Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-08
LEDGER LINES.

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School commencement season has
come, and will remain With US a few
days.
White fish and Mackinaw trout from
Lake Superior at Victor D. Fuchs, Al
Jefferson street.
Now that we have had base ball and
tournament let US gel up a game oil mar
bles or n~umbly-peg.
Managers of picnins can have all their
job printing done at the LEDGER Office in
the best style and at the lowest prices. +
The case of Thomas Bolton, indict.
ment for the murder of Jack Stinson,
was called %fortrial in the Criminal Court
to-day.
The Centennials and Hoosier base
ball clubs at a match game yesterday
again tied" the score this time being
% to %.
Mr.. Gibson, Councilman Of the Ninth
ward, having sent in his resignation yes.
terday to the Council, Mr.. Scheibler was
elected to fill the vacancy.
The annual picnic Of the Italian So
ciety, held at James Park on yesterday
and last evening, was largely attended
and was generally enjoyed.
Colonel A. s. Colyar's speech against
contraction, at the Greenlaw Opera
House last night, was listened to by
about four hundred citizens of all
classes.
The Chickassw Guards have been
granted permission to level, roll and drill
on the bluff between Union and Monroe
streets. 1t will make a good drill and
parade ground.
The constant struggle in the General
Council seems 10 be either advocating or
resisting petitions for permission to
erect frame buildings, etc within the FIRE
limits of the city.
Mr.. K. Norris was elected hospital
steward by the General Council in joint
session yesterday. The nomination Of
the Mayor was almost unanimously ap-
proved by the General Council.
Fifteen sacks of white wheat, raised
by j. S Sannover, Of Salisbury, Tenn.
arrived in the city this morning on con-
Segment to Cochran & Cirode. 1t is the
earliest arrival of wheat ever received in
this market.
An independent candidate for the
Office Of Sheriff is spoken of by the
knowing ones; indeed, the horse is al.
: ready on the track, but it has not been
officially announced as yet, and for good
reasons known to the new ring.
Mr.. David M. Philip, a we'll known r
porter who has been connected with the
: Appeal and Avalanche, IS lying danger
. ously ill at bis rooms on the corner o
/ Main and Washington streets; in fact
but little hope is entertained of his re
covery.
The new steam FIRE engines purchased
! By the city, from the Silsby Rotary Mar
y ufacturing Company, will be shippsI
D from Seneca Falls, New York, on Satur
u day next. The engines have been testel
: there and are regarded as fully up to tn
; standard in every respect.
The General Council has permitte
the Fire Department to purchase tw
, new horses for G~re-engine purposes
One Of the old horses is to be sold, bu
the other, on account of its age and goo
service, is to be kept in the department
to do light work whenever deemed necet
l. sary.
The Charleston Railroad Company hs
been granted permission to run a DUNN
engine over the Washington street trac
\ for FIVE years by the General Council
The company will have to keep the stree
in repair, and the present boxed eugin
can be used for four months, when tn
:. new dummy engine will take its place.
r. The city has appropriated two hui
q dred dollars for the purpose Of pawn
around the Court Square fountain-thG
-. princely present donated to the city b
a lew hberal-hearted citizens-whic
present cost six thousand dollars, bV
which, if everything connected with il
IL construction had to have been paid 70
would have cost ten thousand dollars.
n. The Little Democrat" which belong
6t to Tom O. Sullivan, tie liquor man, o
the corner Of Second and Washington
and which piece of ordnance did GOO
IS, service during the Mayoralty election
he was out on the bluff this morning bari
ing at the State of Arkansas, and il
vitiug her knights to come over to Il
- tournament.
A little girl, daughter Of DR.. Ric,
/. wandered from home on Poplar sire
yesterday afternoon, and was picked
os, and taken charge of by a family on Ma
:es street, near Vance, The family toe
nd care of the little girl until after dar
81 when DR.. Rice arrived, he having hear
of the location of the Lost child, woI
llI having been left at the station-house.
Since the new wagons OF the Mempt
Street Shrinking Company have he,