Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-10
LEDGER LINES.
thy name IS weather.

a love feast tonight.
Memphis Bethel concert at the theater
Rext Thursday evening.
May, l wear my summer clothes, is
the latest pun on the weather.
German Lutheran Sunday school pie
mic to-day at Humboldt Park.
Memphis is now fragrant with new
oni0as and other garden truck"
Soda water, ice cream and sherbert
have made their annual appearance.
Judge Ray, Of the Probate Court, is
hearing habeas corpus cases to-day.
Are you going to the pionic2 is now
the query among young Memphians.
Annual picnic of St. Peters Sunday
school on Wednesday next at James
Park.
Our distinguished guest is still with
us, and is receiving the most courteous
attention from eur citizens.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the total deaths to have been al
whites 10, blacks IL.
Tonight the spelling match comes off
at the theater for the benefit of the or
phans Of the Church Home.
Thursday next a select picnic will be
given by the B, T, S. Club at the Leath
Orphan Asylum grove.
&Nothing new in the polics court.
Twenty misdemeanor cases we're dis
posed Of by the Recorder this morning.
Tomorrow week, Tuesday, the 18th
instant, will come off the celebrated an
nual picnic of the Knights of Pythias.
Vice President Wilson will leave for
Little Rock tonight, and will swing
home around the circle via St. Louis or
Texas.
The gentle rain from heaven came
pouring down yesterday afternoon, much
TO the regret of Sunday callers and beer
garden babitues.
The Jefferson street variety show
closed for the season Saturday night,
owing to lack Of patronage and enter
prise.
The Sheriff to-day is selling cut the
furniture and fixtures of Corwin's Euro.
pean restaurant in lots to the highest
bidders.
Police and Fire Commissioners meet
ing this afternoon to reOrganize both
forces, in accordance with the provisions
Of the new charter.
The Pittsburg Post says: The Vice
President has taken a trip South, and
we may next hear of his being read out
of the Radical party.
If sioux spells su, and eye spells
!, and s-i-g-h-e-d spells side, why in the
name of all the spelling matches doesn't
s-i-o-u-x-e-y-e-s-i-g-h-e-d spell suicide2
The Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice Presi.
dent of the United States, has been in
vited by the ladies and will attend the
spelling bee at the Memphis Theater to.
night.
To correct an impression
that has gone forth, Mr.. kirkland begs
us to inform the public that positively
no names will be read from the stage at
the spelling bee tonight.
The remains Of Mr.. NJ. Z. Smelser,
late city editor of the Avalanche, were
conveyed to Indianapolis, Indiana, yes
terday afternoon, via the Louisville road.
After life's itful fever he sleeps we'll
General Council meeting tomorrow
night, when a few "vetoes" will be fred
off by the Mayor by way of amusing the
boys and inviting them to rally on the
"t~wc-thirds."
The ex-Federal soldiers will meet al
the Cotton Exchange tomorrow night
for the purpose of making arrangement
to take part in the procession and oere
monies of decoration day.
Before Offering US any odes t.
spring" the writer's should satisfy thu
LEDGER editors that spring has come by
accompanying the ode with a certifcat,
from the Signal Service observers at thiI
point.
In a Mississippi journal can be found
the following piece of grim humor BY
way Of an amusement: "At the earnes
solicitation Of my creditors l have con
cluded to become a candidate for count,
treasurer"
The difficulty which separated Mrs
Oates and her husband, Tracy Titus, a
San Francisco, should be called the ney
Titus. Oates plot, the original plot hav
ing taken place in England during tn
reigns of Charles II and James II.
Those Of our citizens and citizenesse
who intend indulging in matrimony tbi
year are anxiously awaiting the adyen