.
Among the list of enterprising mer-
chants We must recommend Sol Cole
man as one deserving of good patronage
and the entire confidence OF the public.
Boys in the suburbs tie one end of a
piece of clothes line to brick, the other
end to their ankles, and play chain gang.
That role may come to them in due
time.
The Congregation of the Children Of
Israel will give a concert for the benefit
Of the organ fund, at the Memphis Club
Hall this evening See advertised pro-
gramme.
Candidates are emerging from the
misty present, and are fraternizing with
the people at bar rooms, picnics and
other places where the vox populi can
be heard.
Get your hopeful ready for the Court
Square baby show which Loubrie is get
ting up on account of Ledger Line
suggesting such, and published few
days since.
Next Saturday will be celebrated as
Decoration Day at the cemetery. Gen.
G. W. Gordon will deliver the grafton.
A programme of exercises will be pub
lished during the week. to
A new building is being erected for
the Appeal, on Second street, immedi-
ately north and adjoining the Masonic
Temple Our contemporary will move
into it about the first proximo.
Rowdy boys near the corner of Third
and Mill streets, Chelsea, are in the
habit of filling paper bags with dust and
hurting them at street car passengers
Several ladies have been insulted in this
manner Patrolmen, to the 'front.'
Political affairs in Arkansas are pc
culiarly attractive and inviting to immi.
grants. If you want to be Major Gen.
eral commanding a company of militia,
90 to the City of Roses and take your
choice between Baxter and Brooks.
A passenger on the Saturday morning
train over the Memphis and Paducah
railroad ranorts seeing the bodv of a man