Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-25
LEDGER LINES.

The thermometer is skirmishing up
among the eighties.
Hebrew Orphan Asylum picnic at
James Park tomorrow.
Messrs. White and Bliss at the Ex-
position again te-night.
Several intoxicated ~celebraters Of Dee
Grafton day slept in the station-house
last night.
At the Police Court this morning sew.
eral negro larcenists were committed to
jail in default Of bonds.
There was a FIRE last night at James
Park. An old dwelling occupied by the
park-keeper burned down.
The water works have been put in
chancery by the rival b~ondholders of
New York, Cincinnati and Memphis.
We thank Mr.. B. B. Richmond for a
copy of the Hawaiian Gazette, published
at Honolulu, and of date April Dist.
The addresses Of Attorney General
Luke E. Wright and Judge j.. o. Pierce
at Elmwood we're eloquent and beautiful
tributes to the gallant dead.
At the St. Georges picnic last evening
the beautiful bouquet was voted to Miss
Hattie Burgette as the most popular
young lady on the grounds.
Mr.. Jules Vaudry, formerly Of New Or
leans, but now a leading cotton broker
Of St. Louis, is visiting the city for a few
days, the guest of Mr.. o. Quesnel.
Saturday next, May 10Th, is the day Of
the annual floral celebration at the Ma
tional Cemetery. At Nashville the time
has been changed to the 3lst instant,
The Nashville Banner of the 23d inst.
insists that White and Bliss are draw.
ing immense crowds in Memphis, aud
their meetings are the great sensation Of
that wicked city, gal
The New York Daily Graphic thus
politely refers to a recent marriage;
Miss Semmes, a daughter Of the pirate,
recently married a gentleman named
Bryant in Mobile"
Huge bouquets are now in vogue, and
they appear in such a magnitude that it
requires 8 hamper basket to carry them
from the place of purchase to the place
of deposit on the center table.
The Irish Volunteers, in their new
gray uniforms, presented a soldierly ap-
pearance in the procession Of yesterday
and received many compliments from
the spectators who lined the streets.
Captain G. B. Bryan and bride, nee
Semmes, reached the city on Sunday
from Mobile, and are now the recipients
Of the congratulations and compliments
of their friends, whose name is legion, in
the Bluff City. He4 G1A
On Thursday next the annual picnic
of St. Patrick's church school will be
celebrated at James Park. The Library
and Educational Society will assist the
ladies in conducting the affair with q
view to the entertainment of all visitors.
In the up counties of the State the
weekly journals are fighting over the dog
law on the Scriptural text; Cursed be
the mar who shall bring the price Of E
dog into the house Of the Lord thy God,
for this is an sbominstion unto the
Lord" Deuteronomy xiii, Is.
Major J.. W. Morton, a gallant officer
and chief of Forests artillery during
the war, who came down from Nashville
to participate IN the celebration by the
Blue and the Grayat Elmwood yesterday,
returned to-day. lie expressed himself
surprised and delighted at the dimen-
sions and character of the demonstra-
ton.
The Blue and the Gray harmonized
over green grass yesterday, and the oc-
casion will be remembered as a pleasing
relief to the acts of that ru%fianlY lieu
tenant and squad of marines who, a few
years ago, with their bayonets pitched
the flowers from the raves of the Con-
federate soldiers at Arlington Cemetery,
near Washington City,
Many of the leaders Of the negroes
are prejudicing the minds of the latter
against Messrs. White and Bliss be-
cause the white people occupy the main
hall Of the Exposition building and the
nigs are invited to walk up into the
galleries. They should not object to
this arrangement as it places them
nearer heaven than it does the white
folks by at least thirty feet. ar
Gen, Cotton Greene, while returning
from the ElmwOod celebration yesterday,
met with a serious accident on Front
street. His horse slipping on the stone
pavement, fell and caught Gen. Greene's
left leg under him, breaking it a few
inches above the ankla He uas nnn.