Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-21
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SeFtTut mempulauS are uOiuB EdIiei
France, at present.
1t is about time to commence enforc-
ing the dog ordinance as to muzzles.
1t is impossible to enjoy life with the
heat turned on asi t has been for a week.
Bronson Bayliss is at Paris, France,
e%ndeavoring to work up direct trade with
Memphis,
The new Cotton Exchange is being
completed rapidly. 1t presents a neat
architectural appearance.
The cornerstone Of the Bethel build
ing will be laid tomorrow afternoon with
appropriate ceremonies.
Morning AID evening services every
Sunday during the summer will be held
at the Second Presbyterian church.
Chicken thieves visited the residence
of the Chief Of Police a few nights since
and carried off several ROSTERS and pull
let's.
The Second Chancery Court, Judge
Stockton presiding, meets every morn
ing at nine o'clock. Motions are heard
daily.
The rising river is beginning to dis
turb the dreams Of planters, who are
apprehensiye of an overflow Of the low
lands.
The maximum Of arrests made BY the
police are for drunkenness, assault and
battery, vagrancy and disorderly con-
duct.
The excursion of the German Casino
Club on the river last night was largely
attended, and & delightful time was en-.
joyed by the dancers.
The darkies will have a grand %concili-
atory picnic u the Exposition Building
tomorrow afternoon for the benefit Of
the Planet printing Office.
The color line is now fought out on
the clothes-line. Not a day passes but
some good citizen loses clothing at the
hands Of chewing negroes.
Secretary Toof, Of our Cotton Elk.
change, is at Greenbriar, White Sulphur
Springs, Va, acting as Secretary of the
National Cotton Convention.
st. Peters Catholic church was bril-,
liantly lighted up last night on the occa.
sion of the marriage Of Mr.. Charles L.
B. Denison and Miss Kate Lonegan.
The Waddy Thompson cases are pro.
crossing. Quite a large crowd of spec
tators is present daily, every person be
ing anxious to see the great "habeat
corpus" man.
A large amount Of vegetables anC
fruit raised here is sold daily. The veg
etable and fruit markets were never sc
well supplied, and these edibles were
never so cheap as at present.
Parties representing the German
Casino Club are soliciting subscription;
to the Court Square concert fund, with
which it is proposed to give two concerts
a week in the Square.
The number of bathers 10 the river has
decreased since the rise. The Missis-
sippi is too rapid, deep and muddy now
to suit their tastes, and the danger oil
drowning has materially increased.
The admirable effect of the vagrant
law is beginning to be felt in this city.
Let u magistrates enforce the Law
against the white and black Migrants
who are pilfering throughout the city.
A gentleman in this city yesterday
purchased from a negro for fifteen cents
a history of Rome published in London
ir the year 1869, a rare old edition Of
considerable value as a curiosity of lit.
erature.
The case of Greenlaw Ell al vs.. Shelby
county, being suits to recover about
$50, 900 in warrants issued by Barbour
Lewis when County Commissioner, was
argued in the Second Circuit Court to-
day and given to the jury.
Information is wanted.at the Mayor
office of Callum McIntire, formerly o.
England. Those who know of his where
abouts will confer a favor upon his rela
tives in England by reporting such in,
formation to Mayor League.
The Nashville papers announce thai
John 0yerton has leased a tract of lane
on Presidents Island to General Forces
for county work house purposes. 1t il
said that a number Of p~enitentiary con
victs will also be put to work on thu
Island by the lessee.
Two citizens engaged in a row neal
the Appeal office, on Second street, yes
terday afternoon, during which row botl
men got cut with a knife, doing, how
ever, but little damage, except to the
feelings of the Coroner, who just now il
complaining of the dearth in bu% siness.