Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-28
LEDGER LINES.
nok out for a coup de soleil.

James Park to-day.
Knights of Innisfail picnic at James
Park on Tuesday next.
Have you read Lois Carrol2 is the
fashionable literary conundrum just now.
Candidates attend picnics in large
numbers and drink beer in large quanti-
ties.
The city daddies will sit around the
General Council board on Wednesday
next.
Mrs. farley and her wax fggers
have arrived, and will exhibit themselves
at the theater tonight.
The decoration of Federal graves at
the National Cemetery has been post
poned until Saturday next.
The growth of Memphis during the
past FIVE years is said to be like tree
marked by the number of its rings"
Grabbed age and blushing youth cannot
live together on the Bluffs, unless there
is heavy golden band connecting them.
The thermometer has overcome 9O0
and now frolics and figures above that
point to the great disadvantage of fat
men.
The members of the Italian Society
and their friends had most delightful
time picnicing at James Park yester-
day..
The amateur altos, bassos, sopranos
and tenors will elevate their voices once
again in chorus ere long. "Give us a
rest.
Sam Wells has placed the LEDGER
Office under obligations for late Little
Rock papers. The trains will run
through to-day.
Merchants, close your doors at six
o'clock pm. and give your perspiring
clerks chance to cool off. Get up an
agreement and have it generally signed.
In the First Circuit Court to-day the
replevin case of Schooler VS.. Marie is
on trial. in which case is involved the
ownership of a big diamond pin which
Angelo Marie used to wear some years
since.
The hose carriage taken by the Irwin
chile Fire Company from the Chelsea
colored fremen on writ OF repevin yes
terday cannot be found. 1t has gone
where the woodbine twineth-up the
spout.
Let your night carts be air tight or
take another route, is the despairng and
agonizing cry of the dwellers on Shelby
street, whe have to close their windows
and suffocate after twelve o'clock at
night.
The spring ladies dress their hair as
ladies' did one hundred years ago. Golden |
or yellow hair is now the fashionable |
style, and in consequence the brunettes
of few years back have become the
blondes Of the present.
Many of our Irish fellow. citizens will
be interested in knowing that the Duke
of Edinburg who recently married
Maria of Russia, has been made Lord of
Connaught, Ireland, which province is
composed of the counties of Galway,
Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim
Next Monday the following party will
leave on the Belle Memphis on a tour
to the California coast: Major NJ. J.
Wicks, Rev. Philip Tuggle, Messrs.
Thos Tuggle, c. c. Clay and family. In
a few weeks another party will leave for |
the same destination under charge of
Captain George Gift.
A number Of our citizens, since spring
has opened, indulge in eating onions and
then indulge in long conversations with
some unfortunate acquaintance who
to escape the disagreeable
odor exhaled. If these onion.eating
conversationalists wish to destroy the
offensive odor let them eat garlic.
In consequences of, or rather as re-
suit Of the war in Arkansas the public
schools at Little Rock have been closed
and will not be opened this year. The
teachers have not been paid off for two
and now they have to take notes
payable in January, 1875, as pay, which
notes cannot be cashed at any discount.
So says lady teacher who lives ia the
City of Roses.
White children who reside outside of
lie corporate line are not permitted to
attend the city schools, but colored
children residing outside the corporation
inc attend the city Clay street school.
Since the Civil Rights African bill is the
zone of contention, it might be well for
he School Board to inquire into this; or
las the white man now any rights that
negro is bound to respect2