Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-25

AHc hhouualcb were MISSES Dttt6 Drlnk-
ley, Mollie Taylor, Lizzie Oakley, Mary
Somerville and Belle Wildberger. This
school is under charge of the Protestant
sisters Of St. Mary, a religious order de-
voted to the education Of youth.
Memphis Encampment, No. 80, l. 0.
0. F., elected the following officers to
serve the ensuing term: ]. W. Waynes
burg, C. P; A. W. Newsom, e. P;
Henry Backer, S. W; J. ]. Ross, J.. w.;
J. II. Sheppard, Treasurer; h. B. Gull
len, Scribe.
Bon Aqua Springs is the resort for
Memphians this season. There you
have a cool atmosphere, no dust, no
mosquitoes, the best of fare and plenty
of amusement for both old and young.
The Fourth Of July hop will be largely
attended by the bellies and beaux.
The Cotton Exchange b~laekboards
present the following facts and figures
today: Receipts Of cotton during the
week, 22O bales; for the season, 32O,526;
shipments for the week, 252l; for the
season, 3ls,lO7; stock on hand, 80 1850;
sales for the week, 1000, taken by spin
ners.
Picnic orations are becoming quite
popular in the South. Picnic oratory
has superseded stump oratory, and no
doubt to the great advantage of the
country at large. Weare too much gov
erned in these latter days, and we have
had an overdose of bad politics since
1866.
A young lawyer Of our city who has
been counting in Arkansas, received a
letter from his inamorata to-day, which
epistle contained a faded cotton bloom.
Those who understand the mysterious
language Of flowers can easily construe
the love token pluckedin the spring fields
Of Arkansas.
Sha%kspearean quotations for those who
take a midnight seat on the steps of a
Madison street brokers' office to cool off
before retiring" How sweet the moon
light sleeps upon this bank Here
as
will | sit and let the sounds of music
creep in my ears; soft stiffness and the
night become the touches Of sweet har-
mony."
There we're fifty angry mothers in
town last night, owing to the baby show
prize distribution at the Masonic picnic.
We heard Of n mother who made fran
tic efforts to make her hopeful say, al
will never be a Mason" She had no
objections to his being an Odd Fellow or
a Knight of Pythias, nay, a Red Man, a
Granger in fact, anything except a
Mason.
But little police and FIRE scrip is
offered for sale on Madison street, as the
boys" knowing its value, are holding it
up for the rise which must come as Jan
uary approaches. The quotation 75c
for such warrants amounts to nothing.
as none is offered. The "boys" are too
much on the bull to stand any "bear-
ing" from either brokers or newspaper
commercial reporters.
General Banks, in his, speech at the
Peabody, said; you must, sir, give us
credit Tor sufficient intelligence to be-
lieVe that there can be neither prosper.
ity nor liberty for us as a people while
there is adversely and slavery in any
other portion of this country" This is
forgetting history, as it is well known
that this country secured ITS greatness
and prosperity during its slavery history,
and its adversely only came with the ad-
vent Of the war in 1861. Slavery may
have been all wrong, but there is no use
in ignoring history, at least statesmen
should be more correct in stating histor-
ical facts.