Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-30
LEDGER LINES.

Wednesday next, July 7, the General
Council will meet III regular monthly
session.
The First Circuit Court will adjourn
to-day to court in course the third Mon
day in September next.
This is the last day of June, and to-
morrow the monthly bill collector will
be out on his grand rounds.
Colonel R. Dudley Frayser leaves to-
day for St. Louis on personal business,
to be absent three or four days.
A long range rife club is being organ
lied in this city, to be governed by the
Creedmoor rules and regulations.
The Police Commissioners met this
morning and appointed Morgan McCue
a patrolman, vice P. 0. Bradley, re-
moved.
Chief Of Police Athy has issued orders
to the police to arrest all persons found
flying kites within the corporate limits
Of the city.
A large party leaves Nashville on the
9Th of July for the Mammoth Cave. The
Memphis excsrsionists leave on the 9th,
Monday next.
The fete champetre for the benefit Of
St. Mary's Cathedral will take place at
the residence of Mrs. r c. Brinkley t.
morrow night.
Several Memphians have had their
heads shaved this spring, it being recon-
mended as a sure cure for badness, real
or prospective.
Detective McCnne returned from Holly
Springs, Mississippi, to-day with Isaac
Atkins in custody. Atkins is charged
with stealing a mule in this city.
The ordinance making police and fire
warrants receivable in payment Of priyi-
lege taxes passed its third and final read
ing yesterday before the General Council.
On night duty there are twenty-iour
patrolmen and thirteen on day duty,
This is to protect a city Of over fifty
thousand inhabitants and a territory of
the area Of nine square miles.
Bluff City Lodge, No. 1871, l. 0. 0. F.,
elected the following officers last night
for the ensuing term; = Wardlow, N.
G = Webb, V. G ! R. D. Speed, Sec
rotary; D. 7. Porter, Treasurer.
Never were there so much billiards
played in this city during the spring
months as during this year. The swift
gliding ivory balls are kept in motion
continually at the different billiard halls.
Scientific men have come to the front
once again and have predicted that July
will be a month Of storms, tornadoes
and cyclones, intermingled with a cheer
full amount Of rain, thunder and light
ming.
The ordinance permitting Mr.. Elder
and other citizens to erect a fountain in
Court Square passed its final reading
and is now the law of the municipality.
The water is to be supplied at the ex-
pepse of the city.
Mr.. Collier and other teachers who
attempted to get up that Picket-Appeal
memorial by imposing q tax upon the
poor teachers were rewarded by re-
election as school teachers, while those
who opposed it we're dismissed.
The following officers were elected last
night in Memphis Lodge, No. 6, l. o, o.
F., for the ensuing term: George Mat
thews, N. G.; Charles H. Plischke, V.
g.; L. S. Burr, Secretary; E F, Risk;
Treasurer; John Waynesburg, Visitor.
We learn that Bon Aqua Springs is
already pretty well crowded. Most Of
those who were there last year are going
back, and many new patrons have been
added. The attractions and merits of
the place are equal to any in the South.
The wonderful similarity seen so oft
between the financial reports of the
Appeal and Avalanche is suggestive Of
the idea hat the reporters exchange
notes. 1t looks as if one man ran the
financial columns Of both great jour
nails.
The Police Commissioner met yester.
day and dismissed patrolman Bradley,
because he had arrested a county official
aud good-naturedly turned him loose on
promise to go home, instead Of locking
him up in the station-house, as was his
duty.
The efforts being made by Carl Schlitz
to induce the merchants to employ a spe-
cial police force to protect their stores at
night is meeting with success. Mr..
Schlitz purposes to take charge of build
ings from Poplar to Beal and from Front
to Second.
Mayor League was up and out yester-
day. He attended the General Council