Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-27
LEDGER LINES.
he Mississippi is falling again.

the holidays.
Nothing of interest in the courts Of
record to-day.
An artillery company is about to be
organized in this city.
The predatory mosquito on musical
wings murders sleep at night.
The Market street public schools held
closing examinations yesterday.
Bartlett clubs are being organized
throughout the city and county
The street car mules since the hot
weather set in fan themselves with their
ears.
The intense heat at night is believed
to be caused by the approach of the
comet.
Thursday next the antiRadical Con-
vention will be held at the Exposition
building.
A dog was killed on Madison street
yesterday on being suspected of having
hydrophobia.
The thermometer at nine o'clock this
forenoon had assembled to ninety de
grees in the shade.
Memphis needs a work.house for those
who commit light felonies and for youth
full thieves who infest the city.
Rumor has it that Memphis will ere
long produce several additional candi.
dates for the Office of Governor.
Wednesday next the General Council
will assembly at the City Hall and dis
pose of regular monthly business.
Read the list of delegates to the Con-
vention, and then say, if you can, who
will get the nominations on Thursday
next.
The Linden street city school gave q
closing exhibition yesterday. 1t was
largely attended and was marked sue.
cess. 1
More rain is needed in the country adj
jacent to Memphis, and even the city
would be benefited by few heavy
showers.
Umbrellas and fans are doing good
service just now in protecting the dwell
ers Of the bluffs from the effects of the
almost vertical rays of the sun.
This evening at sunset the silvery
planet Mercury, seldom distinguishable
on account of his close proximity to the
sun, will be visible in the west.
In the Recorders Court to-day John
Williams, Tom Harris and Charles John.
son were committed to answer a pre-
liminary examination on the charge Of
larceny.
Street corner fruit dealers and peanut
vendors set under the shade of theiI
awnings and dreamily grind theil
roasters while awaiting the next strag
Cling customer.
1t has been remarked that the delega
ton to the Convention selected yester'
day is the very best that has ever beer
selected in Shelby county. So much fol
the Bartlett movement.
The annual picnic of ST. Peters Or
phan Asylum will be held at James
Park on the Fourth of July. The com
mittees are making the most liberal ar
rangements for the fete.
The New York Herald of Monday last
says: "a lecture on Bismarck and the
Pope was delivered at St. Xavier's Hall
last evening by DR.. j. W. Rogers, editor
of the (Memphis) Southern Catholic
The white men who hung on to the
negroized party have ceased to blow on
the streets about that combination which
they boosted would be gotten up between
the leaders of the Irish, Germans and
negroes.
Last night the patrolmen found a
dying man named George Stein lying on
the sidewalk near the corner of Front
and Washington streets. He died while
being conveyed to the station'house.
His death is believed to have been
caused by sunstroke.
At the station-house to-day a Mrs.
Horne, residing at the Gayoso House,
complained that her child, little girl
aged four or five years, was lost and
could not Se found. The party finding
the child will please carry her to the
Adams street station-house.
An immense audience attended the
Memphis Theater last evening to wit
ness the commencement exercises Of the
City High Schools. The exercises we're
most creditable to teachers and pupils,
aud we're thoroughly satisfactory to the
audience. The heat in the theater was
excessive.
Nax-t Tuasdav evening n hon will ne