Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-05
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digni6ed but falling in debt is by far
easier.
General Council meeting at 3 o'clock
next WedneSdsy-to receive and con-
slider 'vetoes.7
Quite a large audience attended the
White and Bliss gospel meeting at the
Exposition last night.
In to.day's LEDGER Sol Coleman, the
great cigar man, has an attractive adver-
tisement Of interest to smokers.
The LEDGER is the only daily journal
published in this city on Mondays, a fact
which advertisers will do well to consider.
The latest conundrum goingthe rounds
of the press is, Whom can we trust2p
But the question comes up, Trust with
what2'
A well-known Memphian was unable
to spell regal" a few nights since, but
he visited a saloon and swallowed the
word backwards.
Decoration of graves tomorrow after
noon by the German Maennoechor and
Bruderbund Societies. Aband Of music
will be in attendance.
In the First Chancery Court Maggie
]. Judkins fled a bill for divorce against
John Judkins, and the latter fled a cross
bill for the same purpose.
The children of the city are invited to
attend the White and Bliss meeting at
5 O'Clock this afternoon, when services
will be conducted especially adapted to
their mental level.
When you purchase four street railroad
tickets for a quarter, you lend the com
pany eighteen and three-fourth cents
without interest, that lie, provided you
put one of the tickets in the box.
At the Butchers Union picnic County
Clerk James Reilly won the pair Of der
ringers and the fine horse in the shooting
gallery, he having proven himself to be
the best msrksman on the grounds.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary Of
the death of Patrick Henry, of Virginis,
born 1876; died June 6, l779. AS the
poet put it,
|" Henry, the forest. born Demosthenes,
Whose thunders shook the Philip ofthe seas."
Item hunting now taxes the ingenuity
of a reporter in order to relieve his cox
umns Of city news from dullness. To
keep up a news column during a n'entire
year is not the easiest thing to do in this
world.
AT Mansford's news stand, corner of
Second and Monroe streets, q large lot
Of Sunday reading matter can be found;
among other things, Christians Mis-
take" by Miss Mullock, Is cents per
copy.
In order to satisfy the fastidious taste
of Memphians, saloon-keepers now i'm
port Bavarian and Prussian lager, which,
by the way, is not half so good as the
lager manufactured in this land of 'hops"
and freedom.
A thunder, wind and rain storm from
the north swept around to the west at 10
o'clock last night, which cooled the at.
mosphere considerably and made sleep
ing a luxury instead Of a task, which it
has seen for several nights past.
Picnic of the Italian Society at James
Park on Monday next. The annual
p%icnics of this Society are among the
most pleasant and entertaining given in
Memphis, and they are always attended
by the very best people in the city.
The commencement exercises of the
Gaines Institute closed at the theater
last night before a very large audience.
The graduates were Misses Jennie Hun.
ter, Mabelle Fulton, Annie G. Elliott,
Lille Laskiand Mrs. Marshal Redon.
Quite a large number Of counterfeit
niokels and dime fractional currency are
in vogue throughout the city, and such
seem to pass freely from hand to hand,
especially at night when careless or
near-sighted people take such beneath
the gas light.
The Louisville railroad company has
changed It's timetable by resuming daily
express trains Except Sunday at $3.50
am. The 5 pm. through train, with
sleepers, connects for Nashville, arriving
there at 5:45 am. See schedule in an
other column.
Last evening a boy aged eleven years,
named Louis Daniel Scharf, son of Phil
Scharf, was drowned near the elevator.
He was fishing from a barge at the time
and engaged in a friendly scuflswith an
other boy and accidentally fell overheard.
His body has not been found.
During the storm last night a little
bird, blown from its hiding place in the
Arkansas woods, dashed up against a