Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-30
LEDGER LINES.

Rev. David Walk has returned from
ST. Louis.
The long expected and wished for rain
fell TO day.
There is a good deal of alto, basso and
soprano in town.
Hydrophobiated CANNES will soon be
making their debut in the city.
The steamers whistled, snorted and
squealed on Main street at the FIRE last
night
The street cars willrake in the ducats
tomorrow, especially those on beer gar
den routes.
Numbers Of citizens are already leav-
ing for up country springs and places Of
summer resort.
Frenchman' Bayou and Harkelrodes'
Landing are famous places for killing
with shotguns.
The Knights of Innisfail picnic on
Tuesday next at James Park will be
largely attended.
Decoration day at the National Gene.
terry. The postofIice closed at ten am.
in consequence.
Mrs. farley to George" Wind her up
George" and the coffee mill crank turned
the wax fggers."
The Confederate monumental picnic
comes off at James Park on Saturday
next, the 9th Of June.
There is double-barreled baritone il
Madison street fourth story who SING
duets all to himself nightly,
The Memphian of the period on al
average drinks ten glasses of lager daily
yet he often multiplies the number by
three.
A Memphis courtship consists of q
number of quiet attentions not so pointed
as to alarm or so vague as not to be mis-
understood
People who live west of the bayou
Gayoso are called citizens, but those
living east of the classic stream are
known as denizens.
Carbonic acid is generated in soda
fountains by marble dust, Think o
drinking an amount Of marble sufficient
to make tombstone.
Young people now sit on the door steps
and gaze at the full moon at night al
the golden orb wends her way through
space from east to west.
At least sixty candidates for Office can
be heard OF in bar.rooms and beer sa-
looms. See the LEDGER announcement
column for the popular men.
The oratorio of The Messiahwas finely
rendered before large and fashionable
audience at the Court street Cumberland
Presbyterian church last night.
1t is rumored that Recorder Pat Win
ters has gone back on the Radical com
bination ticket, and now favors the
Bartlett movement. At least, he says,
he is in favor OF the white man.
The residence of R. Il. Petillo, in the
suburbs, was entered and robbed by a
negro last Sunday night The negro
was arrested, and on his person were
found Mr.. Petillos pistol and knife.
A fashionable wedding took place al
Grace Episcopal church few evenings
since, the contracting parties being a
fashionable tonsorial named Conrad and
Miss Fanny Freeman, all of this city.
Police Board meets to-day. The
Board is composed OF Messrs. League,
Robbins and Hewitt. Peelers, feel your
heads, so that you may be certain that
you will have them on your shoulders
ere the sun goes down.
The Sodality Of St. Peters church in
tend erecting beautiful monument over
the graves of Fathers B. V. Carey, Ray
mond Daily, D. A. O'Brien, Dominic
Sheehy and - Leo, who died last sum-
mer during the yellow fever epidemic
Surgeon General Jennings, of Baxter's
forces, reports the casualties of the late
wars of the Roses to be: three killed in
battle, two soldiers and one citizen),
eleven wounded in battle and two
wounded accidentally. This was on the
Baxter side.
Mr.. H. Aehle, the well known saloon
keeper on the corner of Second and I'M
ion streets, died suddenly yesterday
afternoon of congestion Of the bowels
He had been in ill health for some time,
and yesterday was making preparations
to travel northward
The announcement made in yester-
days LEDGER that the Bartlett Conserv-
alive Central Committee will in few
days announce the time Of holding ward
meetings to select delegates to the
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