Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-02
LEDGER LINES.

Iced tea is a popular breakfast and
supper beverage with Memphisns.
The Chicks" and the bluffs" will
hold a dress parade on the Fourth.
A Southern manufacturing enterprise
the Memphis shirt factory, 2S1 Main.
Paper maturing in bank July 4th is
due and payable July Sd. The banks
will be closed on tie Fourth.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblerS, cages, ice-crsam freezers, water
coolers and filters is G.. N. Erich's.
The total number of deaths which &C.
CURED in the city during last week was
%, Of which II we're whites, and 10
blacks.
See advertisement Of desirable fur.
nished room and board for gentleman
and wife; also day board" location cen.
trail and quiet.
An immense amount OF soda water,
lemonade, iced water and lager beer is
swallowed in Memphis at present by the
thirsty residents.
During these hot nights but few bug
lars or thieves are around. The nights
are too hot and the moon shines too
bright for their business.
Colored women and children are be-
ginning to pick b~lackberries and whor-
tleberrieS with a view to do business in
these articles of field fruit.
Colonel Barney hughes, the great rail
road man, will crate at James Park on
the Fourth of July-next Wednesday
He can do it better than anybody.
The religious sensation on yesterday
was the marriage at the Hebrew syua.
gogue or temple of Mr.. Emile Levy and
Miss Leah NJ. Merriam, a convert to the
Hebrew faith.
Estival Park was crowded with visitors
last night. The guests drank their beef
and lemonade and enjoyed the concert
Concerts will be given this week Oh
Wednesday and Friday nights.
Mr.. J.. Lowenhspt, of Coviugtou
Tenn, sends a specimen of cotton bloom
which was grown on the farm of a col
orod man, Logan Cathart, who has thirll
acress CT the staple in full bloom.
Mr.. VIM. FL 0ltmann, the Chelsel
g%rocerymau, was made happy last nigh
by the presentation by his estimabl,
wife of a bouncing girl weighing lively,
pounds. Mother and daughter are doinI
we'll.
The Memphis Club, an organization o
q social character, finds it necessary t
J.. state, with reference to a picnic, that
is not a baseball club. The French, th
German Casino aud the Chickasaw club
are not baseball clubs either.
This is the first day Of the month fror
7 a business standpoint, consequently bill
2 collectors are as numerous aud as Ius
as flies around town. The impe0uneou
debtor awaits the persistent creditor i
ssublime and determined manner worth,
Of a better cause.
This evening at 8 o'clock a steamboG
, excursion on hoard the Phil Allin wi
be given by the Ladies' Aid Society
. st. Msry's Cathedral. Every arrang,
ment will be made for the entertainer
Of the excursionists, Excursion ticket
. only twenty five cents.
, A number of young men have organ
. lied a junior military company, and wi
soon be uniformed and armed, under tn
name Memphis Light Guards" Nj
, R. Il. Allen, jr., has been elected cd
tain and Mr.. R. H. Beard secretary an
. treasurer. The other officers will b
: selected ere long.
At the Criminal Court to-day Ishar
G Harris addressed the jury in behalf {
the defendants, the ReeRnover brother
who are on trial for the murder Of Nj
Ellis. Attorney General Wright wi
: close the case this afternoon in behs
Of the State, and the case will be give
to the jury under the charge Of Ii
court.
"a sacrifice batter" is a new It'll
given to a b~ase-ballist by a Mempsi
orator, He must be a fellow who bal
animals or other victims offered up o
I affairs by way of atonement to false god
7 The sacrifice batter must be a ba
man, but Ben Brookshaw should at ono
repudiate the title or say, YOU'RE er
I other"
Late last night our reporter discovere
the outer door Of Dod's book store o
. Main street, near Madison, open. Nc
being burglsriously disposed be waite
for the coming Of a friend, who appeare
in the shape Of Judge Carmack. The
{ found the store all right, the key bein
{ in the door on the outside. Our ma
} locked the door aud made Judge Cal
: mack custodian Of the key, an office G
! much trust and profit 10 several Europes
= and Asiatic countries, Walking out c
d a store, pulling the door to and leaviu
" the key in the door on the outside is
careless way of doing business.