Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-13
LEDGER LINES.

Will soon be held.
Odd Fellows picnic at James Park
Friday, May 18th.
The General Council will meet again
on next Friday afternoon.
GotO Spanglers, S7s Main street. for
your Saturday night and Sunday reading.
Fruit and eggs are now shipped in
large quantities from Memphis to cities
up North.
Net an arrest was made by the police
on yesterday, and but very few we're
made last night.
The waters are crawling up the levees
and out into he woods again, but at a
very slow pace,
Sunday-schoOl and other p%icnics, as
well as ice-cream and strawberry festi-
walls, are ell the rage at present.
The St. Louis Stocks and Memphis
club will engaged another game Of base
ball at Olympic Park tomorrow.
Pedro, the travelling Emperor of
Brazil, will be here on Wednesday next
on board the steamer Grand Republic.
Managers of picnics can have all their
job printing done at the LEDGER Office in
the best style and at the lowest prices. +
A large and fashionable audience was
in attendance at the theater last night,
on the occasion Of the Esther Club con-
cert.
We understand that the strawberry
crop is increasing and spreading rapidly,
but not sufficiently so to reach our edi-
torial room.
The Memphis club secured a victory
on yesterday at Olympic Park by beat
ing the st. Louis Stocks, the score stand.
ing IL to 2.
Washington street, since it was paved
with rock and gravel, has become the
fast and fashionable drive with the buggy
men who aspire to be crack whips.
Ed johnson, the Express robber and
escaped penitentiary convict, has been
recaptured in Kentucky by the detective
employed by the Express Company to
hunt him down.
The volunteer companies Of the State
are now engaging in target practice.
The Chickasaw Guards should by all
means indulge in this most useful and
necessary branch Of drill.
Last night thieves stole two gas genera
tros or cylinders from the back premises
of q, Bartee, No. 1893 Main street. The
cylinders were worth about fifty dollars
and cannot be replaced in this city.
At the Knights Templar convention
now holding at Murfeesboro the following
Memphians were elected Grand Officers
Ed Worsham, Grand Commander; Rev
George White, Grand Prelate.
Summer drinks at saloons now con
! tain mint and a couple of ~strawberrie
: as well as a pair of straws. This is no
news to thousands of Memphians, 70
|. they know how it is themselves.
1t cost the city $67 to have the Re
corder's impeachment trial taken dow
, by a stenographic reporter, and at las
the phonetic report was not used, as tn
trial wound up unceremoniuusly.
The May terms of the Criminal an,
: Circuit Courts will commence on Monda.
morning, when juries will be ~impaneled
J In the Circuit Court all ga%rnishees vii
have to answer On Monday, a fact O
which u merchants will take NOTICE.
!, In another column appears the chang
Of time-schedule of the Memphis an,
y Charleston railroad. The change vii
: take place on tomorrow morning q
1901 IN. The mail train will leav
Memphis tomorrow at 1920 am. insteaI
Of 4:l6 an.
Those who pluck flowers that grow il
Elmwood Cemetery will be arrested anC
prosecuted. This act of stealing flower
il often committed ignOrantly an.
thoughtlessly, but the act involves mora
o~bliauity, and is a violation of the rule
of the cemetery,
Decoration Day is being celebrated al
around US at the various cemeterie
throughout the Southern land where tn
Southern dead rest in peace. Hernandc
Mississippi, had a celebration yesterday
and a few days since Nashville and Lor
y %isville had theirs.
General A. A. Humphreys, chief G
the United States Engineers, in a lette
to Secretary Toft says: 1.-THE great al
nual food of the Mississippi river ma
d be expected to OCCUR between tho pre-
emit time and the latter part Of July, an
it usually remains at that very high stag
during several weeks"
ID Four generations Of one family a
n tEaeted some attention on Main stree
yesterday afternoon. 4 baby wagon i
which was a youthful American was PR
h. PEELED by the great.grandmother, and b
d. the side of the wagon walked the mothe
and grandmother of the infant. This
.. a sight pot often seen in these post del,
Wan days.
r. A third, or SO called independent part