Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-16
LEDGER LINES.
The Second, Third and Seventh wards
selected delegates last night.

Be sure and vote in your ward for
delegates tomorrow afternoon.
The Chase-C ohupe murder case is
still on hearing in the Criminal Court.
The United States and State Chancery,
Circuit and Criminal Courts are in SEES.
sion.
The Fourth and Sixth warders will
hold meetings tonight to select dele
gates.
Primary election Of delegates to-mor-
row afternoon throughout the city and
county.
Cotton blooms in the surrounding
country, and cotton blooms are received
daily in this city.
Candidates tickets, cards and circu.
lars printed at the LEDGER office cheaper
and better than elsewhere I
Mackinaw trout, red snapper and white
fish are to be had at Victor D Fuchs
this evening and tomorrow morning.
The green apple iend has arrived 10
the city, much to the agony Of many a
~youngster with whom green apples do
not agree.
The commencement exercises Of St.
Agnes Female Academy will be held
Monday morning at 9 o'clock. A num-
Der Of young ladies will receive diplomas.
The committees from the different
German societies will meet at Cochran
Hall this evening TO make arrangements
for celebrating the Fourth of July.
The Teutonic and other societies and
associations will meet at Cochran Hal
to night for the purpose Of making ar
%rAngements for the Fourth Of July.
Willie Moore, a negro boot-black till
Taper, and Charles CASTOR, negro,
charged with. passing counterfeit money,
we're committed to Jail by the Recorder
this morning.
The Nashville American Of the 10Th
says: 1.-THE Express Office at Frost Sta.
ton, West Tennessee, was burglariously
entered the other night and the safe
plurdered of $780,
Tomorrow afternoon the tournament
for the benefit Of the orphans will come
off at fernando Trottiug Park. A pro-
c%ession through the streets by the young
knights will take place at l o'clock.
Esquire Elliott, Of the Fourteenth civil
district, is c candidate for reelection.
Esquire Elliott has made a good public
officer and il re elected as a justice of
the peace will give general satisfaction
to the public.
The case Of Nelson vs.. Sears, an i'm
portant ejectment suit, which has been
pending for several years, and which in
wolves a large amount Of property, was
oD hearing before Judge Trigg of the
United States Court to-day.
A lively revival Of religion is progress.
ing daily and nightly at the Methodist
Church, on the corner Of Sixth and Jack
son streets, in Fort Pickering. The re.
vival is conducted by the pastor, Rev. M.
G. Brown, assisted by Rev. VIM. SHIN
min.
Happy Hollow has been ditched and
drained by the Health Officer, and nc
longer eau it be sung Of this pestilential
spot:
" A nasty pool, with deadly power. in Happy
Hollow is seen.
And is killing men and women there by wear
ing Of the green"
The funeral Of the late General John
G. Fizer yesterday was the largest ever
seen in this city. A long string of car
riages followed the hearse, As did also
the Chickasaw Guards and one hundred
mounted men, the old comrades in arms
Of the deceased in Confederate times.
Miss Jennie Higbee's school graduates
viii receive diplomas aud medals at the
Greenlaw Opera House tonight. THIS
school is known as the Presbyterian
Grammar and High School. Rev. DR..
Boggs will deliver an address on
"Woman's Place in the Social System
Several cities Gre beginning to drop
the ceremony Of decorating soldiers
graves, and in a few years the unsub
s%tantial but beautiful custom will prob
ably die out altogether, except in a few
cities or towns 10 whose cemeteries are
the representative dead Of such cities oil
towns.
Messrs. Louis Hanauar 4 Co, received
last evening the first cotton bloom Of the
season from toe plantation of Mr.. jacob
Frank, near Sunnyside, Arkansas, The
stalk from whiok it was ~plueked had two
blooms. Mr.. Frank writes that a fail
} crop OF cotton will be made on over
flowed land.
In the LEDGER announcement column
: appear the following names: For judge
t Of the Criminal Court, w. I. Avery
John D. Adams; Attorney General Bart
lett Circuit Court, G, W. Gordon; TO
Sheriff, G. L., Anderson, Geo. R. Powell
for County Trustee, j. ]. RAWLINGS 70
magistrate Fourteenth district, John 7
Elliott, and for Constable same district
7. s. Mallory.
Yesterday morning a boy baby, agec
about five months. was left in a hugg,