Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-25
LEDGER LINES.
The Casino Club Court Square concert
was largely attended last evening.

of Howes' great London Circus and Ne
nagerie.
The military were out drilling on Sec.
ond street, lei Adams, last night, in
undress uniform.
Work has been commenced on Che
theater by Manager Brooks, preparatory
for the forthcoming season.
A fire last evening on Poplar street.
near Fourth, destroyed a couple o.
shanties inhabited by negroes.
The sandbar at the point in Arkansas
opposite Fort Pickering is appearing
above the waters of the river.
The P~ascagoula yellow fever scare has
passed away and the dread disease has
ceased to exist in that locality.
The river has fallen about six feel
since the swell decreased. 1t is now
running out like a mill-tail race.
Attorney General Wright and Judge
Flippin, of the Criminal Court, have re-
turned to the city from East Tennessee.
Spring chickens and rusticating bluff.
ers are returning to Memphis in numbers
to prepare for the forthcoming business
I season.
The Truehart crusade on the Wash.
ington street social evil houses will come
up again before Esquire Winters to NOR.
row morning.
Drift and mud begin to show up on
the %levee, now that the foods are reced-
ing. The wharf should be washed or
scraped off in time by the authorities.
By way of preparing for the business
season, get your mercantile job printing
done at the LEDGER office, where the
best work and at the lowest rates can be
found.
On Wednesday evening, the 10Th of
September, the dress drill, promenade
concert and hop of the Irish Volunteers,
assisted by the C~hicka8aw Guards, will
come off at the Exposition building.
The Southern Catholic will appear as
an eight-page paper on the 18th of Sep.
TENDER, and will still be issued at the low
price of $l.OO per annum, making it the
cheapest Catholic paper in the country.
A handful is circulating around town
advertising for one hundred men to do
wheelbarrow work near Brinkhy, Arkan-
sas. Here is a chance for the tramps
and vags to work and get free ride over
the Little Rock road.
oh, the joy, Of another boy. 1t is at
the honse of our friend, Councilman ].
s. Carpenter, and like Oliver Twist,
called Tor more, at an early hour this
morning. We join the many friends of
the happy parents in hearty congratula-
tons.
The Police Court docket did not pre-.
sent any important features to-day. A
negro boy who was taken out Of the sta.
t%ion.house by Captain Forrest repaid the
favor by stealing a lot of v%afuables from
him, for which he was arrested and again
locked up.
The Adams street fire boys, with the
Danbury engine, finished pumping out
that messy lake in Happy Hollow yes.
terday. The lake was three feet deep,
and as filthy as it was deep. The boys
say it was a most offensive job, and they
would not have done it for anybody ex.
cept DR.. Rice, the health officer.
The Second Chancery Court, Judge
Stockton, is in session, To-day a motion
was made to appoint a. receiver in the
attachment case against Stewart,
Doherty q Co., which the Chancellor
refused, on the ground that he had no
jurisdiction, the bill having been filed in
the First Chancery Court, presided over
by Judge Morgan.
Since the Court Square concerts were
i%naugurated a mania for midnight vocal.
ism has broken out. 1t has even taken
possession of men who become intoxica-
ted and then imagine that it is their duty
to serenade their sleeping neighbors.
To Hear the opening or closing roar of a
lot of iuebriates as they hang on the
ragged edge OF some musical compost.
ton is rather unpleasant Of midnight, at
least to those who do not go into raptures
over vocal music.
In reference to the charge made that
Mayor League had refused to refund the
illegal tax paid by milkmen and garden
ers, the Mayor informs us that he had
asked the General Council to pass an
ordinance directing him to refund the
money, but the General Council merely
directed a suspension of the collection Of
the tax and referred the whole matter to
the Ordinance Committee, The Mayor
added: THE money will now be re-.