Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-07
LEDGER LINES.

Park to-day and tonight.
Colonel willoughby Williams, Of
Nashville, is at the Peabody.
Mortuary report for the week: Total
deaths, 49, whites, 81 blacks, I.
There was a lively FIRE on St. Martin
street at two o 'clock this morning.
The rains since Saturday have been Of
great advantage TO growing crops and
garden truck.
Umbrellas, p~artgols, fans and broad
brimmed hats seem absolutely necessary
to comfort in these sultry days.
Mr.. M. Somerield has made arrange
ments TO run as news agent Or the Som
erville train over the Charleston road.
Joe McCullers has horses, buggies,
hacks and carriages for hire, at his livery
stable, No. AZ Adams street. thanh
The heavy storm of wind on Saturday
injured the heavy foliaged shade treesin
Court Square and at other points
throughout the city.
Those Of our citizens who despised
the winter season have been, during the
| past week, hurting their a~nathemas at
the hot summer days.
The bellies pin their dress back so
tight now that it gives them the appear
ance of a clipper ship facing a tornado
or %skudding before it under bare poles.
HThe annual meeting of the Tennessee
Press Association comes off on the l7th
inst at Murfreesboro. Major Joseph
Barbiere, of this city, is to deliver the
grafton.
Mosquitoes have commenced making
music on bars for the amusement Of
both "skarps'' and flats who attempt
to indulge in tired natures sweet
restorer, balmy sleep"
There are four hundred religions jour
mails in the United States: Methodists,
Al; Catholics, Al Baptists, So; Presbyte.
rians, 29; E~piscopalians, 81; Lutherans,
10; German Reformed, IA; Jews, 8; Con
gregatiolalists, 8.
The condition of the Nicolson pave
ment is becoming worse daily, and ere
long such a thing as driving over it will
have to cease. Contractors view the
rotten pavement from a professional
standpoint, and see in its rapid decay a
big bonanza for some one in the future.
Several fashionable young men Of the
city will soon become married men, and
in consequence will have to quit run
ming around at night and quit going
home so early in the morning; then
they will have to give up billiards, head.
aches, matutinal cocktails, late hours
and such.
Tracy Titus and Mrs. Oates, notwith-
standing their violent quarrel and sepa-
ration, have made up, and Treasurer
Allisen, the intermediate man who was
the cause of the domestic war, has been
discharged. Tracy and Mrs. Oates will
now take back all the naughty things
they said and have published about each
other.
Ex-Congressman Judge Barbour Lewis
has been appointed by Grant Appraiser
Of the Port of Memphis, vice L. Z.
Dyer, who has gone TO Odessa, Russia,
as Consul. Judge Lewis salary will be
$500 per annum, duties nominal, ex-
cept to advocate Grant for the third
term and work up politics in this section
on general Radical principles.
Yesterday afternoon the body of the
boy Louis Daniel Schari, who was
drowned near the elevator on Friday at.
t%ernoon, was found floating 10 the eddy
not far from the place where he fell over
board from the barge. Coroner Spelman
held an inquest on the body, and the
jury of inquest returned a verdict of
death from accidental drowning"
The case of the State vs.. Ed johnson,
the notorious Express robber, is on trial
in the Criminal Court on a question of
insanity. Johnson has been playing
insane for some weeks, and does it in the
courthouse during the trial, but he over
does the thing. When the question of
insanity is disposed of he will be placed
on trial for the robbery of Express Mes
senger Brady.
Over the Hopefeld sandbar a water
ripple begins to appear and form a
fringe along the ragged edge of that we'll
known sandy desert. In a few days the
bar will lift its bosom from the waste of
waters and form a pleasing foreground
to the Arkansas woods 10 those fond of
gazing at and admiring the beauties of
nature as well as watching the setting
sun which daily takes Horace Greeley's
advice, to go west and grow up with the
country.
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