Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-28
LEDGER LINES.
lids and curls at Layigne's.

now.
To-day ell the courts are in session
once more.
St. Patrick's picnic, James Park, next
Wednesday.
White fish and Mackinaw troat at v.
D. Fuchs, al Jefferson.
An evening newspaper is a great con-
v~enience to some morning journals.
The different churches of the city
were well attended yesterday and last
night.
The Tennessee Dental Association will
meet on the 9th of June at Lookout
Mountain.
Cherry pies and stomach aches are as.
ISOLATED together in business at this sea.
son Of the year.
The Memphis excursionists who went
to Texas were at Austin on last Satur.
day, en- route for home.
The total number of deaths which oc.
CURED in the city during last week was
l6-whites, 81 blacks, I.
The moonlight nights Of the present
are much enjoyed by promenaders and
those Economically inclined.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
t%umblers, bird cages, ice.crsam freezers
water coolers, etc., is c. N. Erich's.
A slanderous critic insists thai
woman's first choice is O fast man
second a good man, and finally any man.
A few cases Of drunk, disorderly and
lighting appeared before the recorder
this morning, and we're disposed Of BY
fine.
The Southern Express Company con
tinues to place the LEDGER under daily
obligations for the latest New York
journals.
The argument of counsel 10 the EN-
bezzlement case of the State VS.. Wood.
ward is progressing at the Criminal
Court to-day.
It takes some Of the enjoyment away
from the popular lawn game of croquei
to see it advertised as a game within
reach of the feeblest intellect.
Moonlight strawberry festivals are the
latest. A strawberry or two, a pretty
girl, two spoons a mutual saucer Of ice,
cream. What more could any man ask
for ?
The spring-overpowered Memphian il
talking about going fishing. Severa-
fishing parties are being organized fol
the Arkansas and Mississippi lakes anC
bsyous.
The mosquito begins to make midn'ght
raids through the dwellings of the citi
zens, and ia consequence mosquito bari
are being washed and put up as rapidly
as possible.
Where shall we go to spend the sum
mar is the question p~ropounded to biz
better half by the head Of the family
who has the mean to carry out the
touring idea,
The moonlight excursion tonight, fol-
the benefit Of the Central Baptist church
building, will be on the fine steamer
Andy Baum, not the Maude. Tickets a
the boat, fifty cents.
The unanimous opinion Of the people
who visited Elmwood Cemetery yester
day was: Let the proposed monumen.
to the Confederate dead be erected il
the midst Of the dead.
Captain s. L. Perkins, of Floreyville
who not many days since shot and killed
q negro as the latter was in the act o
assaulting him with o razor, has beer
released from custody on a bond of on,
thousand dollars.
At Elmwood Cemetery yesterday no
only the graves Of the dead Confederate
soldiers were decorated but also th,
graves Of a number of private citizens
The beautiful custom Of Offering fora
tributes to the dead is not confined tt
any particular class Of dead; it 10 OF
annual tribute to the dead in general.
The frat annual fair of the Hebrew
Children's Charitable Society for thu
benefit Of the Cleveland and New Or
leans orphan asylums will be held in the
Memphis Club Hall tomorrow, May 10th
Everything will be lone to make the en-
tertainment attractive, and it should
yield liberal results.
Two men engaged in a fight at Elm
wood yesterday. They we're promptly
arrested by the police, and on the person
of one of them q pair of brass knucklec
was found. The chief Of police, who
was present at the time, became respon
sible for their appearance before the
recorder, and they we're at once released
from arrest.
New Orleans proposes to fight yellow
fever by means of dioinfecting agencies
The medical board in charge of sanitary
affairs prove by irrefntable statistics that
the practice of disinfection, once Sc
unpopular, has almost completely re.