Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-22
LEDGER LINES.

to-day.
Masonic picnic on Thursday mex at
James Park.
School Board meeting at Odd Fellows
Hall tonight.
General Council meeting at three
o'clock this afternoon.
The coming wheat crop is the theme
of conversation in mercantile circles.
In the Criminal Court to-day Ed Nc
Coy was placed on trial on the charge of
robbery.
Since the reduction of the police
force the corps Of private w~atchmen has
increased rapidly.
1t is rumored that the General Couu-
ell will this afternoon request the City
Attorney to resign his charge.
The Chickasaw Guards are armed
with the army regulation weapon-the
improved needle gun, a breech loader.
The Avalanche man mourns over the
death Of the s~tation-house gander as he
would over the death Of a long lost
brother.
A little son of John Waters, residing
on Jones avenue, was Kicked by a mule
yesterday afternoon and had three of his
ribs broken.
This morning a steamboatman resid-
ing on the fernando road shot a mad
dog hat had entered his house and wal
attempting to bite his children.
The Young Mems Social Club and
their friends will indulge in a basket
picnic next month at the residence of
Major Humphreys at Gracewood.
This morning Ed Johnson, a negro
gambler, was arrested on the charge Of
swindling a bucolic darby out OF a pile
of money by playing the confidence
game.
The commencement exercises of the
Christian Brothers College will be held
at the Memphis Theater on Friday even
ing next, when diplomas will be issued
to the graduates.
The commencement exercises Of St..
Agnes Female Seminary will close to-
day. The list of graduates as follows:
Misses Marianne Semmes, Blanche
Avent. M. Mansford and J.. Chambers.
Large sections of plasteEing occasion
ally tumble into Poplar street from the
courthouse building, which make it
rather dangerous for pedestrians who
haunt the shadows cast by the seat of
justice.
Mr.. Felix P. Bath desires to inform
his friends that it was neither himself
nor his brother William Bath who had
anything to do with the shooting ARRAY
Sunday morning, which was published
in the LEDGER Of yesterday.
The General Council will pass that
ordinance to-day making the police and
fire warrants gilt-edge paper for all bust
ness and tax-paying purposes. Messrs,
brokers, come out of that seveuty-fve
cent quotation, if you please.
Cases are now tried in the First Cir
cult Court by wager of battle under
the old English system which prevailed
about the time Of the Middle Ages
with this difference, that in place Of the
clients the attorneys lock horns.
Tomorrow afternoon General N. P.
Banks and Governor Porter will arrive
in the city and be escorted from the
Memphis and Louisville depot to the
Peabody by the military and civic socie-
ties Of the city and the Masonic fra
ternity.
Several savage or mad dogs have been
killed in this city during the last few
days. On Saturday a vicious or rabid
dog bit two children on St. Martin street.
Keeping a vicious dog is becoming a
frequent charge on the station. house
records.
1t is to be hoped that the Picket School
Board ring will have the modesty in
selecting teachers tonight to abstain
from selecting all such from the list OF
personal friends, Our representative
will be on hand and lend his presence to
the scene.
The Express robbers-Mac Morris, Ed
johnson, Henry Johnson (negro) and
John Woods-will In a few days be
transferred 10 the penitentiary house at
Nashville, where there are no Express
messengers to rob or skulls to crack
with clubs.
There was a rush for the LEDGER on
yesterday afternoon both by readers and
advertisers on account Of the report OF
the Citizens Union contained therein
and the very large edition published,
being many thousand in excess of the
raonlar addition