Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-13
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confederate Monumental picnic at
James Park tomorrow.
Decoration day at Elmwood next
Monday week, the oath inst.
Thursday next Memphis will celebrate
the M~ecklenburg centennial.
Sweet table butter in five pound
crooks at Oliver, Fianie & Co.'S.
The Memphis Law Library contains
nearly three thousand volumes.
New Roe herring in kits and half bar
rels OF Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
The discharged policemen should re.
ceive their back pay as SOC as possible.
German Presbyterian Church Sunday
School picnic on Monday mex at James
Park.
Major j. j. Murphy is back from St.
Louis and receives a hsrty welcome on
all hands.
There will be another meeting of the
Police and Fire Commissioners held on
next Saturday.
The select picnic Of the B. 7. S. Club
comes off this evening at the Leath Or
phan Asylum grounds.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis delivered an ad-
dress at the Texas State Fair, held at
Houston, on Tuesday last.
The Irish Literary Association meets
tonight at the usual place for discussion.
The public is welcome to attend.
Joe McCullers has horses, buggies,
hacks and carriages for hire, at his livery
stable, No. AZ Adams street. thanh
Next week the prayer meeting cpl.
demic will break forth under the leader
ship Of the missionaries, Messrs. White
and Bliss.
The managers assure the public that
no improper characters will be admitted
to the Confederate monumental picnic
tomorrow.
Memphis should adopt the free wharf
age system, or approach it as nearly as
possible, for the benefit OF trade and
commerce.
The First Circuit Court will meet on
Saturday next, when the minutes will
be signed and an adjournment had to
court in course.
Nothing of public interest transpired
in the police court this msrning. The
usual number of DRINKS and disorderlies
were disposed of by fine.
A correspondent writes us that the
Hot Springs of Arkansas are f%fty-four
in number-enough to keep everybody
who goes there in hot water.
Several Memphians of wealth are pre-
pairing for their annual European tour.
The Memphians without wealth will hold
the bluffs during their absence "a foreign
lands.
Will ths General Council to-day
make some arrangements to remove
those exposed collins at Winchester
Cemetery, which exposure is disgraceful
to the city.
Mr.. VIM. h. Moyston leaves to-day
for Washington city, having been Sc
lected as a delegate to the meeting of
the Supreme Lodge of the World,
Knights Of Pythias.
We are indebted to the ladies of the
Central Methodist church festival, which
is now being held under the Peabody
Hotel, for a sample of delicious ice
cream and strawberries.
For a week past the trees in Court
Square have been filled with red birds,
who visited that locality by the hun
dreds, but yesterday they disappeared as
mysteriously as they came.
The business men should close their
houses on tomorrow afternoon so that
their employees can attend the Confeder.
ate picnic at James Park and aid in the
completion Of that monument.
The police begin to swelter beneath
their winter uniforms, such not being
adapted to the present condition of the
climate. A lighter uniform and a pana.
ma hat are the things needed.
The orator for Decoration day has not
as yet been announced. Let it be some
distinguished man of Tennessee or
some other Southern State. Small fry
oratory does not attract much attention
in this latitude.
S~tatien-house prisoners, during the
temporary absence of the guards, let
down strings from their barred windows
into the alley in rear Of the prison and
fish for tobacco and bottles of whisky
which their friends outside attach to the
lines.
The lower bend trade can be secured
to Memphis by supporting the home
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