Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
LEDGER LINES.



spring dresses.
Bouquets cost from fifty cents to FIVE
dollars in the Bluff City.
Mr.. Ellis Leubrie leaves for Hot
Springs, Ark, tomorrow.
Societa di Unione FratelIanza picnic
at James Park next Wednesday.
Ladies' festival at Cumberland Pres
byterian church tonight in Chelsea.
Raleigh is beginning to assert herself
through the press as a summer resort
The Beal street cars did well yester-
day two picnics at the head of Vance
street.
Professor Mueller's terpsichorean at
fractions at the ,theater tonight and
matinee tomorrow.
Maud Mullers can be found every
morning raking weeds and grass in SUI
burban flower gardens.
There are FIVE known poets in Mem
phis, but recently they don't effuse
to any epidemical extent.
Fire last night on Walnut street, near
Vance. Loss, one-story frame; damage,
5000; cause, incendiarism.
Ike Flies, negro, was to-day sent to
the penitentiary for one year, in the
Criminal Court, for petit larceny.
Police Board will be in session to-
morrow. when the guillotine will be put
to work chopping off worthless heads.
Negro thieves are now engaged in
stealing valuable mocking birds. Watch
your birds and keep your powder dry.
Esquire Miller sent two lunatics, New
ton Saint and an unknown white man,
to Jail to-day on writ de lunatico inqui-
rendo.
An alarm OF fire was given at the
corner of Linden and Shelby last night.
A bed was burned but no other damage
done.
The high toned and favored straw
berry is found on every family table,
provided the head of the house can pur-
chase box of the Injuries.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee is in session with closed doors at
Nashville. Attorney General Wright is
in attendance representing Memphis.
The great annual baby show will come
off at Court Square toward the end of
the month under the management of
Mr.. Lou Leubrie. Get your babies
ready for the show.
Candidates, pay for your announce
ment notices in advance, and advance to
announce yourselves Immediately. Ev-
cry person reads the LEDGER; so you
cannot afford to remain unknown.
J. f. Nelson, the alleged horse-thief
who escaped from the Grenada, Miss,
officer by leaping from the train, near
Whitehaven, on Tuesday last, was recap
tured yesterday and sent back to Gren'
ada.
Fire chef McFadden will probably
be suspended by the Mayor for refusing
to recognize negroes as members of the
FIRE department; but the fire cheifwillb be
sustained by the white people Of the
city and county.
The protective and anti.tax-paying
union met last Wednesday evening and
passed valuable lot of paper resolu-
tons, which will be enforced when the
members return from their summer tours
to the springs and watering places East.
Messrs. Specht & Walter, confection-
ers, donated beautiful cake to the
Pythian picnic last night. 1t was voted
to the best looking lady on the grounds,
and brought over $50. Miss Mollie
White became the recipient Of the cake.
The monthly contest for the silver
pitcher, offered as prize BY the Bluff
City Shooting Club, will come of to
morrow afternoon at the Fair Grounds.
R. W. Lightburne is the present holder,
and at least ten members of the club
will shoot for the valuable prize.
The "peelers" were drilled by drill
master Haggerty yesterday afternoon.
The force under Chief Athy presents a
military appearance. The cavalry or
officers of the force might occasionally,
and with profit, take a little drilling in
theirs.
The Mississippi is continually shorten.
ing himself by cut offs, yet steam
boats charge the same rates of fare as
they did of yore This is paradox like
unto that which says that by lengthening
a steamboat you lessen the distance be.
tween ports.
A few candidates, taking advantage of
the colored children's picnic yesterday,
visited Humboldt Park and fraternized