Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-03
LEDGER LINES.
Nothing of interest at the Recorders
court this morning.

1t is proposed to Uniform the members
of our hre department, as is customary
in other cities, Nashville included.
On Monday next the picnic of the
German Protestant Church Sunday
School will be held at James Park.
Managers of picnins can have all their
job printing done at the LEDGER Office in
the best sty lie and at the lowest prices. +
Commodore Kallaher, the Wharfmas-
ter, has returned from his Northern tour,
and now can be found at the wharf as
usual.
Since the festive game of keno vas
bauished from the city it has taken
refuge in the suburbs outside the CORPORA
ton line.
A number Of young gentlemen ard
ladies will enjoy a private and select pic.
mic on next Tuesday evening at No. ITO
Marshall avenue.
The Templars, or Sons Of Temperance,
with their friends, went down the Missis-
siDpi and Tennessee railroad to day to
enjoy a picnic in the country.
R. H. Spangler, 1913 Main street, news
dealer, has all the popular illustrated
papers and magazines. Call and get
your reading matter from him.
The sacred concert at St. Peters
church will positively commence at 8
o'clock on tomorrow evening, Of which
those expecting to attend should take
notice.
Mr.. NJ. McKeogh, formerly Of our city,
but at present manager Of the Hale
House, Hot Springs, Ark, has been in
our city for several days, but leaves this
afternoon for home.
To-day is the anniversary of the death
of Stephen A. Douglas in 1861. Doug
lls began life as an apprentice to q cabi-
net-maker, and ended it one of the fore.
most of American statesmen.
The Freight Clerks and Telegraph
Operators engage in a base ball match
this afternoon at Olympic Park, the pro.
caeds to be applied to the aid fund of the
Sisters Of the Good Shepherd.
At James Park on Wednesday rex
tie Italian Benevolent Society will give
, a picnic for the benefit of the widowi
} aud orphans. Prof. Arnold's band will
supply the musical part Of the pro
. gramme.
The vocal and instrumental concer
to be given on tomorrow night at St
o Peters Church will be a most a%ttractivI
+" musical festival. Of course the .chureI
: will be crowded with visitors upon thi
. occasion.
8 Iron posts and a chain railing hav
n bean put up around the Court Squsr
n fountain so as to protect children al
prevent them from climbing over h
parspet Of the basin and tumbling int
the deep water.
Mr.. Asa Hodges, who some years sine
was a resident Of this city but afterward
- a noted politician in Arkansas, has bee
y appointed by the government Unite
States Receiver of public moneys f
:. Arkansas, vice Cox removed.
" Artificial swans, while not so INTEL
e. gent looking or so pleasing to the eye 9
= live swans, nevertheless are not as filth
as the latter, and in consequence the
y have been given the preference as
floating about in the Court Square foul
tain.
y A coal fleet belonging to the towbol
9 j. B. Williams lies stranded on a san
bar at the foot Of the Devils Elbow Gu
of. The feet is in a dangerous stu
=. ten, and consists of twenty ore boa
and barges, several Of which ha,
broken up and become q total loss.
The strong-minded women of Memph
q must abhor the Russian governmen
which has declared that Russian la
- forbids women to follow the medicI
profession, a dissertation by Doctre
u E2schewarrow Rewdnew has been r
turned unexamined by a UNIVERSE
- faculty.
N. Agents Of the United States Fish Coz
- m~issioneIs have deposited 10000 your
shad in the Tennessee river at Kno
vile and Chattanooga, and GO, 900 in Il
Estenaula river. These fish make The
way to the sea, where they remain IN
maturity (which takes two or thr
years. aud then they return to the We
he waters where they were deposited.
Of Robert 0verton, a white man, is
led trial in the Criminal Court tc day on I
ng charge.of robbing a countryman sol
rst days since in Center alley, near Wa
in ington street. In that locality are SCI
18th raj low dens of vice and immoralil
7as making it dangerous for citizens or strG
ry, gers to wander in either by daylight
the dark. Too many low dens of this oh.
vas acter are permitted to exist in eur G
In by the police.
'gi- At a meeting of the Irish Literary /
lille ISOLATION, at their hall on Poplar sire
the Thursday night, June lst, an elect
500 was held for officers to serve for the
$40 suing six months with the following
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