Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-03
LEDGER LINES.

log on accounts to-day.
A two-dollar gold coin is about to be
issued by the governme nt.
Quite a number Of citizens took flight
on yesterday for cooler climes.
No edition of the LEDGER will be pub.
lished on tomorrow, the day being a
holiday.
The dog days will soon arrive; then
how to tell a mad dog will be the impor
tant puzzle.
The Shelby county Circuit Court
stands adjourned over to the third Mon.
day in September next.
On the 3lat day of August next a re-
union of the Seventh Tennessee cavalry
association will be held in this city.
The general council will not assemble
on to- morrow, out will assemble on Thurs
day next for the purpose of attending to
city business,
The intense heat of the weather is the
chief topic of conversation on the streets
to-day, just as il we did not always have
hot weather in July.
This forenoon Mrs. G. Keef was ar
rested on the charge Of keeping a vicious
dog, and Mollie Carroll was captured on
the charge Of larceny.
The Knights Of Pythias picnic and
baby show at the Leath Orphan Asylum
Grounds to-day will attract a large crowd
Of visitors to the grounds.
From present indications and appear
anees but little business will be trans
acted throughout the city tomorrow, it
being the intention to celebrate.
Professor Tice prognosticaied for July
81 (to-day) clear and pleasant, BE was
right, but he left out the word lot; or,
as Euglishmen would say, "Beastly ot."
The first cotton boil Of the season was
brought up yesterday morning on the
Phil Allin, from the plantation Of Mr..
Alex De Valcourt, at Gaines Landing
The thermometer indicated $40 yester-
day at 3 o'clock. The cool breeze which
came from the southwest during the day
kept people from suffering from heat to
any great extent.
The Criminal Court jury in the case
Of the State VS.. the Reesnover brothers,
was charged by Judge Logwood at noon
to-day, and retired to the jury room to
consider a verdict.
Bank paper maturing on to morrow
will have to be met by debtors to-day.
The bank clerks will be found polite and
smiling, and ready TO take all money in
without grumbling.
At Estival Park on tomorrow night a
pyrotechnic display OF a brilliant charac-
ter will be one Of the attractions present
ed, after which the concert by Arnold
band will commence.
Before starting for the Mississippi or
Wolf rivers to take a swim please send
your card and photograph to the LEDGER
Office. Our reporters do dislike spelling
even a drowned man name wrong,
The patriotic heart will beat up to lOl
on tomorrow when its posessor hears
Colonel Barney Hughes deliver his ma
tional grafton at james Park, at which
point he will appear for the benefit of
the orphans.
Scores Of people now sleep with their
windows and doors open at night. They
are willing to brave burglars and thieves
in order that they may enjoy the night
breezes which are waited from the south
ern sea coast.
The Fourth Of July being a national
holiday, the postofiee will close at ten
o'clock IN. to morrow, and carriers viii
make but n delivery and Que c%ollec.
ton. The noney.order and registry de-
partments will not be opened during the
day.
Quite a number of excursionists took
a delightful river trip on board the
steamer Phil Allin last night, and re-
turned home at midnight. The excur.
sion was given under the auspices of the
Ladies Society of St. Mary's Episcopal
church.
The County Court on yesterday came
to the relief Of the Third ward property
holders, and adopted an order instruct
ing Assessor Thomas Mccall to carry
into effect the twenty-five per cent re.
duction made on property by the board
Of equalization.
At the Police Court this morning Felix
Webb (negro) was fued s. for being
drunk; Miley Bowen NEGRO s~ervant)
was committed on the charge Of vagran-
cy; Jack Doyle paid s. for being drunk,
and John Woody was discharged on the
charge Of prowling.
The Bluff City Light Artillery has or.
gained by e%lecting s. Rudelhuber cap
tain, and II. W. Griebel secretary and
treasurer, The company will receive a
section Of guns-two twelve.pound how
%itzers, with all necessary implements
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