Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-14
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY
MEMPHIS:
Friday Evening. July IA, 1875.
LEDGER LINES.

1NhNNAI aa1 A0AAANAA
a choice lot of fresh lemons.
The General Council will assemble at
the City Hall this afternoon.
The Third ward Democracy will or
ganize a club tomorrow night.
The base ball fever will break out
again on next Sunday afternoon.
The German Casino Club INDUCED in a
river excursion on barges last night.
The Olympic Theater on Washington
street is being repaired, preparatory for
the next variety theatrical season.
The Shelby County Circuit Court,
Judge Heiskell presiding, will adjourn
on tomorrow to court in course, the Sd
Monday in September next.
At a meeting of Bluff City Lodge No.
1877 /. 0. 0. F., held on Tuesday evening
last, Mr.. W. Fl. Moyston was elected as
Representative to the Grand Lodge.
Mrs. Maria Bib, formerly of Aber.
deem, Miss. died in Chelsea this morn
ing at the residence of her s%on-inlaw,
Mr., Richard Cspers, Deputy Clerk oil
the Criminal Court.
The members of Memphis Encamp.
meht No. 80 l, o. 0. f., at their meeting
last night, elected Mr.. Thomas l.. Risk
to represent them in the Grand Encamp.
ment Of the State.
The Nashville American says the
0'Connor Zousves, of Knoxville, yearn
for the scalp of Sitting Bull and have
rendered their services to the Secretary
of War. And now for the Porter Rifles
and Jackson Guards"
How can the debt of Memphis be paid
is the financial conundrum now under
investigation. At a rough guess We
should think that it could be paid BY
compromising with the bond holding
creditors, and With either lard or sof
money.
Nearly all the silver currency which
was in circulation in these parts SOM
weeks since has disappeared, it having
been gathered in by the hoarders of coir
in exchange for their greenbacks ant
national bank paper. The speedy re
sumption business did not work we'll o
long.
The report Of the Congressional In
vestigating Committee on the Memphis
riots, and the testimony Of Barbour
Lewis and other leading Hayes anC
Wheeler lights contained therein, viii
form a cheerful centennial campaign
document during the present summer
and fell.
1t has been settled microseopiealI,
that both male and female m%osquitoeI
are bitists. Now that that importan
question has been settled, we would likl
to know which sex furnish the itineran
musicians or vocalists hat disturb tn
s~lumbering Memphians; or, are boil
sexes also involved in this musical nuts
ance.
Rumor has it that the Secretary o
War has accepted the offer Of the Chick
asaw Guards to fight Sitting Bull
braves. 1t isreported that the Chicks
will have to report at st. Louis by tn.
lst of August, and will at nee be sen
to the Yellowstone country to engage il
the skirmish drill with the paintel
ssvages.
Among the prominent nuisances il
our city is the horde of negro boot
blacks, many Of whom are sneak-thieves
and who carry boot-blacking traps mere
ly as q blind and in order to escape from
being arrested as Migrants and sent t.
the Island Home. The police author
ties should look into and regulate thi
growing nuisance.
The police authorities are to have tn
notorious Frances Thompson photo
graphed in both styles, as a male and a
afemale, so that they can be sent to othe
cities and prevent this hideous crimina
from play ing the same role again. TIL
possessor Of these odd pictures can, lik
Hamlet, say: Look upon this picture
then on that-Hyperion to a Satyr," etc
1t has been settled clearly that th
raiser of stock, produce and garde.
truck can bring the products of his 0
her farm to the city and sell sue
throughout the city at any hour an
without license; and the city can max
no ordinance interfering with this lega
right. 1t can regulate hucksters an
marketmen, but not the gardener, farme
or tiller Of the soil.
For the benefit Of the Memphis sui
scribers to that cheerful journal know
as Woodruff & Claain's Weekly, Mis-
Tennie ClaAin, that pious young woman
writes in explanation as follows 9TH
Weekly now lies asleep in Christ an
will only make its temperance at tn
second coming of Christ, which is MOI
near at hand" Subscribers will no.
govern themselves accordingly.
During the sitting of that famous Cor
gressional Committee, headed by Z,
/, Washburn, of Illinois, and who turne