Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-30
LEDGER LINES.

The German Maifest will come of at
James Park on Monday next.
Those collins are yet sticking out Of
the ground at Winchester Cemetery.
Shame
The time has come to put up mosquito
bars around your couch, if you desire to
rest in peace.
Urania Tableau Club exhibition at the
theater again tonight and at the matt
nee tomorrow.
Baseball promises to become an cpl
demic in Memphis during the spring and
summer months.
The Criminal Court is winding up bus.
mess for the term, hearing bills Of ex-
ceptions and granting appeals.
Next Wednesday manager Brooks, Of
the theater, will receive a musical bene.
fit under the direction of Prot. Levy.
General Council adjourned meeting
tonight. Repeal the old ordinances and
let the new commissioners go to work.
Tomorrow May day. will be the time
to sing Tennyson's poem, I'm to be
queen of May, mother; I'm to be queen
Of May"
There will be a musical and literary
entertainment in the Linden street Chris-
tan church this evening. No postpone
ment on account of weather.
The police patrolmen were drilled yes
terday afternoon. The weather is get
ting rather warm for such military man
euvers that might with propriety be post
posed until fall.
The little. ward politicians are very
much exercised over the election of the
FIVE Police and Fire Commissioners.
Whenever you near a "squeal" you may
bet that somebody is hurt.
The Urania Tableau Club OF Mem
phis is peculiarly named. Urauia, a
NEUROLOGICAL old girl, was the muse Of
astronomy; hence, the Urania Club, a
collection of great and little stars"
A picked ten Of spoilers has been or
gained at the Chamber of Commerce,
and they are anxious to engage in a war
with any other ten. Let the excited ten
hire a hall or 60 West and give exhibi-
tons Of their recollections ofthe diction-
airy and spelling book.
1t costs a fine of $1,000 and imprison.
ment for thirty days to sell lottery tick.
cts in Memphis, a fact which several lot.
terry ticket dealers have been finding out
for the past week. Several parties SC
charged we're released on payment o.
costs; the latter, Of course, must always
be paid in courts.
Yesterday in the Circuit Court Geo.
WI Crook had occasion to pronounce
as false a statement made by an attor.
ney named Green, but Judge Heiskell al
once ordered Mr.. Crook to Jail for thirty
days for contempt Of court. Mr.. Cook
was discharged from custody this morn.
ing.
1t has been remarked by a wise man
if you want to kill yourself off rapidly
in public estimation, just continue to
write cards and communications tc
newspapers, Memphis is full of such
wrecks, that are just sufficiently above
water to warn off other a~dventurers OF
invite other idiots to do likewise.
Planters from the North Mississippi
counties report that but little cotton seed
has been planted as yet, and that good
cotton seed was never so scarce in the
country, it having been fed to stock dur.
ing the winter and having rotted on &C
count Of the continuous rains this
spring. Many planters are in town il
search Of cotton seed.
Under the present State law a person
convicted of a misdemeanor who fails
to pay or satisfactorily secure the fine
and cost adjudged against him or hel
shall be sentenced to be confined in the
county work-house after the term Of biz
or her imprisonment, if any has expired
until he work out his fine and costs, in
GLIDING all %jailer's fees, and down to
final discharge, at the rate Of twenty
five cents per day.
The LEDGER newsboys have a spelling
school every afternoon in Center alley
near Madison street. One young phi
losopher and philologist yesterday after
noon discoursed to his companions il
the following style: What's spellin
good fur anyhow if a fellar don't wan
to write poetry fur a paper2' This &C.
nundrum would floor" many a wiser
head than was scattered around in tina
crowd Of gamins.
Even now correspondents-dissatisGe
spoilers and their friends--are rushing
into print commenting upon the ruling