Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-27
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NatomA Temple OF Honor Will meet
tonight.
But few arrests we're made by the po-
lice last night.
The negro hackmen hold q picnic at
Raleigh to-day.
The Mississippi is stationary and the
big freshet is over. g
Encampmeht Guards picnic at Her
nando, Miss, tomorrow.
The Pole Bearers brass band serenaded
the Appeal Office last evening.
The Norfolk excursionists left today,
to be absent about three weeks.
The garter gazers' continue to FREE
quent street corners and church doors,
The Waddy Thompson case is under
going argument in the Criminal Court
room.
Colonel J.. M. Heating, of the Appeal,
has returned from q business trip to St.
Louis.
Clear and partially cloudy weather,
with occasional light rains, are still pre-
dicted.
The Exposition Directory met ysster-
day afternoon to make arrangements for
a big display this fall. q
Colonel William L. Duff has returned
to the city after FIVE months s%oiourn
at the Hot Springs for rheumatism.
Attorney General Heiskell, of this
State, has published an opinion to the
effect that State warrants are not tax
able.
A runaway match last evening created
no little excitement on Vance street.
The happy pair we're Mr., P. Winters, jr.,
and Miss Twohig.
The New Orleans papers announce
the arrival in that city Of Brother Mau-
%reliau, President of the Memphis Chris
tan Brothers College,
As Memphian remarked yesterday,
Now that real estate is going down and
green apples coming in, it is a good time
to buy q cemetery lot"
The mortuary reports of the past few
weeks teach parents hat they should
guard their childrens' diet very closely
at this season Of the year.
A st~ation-house lodger named Henry
81. Williams had a severe attack of hem
orrhage from the lungs last night-so
evere that his life was despaired Of.
River moonlight excursions are all the
go just now. Even the black people
have gone into the business, and now
excurt on the river like the white folks.
In the Second Chancery Court to-day
Bridget Steele fled a divorce and attach
ment bill against Frank Steele, alleging
abandonment, etc., and claiming ali
mony.
We acknowledge the receipt Of an in
vitation to a steamboat excursion and
complimentary hop, on board the
steamer james D. Parker, to come off
tomorrow evening.
The Sodality dramatic troupe will give
a dramatic exhibition tonight in honor
of the twenty-6fth anniversary of the
ordination Of Fathers Kelly and Edelin,,
of st. Peters Church.
Esquire Spelman wac called out on
the Raleigh road, three miles from the
city, to hold an inquest upon the body of
a dead negro, the cause of whose depart.
ure from life being unknown.
1t is astonishing how many fines are
paid by white men for negro women who
are arrested and locked up by the police.
The s%tation-house keeper suggests that
a list Of the names be published.
At a meeting of physicians held at
New Orleans last Saturday it was as
serted by DIR. Lemoinnier, of the Board
Of Health, that the city was never in a
more healthy condition than at present.
The ~serenading business seems to have
broken out in a new place, and is now
carried on by young men who stagger
homeward at late hours and whose voices
are turnedt to melody by copisus draughts
of lager beer. 90 .ls ~. tg.,
The station-house prison is in a very
dirty condition, the number of separate
and distinct smells amounting to at least
sixty.fve, Notwithstanding the efforts Of
the station-house people to keep the old
rookery in a habitable state.
station-house prisoners nightly gaze
at the stars through the bars and in
dulge in hymning, which decent occupa-
tion is occasionally interrupted by a
volley of oaths or q vulgar song by some
vile resident in an adjacent cell.
1t is saidto be a pity hat the manners
exhibited by some people in