Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-18
LEDGER LINES.


German Lutheran school picnic at
Humboldt Park to day.
Italian Society picnic next Wednes.
day week at James Park.
The Criminal and Circuit Courts
opened up the May terms to-day.
The mortuary report for last week
gave a total Of % deaths whites IA;
blacks IL.
Rev. Father Rooney will lecture on
temperance at St. Bridgets church next
Thursday evening.
The Insane Commissioners will meet
again at Humboldt to-day and make
another selection of an asylum site.
There will be religious services in the
lecture room Of the Linden street Chris
tan church this evening at 8 o'clock.
Professor Mueller's Terpsichorean
exhibition at the thester next Friday
evening and Saturday matinee.
Now that the Baxter-Brooks war of
the Roses is over in Arkansas, public
attention has ceased to be attracted
Westward.
The Chamber of Commerce and Cot.
ton Exchange are preparing memorial
to Congress on the subject of that
custom house.
Half the young ladies in the city are
puzzling their brains in endeavoring to
discover the author of the quotation,
Consistency, thou art a jewel"
Andrew Johnsons speech on national
and State finances created quite favor
able impression on Memphians. The
ex-President left for Nashville yesterday
The General Council is heavy on
appointing committees and delegations
to do something. A delegation is a
"noun of multitude, signifying many"
but not signifying much.
The convention of Cotton Exchanges
meets at Augusta, Ga, on the 10th of
June next. President Galbreath, Secre-
tary Toof and three members will form
the delegation from this city.
An intelligent Shelby county granger
says as to the crop of gubernatorial can
didates: 1.-THE stand is sufficiently thick
on the ground but the heads are light.
Our Ledger Liner owes this unknown
granger one.
The Knights of Innisfail will give a
grand anniversary celebration or fete at
James Park on Tuesday, June I'd.
Athletic games for prizes and music
and dancing will be INDUCED in during
the day and at night.
Mayor League has granted an extern
sion of ten days to delinquent tax-pay-
ers. By paying within the time pre-
scribed the ten per centnm penalty and
the troubles incident to the levying Of
distress warrants on personal property
may be avoided by all delinquents.
Rev. Joseph Brooks, the bogus Gov
ernor of Arkansas, is native of Butler
county, Ohio, near Hamilton, served as
Methodist preacher in the Ohio Confer
ence nine years, in Iowa Conference
several years, afterward editor Of the
St. Louis Central Christian Advocate and
always bitter anti-slavery man. He
has been presiding elder of the Arkan-
sas Conference for some time. The re-
nowned Joe is bad egg.
Brownlow says to the negroes of Ten
nessee and especially of Memphis: g
am opposed to mixed schools. Ny posi-
ton on this question is the result of ma
ture deliberation, and sooner than recede
from that position would see every
political party in the land 60 the way
of Ward ducks, and every politician
buried without the hope Of resurrection.
The negroes of the Nashville Conven-
ton seem to have reversed the fancy
decision and proclaimed in substance
that white man has no rights which a
negro is bound to respect. The colored
persons in the Nashville Convention who
insolently characterized me and all Re-
publicans who agree with me as Judases
and traitors to the Republican party,
can put that in their pipe and smoke it,