Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-22
LEDGER LINES.

Mopto syrup ~ Oh'cti Hihulo q w. o.
Ruth Lodge No. l, D. of R., L.0.0.F.,
meets tonight.
Sheet or heat lightning was apparent
in the northern heavens last night.
The German Maifest will be held next
Monday week. This will be the FIRST pic
mic Of the season.
Now is the tine Of the year when
Memphis hOusekeepers superintend the
taking up Of carpets.
At the Recorders Court o day q ne.
gro, Aleck Taylor, was committed on
the charge Of larceny.
Alderman John Cochran, Of the Sec
ond ward, has returned tothe city from
a business trip to New Orleans.
There seems to be no chances Of get
ting up a race between the coast packets
Illinois and Idlewild at present.
The physicians are about to organize
a County Medical Society, and for that
purpose will meet this afternoon.
A game of baseball will be played by
the RiverSidss and Memphis clubs to-
morrow afternoon at Olympic Park.
The Irish Volunteers appeared in
Street-drill last evening, their frat sp
p~earance in public for some months.
That perfumed little insect known a,
elmer lectuIGrius has made its annua
spring appearance in sleeping rooms.
Numbers of the beauty and chivalry
of the bluff visit the bluffs every even
ing to watch the sun 20 down in tb,
western woods.
There are no street sprinklers in Mem
phis at present, and consequently tbs
dust has become disagreeable to pedeG
TRANS.
The river at s o'clock this mornint
was l5f inches below the high. water
mark OF 1867, which is a rise of half an
inch since yesterday morning.
In the United States Court Clerks Of
fee to-day a petition in bankruptcy wa
fled by the firm Of Gates & Wood. q
Gates, Wood & Co., of this city.
Jimmy Corwin, the popular newsma.
OF the Bethel Block, has all the lates
papers, and this afternoon will receiv
ScFibner and st. Nicholas for May.
swarms of mosquitoes arrived in tn
city fromthe Arkansas swamps and ovel
flowed lands yesterday afternoon. Tn
hot sun and the stagnant water in Al
kansas generated thousands of thes
pestiferouS little insects.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, tn
25th and 26th, is the occasion of til
grand centennial exercises by the Chris
tian Brothers College, for which preps
rations are making to give the public
most agreeable surprise.
Sale of seats for the Julia Mathew
operate Company commences at tn
box office next Monday morning. Their
will be no increase in prices. Thi
shows considerable liberality on the pal
) of the management.
The Court Square excavation for Ii
fountain is almost finished. It is fy
feet deep, thirtySeven feet wide and is
decagon or ten-sided in shape. On ne,
Monday the brick-work for the lowe
basin will be commenced.
st. Georges Benevolent Associatio
will celebrate St. Georges day whiC
7 comes tomorrow Sunday next Monda
evening at No, 40 Jefferson street. A
installation of officers will take plac
after which a banquet, toasts an
0 speeches, followed by a ball. 1t will
no doubt, as usual, a very agreeable an
creditable affair.
One ofthose gentlemen who are largel
interested in digging sand from the blu
south of Beal street, but which san
digging had been ~interdicted by the cit,
: attempted to bride a city official by sliI
ping him an envelope containing a sul
OF money, so that the sand digger migI
be permitted to work his bluff sand clail
with impunity.
After a score of publications on III
same subject it has been at last de6nitel
= settled that the Bishop of London di
not snub Bishop Q%uintard, of Tennessee
Now that the historical mystery has bee
cleared up Tennessee should rest at cas-,
and whatever Indignation was excite
against England for the alleged insuI
should now decline rapidly,
The Chickasaw Guards will be met q
the Louisville depot to. morrow mornin
at 8 o'clock by Lieutenant ]. W. War
with the remnant of the company tht
could not go to Nashville and Compan
|. A, Irish Volunteers, commanded b
Captain George R. Phelan. 1t is II
mored that upon the occasion a magn
fcsnt consolation cup will be presente
to the gallant company.
: Under Jackson's monument at CouI
Square, when removed, a conversion
was found. in which we're a lot of coli
newspapers and other curiosities of tn