Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-26
LEDGER LINES.

james Cox, negro, charged with rape,
is on trial in the Criminal Court to-day.
Silver currency has appeared in this
city and everybody takes it-when they
get a chance.
Pigeon shooting for prizes will be in
dulged in by the boys at the fernando
Trottiug Park this afternoon.
Mr.. E. Urquhart, of our city. is now
at Little Rock preparing for the erection
of a cotton seed oil mill in that village
at q cost of n hundred thousand dol
lars.
The Centennial parlor, at the Exposi.
ton building, is worth a visit from ell
thirsty citizens. Our representative is
responsible for the truth Of this asser.
ton.
The police patrolmen have furnished
themselves with the new regulation SUM
mer bats, gray color and toploftical in
appearance. The force will soon don
the summer uniform.
Now that the Arkansas swamps are
drying out, swarms OF mosquitoes rise
therefrom and wing their fight toward
Memphis, in order to indulge in the
blood-letting business.
The bluff was crowded yesterday a.
ternoon by people who wanted to see the
rival packets, Idlewild and Illinois, 20
out. They went out half an hour apart,
so there was no race down the bay and
around the point.
There will probably be a called meet
ing of the General Council in a few days
to consider the financial question with a
view to raise funds to pay the police and
hremen, and also to consider the articles
OF Impeachment presented by the special
committee in the case of Recorder Duff.
Scores of people visited the bluff last
night and watched the boats and the
river as it rolled onward otbe sea. The
new moon, that hung like a crescent sus.
pended in the western heavens, WAS also
an object Of interest to the bluff prone
naders.
The young gentlemen composing the
Christian Brothers College band sere-
nadedthe LEDGER Office yesterday. They
played the soul.stirring air, Dixie" in
a most musical and artistic manner, and
were deservedly commended by the
crowd of citizens on the street for the
performance.
The great Maifest, at James Park, on
Monday next, will be the first picnic of
the season and will be attended BY thou.
sands OF citizens. Chief Marshal F. C.
Schaper will take charge of the newspa-
per men on that festive occasion. See
advertisement Of parade and festivities
in another column.
To-day u river man, Captain Durff
laid a goose egg Of enormous size or the
desk Of General Brooks, the river man
of the Appeal, and in consequence the
General has a supply of provisions for q
week. There was nothing egg-otisticaI
in the name of the presentation OF
the acceptance between the two ancient
mariners of the respective journals.
The attention of the city scavenger is
called to the Humber of dead and rotten
animals that are permitted to remain in
the streets and alleys. The Bayou Gay.
oso is filled with dead animals, and the
stencil arising therefrom is most disa,
greeable and dangerous to public health.
Let the sanitary rules and regulations
be strictly enforced, now that hot
weather has set in for the season.
Mr.. P. M. Winters, jr., died yesterday
afternoon at his residence on Avery
street. Mr.. Winters sank beneath that
fatal disease consumption, after a linger.
ing illness Of several months duration.
He was highly esteemed by a large circle
Of friends and his untimely death is gen.
orally regretted. he was the son Of the
late John Winters Of our city and the
nephew of Esquire P. NJ. Winters. His
funeral will take place from St. Patrick's
Church this afternoon.
Oar city editor has received an invita-
ton to attend as a delegate at a conven-
ton of spherical Memphians who, owing
to their fatness Of person and leanness
Of pocket, will be unable to 90 to the
Centennial celebration at Philadelphia.
The meeting will be held this afternoon
at ZIG Front street, up stairs, when a
skeleton baseball club will be organized
for the summer months, during which
the active efforts in athletic exercises OF
the fat and immortal nine will be located
where they will do the most good.
The Appeal Of this morning contains
an account of a robbery which took
place last night at the residence Of Mr.,
William Joiner, on Jones avenue, and
the successful carrying of Of a large
box Of jewelry of considerable value,
We are pleased to record that later in
the night the thief was discovered and
captured, and nearly all the stolen prop
erty recovered. We have been re
quested to suppress the name Of the rob-
Der, owing to bis family connections,
and we have agreed to do so, 1t is need
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