Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-15
LEDGER LINES.

ginning to be aourished vigorously.
Straw hats and spring suits on botf
bellies aud beaux have appeared on Main
street.
Professor Mueller's soiree dansante
and German at the Memphis TheateI
tonight.
Memphis needs narrow gauge rail
road to Bolivar and another to Holly
Springs.
The masquerade baller is rapidly
playing out in Memphis; he is becoming
a nuisance.
Whites Olympic, con Washington
street, is the only place of amusement
open in the city.
Weddings are multiplying on the
bluffs, Notwithstanding the torrid con-
dition of the weather.
The courts Of record have adjourned
except the Chancery Courts. Monday
next the new terms will commence.
Races at the fernando Trotting Park
this afternoon, between Joe Bell and
Lady Dismukes. Terms, half mile dash
for $3.50.
Pigeon shooting match for the Shoot
ing Club prize pitcher this afternoon at
the Club grounds on the Poplar street
boulevard.
Candidates are beginning to grasp and
shake the dexter hand of the average
Memphian and inquire after his family,
especially the baby"
The Howard Association passed a
series of appropriate resolutions with
reference to the death of their late Sec
rotary, j. P. Robertson.
Tomorrow night Andy johnson will
explain the situation at the Greenlaw
Opera House. He will not repeat his
Gallatin speech of 1872.
Base ball clubs are forming through
out North Mississippi. A gentleman in
this city yesterday filled half a dozen
orders for bats and balls.
Monday next, the 18th inst, the an
nual picnic of the German Lutheran
School will be held at Humboldt Park,
at the head Of Vance street.
Martin Walsh, who was charged by
two Chinese with robbing them ofwatches
and money, was committed without bail
by Esquire Miller last evening.
In the First Chancery Court to-day
divorce bill was fled by Mary Anne Ad-
ans against William Adams on the
grounds of abandonment, etc.
An employee of the City Scavenger
was drowned in the Mississippi yester-
day while dumping load of refuse into
the river. The body has not been re-
covered.
The call for soda water and such is in.
creasing since the hot weather set in.
Why do Memphis soda water singers
charge ten cents when in all other cities
in Christendom but FIVE cents glass is
demanded
The Knights of Pythias will give a
picnic at James Park on Thursday next.
The members of the order will take en-
tire charge of the affair and will see that
no improper characters will be admitted |
on the grounds under any circumstances.
L. j. DuPre, Esq, will lecture tonight
at the Linden Street Christian Church
On the subject of Antiquities of
a subject which he has
u1ied for years and has investigated
most satisfactorily from a scientific
standpoint.
Candidates for office at the August
election are backward in coming for
Ward;' as yet but three have announced
in the LEDGER--C. L. Ander-
ION for Sheriff, I. S. Ayres for Clerk of
he Criminal Court and John Notebooks
or Clerk of the Bartlett Circuit Court.
The trusty stomach pump properly
md timely applied saved the life of
another would. be suicide yesterday. To
Ittempt to take ones life is a peniten-
larry offense, and it is time that the law
n this respect was enforced against the
blenders. A few examples will have
.ood effect
Samuel BeermOn has sued Captain
Reese Pritchsrd, of the steamer Clarks-
lille, for one hundred thousand dollars
n damages. Beerman was hung up on
oard the steamer in order to extort a
onfession from him as to an alleged
arceny. Captain Pritchard was not on
oard at the time, the boat being com.
handed by his mate.
Hon. Gustavus A. Henry, the eagle
rator of Tennessee, delivered a bril-
liant talk before the Cotton Exchange
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