Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-11
LEDGER LINES.


Commencement exercises are in sight
throughout the city.
Tennessee Press Association meeting
at Brownsville to day.
Just now that green idiocy
known as croquet is ripe.
The negro base ball club of Memphis
generally wins by defect"
Horses now appear on the streets with
saturated sponges between their ears.
The sun to-day is hot enough to raise
a blister on the back of a civil rights
niger"
DR.. Sears, agent Of the Peabody fund,
states that he considers the civil rights
bill dead.
The heated Memphian can be seen
nightly carrying chunk of ice to his
dormitory,
There is mule in the street car BUSH
ness that can kick fly from the driver
bell three kicks out of five.
The German Casino Club gives pri-
vate musical soiree at CorrelPs garden
on Poplar street tonight.
The signal Office thermometer stood at
94lo yesterday afternoon. This may be
considered tolerably hot.
When Shaw and Swan commences
that killing of editors the Pole Bearers
will become pall-bearers.
Who's gwyne to keer bout hard times
long as blackberries and chieken'roosts
are convenient and plentiful.
In New York grocers sell horse
lunches in the shape of lunches of
clover to the owners of teams.
Wolf river water, without ice and
without being filtered, has speaking
acquaintance with rotten egg.
Buttermik at FIVE cents glass is
offered to the thirsty, yet temperate
Memphian, at many retail ice houses.
Melancholy bar keepers complain that
candidates are spending but little money;
the treating business is not fourishing
When heated do not drink too copi-
ously of ice water-you might contract
too suddenly. Put stick in your ice
water.
The City Fathers should not only
provide the police with straw hats but
also with cane.seated or split-bottomed
pantaloons.
st. Patrick's church Sunday-school
picnic at James Park was largely at
tended last night. 1t was very pleas
ant affair.
Since the Mayor had his hair and
whiskers cut short, it is said that, like
Samson, he has lost his strength (po-
litically).
In the Criminal Court to-day counsel
are arguing the homicide case of the
brothers Gill; who stand charged with
the murder of Hubbard.
A negro was found floating in the
river below the elevator early this morn
ing. The body was tewed ashore and
was inquested by the Coroner.
Suburban streets are becoming dry
and dusty, Notwithstanding that both the
scion of the house and old pater familias
take turns at the squirting hose.
Poor Barbour Lewis was, it is said,
opposed to the civil rights bill, but
dare not vote against it, as he holds his
seat in Congress by negro votes.
Thursday next there will be fire pa
rade and Fire Relief Association ball
at the Exposition building. There will
be an immense attendance at the ball.
Item hunting when the thermometer
dives into the nineties is not the coolest
business in the world, especially when
you have to chase items up three flights
of stairs.
Dozens of people carry chairs out on
the bluff at night in order to catch a
breath of cool air, which is generally
waited up the river about that time of
the evening.
Tomatoes from New Orleans and worth
eighteen cents apiece were received by
CASTOR yesterday. In ten days the to-
matoes raised on The bluffs will appear
in the markets.
Sheriff Doyle, with twenty-five con-
victs, will leave for Nashville to-mor-
row. The zebras will in the aggregate
do the State one hundred and thirty-nine
years Of service by hard labor.
The gondolas used in Happy Hollow
and on Poverty Flats at the mouth Of
Wolf during the overflow have been
shipped back to Venice, and the natives
now walk from door to door as of yore.
The candidates on the Radical ticket