Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-19
LEDGER LINES.
,oliee Board meeting tomorrow.

the rear.
Next Tuesday an Odd Fellows basket
picnic will be held at Bartlett
The fire yesterday morning was at
stockyard some distance north of the
city.
The Masonic picnic on Wednesday
next at James Park will be largely at
tended.
Rev. DR.. Walk delivers the literary
address for Melrose Institute at Trenton
this evening.
The case of ]. E. White, indicted for
horse stealing, is still on trial in the
Criminal Court
Judge Elicit presided in the First
Chancery Court to day vice Judge Nor
gan, who is sick.
The primary election for delegates on
Thursday next, is the conversational
topic on the streets.
The thermometer continues to indi-
cate that the mercury struggles among
the eighties when in a vacuum.
You can purchase bouquet contain
ing twenty-five flowers for quarter of a
dollar, which is about a cent scent.
The police imbroglio case will be ar
gued to morrow morning before Judge
Halsey, of the Second Circuit Court.
To-day week the great trots for prizes
will take place over the Trotting Park
Association Course on fernando road.
Mayor League, although invited, did
not attend the fire parade yesterday or
firemens ball at the Exposition building
last night.
Civil Rights William does not exactly
comprehend the. Bartlett movement.
He says, de white folks is a gwyue to
do something"
Gentlemen from Grenada, Mississippi,
report fine cotton, corn and wheat crops
between Grenada and Memphis, the best
raised for ten years.
Out of the ten thousand dogs in Mem
phis just one has been attacked with
hydrophobia as yet. In other cities
mad dogs are appearing in large mum
bers.
The promenade concerts should be
held in Court Square instead of the Elk
position building, as has been suggested.
Out door music in summer time is the
thing,
Babies are being fattened and brushed
up by way of preparing them for the
sweep stakes show on the oath, st. Johns
Day. A pedigree must accompany each
animal.
The fashionable weddings, which were
to have been celebrated during the pres.
ent month, have been postponed over to
next fall, owing to the condition Of the
thermometer.
Thursday next Governor Brown and
his medical staff will be at Brownsville
for the purpose Of selecting site for
the location of the West Tennessee In
sane Asylum.
Most disagreeable odors arise nightly
from Main street gratings beneath which
vaults have been constructed. The use
of disinfectants should be enforced by
the Board of Health.
The Firemen's Relief Association
picnic at the Exposition building last
night attracted an immense crowd. The
picnic was most successful both in
pleasurable and pecuniary point of
view.
The authoreSs of the following remark
must have had few Memphis bellies in
view: "a woman who cannot in any
emergency make or repair garment
has one art less than Pottawottomie'
squaw."
That deep gully cut in Center alley,
near Madison street, for sewerage pur-
poses, was left open last night and came
near being the grave of more than one
belated pedestrian. 1t should be covered
over at night.
Some one suggests that Barbour Lewis
would make a 6rstcl mailing clerk
in third-rate pestoffice. He is flooding
the district with public documents, but
as yet has made no speech in the House
worthy of notice.
The exchange grabbing seems to be
making it lively for the local of the
Appeal, who pathetically says: 1--WE
have no papers to give away go and buy
them; calling for exchanges at a news
paper office is perpetual annoyance
and tiresome tax"
The ambitious Memphian is working
to get among the delegates to the Con-
sentative Convention to be held on the