Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-24
LEDGER LINES.

row.
The Chickssaw Guards INDUCED in 3
drill on the bluff yesterday afternoon.
Henry Macklin, an alleged larcenist,
was arrested by Captain Arrats this
morning.
The caterpillar is infesting trees in
the suburbs aud adjacent country and is
threatening to destroy the shade.
Managers of picniOs can have all their
job printing done at the LEDGER Office in
the best style and at the lowest prices. 1
Numbers Of the fat men are on the
dry docks to-day and are complaining Of
stiffness Of joints and soreness Of mus.
eles.
Fifteen hundred citizens, Of both sexes
aud ell sizes, witnessed the Fat Mems
base ball contest at Olympic Park yes
terday.
Quite a number Of horsemen were
p%racticing at the rings with a pike at
Olympic Park yesterday, preparatory
for Tracy's tournament.
st. Georges Benevolent Association
picnic at James Park has been post
poned to Monday next, on account o.
the threatening weather to day.
The basin Of Court Square fountain
has been cemented, ard by Saturday
next the fountain will be in working or
der and ready for public inspection.
Phil Payne and Ed Wood, negroes
are still on trial in the Criminal Cour
Cd the charge of numbering a c%oloret
brother at Collieryille some time since
E. DeFayborne, a detective employe,
by the Mobile and Ohio railroad, arrive,
here yesterday and carried back to Mis-
sissippi for trial A. l.. Reeves, who i
charged with the larceny Of money b.
longing to the company at West Point
The baseball fever has become an Ell
idemic ia Memphis, and we now hear
rumored that a number of ladies are O.
ganizing rival picked mines and will er
long appear in public as batters, pitcher
and catchers, for some charitable pur
pose,
NJ. Combs, jr., it is said, has becom
crazy in the penitentiary, or is playir
crazy in a successful style. 1t will |
recollected that M. c., a few mont
since, was convicted of collecting fraud
lent bounty claims, and was sentence
to fifteen years Imprisonment IN Il
. peniteutiary by Judge Brown, of Il
United States Court.
! Another robbery on Washington sire
q near Second, last night, is but anoth
fact that calls for the abatement of t
brothels on that street by the Chief
, Police. Why do not the police sutho
ties DO their duty, has been asked a the
sand times, but probably there is
much local politics in theaair and
. much electioneering going on at presel
If the managers Of our street railro
would ballast the track and repair 1
, pavement between tracks and for
feet on side, as provided by their chart
their patrons would have a surcease
humping over the Nicolson and bel
9 we'll shaken up. Such another lot
tracks would not he permitted to exist
any other city on the face Of the glo'
I, A letter stamped with the Centenn
postage stamp, which stamp is only s
5. on the Centennial grounds at Phi
delphia, reached here yesterday, ]
, stamp is green and bears the inscript
-"U. S. Postage, 1876" A mail ri,
of the pony express appears benes
: then the mail train of 1876, with
y. words beneath-"Three cents-l876.
Robert 0verton, a white man, was
rested last night on the charge of 7
= bling and g%arroting q countryman
Center alley, ear Poplar street. :
9. pistol belonging to the countryman
found in possession of 0verton, but
money twenty dollsrsl is still in the
es session of 0verton's partner, whom
to- police are looking for. 0verton i
re fisherman and is a suspicious chara,
he generally.