Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-26
LEDGER LINES.

General Council meeting tomorrow
night.
Odd Fellows celebration and parade
to-day.
Several cargoes Of Northern ice have
arrived in port.
The Weekly LEDGER will be published
tomorrow morning.
The Arbitration Court will be in seq
sion tomorrow morning
Mortuary report for the week: Total
deaths, ll-whites I, blacks 4.
Reynolds canvased hams, s%ugar-cured
and fine. at Oliver, Finnie 4 Co.'S,
Saltwater and mead are 6zzing again
down the throats of thirsty citizens.
The c~onundrum Of the municipality;
What will the FIVE commissioners do2
The rain last night disposed of the
dust and had a quieting effect upon the
buffalo gnats.
Mr.. A. C. Kirwan, an old citizen, died
at his residence on Washington street
yesterday morning.
Livery stable keepers now keep big
smokes in their stables to drive of the
buffalo gnats and protect stock.
Yesterday morning at 2 o'clock a
negro shanty on Madison street extended
took fire accidentally and burned down
At the Second Chancery Court to-day
the death OF George Washington was
suggested and proved in a divorce
case.
Eat plenty of vegetables and abandon
heavy winter food This prescription
will say you many a headache and doc.
tors bill. %
Reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, those who know say that there will
be a good fruit crop this year in this sec
ton Of country.
A drunken white man was found lying
asleep on one Of the seats in Court
Square yesterday and was conveyed to
the Adams street lookup.
Even the Bar Association of the city
purposes giving a strawberry festival in
May for the purpose of raising the wind
to initiate the law library.
The best spoilers at the theater tc-
night may 60 to bed comparatively un-
known, but will wake up tomorrow
morning and find themselves famous.
Tim Hope, the night turnkey at the
Adams street station-house, purchased a
lot of gnat oil last night for the protec.
ton of himself and the patrolmen who
run the suburban beats.
Treasurer Brooks, of the theater, will
receive a musical benefit on next
Wednesday evening. The musical pro.
| gramme has been carefully selected, and
will be excellently well rendered.
Ia the Criminal Court to-day the ex.
press robbers, Mat Morris, Edward H.
johnson ,Jno. Woods and Henry johnson
appeared to hear the argument Of coun-
sci on the question Of the severance OIL
the defendants.
There are many Memphians who will
take up TWO hours of your time each day
talking to you about their own private
business and detailing their troubles, just
as if they we're the only persons in the
world who had troubles. They are worse
than buffalo gnats.
In the Recorders Court to-day Harry
0lmstead, charged with the robbery Of
$3.50 from a stranger, was placed under
| $4,000 bonds, Henry Johnson negro,
charged with assault and battery with
intent to kill, was also placed under
$4,000 bonds.
Spelling school at the theater tonight.
Superintendent Pickett and principal
Barnum, Of the public schools, should
be on hand to spell ring, removals, favor
iism. incompetency, reform, retrench-
ment, Investigations, whitewashing, cal.
Ginning and other words so familiar in
School Board circles.
In a paragraph concerning the useless
Offices in the City Hall in Saturday
LEDGER it was stated that the Mayors
Clerk is another dead.beat and useless
Office" This Of course referred to the
office and not the incumbent, Andrew
Davis, who succeeded Bobby League as
a%manuensis to the Mayor.
Yesterday an idiot named Bill Smith
attended a Second street church and
had to be removed by the police to the
station-house, having disturbed the con,
gregation by singing several octaves
louder than any member of the choir
and doing so entirely out of tune and
without any regard to the proprieties Of