Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-03

wv a opHuSAehN OOMf WHICH to1c SUI
denly to resent the indignity and upset
the buggy. We should advise people to
drive around these animals.
Superintendent Picket is attending
the Interstate Educational Convention,
now holding at Chattanooga. He will
inform the convention how to muzzle
school teachers and discharge all those
opposed to school board rings.
Captain Billy Dill, of the St. Louis
Packet Company, having failed to heave
his anchor overheard in our saDctum
for some time came up this morning and
apologized, and we forgave him on
premise to appear daily in future.
The only executed marriage licenses
returned to the County Court Clerk du.
ring the week were as follows: Charley
Otto and Miss Sarah Afford, Moses l..
Weeks ard Miss Mary E. Littlejohn, ].
I. Heron and Mrs. Jane R. West.
The Little Rock journals, in noticing
the iDjunctioDs issued by the courts oil
this city against the Little Rock rail.
road, sueeringly suggests that Tin all
probability the Memphis ~injunctions will
have no effect upon a road-5ed built
upon the soil Of Arkansas"
The long range shooting club has es
tabllshed a range on a sand bar beneath
the shadow Of the Old Hen. The boys
armed with their Winchesters and
Sharps, will go up this afternoon and
shoot at the bulls.eye at distances
ranging from one to FIVE hundred yards,
The County Quarterly Court, composed
OF twenty.one Justices of the Peace
will be in session on Monday next fol
the transaction of regular business
The Court will organize on Monday anG
then adjourn to Tuesday in order to ce!
citrate the double-headed Fourth on the
fifth.
The black boards of the Cotton Elk
change furnish the following facts and
figures to-day; Receipts Of cotton fol
the week, lao bales; for the season, 800,
666; shipments for the. week, 1913; fol
the season, 3l9,45O; stock on hand, 7O47
sales for the week, l5OO-all taken By
spinners.
Though the old song says there is nc
place like home" yet our reporter sees
many people around town at midnight
who seem to have a poor appreciation
of the home sentiment, and who have tc
be carried home, provided the ~patrolmar
does not step up and invite them to take
a bed at the station-house.
10 a few days we will have procession,
of Orangemen all over the country BY
way of celebrating the battle of tn,
Boyne, which was fought in Irelanc
several hundred years ago, and in whicl
the Irish forces under King James wer
defeated by the English and allies unde
William of Orange.
This is the month in which theate
managers, agents Of actors and actor
themselves frequent one hotel in New
York for the purpose of making engage
ments for the mex season. Manage
Joe Brooks, of the Memphis Theater, i
in New York at present completing thu
list OF attractions to appear here durin,
the next dramatic season.
The boy of the period regards thi
municipal and republican form of gov
eminent as a fraud, and tyrannical in th,
extreme, since kite flying within the cit,
limits has been prohibited by the polio
authorities. Among the SPECTATORS
however, kite flying is permitted, en-,
the difference between the two terms i
that in the former the wind raises III,
kite, and in the latter the kite " raise
the " wind"
The B. I. s. Club, under the manage
ment of j. M. Jones, James Corwin an.
N. Dukes, will give one of their privat
picnics Monday evening next at Noall
Marshall avenue This association
composed Of excellent young men, hav
already given two or three entertain
ments this summer to their friends
which have been highly commended b,
those who had the good fortune to b
among the invited. Dancing will con
mence at 7 o'clock, and it is requisite,
that invitations be presented at the gate
In the suburbs early in the mornipl
scores Of people can be discovered sleep
ing under trees, thereby adopting tn,
idea of the noble red man who, wher
invited to sleep in a bed sent him by hi
great father at Washington, drew him
self up to his full hight and eloquent,
exclaimed: 1.-THE earth is my mothe
and | will sleep on her bosom, and wrap
ming his wornont hlankat aronnJ H.,