Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-19
LEDGER LINES.

Italian Society picnic to day at
James Park.
Memphis is rapidly acquiring the name
of the picnic city. W
The st. Elmo Commandery X. t, No.
Is, elected officers last night.
Frank Wait viii revise the price of
coal next week. See new card.
s The Police and Fire Commissioners
meet regularly every Tuesday afternoon.
St. Georges Benevolent Association
picnic ct James Park on Monday next.
The caterpillar and grasshopper have
made their annual appearance in the
suburbs.
Monday next Decoration day, both for
ex-Coufederates and ,ex-Federals, at
Elmwood. q
Nine wicked sinners stood up aud
sought prayer at the GreeHlaw Opera
House last night. rsry~
Messrs. White and Bliss, the revival.
lists, will hold a meeting at the Greenlaw
Opera House tonight.
Lee Brady, a passer of the " queer"
was sent to Jail by the Recorder to-day
in default Of $1,000 bail.
There was a false alarm of fire at Y
m. to-day. The engines hunted through
the city for the ire-fend, but found him
not.
N. P. Banks, Of Massachusetts,, will
deliver the grafton in this city before the
Masonic societies on St. Johns day, the
Oath Of June.
The Exposition building was crowded
last night by the negroes Of the city,
who INDUCED in a festival after the man
ner Of white folks.
Hereafter those working for the city
will be- paid according to the supply Of
and demand for labor, and not any spe.
cisl rate regulating the wages Of labor
The regular Wednesday sight prayer
meeting of the Linden street Christian
church is withdrawn for tonight on &C.
count Of the meeting at the Opera
House.
Late last night on DeSoto street a
black boy cut a white boy on the leg with
a during a fight in which they had
engaged. The youthful razor.arned AZ
rican escaped arrest.
The City Hall ring boys take the
greatest interest in the Tim Foley in
junction against the Commissioners,
which is on hearing before Judge Walker
Of the Second Chancery Court,
The negro Allen Walker, on trial yes
terday in the Criminal Court on an in
dictment for committing a nameless
crime, was convicted and sentenced to
five years Imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary.
The Pythian picnic at James Park
yesterday, and especially last night, at
traeted a very large assemblage Of ladies
and gentlemen, who enjoyed themselves
exceedingly until IL o'clock, when the
picnic closed.
The foot of Clay street is to be the
future dumping ground for dead car
cases, and not the foot Of Monroe
street, which has been used for that
purpose for some time, to the great an
noyance Of steamboatmen.
But few dodgers now apply at the sta
tion-house, the fine nights and spring
weather making sleeping out of doors
not especially Objectionable, and when
repeated applications for station. house
lodging is so suggestive Of the chain.
! gang or the workhouse.
On Decoration dayth surviving mem
bers Of the Confederate brigsdes of Pres
ton Smith, A. ]. Vaughan and G.. W..
Gordon will assemble on Madison street,
in front of the LEDGER Office, at half
past nine o'clock am. under command
Of General Vaughan.
DIR. NJ. d. L. Jordan, of Milan, the
Honorable Senator Of the Nineteenth
district in the Thirty-ninth General AS.
sembly, is in the city on business, and
favored the LEDGER Office with a call to.
day. He made a most attentive and eff.
cient member of the Senate.
Let it be announced from the speak.
ers' stand on Decoration day the amount
Of the sacred monumental funds, both
the old and the new, and let the entire
fund be collected and gathered together
without delay, SO that ltcsn be expended
in finishing that monument this year.
Tom Ryan Councilman Of the Tenth
ward, being chairman Of the Ordinance
Committee, labors under the halucina-
ton that all ordinances should be pre-
sented through him, and that no Cour-