Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-03
LEDGER LINES.

tlon oi the Maliest.
The Urauia Tableau Club will give
matinee on Saturday next at the thea
ter.
The Arbitration Court was not in SEES
sion to-day, but will open up tomorrow
morning.
Ffty-6ye years ago May lst 1920
Shelby county was organized out of
wilderness.
Manager Brooks benefit at the theater
next Wednesday night. 1t. will be 1
musical success.
General Council meeting tonight fol
the purpose of passing ordinances suita
Bile to the new charter.
The WEEKLY LEDGER will be published
tomorrow morning, and can be found al
all the leading news stands.
Oliver, Finnie & Co. will have straw.
berries from Barbour's in a few days.
We return thanks for a sample.
Come, gentle spring, diphtherial
mildness, comet is the latest improve
ment on Thompson's invocation.
The Mississippi is getting sickly again.
II is o confined to its bed, but it is at.
tempting to rise a foot at a time.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has left for Texas
to attend the meeting of the Mexican
war veterans, to be held at Austin.
Tomorrow, the 4th instant, will be the
opening day of the spring meeting over
the Blood Horse Association Course al
Nashville.
The mortuary report for the past week
ID as follows: Total deaths, 10; whites,
IA; blacks, 5. OF the above six died Of
consumption.
Now is the time to look up old garden
seeds and wonder what they are, as they
appear wrapped up in unmarked pieces
of paper and cotton.
Spelling match tonight at the Chelsea
Brick Church under the management Of
Professor W. y Mitchell. Admission
only twenty. five cents.
DR.. Stolz will lecture tomorrow night
at the Assembly Hall on Mesmerism vs..
Spiritualism, aud will doubtless have a
crowd and prove highly entertaining.
Lager is flowing down the dry throats
of Memphians at present, 1t is rapidly
superceding all others as a spring and
summer beverage, water not excepted.
Fine strawberries, the first of the sea
son, we're received at the LEDGER Office
to-day from J.. E. Spiven, manager o
Waverly Hall Fruit Farm, on Kerr ave
nue..
Mix a little tar and grease and MOI
the tender parts of your mules if yor
would protect them from buffalo gnatl
and make the pestiferous insects steer
clear of stock.
Throughout the State the spelling
match has ignited and burns with al
intensity never seer before in our ex
changes. The hedge school-naster il
evidently abroad.
Patrolman Rogers, while chasing q
mad dog through a ~brickyard in Chelsea
stepped into a hole and sprained bis
ankle. The patrolman was lifted oul
aud the dog escaped.
L. E. Dyer, of our city, who received
the appointment as consul to Odessa
Russia, declines the preferred honor.
Mr.. Dyer, although a Radical, has nc
desire to hang on the ragged edge Of the
Black sea.
Some nights since a couple o. royster
ing chaps under the influence OF liquor
visited the residence of a well-known
undertaken, and after calling the propri
etor to the window, ordered two beers
for themselves.
Yesterday detective McCune returned
from Vicksburg, Miss, having in charge
the negro Charles Johnson, who il
charged with killing a negro boy on the
levee by stabbing him to death Oh
Christmas day, 1873.
On and after to day the Recorder
Court will open at eight o'clock am,
instead Of nine o'clock, as heretofore
The Recorder is an early bird, and viii
endeavor to catch the early worms dur
ing the spring and summer months.
Manager Tracy, of the spelling-school
very properly declined the benefit sug
gested by the Appeal as a reward for the
manner in which he conducted the lat,
spell for the orphans. Charity SHOULD
never be made an excuse for benefits.
Fannie Malone and Hans Margeruu
were committed by the Recorder to-day
on the charge of assault with a knife
upon the person of a white man whom