Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-20
LEDGER LINES.

Decoration Day, the 22d of May.
Nice figs at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'S.
The Finance Committee met yester
day.
Board of Equalization meeting to
night.
Jack and Jill pantomime at the theatel
tonight.
In the name of the prophets, gnatl
and mosquitoes.
Phyllis and cOrydon are preparing for
the picnic season.
Odd Fellows anniversary celebration
on next Monday.
Nothing more is heard Of that deficit
in the city treasury.
The annual German Maifest m of
on Monday, May Sd.
The Criminal Court is engaged in try.
ing misdemeanor cases.
General Council meeting this even.
ing to sit on the charter.
Planters are beginning to talk about
the prospects Of the next crap"
Rev. Mr.. Daniels has become pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church.
The Jewish Passover is being celebra-
ted by the Hebrew citizens of Memphis.
The orthographists of the city will
struggle for mastery next Monday even.
ing.
The late frosts and freezes killed early
vegetables in this and adjoining cour
ties.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, published to,
day, can be found at all the leading
news ste nds.
Visitors to the forthcoming festivals
will find out that the best way to raise
strawberries is with a spoonl
Jefferson street is again happy since a
variety show opened and added to the
dizziness of that thoroughfare.
Colonel Tia P. Jones, of the Nashville
Union and American, and DR.. William
Morrow, State Treasurer, are at the Pea
body.
The old red wharfboat at the foot Of
Madison street presents a gay and neat
appearance beneath a spring coat of
green paint.
Planters are busy blowing, turning up
the virgin soil, which they expect to
tickle with a hoe so that it may laugh
with a harvest.
Workmen are again engaged in finish
ing the Central Baptist Church. When
completed this church will be an orua.
ment to the city.
One hundred years ago yesterday
there was a skirmish at Lexington, and
a revolution broke loose on this cont.
nent in consequence.
Major Joe Barbierre and Mr.. X.
]. B. L. VIM of our city has been ap.
pointed Centennial commissioners from
Tennessee by Governor Porter.
! 1t is a misdemeanor to blow a peeler' 5
whistle for amusement on the streets by
day or by night, unless the call is for
one of the guardians of the public peace.
The Courier Journal says, the rumor
that the Louisville railroad wal to take
control of the Little Rock road has no
foundation in fact, so we are informed
from official sources"
At Create Concerto recently given
at Vicksburg Mr., James Sullivan, for
merly of this city, but now of the Vicks.
burg Herald, acted as ye heade singer,
Deacon Praiseworthy Pettibone.
Yesterday at P. M, according to the
Chicago adventists, the Savior of The
world came a second time and started
millennium. 1t is to be. hoped that
the event did not take place in wicked
Chicago.
Mr.. John H. Stratton, who shot and
killed a negro in Collierville on Saturday
last, arrived in the city to-day in charge
Of an officer and was locked up in Jail
10 await an examination, or the action
Of the Grand Jury in the premises.
The war between the Finance Com
and the Mayor has ceased. A
was sounded in a Main street
a few nights since, when the dead
we're buried and the wounded cared for
by drinking the health of all parties both
dead and living.
The Finance Committee has discov-
cred that the Mayor is ex.oHicio Comp
Treasurer, Register, Engineer,
ETC., but the boys are the igure-head
officers, Of course, who draw the pay
and do the work beneath the eagle eye
and instructions Of the little head of the