Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-21
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During the present weather the fan
airts and frisks mucbly.
Next Friday will be the longest day in
the year, the 25th instant.
G%rasshoppers are flying all around on
the bluff at the foot Of Madison street.
Counterfeit nickels and dime fraction
al currency are in circulation in Mem
pbis.
The Waddy Thompson case was
called up for trial in the Criminal Court
TO- day.
But $l3, O2O in warrants have as yet
been issued to the police and fire depart
ments.
In October next Angelo Marie will De
released from confinement in the peni.
Tertiary.
The nan who kicks a banana skin
from the sidewalk is a benefactor to the
human race.
Quite a large squad OF fishermen
wended their way to the Arkansas lakes
and bayous yesterday.
In Memphis we have married bellies as
well as single ones, and often quite a
~
rivalry exists in consequence.
The School Board will meet TO. morrow
night and elect white principals and
teachers for the next scholastic year.
1t is astonishing to see how little there
is of a female Memphian in these days
Of contracted and pull-back skirts.
win the Nicolson pavement ever be
repaired? is a question Of some impor-
lance to the business men Of the city,
Itinerant vendors of berries, etc, ring
door-bells with untiring activity and a
determination worthy Of a better cause.
Already the average baby of the city
and suburbs is being fattened up and
appareled to contest for the prizes at
the Masonic picnic.
Memphis swell at Gaston's restaurant:
"Waitah, bring me some buttah, a baked
potatah, araw tomatah and this evenings
LEDGAHl" Waiter: Eyes, sab"
At 2 o'clock yesterday morning the
sheds over Charley Jones brick kilns, on
Tennessee street, near Huling, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, about two hun
dred dollars.
City Comptroller Newsom focts up
the city debt up to June, 1874, 1922
1862 81, with assets amounting to $l,675,-
2O8 80, leaving the net liabilities at
$9,847, l54 40.
Two Of the best whistlers in town are
ladies'; one single. the other married.
The way they get off operate airs would
make a juvenile newspaper vendor
ashamed OF himself.
The very handsome photograph Of
James A. Chastaine, who is charged with
forgery, now adorns one of the pages in
the rogues' gallery album at the office of
Chief Of Police Athy.
The average male Memphian is now
crowded of the sidewalk by malignant
nurses, who push their baby carts on the
Cour.abreast plan so hat the aforesaid
nurses can indulge in conversation.
Counterfeit tens of the National Bank
of Richmond and fves Of the Paxton
National Bank Of Illinois are in circula-
ton. They are excellently engraved,
and are very dangerous counterfeits.
Mr.. White and Mr.. Francis, Of this
city, are carrying on a very successful
series of revivals among the Little
Rockers, Mr.. Francis has taken Mr..
Bliss place as a musician and revivalist.
Mayor League Gays: City Attorney
Hanson was once of the opinion that IL e
city could not be compelled to pay the
bonds illegally Issued" City Attorney
Hanson says he never was of that
opinion"
The demoralizin effect of the Beecher
wichedness is everywhere apparent.
Even in Memphis this influence is crop
ping out, and more men can be heard
saying dam~theaize" this spring than
ever before.
During the wal General Banks com.
manded the Inflated Red river expedition
and was terribly defeated by General
Dick Taylor and forces, which earned
for General Banks the sobriquet Of
Dick Taylor's commissary.
On Saturday night, which generally
furnishes a large number of arrests,
there were twenty persons picked up by
the police, including fourteen for being
drunk and disorderly, and Of the twenty
but four we're white persons.
The summer season will commence
this afternoon at thirty.nine minutes past
three o'clock, and will last until the 2Sd
of September at seven minutes mast sly