Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-03
LEDGER LINES.

A stand has 0een put up IN Court
for the Fourth Of July celebra-
ton.
Tonight there will be bright moonlight
for those who attend the picnic at James
Park.
See W. 4. Wheailey's mention Of nice
houses in North and South Memphis for
rent.
Let everybody who can turn out in the
procession and join in the festivities Of
to. morrow.
The boys of the FIRE brigade now walk
about in new blue uniforms with white
metal buttons. ~ d
At the August election one School
Director will have to be elected in each
civil district Of the county.
The LEDGER will not be published to-
morrow, as the attaches of that journal
will take a little Fourth in their'n.
The mortuary report Of the Board Of
Health for last week shows the total
deaths to have been 38-whites, %;
blacks, 10.
Election tickets, candidates cards,
circulars, etc., printed at the lowest
rates at the LEDGER job Office, l3 Madi-
son street. I
The postofice will close tomorrow at
10 o'clock, it being the Fourth of July.
Letter carriers will make one delivery
aud one collection.
Those who deal with banks and who
have paper maturing tomorrow must
step up and pay up to-day, as the Fourth
is a national holiday.
The annual picnic of St. Peters Or
phan Asylum comes off to morrow at
James Park. Music, dancing and field
sports will constitute the attractions.
E Captain Weatherford, of our police
! force, is TO be married to Miss Mary
Coleman, daughter of the late DR.. Cole
! imam, of this city, at the Second Presby
|, terrain Church next Wednesday evening
At a negro dance-house in Nortl
|, Memphis Saturday night a fight tool
place, during which the keeper Of tn
/ dive was shot in the breast with a pisto
by some negro unknown. The man |
. dangerously but not necessarily fatal
l. wounded.
70 The Little Democrat gun squad
v commanded by ColonelTom 0. Sullivan
l. fred national %salutes Of thirteen CUR
each all over town on Saturday nigh
a The young gun barks louder than an
piece of ordnance of similar size evt
- manufactured. It's little but it's loul
On tomorrow there will be a Four
. of July celebration at Covington, at Sc
sH eral points on the Louisville and Charlie
/ ton railroads, and at Sardis and Ho
An Lake on the Mississippi and Tenness
"a railroad. At the latter place a tour
ment and coronation ball will be the
&c: fractions.
The Memphis Reds beat the Riversid
at Central Park yesterday by a score
it'll IL to 4. The game was holly contests
= and was both interesting and excitir
"A, On to. morrow the Memphis Reds a
% Memphis Club (both professionally "
TIE play q match game at the same PAL
y, 7tn admission, so cents.
ND The GAINESVILLE Chronicle of the
pen on says: "Mr. Eop Johnson, of the Me
i, rhis Appeal, returned from Memphis
10 this city on account Of a relapse,
iHo having been quite ill for some tin
ing We are glad to learn that he is impr
care ing, and will probably be able to be
= before a great while
The Knights of Honor of Mempl
1000 Lodge No. 1876, will have a grand ins
D; %lation of officers at their hall on Sect
street this sveuing. The members n
not be aware that those who have
Ills. paid their dues three months in advs
|, low will be announced as suspended. !
10 is a matter of Importance to every m
- Der.
Morton aud Blaine's bloody shirt
Err been sent to Memphis for the use Of
ical orators, who wave it in the most
proved manner and by SO doing attic
w" to create bad feeling between the wi
BllS and blacks. That bloody shirt has
- worn out by the rude Northern W
and it does not suit the gentle breez
iAC, the South.
%ruV Two big guns have reached the CT
Oil or the twelve FOUNDER steel Parrott
,s sn'1s which was purchased Of the War De
T gem mont, and twelve FOUNDER brass ?
borrowed from the military author
: s.: at Humboldt, for the Fourth Of
demonstration. These heavy guns
the ~half.pounder Little Democrat
MI wake up the echoes Of old Bayou CT
in a lively amer.
The School Board will meet TO-
d0iIUs for the purpose of electing a superi
agsI: dent Of public schools. Among
spoken Of for the important ofic
Colonel James I. Leath and Mr..
N Rhett, 1t is conceded on all side
-. = Al. Neutrality-suspicious. =