Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-29
LEDGER LINES.
Thursday next will be July LIST.

lied at present.
Memphis this year will export a large
amount of wheat.
The Circuit Courts are about to ad-
journ until September.
General SelI Howell Southern circus
on the bluff tomorrow.
Fifty boxes of oranges and lemons at
Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
The County Court will meet on Mon
day next in Quarterly session.
Cotton blooms are coming in the city
by river, wagon, rail and post.
Several new bets have been made in
this city on the Beecher verdict.
The conundrum. Can Memphis scale
the dsbtR" is apt to present a 6shy ap-
pearance.
The adjourned meeting of the General
Council will be held this afternoon at
three o'clock.
Every man who comes in from the
country commences Immediately to brag
about the crops.
Congressman H. Casey Young goes to
Chattanooga to make a. speech on the
Fourth Of July.
Mayor League is recovering rapidly
from q severe attack of dux, and he will
be up and out in a few days.
Joe McCullers has horses, buggies,
hacks and carriages for hire, at his livery
stable, No. AZ Adams street. th6mt
The Fourth Of July will probably be
celebrated in this city, but as yet no ar
rangements have been made for the
affair.
Mr.. Joseph D, Montedonico, of our
city, has been recognized by President
Grant as Italian Consular agent at this
point.
At noon to-day a FIRE broke out at
Foy's Point, or North Hopefeld, Ark,
near the elevator CT the Little Rock rail
road.
Rev. DIR. Rogers, formerly an Episcc-
pal minister in this city, is about to take
charge of a Catholic journal at Indian
apoliS, Ind.
Sneak thieves continue to ply their
trade around town and in the suburbs.
Nine-tenths Of the sneak thieves in this
city are negroes.
The heavy rains yesterday have cooled
heated atmosphere down to an agree
able point, thereby making sleeping a
instead Of a task.
The martins that inhabit the tops of
many buildings are a nuisance to those
under them, as well as to those
who reside near the roost.
City police and FIRE warrants have
gone up to eighty cents among specula-
tors, but they are worth ninety cents or
more to any business man.
Esquire Spelman inquested Dennis
-
Brandon, on board a Aat-boat, near the
elevator, yesterday. The verdict was
death from natural causes
The great international rife shooting
match between the Irish and American
Leams came of at the Dollymount
near Dublin, to-day.
At the Bluff City Shooting Club con-
Test for the prize pitcher held yesterday,
Mr.. A. Merriman won the prize by max
a clean score of ten straight birds.
The School Board and City Hall riogs
believe in the stanza and that
. Good old rule and simple plan,
That those may take who have the power.
And those may keep who cam"
This year developed picnic oratory, q
new American invention. Politicians
now haunt picnics for the purpose of get
ing a chance to crate before the multi
,uie.
As Bon Aqua is the f%avorite resort for
Memphians this summer, General Tracy
would do we'll to abandon his excursions
% the " caves" and follow the crowds to
B. A.
Spring chickens continue to abandon
heir owners between twilight and the
lawn Of day, and it is suspected that the
African has something to do
With it.
Strangers who visit the Cotton Ex-
are puzzled by the mysteries of
he cotton and other markets as chalked
Ipon the mighty black boards by Secre-
airy Toof.
Colonel G. W. Alexander has resigned
he position Of Secretary of the Mer-
hants' Protective Union for the pur.
'ose of engaging in newspaper life at
Washington City.
A fire in the smoke.house of Stewart,
& Co, on Shelby street, yesterday
-fternocn, created quite a smoke, but no