Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-23
LEDGER LINES.
Incendiarism is beginning to crop out


record to-day.
Hundreds Of people viii visit Elm
wood Cemetery tomorrow.
Professor MuelleEs Terpsichorean
matinee at the theater to-day.
Bluff City Shooting Club pigeon match
progressing at the Fair Grounds to-day.
To the granger's question, How shall
we move our cfops2 we answer, via
Memphis.
The German Protestant Sunday school
picnic comes off at James Park on
Monday next.
An alarm OF FIRE was caused by the
burning of bundle of rags on Beal
street last night
Wednesday next the famous annual
picnic OF the Italian Society will come
off at James Park. li.
Tomorrow evening Father Rooney
will lecture on Bismarck and the Pope
at St. Peters Church.
The placing of negroes on the Fire
Department might, with propriety, be
called fire brand"
Monroe Harris, arrested for larceny
from the person, was committed without
bail by the Recorder to-day.
The State Convention to nominate a
Governor will De held at Nashville on
Wednesday, the 18th of August.
Mendelssohn concert at the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church next Friday
evening. The Messiah will be per-
formed
Quite number Of Memphians are
preparing to leave for the Hot Springs
Of Arkansas. The rheumatism is what's
the matter.
Candidates are backward in coming
to the front this year. What's the mat
ter2 See the LEDGER announcement
column for the names of prominent can
didates.
Non-ehurch.going Memphians will flee
to the classic and sylvan shades Of su-
burban beer gardens to morrow, and en-
Joy music, cheese and lager until the
twilight darkens.
A Sunday school picnic from Memphis
is going on at Bartlett to-day, and the
grounds have been engaged by Sunday
schools for the same purpose for three
succeeding Saturdays.
The Fire Committee has instructed
Chief McFadden not to recognize the
three negroes placed on the Fire Depart
ment by the Mayor, who, in this matter,
acted without authority.
Vegetables and fruits are on all tables
except the tables of the poor who have
no money to purchase even these cheap
Injuries. The above is short sermon,
having for its moral, charity.
In Boston they have flower missions
for hospitals and prisons. Such mis-
sions are needed among the poor of
Memphis, but the word should be spelled
I" -four in order to be of any especial
service.
Police Board meeting to-day. Every
Saturday afternoon each "peeler claps
his hand to his caput in order to be GER
tain it is on. AS Shakespeare has it
uneasy IS policeman's head that
wears crown"
Councilman Jack Walsh says that the
reason why he left the Fire Committee
room when the issue came up was that
he couldn't go back on the four hun
bred nGgers who voted for him" This
is the explanation he offered to our
Ledger Liner yesterday. The explana-
ton was highly colored.
Advice to mothers in the habit of
taking children into street cars: Dis
pose of your offspring carefully in differ
ent parts of the vehicle when you enter,
and then sit for admiration. The mo
ment you see that the attention of the
public is tagging, call the smallest boy
to you and frantically kiss him, and re-
peat the process at regular intervals.
Mayor League claims that the phrase
necessary appliances means colored
6remen. The head of the Commune is
not good philologist or he would have
known that the word appliance means
a thing" and not person" 1t
must have taken great stretch of the
political imagination to torture the con-
struction and meaning of the English
language in such manner. The word
appliances " has become famous in
Memphis politics and will not soon be
forgotten.
h. off. Notice.
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