Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-23
LEDGER LINES.

buDuIDS.
Have you seen the comet under the
north starr
Masonic picnic and baby show at
James park tomorrow.
The General Council perspired in
solemn conclave at the City Hall yes
terday.
Thursday next, primary election day,
the Goth inst, will be the longest day in
the year.
That flower known as the first cotton
bloom from Arkansas has reached
Memphis.
Blood Horse Association fall meeting
at Nashville for six days, commencing
September 10Th.
A rife club is forming, Those who
desire to join can apply at Is Madison,
Captain Dicks"
The net receipts of the Confederate
Monumental picnic were 1928 67; the
gross receipts 1896 IS.
North Memphis has the strongest goat
population, and South Memphis the
greatest hog citizenship.
Beautiful fashionable parasols and
their immediate connections were out in
force on Main street to-day.
Twenty misdemeanor cases were dis
posed of by the Recorder this morning.
Nothing of interest transpired in court.
A Councilman pronounced Happy
Hollow to be pure rose diamond
1t is certainly not one of the purest
water.
The sender of badly written and I'M
grammatical communications to the
LEDGER will please send his name and
an interpreter.
The blackberry crop is God-send for
the loafng, worthless and plundering
negroes who reside in the suburbs The
crop will last two months.
See the LEDGER announcement column
for the popular candidates before the
convention and the people for the office
of State and County Tax Collector.
The First Circuit Court will adjourn
to court in course " on Thursday next.
All bills of exceptions must be presented
by tomorrow, which is motion day.
Colonel L. ]. DuPre, of the Appeal,
will leave in few days for Tuscumbia,
Alabama to deliver an anniversary adj
dress before the Alabama University.
Two companies of the Bluff City bat
TALON of volunteers organized at the
Exposition building last night. Other
companies will be organized during the
week.
Ward meetings now awake the echoes
of bayou Gayoso at night, and the word
E" Bartlett " reverberates in each cave
and hollow along the banks of that clas-
sic but sluggish stream.
The commencement exercises of the
city schools will be held on Friday even
ing next at the Memphis Theater. The
Secretary Of the School Board will issue
tickets of admission free of charge.
Judge Samuel P. Walker, of the Second
Chancery Court of the city of Memphis,
has rendered his resignation to Governor
Brown, owing to inadequacy of salary.
The resignation is not to take effect I'M
til the LIST of October.
The Nineteenth regiment passed up
on the steamer James Howard yesterday
bound for Fort Leavenworth. Several
of the "boys in blue . got left over on
the bluffs, and will follow on the next
boat.
The Mississippi Valley Society will
meet tomorrow at the Chamber of Com
merce, when, it is said, speeches will be
made by Mr.. Grifing, the American
agent of the society, and by Mr.. Jefer-
son Davis, who has recently arrived from
England.
The Mayor messaged the General
Council yesterday on Happy Hollow
nuisances. 1t was resolved that the sum
of $64l3 so be appropriated and paid to
the denizens of the Hollow, and that the
Board OF Health proceed at once to
remove all condemned property.
Tomorrow Judge Halsey, of the Sec
ond Circuit Court, will render decision
in the police muddle contempt case. j.
NJ. Pendergrast, one of the complain
ants against the Police Board, having
died, no decision can be rendered in
that branch of the case except a dis
missal.
A Memphian, whose Chinese laundry
man make mistakes in garments occa-
sionaIly, says: It's awful annoying to
have to wear another fellows shirt, and
asnaciallv when II is ruffled aronnd the