Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-11
LEDGER LINES.
Irish Literary Association tonight.

W. b. /
Germantown still continues to be in
Tested with burglars.
Mackinaw trout, red snapper and white
fish at Victor d. Fuchs this day.
Mad dogs are beginning to show them
selves and make it lively for pedestrians.
Numbers Of cellars and Easements are
fell Of water owing to the recent heavy
rains.
The Chickasaw Guards will indulge in
a dress parade and hop at their armory
to night.
The State Grand Commandery Of
Knights Templsr assemblies at Murfrees-
boro to-day.
We noticed at Gaston's this morning,
new tomatoes, the irst seen in Memphis
this season.
Base ball contest between the St
Louis Stocks and Riversides at Olympic
Park this afternoon.
The Leath Orphan Asylum festival, at
1854 Main street, continues to attract
visitors each day and night.
The Upton county bond cases are up
for hearing before Judge Emmons, Of the
Uaited States Court, to-day.
Esther concert at the tbeater on to.
morrow evening. This will attract o
large and fashionable audience.
Hundreds of citizens visited Court
Square yesterday afternoon and took an
admiring glance at the fountain.
The st. Louis Stocks and Memphis
Club will play a baseball match at
Olympic Park tomorrow afternoon.
The strawberry season has arrived,
and the luscious fruit can be purchased
at from ten to twenty-five cents per box
Seven arrests we're made yesterday
and last night. The cases were attended
to By Recorder Duff, who imposed the
usual fines.
A runaway horse attached to a wagon
created quite a sensation this morning
on the corner of Main and Poplar streets.
The wagon was damaged a little.
City Attorney Walker closed the argu.
ment in the merchants capital tax Mic
olson. pavement cases, before Judge
HeiskeI of the Circuit Court, to-day.
Quite a number Of citizens went out to
Lakewood Church, a few miles out on
the fernando road, last evening, to at
tend a picnic and strawberry festival.
In the United States Court o.day
Judge Emmons rendered a decision or
decree for the sale Of the Paducah rail
road, on a suit brought by certain bond
holders.
St. Peters Church Sunday School pic
mic, which was held on Vance street yes
terday afternoon and last night, attracted
quite a large crowd of visitors, and wa
most literally p~atronized.
We write this notice with the pencil
of the future" manufactured for Messrs
A. F. bod & Co., of BAL Main street
We are much obliged for specimens sen
to the Office. 1t is a splendid pencil.
The docket Of the Criminal Court 70.
the May term, which commences Mon
day next, only contains two hundred
cases, which is the lightest crimina
docket known of in this city for years.
The LEDGER corps return thanks tt
the lady managers of the Leath Orphan
. festival for some delicious ice-cream ant
strawberries received this morning. W
! wish them every success in conducting
the festival.
The beautiful iron drinking fountain
, will be placed at the edge of the pave
meut outside the west gate of Cour
+ Square. When its uses become appa
: rent no doubt the city will establish sue
fountains in different portions of tn,
city.
Quite a large AID fashionable audienc
attended the ushers' benefit at the thes
ter last night, all of which was a yer.
complimentary recognition Of the publ
appreciation of the ~politeness and after
: ton of the ushers during the past drl
matte season.
: At the intersection Of Madison an
e Orleans streets there is a very o%ffensiv
pool Of water, which is damned up b
some person, but which ia damned by
number Of other residents in the loca
ity. This pool calls for the attention {
f the sanitary force.
II The baseball contest between th
freight agents and the cotton.buyers wi
r take place on Wednesday afternoo
next, the arrangements for the gret
game having been made. 1t will attrat
more people to the Olympic Park tina
any game ever played in Memphis.
IT Since the late municipal furry ceased
ID everything has gone back into its wonte
channels, but a considerable amount {
personal feeling still crops out, whic
may result in o street fight or two duriu
the spring months. In the spring Of II
It, year all animal life is ready to engage
combsts.
President MeCombs. of the New q