Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-02
LEDGER LINES.

st. Peter SUNDAY school picnic next
Tuesday.
The German Maifest comes OF on
Monday next.
The Mississippi in front of Memphis
is falling slightly.
Nothing of interest going on in courts
Of record to-day.
Races over the Chickasaw Jockey
Club course on Monday.
The Esther Club of Old Folks will
give concert next week.
The General Council will meet in reg.
ular session on Wednesday next.
Trains run through once more over
the Memphis and Louisville railroad.
Too much local politics around the
General Council Board is what's the
matter.
The city is filing up with strangers
who came here to attend the races of
next week.
The Sodality band picnic at the Expo
sition Building last yening was very
pleasant affair and q well attended.
There will be ordination service in
Linden street Christian Church to-mor-
row morning at the close of the sermon.
Professor Mueller's soiree dansante
last evening was largely attended. The
soiree will be again repeated on next
Friday evening.
Pools for Mondays races, trial stakes
for three years old, mile heats, and club
purse for all ages, two miles, will be sold
at the Peabody to night.
But one State case appeared on the
Recorders docket this morning. Fer
dinand Fife, a carrier of concealed weap-
ons, was fined and placed under bond.
The Police and Fire Departments
have generously donated $l26 to the
committee on contributions of the
Chamber OF Commerce for the benefit of
sufferers by the overflow.
The Mclean embezzlement case jury
in the Criminal Court have not as yet
agread upon verdict. The Court will
probably adjourn this afternoon, which
will act as discharge of the jury.
Beer drinking is INDUCED in freely by
gesticulating and talking Memphians of
late. A close observer insists that they
are either becoming disipated or intend
running for Office in August or Septem-
cdr.
A Bible was placed on the desk of the
Ledger Liner this afternoon, which work
contained the following brief and, no
doubt, true Endorsement: Compliments
of one who distributes Bibles among the
heathens."
The theater closed its doors last even
ing for the season, after the Harry Ever
EFT benefit. The Garrick Club appeared
in support Of Mr.. Everett in Bulwer's
play entitled Money, and the Garricks
appeared to advantage.
Mr.. Luther E. Shinn, of the Chicago
Field and Stream, is in the city in at
tendance on the State Specimens Con-
vention and pigeon shooting tourna-
ment, which latter is progressing to-day
at the Chickasaw Jockey Club Race
Course.
The list of prospective candidates for
Office published in yesterdays LEDGER
caused many aspirants to take survey
of the field and speculate on the situa-
ton. The LEDGER placed them all face
to face, and they can now meet each
other at Phillip.
Pigeon shooting tournament at the
Fair Grounds to-day for prizes of 500,
$50 and S25, offered by the Bluff City
Shooting Club. Several crack shots
from this State and Kentucky will be in
attendance. The Club prize pitcher will
be shot for after the above match. Trains
leave the Charleston depot every hour.
The city of Memphis received thou
sands of dollars from other people dur
ing yellow fever times, but will not SUBJ
scribe one cent through the General
Council for their suffering neighbors.
Shamel we have two Boards independent
of, and yet dependent upon, each other.
The chap who invented this double
headed system of municipal legislation
for Memphis deserves the blne ribbon.
Some days since it became evident
that the respective newspaper Offices of
this city badly needed bible. Several
gentlemen becoming disgusted with the
liberal quotations of the sacred text
which appeared in the journals of the
day, promised to supply the scriptural
need; but as yet the work of reference
has not appeared at the LEDGER Office,
and the editorial staff have to relv ex.