Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-05
LEDGER LINES.
Look out for rabbid dogs.

| DhAler PichlVs arc all tne rage over
the river in Arkansas.
Confederate Monumental picnic at
James Park tomorrow.
The United States Court is in full
blast in the Waldran Block.
Memphis lawyers are in attendance
on the Supreme Court at Jackson.
The mercury in the thermometer is
floating around among the nineties.
Next Tuesday week State convention
will be held at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Read the LEDGER announcement col
umn for the popular and strong candi-
dates.
The gallant street car drivers Of the
bluff always wait for ladies to kiss good
bye.
Planters from the rural districts say
that the late rains have done an immense
amount of good.
Judge Trigg, of the United States
Court, has decided that insanity is bar
to bankruptcy.
If you wish to live to hale old age,
drink and eat moderately, 60 to bed
early and rise ditto.
Tonight the Christian Brothers schol-
arship will be ratified for at the hall of the
Irish Literary Association.
The tale furnished by correspondent
to tie LEDGER, "And He Silently Walked
Away" is respectfully declined.
The General Council will meet in ad-
journed session on Tuesday next. The
wharfage tax should be abolished.
Mr.. Swan is what the politicians
call the ignorant negro who commands
the fighting and robbing Pole Bearers.
A marriage in Memphis fashionable
circles will take place ere long. AL
ready cards are being Struck off for the
event.
Andy Johnson's Memphis Grafton as
published in the Avalanche has been re,
published in pamphlet form as cam
paign document.
The Viceroy of Egypt has sixteen
Americans in his service, including
Generals Stone, Loring, Reynolds aud
Major Prout.
A plundering negro was shot by po-
liceman on Shelby street last night
The city authorities should enforce the
vagrant laws strictly.
The babies, yearlings and two year Odds
are becoming interested in the prize
show, which will come off at the Masonic
picnic on the oath inst.
Professor John Brown (colored) pro-
poses soon giving a lecture on Bible
History of Races" the proceeds to be
devoted to finishing the Old Toncray
Baptist Church.
The doors of the Bartlett movement
will not be closed against any Radical
sinner, as the Bartlett movement advo-
Gates believe that
while the lamp holds out to burn,
The trickiest politician may return"
1t is intended to make the County Fair
this fall most attractive to the public
The Bluff City Shooting Club has agreed
to offer prizes for pigeon shooting that
will attract the crack shots of the West
to Memphis.
Rumor has it that another Memphis
belle has a novel in press which will be
hurled at the head of the public in a
few weeks. The cultivation of literary
taste among the maidens of the Bluff
City cannot be too highly commended.
But four Irishmen of any influence
favor the negro Radical party in this
city, and the influence of these four is
on the wane. These four are-well, we
will give them another chance to return
to Conservatism by declaring for the
Bartlett movement.
In Byrd jewelry store window can be
seen the silver pitcher, at Barnum's can
be seen the silver butter dish, and at
Clark can be seen the silver civil rights
cigar case offered as prizes by the Mon
umental Picnic Committee, which prizes
will be shot for to morrow.
Brownsville rejoices over its selection
as the best location for the West Tennes-
see lunatic asylum. The Brownsvillians
should not 60 crazy about it, as Mem
phis wishes to send few permanent res
idents to the asylum after the August
and November elections.
Our Ledger Liner offers to bet any
amount of filthy lucre that there are
one hundred girls in Memphis better
looking, more intelligent and more at
tractive than Nellie Grant whom the
editors of the country have been sling.
ing lead pencils about for weeks.