Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-08

nial in the section allotted to the display
Of the Little Rock and Fort Smith rail-
road.
The iron work Of Court Square foun-
tain is finished, and this week the basin
will be eemented and completed. Prob
ably BY next Saturday the entire work
will be completed and ready for inspec-
ton by the public. When the opening
takes place Arnold's brass band should
be engaged to furnish music for the oc.
casion.
About 8 o'clock last night two men
we're seen engaging in a fight on Wash
ington street, near Second, and immedi-
ately a pistol shot was fred, and both
men ran of toward Third street and
escaped. Upon examination a pool Of
blood was discovered on the sidewalk,
proving that somebody had been hit by
the leaden messenger.
The Democratic and Conservative
Executive Committee will meet for or.
ga~nization on Saturday next at No. II
Monroe street. The Avalanche man
thinks the Committee moves too slow,
and if he did not think that he would
think it moved too fast. IT'S hard to
please some people when they don't
want to be pleased at anything Demo
cratic.
The st. Louis Reds defeated the Mem
phis base ball club at the Olympic Park,
on yesterday, by q score of Ia to I. 1t
is the misfortune Of the Memphis profes.
sioual club to be beaten whenever il
meets with a professional club of another
city. We fear the Memphis club needs
reorganization, or training, or something
else-probably a new set of players-ii
it is intended to gain any honors during
the season.
Yesterday the river was covered with
ski6s and ether water crafts used fol
pleasure purposes. Among the boats
appeared a new one of elegant mode.
and was painted in the brightest Of col
ors. 1t bore the name Of The Ledger
and, as might be supposed, was the fast.
est thing on the river. Beneath the
power Of three pairs of skulls the boa
darted up the river and around the islanC
at a speed not equaled by the famous
steamer Bob Lee"
There are too many people in Mem
phis who wish to be advertised in thu
papers for nothing. Pot it in" is al
right, and it helps some one to max.
money, but a newspaper is not kept u
on talk, nor is it expected to advertis
people and other money making scheme
without pay. Newspaper business i
like any other business, and when thi
fact is thoroughly understood people wi
refrain from boring reporters in askin
them to publish "puffs" gratis.
Daring the storm on Saturday nish
, the atmosphere was 8, s|urcharged wit
electricity that at the telegraph Office tn
. electric current along the wires snappe
= like pistol caps, aud balls Of fire hoppe
and leaped from wire to wire, to the grel
! danger Of the operators, who had to CT
of connection and attach the grouu
q wire. During a thunder storm a tel
graph office is a lively place, and Oh
i where you can feel that power
That drives along the electric wire,
I We know net how, the absorbing fire."
= Yesterday afternoon q free fght We
INDUCED in by a crowd of negroes O
-. Second street, in Chelsea, outside IL
city limits, The negroes had been pla.
ing baseball when the row commence
A number Of fights took place, sever
pistol shots we're fred, yet no particuli
damage was done. The amount of frigb
full profanity and vulgarity INDUCED
8 by the crowd was immense. The der
e zenS in this portion of the city should
protected, and these baseball nuisance
on the commons INDUCED in by Grove
OF roughs should be abated by the prop
e authorities.