Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-10
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49, DNRNSAASNA 90 Va NSNAhH /
Thomas Persons (black larcenist) was
committed blythe Recorder this morning
The national flag still Autters from
many business houses and public places,
The riveris rising slowly at this point,
but no danger of au overflow need be
apprehended.
To-day James Woods (black) was ar
rested by patrolman Homan on the
charge of larceny.
President John Gent left yesterday for
Philadelphia in order to meet his bride,
formerly Miss Clara Robertson.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the total deaths to have been 20,
of which IA we're whites and Is blacks.
Numbers of Aldermen and Council
men have left the city ON summer trips,
and will not return lbefore next Septem-
Der.
The General Council will meet in adj
journed session this afternoon at the
City Hall to wind up unfinished monthly
business.
If you get up at sunrise these morn
ings you can fully appreciate the lines of
Chaucer:
Where fiery Phmbus rises up so bright,
That all the Orient laugheth with the sight,"
Dogfennel grows lu%xuriantly in va
cant lots and in the back streets and
alleys of the city. 1t should be cut, if it
is desired to save the crop.
Tomorrow evening the members of
the German Casino Club and their
friends will go on an excursion up the
river on barges towed by the steamer
Carl Schurz.
Steel e~ngravings of TildeR and Hen
bricks and Hayes and Wheeler are ar
irving in the city in large numbers.
This is the result of the Presidential and
centennial election year.
The continuous rain storm yesterday
afternoon prevented the playing of that
match base ball game at Olympic Park
between the Memphis Reds and amateur
club. Next Wednesday is the time set
for the contest
The l2.pounder Napoleon gun used
here on the Fourth OF July has been re-
turned to General Handy, Governor
Porter's Adjutant General. The piece
belongs to a field battery of guns be-
longing to the State.
Mayor Flippin and President Zent, OIL
the Aldermanic Board, being absent
from the city, Chairman Williamson, o
the Council, has been acting Mayor pre-
! tenn. Mayor Flippin, however, returned
from Brownsville to-day.
Mr.. Charles Layton is rapidly recover
ing from the effects of his late dangerous
pistol shot wound, received accidentally
His many friends will be pleased to learr
that he is doing well, and will soon be
o able to appear on the streets.
The people of Memphis do not care tt
, know who is responsible for the paymen
of the monumental fund, principal al
we'll as interest, so both are paid in tim,
! to expend the same in completing tn,
unfortunate monument at Elmwood b,
the next floral decoration day.
The Hayes-Wheele Club is not -four
ishing much among the white folks, ex
cept with those who have always beef
Republicans or Radicals. In the prose
j., lytiHg way it is not a success, and it
Ii love feasts or political a%malgamatinI
%seances are not all that fancy paint
NJ them.
A few days since, owing to a break i
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and SoutI
ern railway, the trains to and from S
90 Louis, from Texarkana, passed over tn
al Memphis and Little Rock railway, Men
90 phis and Louisville and Mobile and Obi
90 railroads, the ears being transferred 9
AZ Columbus, Ky.
At Court Square yesterday, during tn
AZ heavy shower of rain, a stranger sat o
10 one OF the iron seats beneath the prote,
ton Of an umbrella and admired ii
~ fountain for an hour. He had an eye fc
the beautiful and p%oetical in nature, an
cd no doubt desired to see the fountain
work during a rain storm.
Mrs. Anna Atchman has filed a bi
for divorce against Joseph A. Atchma
! in the Chancery Court. The affair orig
mated in the Atchman.P Pump difficult
ba which occurred a few nights since U
town. Mrs. Atchman has also include
in her divorce petition bills for attac
Of ment and injunction as property il
Soi volved in the suit.
at at Last Saturday afternoon Captai
Oc- Stack Lee Of the steamer Phil Allin hi
a difficulty with a river pilot on Il
levee. During the row Captain l.
,sr received a stab or cut with a pockt
knife in the thigh, but the wound WI
not Of a serious character. CAPITA
. eco Stack left on his boat for the lower Goa
0eO in q lew minutes and no arrests we
oSS made by the police, The affair Great
'00C0SS considerable excitement on the levee (
a few minutes, but a renewal Of t
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