Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-14
LEDGER LINES.

Inc General Council tands ~adJourned
until next Tuesday afternoon.
The Bluff City Shooting Club meets
tonight to reorganize and elect officers.
The city and county committees on
the workhouse will hold a meeting to-
morrow afternoon.
Business men, close your stores this
afternoon, and letyour employees attend
the Confederate Monumental picnic.
The Bethel Concert at the theater last
night was largely attended. The little
waits did wonderfully well in re~citations,
songs, etc.
Arnold's famous brass brand sere-
naded the LEDGER Office to-day with the
sweetest musical strains, selected from a
favorite aria.
To-day is the third day before the CON-
mencement Of the May term of the Cir
cult Courts, and the last day on which
juries can be demanded.
The principal merchants Of the city
have signed a paper agreeing to grant
leave Of absence to their employees at 4
o'clock this afternoon.
In the Recorders Court to-day Abra-
ham Mason, charged with stealing cigarS
from A. R. Morton h Co., Front street,
was committed in default Of $1,000 bonds.
The members of the Societa Fran
caise de Secours Mutual Of Memphis
will give an anniversary banquet at
Moss. John Gaston's on Tuesday next,
the 18th instant.
Constable George Williams, being the
paternal ancestor Of four boys, was truly
gratifed a day or two since on being pre-
scented with an heiress of ordinary weight
and proportions.
The Mendelssohn Club and the Ger
man Maennoechor Club will intersperse
the ceremonies at Elmwood on Decora-
ton day with some Of their choice mu-
steal selections.
The Sunday school of St. Marys Ca
thedral will take their annual picnic TO.
morrow. A special train has been char
tered which will take the teachers, chill
dren and invited guests to Ridgeway.
Those collins still stick cut Of the
ground on that street cut by the city
through Winchester Cemetery. Our re-
porter will visit the cemetery on Sunday
next and will publish some startling
revelations.
Jim Glass, the negro hack driver, who
was arrested some days since for sending
a bouquet and an insulting letter to q
white woman, at the instigetion Of a
white man, WAS to-day discharged by
the Recorder.
1t is rumored that a number of prop.
erty owners in the vicinity Of the old
Gayoso Hotel talk Of buying the house,
repairing it thoroughly and placing it in
the hands Of a certain first. class hotel
man Of this city.
The black.boards Of the Cotton Elk.
change to-day show the following facts
and figures; Receipts for the week, LAG
bales; for the season, 81, OS3; shipments
for the week, 1883; for the season, 300.
O26; stock on hand, 22,8sS.
Uncle" Jim Tory, of the station.
house, drills his squad Of black Amazoni
daily in the art of toting rock from one
end Of the prison yard to the other, by
way Of exercise and punishment for dis.
orderly conduct in prison.
The lower bend trade can be secured
to Memphis by supporting the home
steamer Illinois. Let every Memphis
merchant support her at all hazards
The steamer Illinois leaves Friday al
FIVE o'clock for Vicksburg and New Or
leans.
To-day William Devine, a suspicion
character, was peeled by the police be
cause he failed to avail himself of the
invitation extended by the Chief o.
Police to get up and depart from th,
city, his absence therefrom being prefer
able to his presence therein.
At the Christian Brothers festival t
be given at the Exposition Building oil
Monday next, Prof. Arnold's band vii
render a number of choice operate
selections from the works OF the mos
renowned masters, and from the %fayorit,
operas Of the day.
The city Finance Committee has beer
authorized TO examine into and repor
the exact condition Of the city from {
financial standpoint-the amount o
past.due coupons and other indebted
ness, amount Of apparent revenue t
cancel, current expenses, etc.
The Irish Literary Association me
last night at their ball, 80 Poplar street
and had a spirited and rather humorou
o~ration from Mr. II NJ L~oewenstein n