Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-30
LEDGER LINES.
No fire last night.

"SAO A"ibNJ o'sSNNSN
yesterday.
Police and fire scrip is now selling at
figures up in the nineties.
Next Saturday evening the Ladies'
Centennial Tea Party comes off at the
Peabody.
Washington and Andrew johnson re-
sembled each other, each dying at the
age Of sixty-seven years.
Last night the Memphis MaenpoecLor,
assisted by Arnold's band, gave a sacred
concert at the Turner Hall.
Attention is directed to the notice Of
the Clerks Building and Savings Associ-
alton in our advertising columns.
John Forrest (nig), charged with
house-breaking, was committed by the
Recorder to-day in default Of $4,000 bail.
Next Monday week the Memphis
Theater will be opened for the season by
Sheridan Il Mack's Novelty Combine
ton.
Wednesday afternoon next the
LEDGER will appear in enlarged form, or
its fall suit. 1t will not be a pull back
dress.
General Council meeting next We'd
nesday afternoon, when that Charleston
railroad petition will come up for coL-
sideration.
Tennessee was the only one Of the
United States represented at the Inter
national Geographical Exhibition at
Paris, France.
The privileges to the grand French
picnic will be sold to the highest bidder
Wednesday at one o'clock at No. IL
Adams street.
wit says women is the great conuu-
drum of the nineteenth century. We
may not be able to guess her, but We
won't give her up.
The Japanese law will have to be in.
troduced into Tennessee, ere long: when
a man cuts down a tree, he is compelled
to plant another.
Look out for the big posters of Howe's
London Circus and Hippodrome, which
will spread its city Of tents on the bluff
on the 18th proximo.
Wednesday nighc week the promenade
concert and hop Of the Irish Volunteers,
assisted by the C~hickasaw Guards, will
come off at the Exposition Building.
Tonight the Sodality Dramatic Asso-
citation will give one Of their interesting
entertainments at their hall on Wash
ington street, neal Third. The dramatic
attractions will be Robert Macaire and
The Man and the Tiger.
The Avalanche mar suggests that Mr..
Truehart apply for IN injunction in the
Chancery Court to enjoin social evil on
Washington street. Why not apply for
a chancery mandsmus to compel the
social evilists to live virtuous lives2
Wanderers are advised to return home,
where they can live upon the fat Of the
land, ripe tomatoes, peaches, watermel.
ons, cantaloupes-in fact, all kinds Of
vegetables and fruits, and 1t the same
time enjoy the cool weather and healthy
climate.
Sol Coleman has got back from New
Orleans with a large stock Of Cuban Gig.
ars, which he is opening out to-day for
his friends and customers. The Next
can twist and other f%avorite brands are
going off rapidly; in fact, everybody is
smoking them.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the total deaths to have been 80;
whites, Isl blacks, 10; with no special
disease prevailing. Indeed, the Board
of Health declares that the city remains
free from even the semblance Of cpl.
demic diseases.
Those head stones which appeared on
the levee, are being moved out to and be-
ing put over the graves at the National
Cemetery. OF the 255,OOO head stones
manufactured to mark the graves of the
Union soldiers at the National Cemete.
ries, los, 900 are for graves of the un.
known,
Monday next the French Society pic.
mic will come off at James Park. The
Swiss Gruetli Verein will turn out in the
procession, as will also other associa.
tons. The proceeds are to be expended
in tho relief Of the sufferers by the re.
cent foods in France at Toulouse and
other points.
Picnics are about over, and the belle:
and besux are in distress. OF the male
picnicer it may be sung:
ITO be sure his skull was thick.
But his hair was always slick.