Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-04
LEDGER LINES.
No FIRE last night.


The Probate Court will be in session
tomorrow.
Whittle and Bliss at the Exposition
building again tonight.
The strawberry season will soon give
place to the blackberry period.
Planters arriving in the city complain
Of the ravages Of the cut worm.
The General Council will meet again
on Wednesday next at 3 o'clock.
Memphis sidewalks are calculated to
make even a saint swear like a sinner.
The Butchers Union held a very pleas
SAINT picnic at Leath Orphan Asylum
grounds yesterday.
The Odd Fellows will enlarge the
Leath Orphan Asylum and use the build
ing as a place of refuge for the orphans
Of the order.
The street car company is making a
large amount Of money out Of the Whit
tie and Bliss meetings, and yet the soul
less corporation charges ten cents for a
single fare.
Captain George Gift, formerly of our
city, has severed his connection with the
San Rafael (Cal.) Herald, and has at
tached himself to one of the big dailies
of San Francisco.
Advices received at the Chamber Of
Commerce state that in Tennessee the
prospect OF the wheat crop was never
so 6attering as this season, and so also
in adjoining States.
In the office of the Chief Of Police is
a string Of beads or rosary, which was
found near the theater on jefferson
street. The owner can get the property
by calling at Police headquarters.
The public demand Of the Street Rail
road Company that the fare be reduced
to FIVE cents. Will Messrs. Davis, Vre-
denburg and Barrett, who own the road
and are its officers, respond to the de-
mand2
The Microscopical Society of Memphis
should turn its glasses at the City Hall
and street railroad and report what Gu
riosities or moHstrosities Of nature are
observable on and in these bodies cor
porate.
1t turns out that beer is now made out
of corn instead of rye, which accounts
for the fact that-a fellow cannot throw
himself outside Of a brace of "shoo-aies'
without becoming how come you So
and falling asleep,
Thousands Of martins auttered about
Adams street near the station.house late
last night, their roost in an adjacent
building having been destroyed, which
fact they found out on their return from
scouting in the country.
Several Mississippi counties have
brought suit against the suspended
SELMA railroad to compel the railroad
company to cancel their bonds, etc. The
road has practically ceased to exist, but
It may come up after awhile.
All the Protestant churches in the
city, except the Episcopal, join in the
white and Bliss meetings at the Expo
%sition, out yet many Episcopaliaus at
tend these meetings, regardless of the
action of their ministers in this matter.
The Appeal says: Mayor League
amuses himself daily by chasing and
capturing young pigeons that fly into the
City Hail." The birds are not p" stool.
pigeons" belonging to the ring, and
hence the Mayor puts his hoofs or We
toes" upon their flight.
The black.boards Of the Cotton Ex-
change show the following facts and
figures to-day: Receipts for the week,
395 bales; for the season. 9l8,8 ship
ments for the week, 1859; for the season,
3lO,62O; stock on hand, l4,O56; sales for
the week, 1000 bales, principally taken
BY spinners.
At night a be seen on many streets
the recupbent forms Of sleeping drunk.
ards on the front porches Of buildings.
The sight is not picturesque by any
means, nor is such added to by the
appearance of the policeman who
"bounces' the drunken mar on to the
station-house,
In the case Of the State VS.. Ed John.
SOB, the Express robber, a plea Of "in-
sanity" has been fled. Ed has a
method in his madness that is rather
dangerous for Express messengers who
go into Easements to deliver money
packages. Such a lunatic as Johnson
should be incarcerated in the peniter-
tiary, or should dangle from the end of
a rope.
Work is to be commenced immedi-
ately in tearing out the Chamber of Com
merce building and rebuilding It, 90 as