Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-02
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night.
Knights Of Innisfail picnic at James
Park today.
Monumental picnic at James Park
next Saturday.
The United States Court is in session
Judge Trigg presiding.
Painting dogs and coatless men indi-
cate the approach of summer suns.
The annual report of the Chamber Of
Commerce will appear in January next
Leubrie will hold baby show at the
Masonic picnic on the 24th at James
Park '''1
There is hooking bird on Jefferson
street that can whistle the Mulligan
Guards March"
The Knights of Innisfail presented a
fine appearance to-day as they marched
out to James Park,
The entire business capital Of Mem
phis doesn't exceed IS, 1000, according
to the city tax books,
A storm threatened the city late last
evening, but it swept around through
Arkansas, leaving Memphis withoutrain.
When women want to stop street
car they pull the bell strap spasmodi-
cally, and never fail to ring it at both
ends.
Elder c. B. Hassell, Of the Old School
Baptist church, is expected to preach in
the First Baptist church on Thursday
night, the 4th inst.
There will be preaching in the First
Presbyterian Church on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings at eight clock by
Rev. A. NJ. Long,
An alligator is said to have been seen
at the mouth of Wolf river, which
is disagreeable news to the boys who
lave in old Neshoba.
The United Sons of Zion (colored)
and Sunday-school children paraded the
streets to-day and moved out to the
suburbs on a picnic excursion.
The Chamber of Commerce collected
and distributed supplies valued at
S75l5 80 to tie sufferers by the overflow
on the Mississippi and tributaries.
AT the 22d annual convention OF the
National Typographical Union, holding
in St. Louis, Henry White, Of Memphis,
was elected First Vice President yester-
day.
The Appeal eiIice has been removed
from Union to 2S2 Second street, imme-
diately north of the Masonic Temple.
We extend to our neighbors an up town
welcome.
Grand concert by Professors Sohulze
and Levy, assisted by our leading pro-
fessional and amateur musicians and
vocalists, at the theater next Friday
evening
A darby from the over6owed district
says: "Dey is drowned out down de
river, we is dried out on de hills, and
sorter think that we is gwine to have
sort of famish..
The Chamber of Commerce will invite
the attention of the Government to the
necessity of commencing work on the
custom house Immediately, and also to
the necessity of establishing a marine
hospital at this point.
In the list of candidates for admission
into the new class OF cadets at West
Point appears the name of John Thomas
League, of Memphis, he having re-
ceived the appointment from Barbour
Lewis our Congressman.
Two negroes arrested a dozen piscato-
rial Memphians at Hopefeld lake last
Sunday for violating the rights of piscary
in the land of Rackensack. The colored |
squire imposed five dollar fine on sew
eral of the perch catchers.
Swan, president of the Pole Bearers,
says in this mornings Appeal that Re-
corder Winters advised him TO collect
and receive the penalty of S25 imposed
on the owners of booths outside the Ma
tional Cemetery on Saturday last.
President McComb will be here in a
few days for the purpose of connecting |
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad |
with the Paducah railroad, thereby hav'
ing a continuous rail between New Or
leans and the Ohio river via Memphis. !
Captain J. H. Smith, on Rayburn Ave
nue., has a quarter of an acre of the
finest Strawberries Wilson Variety, we
have ever seen. Specimens left at this
Office are as large as an ordinary black
walnut with the hull off. So much for
scientific culture.
Bushinapi & Co. = fruit store, on the
corner of Second and Jefferson streets,