Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-18
LEDGER LINES.

ONAOhNA OPSihAau HOAu wv iHfNNoN'
yesterday.
Petit larceny cases are on hearing to
day in the Criminal Court.
See notice OF Security Building aud
Loan Association in another column.
The Court Square fountain scheme
progresses favorably. 1t will be erected
this summer.
Moonlight fete champetre at Alexan.
der's Park tonight for the benefit Of the
Church Home orphans.
School superintendent Picket wears
long black whiskers reaching down to his
waist, which gives him the solemn look
of an ancient sage.
Last night an entire family named
Alright was arrested by the police on
the charge Of assault and battery, which
proved that the Alright family was all
wrong.
The General Council back. salary grab.
bers are catching it from their immediate
ward constituency. The "grabbers are
making history for the election next
January.
In the First Circuit Court to-day a ne.
gro named Harrison Green fled a bill
for divorce against Rebecca Green, al.
leping all kinds of naughty things or
Beecherism.
Next Friday, the Oath instant, the
Masonic picnic comes of, upon which
occasion General N. P. Banks, of Mas
~sachusetts, will deliver the grafton at
James Park.
The question as to who will be the
next Mayor is generally discussed on
street corners. We do not know who
will be the next Mayor, but we do know
who will not be.
Biographical sketches Of cure-all
springs, polite clerks, g%entlemanly bar.
keepers and whole-souled proprietors
will o o reach the press of the city
from correspondents.
Two, prisoners confined in the county
Jail escaped yesterday by stealing a key
to the outer gate and walking off. The
escaped prisoners we're Albert White
and Robert Goodman, negroes.
The orators Of the School Board are
brothers Gibson, Folkes and FARMLAND
but occasionally brothers Kortrecht
Townsend, Smith and Vernon take q
hand by way of aiding and assisting in
the debate.
Among the commencement exercises
at the State Female College was the I'M
expected marriage of one Of the gradu
ates from Mississippi to a Memphian. II
was not a runaway, but nearly SO. May
the happy pair live long and prosper.
We are obliged to Messrs. F. II. Starr
J. Seligman and Geo. App, committee
for an invitation to attend a moonlight
excursion to Raleigh this evening. II
will be a capital affair, and we will be
happy to attend, the weather permitting.
The School Board will meet again on
Tuesday next and select teachers and
principals for the different white schools.
The selection of a principal and teachers
for the negro schools will not take place
until the regular meeting of Che Board
in July.
The school children appear happy
once again, now that vacation has ar.
rived. The little urchins are recovering
from the examining process, which for.
gets everything in the effort on the part
of the teacher to secure a high per cent
age for the children.
A policeman was compelled to sell his
scrip to-day for seventy-6ve cents; this
cut his wages down to a little over two
dollars per day, the twenty dollars in
scrip being sold for fifteen dollars. The
man had to have a little money, and
hence the sacrifice.
At the Cotton Exchange to-day could
be seen a fine specimen of new wheat
raised near Germantown, in this county,
by j. P. Charles; also a corn stalk ten
feet high taken from q forty acre field
belonging to Sheppard Blackburn, OIL
Laconia, Arkansas.
The Peoples Protective Union met
yesterday and received the annual re.
port, which will he published in the
LEDGER of Monday. Several thousand
additional copies of the LEDGER will be
issued on that day, a fact which will be
duly appreciated by advertisers.
Our reporter attended the School
Board meeting last night and was mysti.
fed by the illusions made by School
Visitors to certain persons who would
comment unfavorably upon certain
measures proposed. This was an IN.
certain way Of stating a certain fact.
s. A. Wells delivers RALEIGH mineral