Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-17
LEDGER LINES.

That other pest,the eut-worm has made
its appearance in West Tennessee.
M~ecklenburg Centennial celebration
on Thursday next, the 10th instant.
German Presbyterian church Sunday
school picnic at James Park to-day.
A concert will be given at Bartlett To-
night for the benefit of the Cumberland
church.
Health Officer DR.. Rice will commence
work cleaning up the city tomorrow
morning.
The annual picnic Of the Italian So
ciety comes off on Wednesday next at
James Park.
The mortuary report for the past week
is as follows: fetal deaths, l7-whites,
10; blacks, Z.
The two Circuit Courts and the Crimi.
nal Courts commenced the May term
this morning.
Rival beer caravansaries now indulge
in nightly concerts in order to draw Gus
tom and lager.
Knights Of Pythias picnic at James
Park tomorrow. The Knights will take
charge Of the outer gates.
Joe McCullers has horses, buggies,
hacks and carriages for hire, at his livery
stable, No. AZ Adams street. th&mt
Would it not be well for private Foley
to also retain Esquire R. B. Miller, who
is another able constitutional lawyer? or
how2
Attorney General Luke Wright, of the
Criminal Court, will deliver the Grafton
on decoration day, Monday next, the
oath instant.
The cool days and chilly nights have
been owing to the advance of the frig-
ori6c wave predicted by odd Prob" a
few days since.
The Maennoechor will sing several of
their best selections at the German
Presbyterian church picnic this after
noon at James Park.
Messrs. White and Bliss, the revival
lists, will commence their labors at the
Greenlaw Opera House tomorrow night.
Everybody is invited to attend.
A. c. Meade, a barkeeper at Linde-
MAINS beer saloon, was arrested by de-
tective Cranmer to-day on the charge OF
stealing three pistols and q gold chain
from Lindemann.
Shelbyville will celebrate the Mecklen-
burg centennial on the20th with speeches,
toasts, vocal and instrumental music,
etc. Hon. Edmund Cooper will be the
orator of the day.
Christian Brothers musical festival at
the Exposition building to-day and to-
night. Professors Barney Hughes will
deliver a lecture on Society and Spelling
Matches this evening.
Those negro Amazons at the Adams
street station-house, who exercise them
selves by toting rocks in the prison yard
daily, now sing sut one refrain at night,
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"
The Bluff City Shooting Club has re.
organized and elected the following Off
GERS: Colonel Nicholson, president, vice
Captain L~ightburne, resigned, and Chas.
Iceland, secretary, vice Sim Barinds,
resigned.
A poetic youth Of a rural exchange
exclaims: Spring has come with its
bursting bud and balmy winds, which
often sweep in aguish circles. Nature
struts in her green robes, and wood-ticks
abound in bosky coverts."
Now you can rise early and hear the
birds sing p@ans to the rising sun, battle
your feet in the dew, and take your
morning cocktail ere the crowd gets in
to ask you to treat. What more could
you ask of Nature or Art for the same
amount Of money!
Sam Little, an ex-hack driver, took a
dose of morphine on Adams street last
night, but a heavy emetic, administered
by a physician, saved Little from being
considered a successful suicide and es.
tablished him as a failure in the art OIL
shutting off the mortal coil.
Our reporter ndsitimpossible topleast
everybody, and, indeed, he makes but
little effort in that direction, well know.
ing that such would be vain-because, il
you stand with your face in what direc.
ton you will, you must necessarily turn
your back on one-half the world.
Since the introduction of the Englisf
sparrow on the bluff they have multi
Piled in a most prolific manner and eau
now be found in all portions Of the city.
The sparrow is a social little animal,
and seeks the habitations ofmen wherein
to build their nests and raise their
krood.