Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-24
LEDGER LINES.
spripg has come, gentIe AMMO.

oprlng costumes Degln 10 appear on
Main street.
The German Maifest will be held next
Monday week.
The, Arbitration Court stands ad-
journed until Monday.
Rev, Alfred Todhunter will o%ficiate
tomorrow at Ridgeway.
Crosse & Blackwelrs English pickles
at Oliver, Finpie & Co.'s.
The Hebrew Feast of the Passover
will close on Monday next.
Gardening forms the amusement Of
many s%uburbanites just now,
The base ball season has arrived, and
the bat business has broken loose once
again.
The shell-oys.er season has closed, and
hivalves can now only be procured in
tin cans.
Among the fshy delicacies in the mar
ket are Potomac river chad and Spanish
mackerel.
Picnics and festivals will 500 form
the chief social attractions for young
America.
1t is charged that all the carts used
by the city belong to a city official, one
Of the ring. Good enough
Planters from the country districts
report the death Of a number of mules
last night caused by the buffalo gnats,
The thanks Of the LEDGER staff are due
to the Wayside Coffee-room for an ele-
CANT lunch Of pure coffee and hot rolls.
Several members of the City Hall ring
will attend the spelling school and wres-
tie with the words caucus" and six.
teen"
The Exposition building has been
turned into a drill room by the Knights
Templar, Odd Fellows and Knights Of
Pythias.
The theater stands closed until next
Monday evening, when the spelling
match will be inaugurated for the
hene6t of the ornhans.
A meeting of the Tennessee Centen.
NAL Commission has been called by
Chairman Purvis to assemble at Mask
Vile on the 18th proximo.
The city officials 1--WE mean the big
chaps of the City Hall ring) draw theil
salaries with a regularity truly surpris.
ing. They never get left on that.
No young ladies under sixteen Oh
young gentlemen under eighteen year!
of age will be permitted to enter Gen
Tracy's spelling match next week.
Sol Coleman, the sole proprietor o
the Rosa Concha, is making extensivI
alterations at his little cigar house
When finished it will be the handsomes
in the city.
Buffalo gnats swarm around live stool
in the city and suburbs. This gnat viii
kill stock in a few hours unless precau
ton is taken by greasing horses, mule
and cattle.
An official copy of the acts of th'
State Of Tennessee, passedby the Thirty
ninth General Assembly, 1875, and pub
lished by authority, has reached the LED
GER office.
We needed more business and less pol
itics in the city government, and thii
is just what the new charter has brought
about; in fact, it is the need of all loca
governments.
The Arkansas House on Washington
street, near Second, has been placed un.
der the ban by the Police Board, and
Chief Of Police Athy has been ordered
to abate the establishment.
Several property.holders are trying tC
induce the County Court special com
mittee to purchase certain old rookeriei
for work-house purposes and at prices
far in advance CT the value o freal estate
at present.
There is weeping, and ,wailing ant
gnashing Of teeth among q certain clasI
Of jurors, owing to the passage of tn,
new jury law: AS one Of the "profes
SIGNALS" put it, the new law cut me on.
of a situation for the summer"
Words for the spelling match to BIZ