Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-27
LEDGER LINES.

Now is the time TO look after the health
Of the city.
Pompano and red snapper at Victor
D. Fuchs' to-day.
Several prayers are being sent up for
q shower or two.
The Nashville spring races will open
up on next Tuesday.
Flowers for spring bonnets hang down
like strings Of onions.
First Reelfoot Lake perch of the sea.
son at Charley Kney's market.
Quite a large crowd of people attended
the centennial festival at the Exposition
building last night.
The Odd Fellows celebration at the
theater on yesterday afternoon was at
tended by a large crowd of citizens.
Attorney General Gordon of the Bart
lett Circuit Court will deliver the Eng.
lish GRAFTON at the Msifest on Monday
next.
An old stable on Alabama street, in
the rear and attached to the residence of
Mrs. Fithian, was destroyed BY FIRE at 9
o'clock last night.
1t is customary for people to ask:
How is our fountain coming on2'
Hundreds Of persons visited Court
Square yesterday in order to inspect the
progress of the work.
The paving of sections Of Main street
with rock, in place of wooden blocks,
attracts squads Of citizens, who inter-
view the workmeu as to the cost and
durability Of the work.
Quite a lively contest is progressing at
the shooting gallery at the Exposition
building for the prize offered by the Cen.
tennial festival managers, and the mat
teEwill be settled tonight.
Several dogs supposed to be mad are
said to be prowling around the city. One
of them was killed yesterday by a police
man Oh Poplar street. 1t is not every
dog which gets the reputation of being
mad that a be proven so, sven in Mem
phis.
As a precautionary measure, a Nash.
vile clearinghouse landlady finds it
necessary to post up the following no.
tice, which leaves a wide margin for
meditation: Don't fool with the girls
while they are lighting the c~oal.eil
lamps"
Court Square fountain is going up
rapidly beneath the supervision Of Ar.
chitect Cook and Colonel James Elder.
The understructure of brick work is
about finished and the work of placing
the bronze fountain in position will be
commenced at vnce,
Next afternoon the trial of the i'm.
parchment case against Recorder Duff
will commence at the City Hall. Able
counsel will appear in defense and in
prosecution Of the Recorder on the
charges and specifications presented by
the investigating committee.
Parties desiring shares in the German
American Building and Loan Associa.
ton will please call at the Office of
Marx & Bensdorf, I Madison street.
Two thousand two hundred and forty
shares have been subscribed, leaving a
balance Of two hundred and sixty shares
open for subscription.
Several fat meas baseball clubs have
been organized during the past few days
in this city. Their practice-games will
take place in some ice-house or cool beer
saloon, when the sun goes down. We
have received half a dozen lists Of the
picked mines, but the communications
are too lengthy for publication.
Now hat the high waters are declin.
ing, the following stanza will be appre-
ciated by those whose plantations in the
lowlands were submerged during the rise:
The bugs from meath the ceiling crawl,
To warm their feelers in the sun;
The ant adjusts her waterfall,
And Frances out to see the fun.
The brawling b~ullfreg lifts his head
Above the circumjacent mud,
And croaks aloud, II an not dead,
But wasn't it an awful lood?"
The canvass for county Offices is grad
ually warming up, and in a month or
two it will be red hot. Men who we're
not seen on the streets two months ago
now appear prominently in public upon
all occasions, and have a weakness for
grasping your hand and inquiring after
your family, whom they know net and
care less about. But such is the style of
e%leciioneering in Memphis.
The Christian Brothers College cen.
tennial festival at the Exposition did not
close last night as announced. The
dancers enjoyed themselves until a late
hour. The refreshment and bouquet
tables we're attended by a number of fas.
.cinating ladies, who could talk you out