Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-04
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Monumental picnic at James Parl
next Saturday.
Bluff City Shooting Club meeting to
morrow night.
The General Council will meet again
on Tuesday next
The members Of the chain-gang are
to have one hour for dinner.
The weather IS not quite hot enough
for cremation, but too hot for matrimony.
The late rains have improved the con-
dition of the crops in the vicinity Of the
city.
The Workhouse Joint Committee will
meet at the County Courtroom next
Monday.
The lightning flashed athwart the
western horizon in threatening man.
ner last evening.
Elder c. B. Hassell arrived in the city
yesterday, and will preach at the First
Baptist church tonight.
Another cotton buyer arrived in the
city last night and is stopping with j. N.
Falls on Jefferson street.
j. Harvey Mathes of the LEDGER left
last evening for Nashville, and will not
return until Saturday next.
The vile hight of the temperature calls
for the substitution of dry inner garments
in place of damp ones constantly.
The picnic given by the Knights Of
Innisfail yesterday was largely attended,
and was enjoyed until late into the night.
Barbour Lewis has put himself on
record as an advocate of the civil rights
bill. No one expected the Judge to do
otherwise.
Fireman Relief Association picnic at
Exposition building on the 18th, and
Masonic picnic at James Park on the
oath inst
Next Sunday will be the anniversary
of the capture of Memphis by the Fed
eral troops, which event took place on
the 9Th of June, 1862.
Happy Hollow" unlike the Happy
Valley in Rasellas, contains people who
wish to remain there all their lives, cpl
demic or no epidemic.
During the past month there were
twelve fires. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000. OF the twelve, eight were
caused by incendiaries.
The Mayor vetoed the General Council
resolution, making the German National
and Union and Planters banks the. de-
positories of the city funds.
The General Council contains many
eloquent representatives, several Solons,
a score Of philosophers, both white and
colored, and three law givers.
The Board of Health declares the city
to be entirely free from contagious or
infectious diseases, and is in better
sanitary condition than ever before.
Colored Councilman Thomas wants the
Mayor to pay the colored appliances out
of his own pocket, provided the Council
failed to make the illegal appropriation,
which it did.
The next theatrical season will be
most attractive, which is good news to
the theater going Memphian, who had to
witness the acting of number of sham
stars last season,
The Pole Bearers Association was
sued for one thousand dollars damages
by Mr.. Gilmartin yesterday. Gilmartin
was robbed by negroes at the National
Cemetery celebration.
The Memphian who has few hundred
dollars, is saying to himself, where shall
go to spend the summer months2' The
man without funds asks, where can l
get work during the summer
Lost children are picked up on the
streets every day by the police, who
begin to suspect that the parents lose
their children on purpose, so as to en-
ploy the members of the police force as
dry nurses.
Councilman Hurt (colored), says that
the negroes were promised representa-
ton on the FIRE and police departments
on election day at the ballot box. Who
made such promises, and who presumed
to have such authority
The insane asylum trustees have
selected Brownsville as the site, DR.,
Rogers and Mr.. Gardner making a ma
jority report in favor of the selection
and Mr.. Day presenting a minority
report favoring Humboldt.
Happy Hollow has been abolished at
a cost of S64l3 6s, the appraised value of
the tenements and interests of the
dwellers in that classic hole. The IA
nous Amazon, Mrs. McCarty, was