Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-17
LEDGER LINES.

Joe McCullers has horses, bnggies
hacks and carriages for hire, at his livery
stable, No. AZ Adams street. THANH
The trouble with the General Council
PAY or No Pay" Will we come under
the provisions of the new charter, or will
we 90 into the back salaray grab2
There was a very pleasant surprise
party at the residence of Miss Carrie
Hammer, on Main, near Winchester
street, last night.
The new Cotton Exchange and Cham
Der Of Commerce building is being built
rapidly, and it is already presenting a
neat and architectural appearance.
The thermometer during the past
three days reached ninety degrees in the
shade, a very respectable grade Of heat
for this latitude and at this season.
But little news could be picked up
around town to day. Everybody had
some remark to make about the hot
weather and the dullness of the times.
The torpedo chicken is a new drink
introduced by many saloon-keepers. 1t
does not exactly blow a mar up, but il
shocks his internal nervous system con
s~iderably.
Esarly this morning, one hundred
years ago, our or some other mans
ancestors had a fight near Bunker Hill,
Mass. 1t was a fight between Unionists
and rebels.
The Hot Springs Telegraph of Friday
last, the 18th instant, announces among
the floor managers of the Grand Central
Hotel hop the wellknOwn name Of Jas.
A. Chastaine, Esq.
The turtle-soup season seems to have
arrived, if such a be correctly judged
by the appearance Of old logger.head tur-
ties in the street cutters in front of sa.
looms and eating-houses
The Couhcil has adopted a resolution
reducing the assessment on the city rail
way $40, 900 for 1894. This reduction
will make the tax to be by street ear ten.
cent monopoly very light.
In the Criminal Court to-day Andrew
Kelly, a black chicken thief, was invited
by a jury Of his white countrymen to take
up his residence at the State Peniten.
tiary for three years to come.
Two Memphians have never been
known to meet on the streets and then
to part without introducing the reason
for separating with the following for.
mula; well, l must -"
Miss Emma Webb, the protean actress.
is sojourning at Hot Springs, Ark, fol
the benefit Of her health, and she varies
the troubles Of life by giving dramatit
readings to the invalids of our back.
woods Baden,
The General Council finds it rather
difficult to move the big wharf boat by
resolutions written on paper. Several Of
these new motors were attached to the
end Of the wharfboat, but the stubborn
old thing refused to move an inch.
Our fashionable people should know
that the latest in menu (bills of fare il
to have them illustrated with %fancifuI
borders by artists, so hat after having
dined, like Brillat.Savarin, each guess
carries off a sheet Of paper worth several
dollars.
We are glad to notice the arrival OF
our fellow-townsman, Major R. Il.
Wildberger. He is in town on a short
visit, after a year absence in Kentucky.
where he has successfully filed the chair
Of Natural Sciences in the Kentucky
Military Institute.
The festive picnicer has about surren.
dered to the advancing season, the in.
tense heat rendering it rather disagree.
able to indulge in the pleasure Of clasp.
ing a vigorous maiden around the waist
and spinning around in the saw-dust to
the Waiting music of Strauss.
School Board adjourned meeting to-
night. Now, gentlemen, show your hands
and reduce that big salary of $4,000 per
annum paid to Superintendent Picket
to $500 for nine months easy work.
If the Board means business and not
nonsense now is the time to show it.
S. A. Wells delivers Raleigh mineral
springs water to customers in this city
every afternoon in one gallon jugs at
DOC dollar per week, Sundays excepted,
Leave orders at Wells headquarters,
Bohlen, Huse & Co.'S ice house, if you
desire a daily supply of water from Raj
eigh.
1t was with establishment we failed to
discover this morning in the columns of
a contemporary the following well known
sentence; Boston has, in its tribute
to the Blue and the Gray at Bunker Hill,
nobly sustained the position Of the APP