Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-20
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items to-day.
Billiards, beer and calling are the only
recreation for the boys at night.
Will anybody start good bathing
house or swimming pool this summer
Mosquitoes are beginning to relieve
the unbarred Memphian of blood,
To-day week the Societa di Unione e
Fratellanza will picnic at James Park.
The number Of oyster signs that hang
around town are not inviting or appe-
tizing.
Professor Mueller's exhibition Of terp.
sichorean art at the theater on Friday
evening.
The 18th instant is the day for the
national decoration of the graves Of the
Federal dead
There are several diaries in the vicin-
ity of Memphis of thirty cow power and
run by water power.
Candidates are beginning to announce
themselves. See the LEDGER announce
ment column for the strong men before
the people.
Major Frank Paul has retired from the
position of business manager of the APP
peal; Mr.. Felix Jones now holds the
business end of the paper.
Unhealthy odors, likewise unpleasant,
greet the nasal organs of the belated
pedestrian on Main street nightly. The
odors arise through gratings on the side
walks.
That patient animal who has no pride
of ancestry or hope of posterity, the
mule, draws the street cars with slow
ness but regularity, inspired by the
touching appeals of the drivers whip.
1t is rumored that the manageable
bellies of Memphis who have the dollars
in view are in the habit Of appealing to
the commercial agencie for information
as to the solidness of a man on Change.
There was a most entertaining and
creditable exhibition last evening at the
Georgia street Methodist church by the
pupils of Miss Annie Baxter's school,
Fort Pickering. The exhibition was
largely attended.
Next Friday week the Mendelssohn
Quartette Club will give the oratorio of
the Messiah at the Cumberland Presby-
terian church. The club will be assisted
by the best amateur and professional
musical talent in the city.
Knights of ?ythias picnic at James
Park tomorrow; parade in the morn
ing. None but gentlemen and ladies
admitted to the grounds, the Knights
having determined to enforce the rules
of respectability and propriety.
= On and after June LIST penalty of ten
per centum will be added to the unpaid
State and county railroad and special
taxes for 1873 upon real estate buildings
and improvements in Shelby county.
SO says Tax Collector Rut Powell.
The attention of patrolmen is called
to Court and Market squares after dark,
or rather to the conduct of many Of the
persons who frequent the squares al
these times. This hint should be sufi-
cient to call attention to the immortality
practiced in these places after dark
The Confederate monument at Elm
wood cemetery is in state of magnit-
cent incompleteness, the base being all
that can be seen. The Confederate
Relief Association will meet tomorrow
night at the office of the Planters
Insurance Company to make arrange
ments for monumental picnic, to be
held at an early day.
A gushing genius, newspaper man
from the Northern country, says Of the
Memphis women, that they are like
figures chiseled out of marble, with the
soft dash of Guido's brush, or of Pc
trarchs song in their faces, and the ripe
Southern blood flushing up to their tenn
Piles under the pure surface Of their
veins"
Mrs. Jarley's wax-works, taken from
Dickens Old Curiosity Shop, will be ex-
hibited at the theater ere long, for the
benefit of St. Mary's Church on Poplar
street. There will be, also, vocal and
music in the programme Of
attractions. Mrs. Brinkley, Mrs. Clay
and other prominent ladies have the
matter in charge.
Miss Susa Vance's novel, Lois Carol
Or Her Two Selves" has had large
sale in Memphis within few days.
The edition sent to Memphis was ex-
hausted, and orders for copies flow in to
gladden. the eye Of the publishers. No
one ever suspected the authoress Of be.
ing "Blue Stocking" The book is
well written, and is quite readable.