Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-23
LEDGER LINES.
The river continues to rise above low
water mark at this point.

water mark at this point.
Candidates tickets, cards and circu-
lars printed at the LEDGER Office cheaper
and better than elsewhere. I
The Forth of July celebration com
mittee will meet at the First National
Bank at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Jim Holmes, Alfred Douglass and
John White, negro ~larcenists, we're com
mitted by the Recorder this morning.
Cotton blooms in the white and red
com into the city with great regularity.
They are the advance %couriers of the
cotton crop.
Private picnics yesterday and public
entertainment last night we're quite
numerous, Notwithstanding the intense
and melting heat.
Last Wednesday night a fire near
Horn Lake, Miss, destroyed the out
houses, smokehouse and kitchen of Cap
tain John Fennell.
The Nashville American learns that
Mr.. Hop johnson, of the Appeal, is dan
gerously i'll and at the point Of death at
his home in GAINESVILLE.
Tomorrow, the oath of June, will be
St. Johns Day, a day much houored
among the Masonic fraternity, and M
that will be duly celebrated.
"Old Prohs" continues to write about
local rains in this latitude, just as if we
had not a sufficient amount Of rain fall.
" Old Probs" and his weather clerk
should dry up.
spaHgler, at 37S Main street, has on
his tables all the popular reading matter,
including Scribner, Harper, Atlantic, St.
Nicholas, Ladies' Books, etc. The Fly.
ing Dutchman, l0c.
Hans Margerum, a %well.known sta.
tion.house boarder, was committed to
Jail by the Recorder to-day on the charge
of committing an assault and battery on
an old man, and was also fined fifty dol.
lars.
The Circuit Court has adjourned until
he 18th prox. Judge Heiskell has gone
to East TENNESSEE to remain for a few
days. On the 18th the tax sales will be
confirmed, and an adjournment will be
had to court in course.
Ho for st. Louisl is now the cry in
this land. Numbers Of Nemphians are
leaving daily for the seat Of political
troubles, from which a nomination will
be made that will settle the hash Of the
Hayes-Wheeler fasco.
This morning about 2 o'clock a fire
broke out in, and destroyed, a negro
dwelling on johnson avenue. near the
old Raleigh road. An adjoining two
story frame building, also occupied by
negroes, bad its roof burned off.
Memphis Encampment No. 80, l. o
0. f., elected the following officers foi
the ensuing term: G. W. L. Crook, G. P.
j. ]. Ross, H. P; S. S. Garrett, S. W.
H. B. Cullen, ]. W; G. Il. Pliscbke
Scribe; j. W. Waynesburg, Treasurer.
We regret to learn that Sheriff G. L
Anderson's little child, Milburn, age
one year, died last night, at German
town. The child had been sick two o
three days, aud this accounted for Mr.
Anderson's absence from the count.
convention.
The Memphi base ball club has beeI
uniformed, and will play the Riverside
next Sunday at Olympic Park. TIL
Memphi Include in their pine seyera
players who have good reputation in tn
ball field, and feel confident of holdinI
their own with any club in the city.
The two rotary steam fire engines ar
expected to reach here this evening
having been shipped from the company
works at Seneca Falls, N. Y, severa
days since. The engines are reported t
be the best OF the class aver turned GU
by the Silsby Rotary Company. Mex
week the trial test will be made by tn
city.
About one hundred citizens of tn
upper counties of West Tennessee are i
| town as principals or witnesses in illici
distilling cases now on the United State
: Court docket. They all say they ough
: to be at home planting corn and raisin
: a crop. Even a whisky crop is bette
than none, provided the secret servic
officers Of the government do net hea
of it.
Independent candidates from til
crowd that was hid out in the bushes 81
now in order for the office of Judge
the Criminal Court. In a few days tn
Avalanchian juris consult, whoever b
. be, will no doubt select a candidate on
pitch him headlong into the bench. b.
the voters will have something to SO
about the thing in August next. TrC
him out, and let US look at the man "wh
: is to possess" the best legal talent, an
the broadcast and widest experience i
the practice of lawl'
2 The spider epidemic, as it is calle'
has not as yet subsidized. Yesterday M
: Henderson, residing on Mosby stree
was bitten by a spider, and inAammatiC
% set in RAPIDLY. For a few hours M