Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-11
LEDGER LINES.
General Council meeting tonight.


St. Peters sunday-sehool picnic at
James Park to- morrow.
Barbour's strawberries, in great abun.
dance, at Oliver, Finnie & Cos.
Our distinguished guest" left last
night for Little Rock. Farewell Henry !
We hear no more bowls from the Ap-
peal against the City Charter and the
General Council.
Can any Of the champion spoilers spell
correctly the name Of the next President
of the United States2
The Christian Brothers College festi-
val will be held at the Exposition build
ing on Monday next.
Ex-Federal soldiers meeting at the
Cotton Exchange tonight to make ar
rangements for Decoration day.
The number of pupils attending the
public schools Of the School Board is
34Ol, or, whites, 25l5; blacks, s86.
Fred Hunt (negro), son of ex-Council-
man Turner Hunt, was elected as a
Clay Street School teacher last night BY
the Educational Board.
The Raleigh narrow gauge railroad
was in operation yesterday and trains
ran from the Federal Cemetery to the
village of springs.
Confederate picnic next Friday at
James Park, for the purpose of raising
funds to complets that monument at
Elmwosd Cemetery.
A delegation Of black people, OF the
female sex, waited upon Vice President
Wilson yesterday and presented him with
a large bouquet Of flowers.
The colored population waited upon
Vice President Wilson yesterday, and
the delegations were received with dis
tinguished courtesy and perfect equality.
To-day week, Messrs. Whittle & Bliss.
the reyivalists who have so walked up the
sinful and wicked citizens of Nashville,
will make their appearance in this city.
Several of the performers of the burst
Jefferson street varieties are appearing
as stars beneath q tent in the towns
along the line of the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad.
In to-morrow's LEDGER will be found
a translation of the Maifest address, de-
livered in German by Mr., H. G. Hampe,
and also the address in English delivered
by Mr.. John Roush.
The cheerful buffalo gnat, after killing
any number Of mules and horses, has
departed to return again in 1876, but it
has left the musical mosquito to attend
to business during its absence.
The School Board, after a learned de.
bate, refused to appear in the procession
in a body on Decoration Day, but the
members will attend as individuals and
the schools will be closed.
Tonight DR.. Lord, of Vicksburg, will
deliver a lecture at the Memphis Thea
ter, for the purpose of raising funds to
contract a Tennessee memorial window
in the church now building in the City
OF Sieges. The subject of the lecture is,
The Mystic Brotherhood OF the Middle
Ages"
Vice President Wilson, during his So
journ in our midst, expressed a desire to
meet ex.President Davis, whom he knew
years ago in Washington City, but the
ex-President of the dead Southern Con.
federacy was absent from the city at.
tending a meeting of the Mexican War
veterans in Texas.
Yesterday Coroner Spelmau was
called upon to hold an inquest in a case
Of suicide rear the elevator at the foot
of Beal street. The drowned animal
was g porker that had committed the
rash act, which Of course was a clear
case Of suicide, the latter word being
derived from the latin sus, suis, a hog.
Mr.. c. B, Bryan, who married Miss
Anna G. Semmes in Mobile on the 9Th
instant, is the Memphis superintendent
of the St. Bernard Coal Association. Mr..
Bryan has his Office adjoining the
LEDGER building, and to our neighbor
we extend the Rip Van Wrinkle congrat-
ulatory formula.
AT 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke
out in q ~one-story frame dwelling, situa-
ted on the corner Of Alabama street and
the Raleigh road. The engines arrived
in time to save the adjoining shanties
and prevent the building from burning
down. the roof being the only portion
destroyed.
1t is announced officially in the Ava.
lanche that Mr.. F, s. Davis, of the
First National Bank, is to be married at