Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-21
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE OFT Y.
Monday Egsning, Say Fl, 1877.
LINES.

10000 bananas at 287 Main.
Braids and curls at Layignes.
Maiiest to-day at Humboldt Park.
Precipitation has become az epidemic
Sunday schools are Aourishing in
Memphis.
An entertainment will be given at thu
Bethel to night.
Amateur theatricals are al the rage
on Shelby street.
The marriage furore has cooled dowr
since the hot weather set in.
The May terms OF the Criminal and
the Shelby county Circuit Courts com.
menced to-day.
Notwithstanding the extremely rot
weather baseball dourished in the sub.
urbs yesterday.
The man who wants to paint y III
house and whitewash your fence is out
on the war-path.
Memphis has as cheap ice as any city
in the land, and yet it is almost inn ossi
BILE to keep cool.
The English-A American school Of the
German Protestant church picnics al
James Park today.
The next thing to do on the custom.
house site is to put down the foundation
of stone and cement.
Strawberries continue total in Price
so that o they are within range Of he
purses of the most i%mpecunious.
The Memphis Reds will swing their
war.clubs and dance around the diamond
ground at Springfield, Ohio, to-day.
Professor Baldwin, an exposer of me.
diumistic spiritism, is showing how it is
done to the people of Huntsville, Ala.
Ice cream and strawberry ieotivals.
school picnics, maifests, decoration days.
ETC., are being duly celebrated in these
times.
Sunday next will be decoration day at
Elmwood Cemetery. Get your baskets
of flowers ready for the annual A)rsl
tribute to the dead.
Mrs. Annie c. Torrey, a Memphis
%spiritualist, delivered an Inspirations
lecture at Chattanooga yesterday on the
subject Of spiritualism.
During the past few days humanity en-.
gagged in a change for the better, from
flannel 10 linen, silk muslin or cotton,
in the way Of underwear.
The total number Of deaths which oc.
CURED ia the city during last week was
twenty four, of which nunber ten were
whites and fourteen blacks.
The Athletics aud A~rlingtons, juvenile
baseball clubs Of Chelsea, in a game
Saturday, resulted 10 a score Of sixteen
to five il favor Of the Athletics.
Tomorrow evening the Ladies' Aid
Society Will give q strawberry festival at
the residence Of S. H. Lamb, Esq, on
Meriwetber avenue, neal Poplar street.
At the ststion.hOuse a stack of base.
ball bats and q pile of balls attest the
success of the police in arresting young
America who INSISTS upon playing base
ball inside the corporation.
Judge G, f. Trigg is in town and will
be found at his chambers by attorneys
who wish 10 haYe him sign bills of ex.
ceptions in cases appealed from the last
term to the United States Supreme
Court,
At the Circuit Court to-day the May
term was opened by Judge Hoiskell. The
petit jurios we're impsneled and court
adjourned over TO tomorrow morning
when the regular business will be com
meneed.
Under the recent Supreme Court de-
cision the city can now file bills in chan.
gerry against delinquent taxpayers and
collect back taxes. Over two millions
of dollars are due the city by delinquent
taxpayers.
The Duke of Edinburgh is about to DO
a very mean thing, He commands TN
English irOn.clad, and should England
20 to war with Russia, Edinburgh will