Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-23
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Get ready for the great Masonic pic
mic at James Park tomorrow.
The General Council Endorsed Comp
troller Newsom and condemned City At
torney Hanson.
Company A., Irish Volunteers, went
through a course of drill last night on
Adams and Second streets.
City Attorney Hanson has placed his
resignation in the hands of the Mayor, to
take effect on the lst of July.
There were five arrests for assault and
battery and drunkenness made by the
police up to II o'clock to-day.
The new Cotton Exchange is going up
rapidly, and when finished will be quite
an architectural addition to Madison
street.
Colonel B. NJ. Estes returned yester-
day from a trip to the Mammoth Cave
and the fishing banks of Green river,
Kentucky.
The excursion next Monday to Nam
moth Cave is now the talk among the
ladies. Mr.. Speed will have the tickets
Friday morning.
That Mammoth Cave excavation of
Tracy's is a nice opening for a young
man, if he takes his particular weak
ness along with him.
In the Criminal Court to-day Dan
Wesley, charged with larceny, was found
guilty and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary.
Mad dogs continue to be reported at
the station-house. Whenever a dog be-
gins to display strange symptoms the
safer plan is to shoot him on the spot.
Several frame buildings are being
erected within the fire limits of the city,
which is a violation Of the ordinance as
we'll as a dangerous thing in east Of fire.
There will be a hop at the new hotel,
Raleigh, on Friday night next, On that
occasion a special train will leave for
Raleigh in the evening and return at the
close Of the hop.
General N. P. Banks and Governor
Porter will arrive in the city tomorrow
morningand WILL be received at the depot
by the military and civic societies,
Masons and citizens generally.
If any visitor, lawyer, clerk, etc.,
walks into the First Circuit Court with
his coat off be may expect to be fined
FIVE or ten dollars by Judge Heiskell,
who eniorces etiquette in his court.
A big sea turtle from the Gulf at
tracted a large crowd in Center alley, in
rear Of the Peabody, this forenoon. The
old chap was about four feet by three,
and weighed many hundreds Of pounds.
The new ordinance now on its passage
through the General Council, making
the merchants tax due in August next,
will have the effect of running up the
police and fire scrip to par, or its face
value.
The General Council has ruled that
Monday, the 9th, be celebrated as the 4th
Of July and a National holiday. The
above is something like that law making
it an offense to alter the marks Of an
unmarked hog"
The keeping Of canary and other pet
birds bids fair to become an expensive
luxury now that the c~anary-seed crop OF
Spain, Sicily and Smyrna is a failureand
has been bought up by spectators,
thereby running up the price of seed
from s. so Der bushel to $l2.
1t seems to be generally believed now
that every man should get his dollar
for dollar" according to that distin-
guished political economist and master
of finance, Ed johnson, the Express
robber, who collected his dollar for
dollar from Express messengers and
with a club.
st. Agnes Academy commencement
exercises closed yesterday. The young
ladies who graduated were Miss Mari.
ann Semmes, daughter of Mr.. B. j.
Semmes, of this city Miss Blanche
Avent, daughter of DR.. B. W. Avent, Of
this city; Miss Matte Mansford, of this
city, and Miss j. Chambers.
A grasshopper flew into the LEDGER
editorial room, and instigated by some
mysterious intelligence, lighted upon a
Nebraska exchange. After perusing
two or three of the Western exchanges
it hoped out of the window to report to
its fellows on the bluff as to the march
Of the main army of the Northwest.
Some one suggests that seats should
be placed in the vestibules of churches
for the benefit Of young %men-church
iends-on Sundays who appear at the
outer gate for the purpose Of walking