Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-22
LEDGER LINES.
Decoration Day at Elmwood on Thurs

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and receding.
Suburban residents now brag about
their fine vegetable and flower gardens.
Suburban residences complain Of the
raids being made by thieves upon their
flower gardens.
Do not forget St. Georges Benevolent
Association picnic at James Park on
next Wednesday.
The graves of the Federal dead at the
National Cemeteries will be decorated
on the Both instant.
The Italian Benevolent Society is pre-
pairing to give a splendid picnic on
the 9TH of June at James Park.
Managers of picnios a have all their
job printing done at the LEDGER Office in
the best style and at the lowest prices. t
The mortuary report Of the Board of
Health for the past week shows the total
deaths to have been but l6-whites, s;
blacks, IL.
An interesting series Of meetings are
in progress at the First Baptist Church.
Prayer. meeting at 4 pm, and preaching
at 8 pm. daily.
Court Square fountain will be ready
for use on Saturday next, when water
will be turned on and a formal dedica.
ton and celebration take place.
Nothing Of public Importance ap-
peared on the station.house docket this
morning except the usual number Of
Saturday and Sunday nights DRINKS.
Mayor lippin has returned to the city,
and o acts as head of the commune,
vice Alderman zent, who has been act
ing pro tenn. Mayor for a few days past.
A dramatic entertainment will be
given at the theater on the 9th Of June
for the Magdslens' House of Refuge,
presided over by the Sisters Of the Good
Shepherd.
The United States Court, Judge EN-.
mons presiding, adjourned this morning
to court in course the second Monday
in June next, when Judge Trigg viii.
attend and preside.
Councilman John Donovan, Of thu
Second ward, has been confined to hi
room and bed with a sprained ankle fol-
several days past, but was able to appeal
on the streets to-day.
}, The Knights Of Pythias picnic a
James Park this afternoon and to-nigh
will be largely attended by our citizens
The annual picnics Of the Knights hav,
been most popular with citizens.
Tomorrow will be the %eveutful dal
whereon the fst citizens of Memphis o
Falstafian proportions will engage il
ball-tossing and batting at 0lympi,
Park, in order to help the orphans.
Tomorrow week, the Both instant, tn
/, Confederate Monumental Promenad
Concert and hop will be given at tn
Exposition Building, the proceeds to b
applied to the completion of the mont
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ment at Elmwood Cemetery.
: The Napa County (Cal,) Reporte
says of Captain Georgs W. Gift, its ed
! tor, that he is able to sit up in q chair a
day, and ride out for a short time eac
afternoon, but he is still suffering fro1
weakness and nervous prostration.
Mr.. John Mulroy, we'll known as
: newspaper reporter in this city in day
: past, died OF consumption at his res
dence on Orleans, near Vance stree
this morning. His funeral will tax
place tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
They have an ordinance at San Fran
cisco which forbids sleeping in a roof
which contains less than FIVE hundrel
cubic feet of air to each occupant. Thi
is q good sanitary ordinance and shout
be enforced in every well regulated city
Z The steamer Grand Republic, wit
Dom.PedrU and suite on board landed o
the elevator at A o'clock yesterday morr
d ing, and after putting off some freigt
showed out for New Orleans. The Dor
A did not get out of his stateroom to take
look at the bluffs.
Previous &c adjournment OF the Unite
States Court a decree was rendered o
dering the sale Of the liz miles Of tn
g Mobile and Ohio railroad in Tennessee,
with rolling stock, etc, to satisfy bonc
holders who hold the lien of the State {
Tennessee on said road.
In these dull aud torrid days a ft
. the blues is apt to overcome you, BIZ
. there is a remedy for this. Sidne
= Smiths famous receipt was to sit dow
u and remember all the compliments eve
j. paid to you. No matter how foolish the
y are, it will console you"
Texas no longer looks NOrthward f
-four, and in a year or two she will has
. thousands Of barrels Of -four to expo
4 from her own borders. The same coul
"a be said Of West Tennessee, Mississippi
is and Arkansas, and in fact of all Il
Southern Statesif the ali cotton" drea
was broken and over.
be Dom Pedro weighs over 200 pound
50 and q committee Of the Fat Mems bal