Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-20
MEMPHIs:
wednesday Evening, June 20. 1877
LEDGER LINES.

Reirigerators at reduced prices at H.
Wetter 4 Co.'S.
Estival Park, at the head Of Vance
street, will be opened tonight.
The board of police and FIRE commits
sioners will hold a seance this afternoon.
Jefferson Davis signature brought
81 O5 at a recent auction sale of auto
graphs in New York.
Everything becomes popular from a
6ve.cent standpoiat--soda water, lager,
street car rides and daily LEDGERs.
st. Mary's Cathedral Suuday.schcol
picnic will come off on Thursday, the
2lst instant, a. Fitzgibbon's grove.
Extensive preparations are making for
Miss Hattie Trezevant's concert al the
theater on the night Of the 9th instant
The Central Methodist church Sunday
school will have a picnic at Fitzgibbon's
next Saturday. Don't forget your BIAS
kets.
Every person complains Of the heated
term, just as If it was not usual to have
a heated term about this time of the
year.
Quite a crowd of people is in attend
ance at the Criminal Court room to-day,
listening to the Reesnover Ellis murder
case.
Commencement exercises are being
held at St. Agnes Academy, the Chris
tan Brothers College and st. Msry's
school.
Among the distinguished visitors in
town are Major W. j. W~hitthorne, Of
Columbia, and Major Albert Akers, Of
Nashville, Tennessee.
Hon. Casey Young will address The
graduates of the Christian Brothers
College at the New Memphis Theater
on Friday next, 22d inst.
The linen buster man is in strong force
this season. He is everywhere, and pre-
s,nts the same dilapidated appearance in
all places and at all times.
Every city has a Thompson with a
p" but Memphis has one with Up. NJ"
and the additional letter is worth FIVE
thousand dollars per annum.
At Argenta, Arkansas, the inhabitants
are gathering in whole schools OF fish,
which were left in the deep holes of the
streets and failed to retire with the fall
ing waters,
Yesterday the Memphis Reds we're de-
/ feated by the Milwaukee club by a score
of 2 to |. The defeat, however, did not
prevent any Memphian from drinking
Milwaukee lager beer last night.
At the Cbancery Court Mary j. Bar
mar has filed a divorce and injunction
bill against James A. Bsrman. The pc.
%titioner claims a divorce on the grounds
of cruel treatment, failure to support,
abandonment, adultery, etc.
The potato market is getting brisk.
large quantities of the esoulent root ar
irving daily. The potato ia indigenous
to America and was introduced into
England by Sir Walter Raleigh and
other adventurers in the sixteenth cen
fury.
The Criminal Court is a double barrel
ed concern. While Judge Logwood is
presiding over the trial Of the R%eesnover-
Ellis murder case, Mr.. 0rville Yerger,
acting as special Judge, is presiding over
the trials Of misdemeanor and light fell
ony cases.
No change without a cause, is the in.
structions VI Postmaster General Key,
and parrot ike the same is repeated by
all his appointees, the P. Ms, to all ap.
plicasts for minor positions. There are
but few men in Memphis who have any
change without a cause for having 1t.
Mons. F. Petitdidier, a resident Of the
French colony at Fort Pickering, re.
ported at the station,house last night
that be was shot at twice on yesterday
afternoon while working in his field, by
a negro named Tim Hicks, but The
police have SO ia: been unable to iud
Mr.. Hicks. ill IS t3oa agsfr
T,aat night the Chiekaaew Guarda "a