Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-26
LEDGER LINES.

Court Square fountain presentation
celebration at 4 o'clock to morrow after
noon.
Several gentlemen watered their
horses at the Court Square drinking
fountain yesterday.
Managers of picnics can have all their
job printing done at The LEDGER Office in
the best style and at the lowest prices. t
II you want to see who would like to
have Office in Angus, next look over the
announcement column of the LEDGER
daily.
L. Rosenstein, charged with receiving
stolen goods, was committed by the Re-
corder this morning, his bond being fixed
at $4,000.
More fashionable weddings are spoken
Of in social circles. "Tll take you to
the Centennial" has had a potent effect
upon the female mind.
Decoration Day is being celebrated all
over the South. 1t is a charming Gus.
tom and one well worthy OF regular an.
nual celebration for all time to come.
A Knoxville journal says: THE
Mexican veterans Of Memphis are agi-
tating the subject of obtaining free trans.
p~ortation to and from the Centennial"
Chicken stealing and COW killing in
the suburbs keep the dwelIers Of that 10.
cality up at night with shotgun in hand
. awaiting the larcenists to approach with
in range.
The p%icnics this season as yet have
failed to draw forth large crowds Of at.
tendants. The most regular attendants
are those who intend becoming candi
dates for Office in August next.
The Louisville R;versides will play {
R game of base ball with the Memphis clut
at Olympic Park on Sunday next. Tht
Memphis club will introduce three new
!. play ers from the East. Trains will leav'
: the depot as usual.
G. We will soon have the usual amour
OF political speaking. This time in be
n half Of Blaine, the hater of the South
and in behalf Of Tilden, Hendricks o
some other Northern Democrat and can
didate for the Presidency.
- Even in base ball matters a dullneg
seems to prevail. Indeed, the base ba.
IN fever has ceased to be an epidemic sine
is, the Fat Men" pitched and battled. W
st. understand that about $500 were raise
- by the fat men for the orphans.
Mrs. Jennie Taylor, formerly a res
n dent of Pamela county, Miss, and Ii
wife Of Captain N. G. Taylor, Of tn
r. city, died of consumption on the III
IC- inst, at the residence of her brotheri
icy law, VIM. Crump, at Holly Springs.
Z: Not only the graves Of the Confedera
dead at Elmwood we're adorned wi
y flowers on yesterday, but numbers
\ 3 private let's we're decorated witt bouqut
and wreaths. 1t is to be hoped that
next Decoration Day that Inflated Co
D.. federate monument will be completed.
Numerous complaints have been ma
@= by citizens residing on Jefferson sire
1. below Third, about the vile class Of pr
pie, both white and black, who inha
deus Of infan.y in that locality. I
attention of the Police Commission,
,k and the police officers ia called to Il
nuisance.
I. s. In the June number Of the SAM
rum, the organ of the Medico.LeI
Society, appears no report from
I'm Memphis Board Of Health, althou
thirty other cities are reported. Con
vSST. quently we cannot publish q compa
' re- tive statement as to the health Of
cities, including u own.
ct. The three white till-tsppers and ?
= fessional thieves from St. Louis-GeoI
y. Green, John Thompson and j..
O'Neal-who robbed the till Of Sheru
& Co., on Exchange street, were Ell
sentenced to serve u term Of FIVE We
Imprisonment in the penitentiary,
Judge Adams of the Criminal Court.
Q Yesterday being Ascension Day
Knights Templar Of St. Elmo and Cyr
Communicates paraded the streets. Ii
d in the afternoon the negro Knights I
plar organization called St. Elm, didl
wise. There is no utilization between
white and black organizations of Ma
ry, and the black Templars Commar
is ~notrecognized except as a bogus at
3 Our reporter was shocked yester
when an intelligent Radical white V
vBER- asked MN Il 'A'S ma" A"'on' "0A
Main, Avalanche was Sous'uE' "aS NV
olso same fellow who had a row with Bee
,roy about some woman. When informed
~ it vas not Tilton but Tilden who wa
71+ ferred to, he was surprised but adde
was glad to hear it, and would prob
, DC. vote for him.
Dol Thomas and Robert Reasonover
and killed Sam Il. Ellis near GerI
u"u town yesterday. They were arreste
'e,S' Sheriff Anderson, and we're lodge
n o sa4 the county Jail yesterday siteru
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