Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
THE CITY.
Friday Evening, July IS. 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

Fresh oatmeal, Graham -four and
cracked wheat at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s
Do not go off on your summer trip
without leaving your order for the DAILY
LEDGER.
The executive committee of the Shelby
County Bible Society will meet this after
noon at the Cumberland Presbyterian
| church.
Lytle 4 Shields are having one Of the
Backus water motors put up for the pur-
pose of running their mammoth eodee
rooster.
Next Monday night a vocal and in.
strumental concert will be given at Est.
val Park for the benefit of the Church
Orphans Home.
Mrs. John Zent (nee Miss Clara Rob-
e%rtson) has presented her worthy hus-
band with a twelve FOUNDER specimen Of
male humanity.
Memphis Encampment, No. 80, l.. O..
0. f., installed officers and elected S. S.
Garrett representative to the Grand En-
campment last night.
All the courts have virtually adjourned
for the heated term, which gives the
judges, attorneys, clerks, etc, an oppor-
tunity to seek the shade in cooler climes.
The young ladies of the First Metho-
dist Church will give an excursion on the
James D. Parker on Tuesday next, the
18th. The object is to raise means to
procure an organ for the church
The next theatrical season will open
in this city in October. We hope the
public will not be dosed with minstrel
shows or other minor attractions with
which it has long since grown weary.
Already several are announcing Them.
selves as candidates for the judgeship Of
the Criminal Court. The anne Of Judge
Helskill, of the Circuit Court, has been
mentioned most favorably for the posi-
ton by a nsmber Of citizens,
Parties desiring to attend the hop this
evening given for the benefit Of the Leath
orphans, on the Asylum grounds, will
find c%onveyances at the terminus of the
Main street car line 10 Chelsea. Fare
l0c round trip. Come all.
On yesterday it was rumored that an
affair OF honor was about to develop be
tween a we'll known physician and an
equally well known lawyer, resulting
, from a business and legal transaction
. The physician is reported to have invited
: a hostile meeting under the code, which
: proposition the lawyer was considering
: Dead dogs are found in the streets anC
alleys every morning, the result Of the
efforts made by the police patrol force tC
/, poison the animals. Memphis contains
}, several thousand dogs that can well bt
!. spared, and it is to be hoped that all th,
worthless ours of low degree will be sen
: t, that bourne from whence no animal o
Z that species ever returns.
(: The general council will assemble a
g the court. house this afternoon provided
the lazy members will be on hand. Their,
+ are several members OF the council VIII
fail to attend with regularity. Thes,
members are of course generally on hant
u when an election or some whisky o
/, other ring measure comes up for consid
" Grafton. If they cannot attend to th
business of the city they had better re
:, sign.
Rumor has it that two well know.
medical men, residing at Hot Springs
one of them an x.Memphian, and tn
|. other an ex. Louisvillian-had shotgun
/. in their offices last week, preparatory fc
an expected encounter between then
owing to a former controversy aud o
exchange Of hostile notes. WandereI
rom Hot Springs bring the news, an
they feared that the trouble would resu
in bloodshed.
At Estiyal Park tonight a grand col
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cert will be given, WHICH no doubt will
largely attended by the respectable pc
pie of the city. The attempts beir
made by improper characters to ent,
the grounds will be repulsed, and eve
those of that class who attempt to ent