Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-24
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az prebeuli anu 80 10 cholera mOfDue.
Several centipedes have been killed
throughout the city during the past few
days.
The place to get your papers, periodi-
Gals and magazines is at Spangler's, 1913
Main street.
The Grand Jury Of the United States
Court was discharged for the term this
forenoon by Judge Trigg.
Sweet milk and buttermilk sold at the
ice shops are quite popular beverages
during the present hot term.
Candidates tickets, cards and circu.
lars printed at the LEDGER office cheaper
and better than elsewhere t
The Memphi professionally and the
Riversides will engage in a base ball
match at Olympic Park to morrow after
noon.
Thomas Saunders (white) is on trial
at the Criminal Court to-day on the
charge of assault and battery, with in
tent to kill.
Men, women and children are slipping
QUITO town every day, hunting up deeper
shades, cooler climes and places Of
greater amusement during the summer
months.
The two new Silsby rotary engines are
on exhibition at the Adams street en-
gine-house, corner Of Second. Hundreds
of citizens took a look at them yesterday
and to day.
Two hogsheads of watermelons from
New Orleans reached here to-day. The
melons present an inviting appearance
and are worth from twenty-five to fifty
cents each.
There are 2O5 Federal soldiers station.
ed in Tennessee, 1856 in Mississippi, 243
in Florida, FOL in Louisiana, 226 in North
Carolina, 522 in South Carolina and liz
in Kentucky.
The Centennial picnic on the Sd Of
July promises TO be a popular affair. 1t
will be conducted in the best manner by
the we'll known gentlemen who have the
arrangements in charge.
Mayor Flippin being absent from the
city, at Brownsville, Captain Bob Will
Hanson, Chairman Of the Council, is
playing Mayor pro tenn. Mayor Flippin
will be back on Monday next.
At the United States Court this fore.
moon a number Of judgments we're taken
against the city on coupon suits. This
will cause a few more sundry mandam.
uses to be plsstered on the city gates.
George X. Schooley, who was convicted
last week Saturday. for embezzlement
of $4,000 from the Southern Express
Company at Nashville, has been granted
a new trial, his bail being fixed at $lO,-
900.
The mercury in the thermometer went
up to ninety-four degrees yesterday af.
%ternoon. This degree of heat was op
pressive in the highest sense and pro-
; duced a melting effect upon linen and
) cotton goods.
} Sol Coleman has shipped from New
Orleans a lot of fresh cigars to his depot
No. 200 Main street. These cigars were
purchased at New Orleans and comprise
popular brands, and will be sold at very
low prices to all customers and visitors,
Tomorrow the Memphis Reds (pro-
~fessionals) will play the Eckfords in q
, match game at Central Park, the new
baseball grounds, on the Pigeon Roost
road, a few minutes walk from the ter
minus of the Vance street railway line.
In the bankruptcy cases of N. j. Wig.
gin and Lindauer & Pollock an order Of
reference was made to-day to the CLERK
of the United States Court to ascertain
the fees Of the attorneys. In the bank,
ruptcy Ease of John Webb & Co. the pc
. tition of creditors was dismissed.
The crop of professional jurors still
grows luxuriantly around the cosrt
house. No reaper has yet attempted
to cut it down, its growth being teo rank
and powerful, and it is said the crop is
of some use in bad cases when all other
means Of saving liberty and life fail.
At the Criminals Court yesterday
man was fined ten cents for %slapping hi
wife, and then the fine was RENTED 81
soon as imposed, For wife whipping o
woman slapping the fine should be th,
maximum one, or at least $50. TIL
Criminal Court is getting down to a fin,
point in fines.
y Quite a number of laborers from Al
y kansas have reached the city sick from
swamp land bilious fevers. They wer
at the City Hall to-day applying for ad
mission to the hospital. The laborer
who get sick in the surrounding countr
! come to Memphis in numbers so as to b
t. taken care of by the city authorities.
: The evening stars now are Jupiter an
Venus. The former shines brightly i
r. the east and the latter sparkles in th
west, They are a pair Of bright eye
y fixed in the face of the heavens. TIL
four moons or satellites of Jupeter ca
he seen with a strong telescone. an