Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-27
LEDGER LINES.

The Bluff City Graya will parade the
streets this afternoon.
The operate lady most admired by
newspaper men-the Bohemian Girl"
The Estival Park oncert last night
attracted quite a large number Of visit
ors.
FISH How many2 Too. How is
the three year.Old2 Garry the ball to
the lady.
The weather is steaming up again, and
thermometers are receiving more atten.
ton than usual.
Tonight the Bluff City Grays' military
excursion comes off on board the
steamer Phil Aim.
The w~orkiugmen will hold an ad.
j ourned meeting at Cochran Hall OF
next Wednesday evening.
1t has been estimated by a physician
that there are five chills in every water
melon at this season of the year.
Business men who went of to the
springs and other places of pleasure
North and East are beginning to return
The convention of chief engineers arc
fire chiefs Of the United States will as
semble at Nashville on the 4th of next
month.
There will be quite a large military
display at the reunion of the Seventh
Tennessee (Confederate) cavalry, to be
held on the Slst instant, Friday mex t, a
Esliyal Park.
The county register t today was regis
tering a mortgage of iorty.four printed
pages, of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad to the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, Of New York.
The members Of the Christian Broth.
ers' band are notified to attend the re
hearsal and drill at the college to. night
in preparation for the parade of the
Seventh Tennessee Cavalry on mex
Friday.
There are under examination TO,
teachers certificates in the city schools
nineteen whites, all ladies, and fifteen
colored, four Of the latter males. There
are only two or three vacancies for
teachers.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee has
recently decided that justices of the
peace gre entitled to receive one dollar
each for taking testimony OF State wit.
nesses in writing and having the same
signed by witnesses in felony cases.
Mrs Ellen Foster, a woman lawyer oil
Clinton, Iowa, has been appointed by
the District Court one of the committee
10 examine candidates for admission to
the bar. 1t is safe to say that no woman
ever held such an Office as that before.
Mr., Thomas B. DuHin, who broke bis
leg some weeks ago on North Court
street, is able to appear on the streets
on crutches, Mr.. E. b. White, WHO fell
from the fifth story Of the jackson block,
is also able to appear en- crutches on the
streets.
An Irish railroad hand got in a skih
with Dan 0'CoHnel at Helena to 80 tc
Vicksburg, and when near Concordia the
'kiff struck a snag, turned over, and the
man named Tom was drowned. As the
Allin passed Arkansas City a body had
been hauled ashore and an inquest was
being held on the body. 0'Connel lbinkt
it was the body Of the above.
Last evening a man called at the Office
OF DR.. Laski, on Main, neor Adams
street, and asked the doctor for some
medicine. Have you any money? in
quired the man CT pills. Take that,
replied the sick man, as he struck the
doctor With his fist, knocking him dowr
AMI giving Him a bad black eye. The
sick man escaped without being arrested
The magnificent ratlls.snake, brought
to this city from Arkansas by Captain
Randall, Of the ST, amer Mark Twain
died yesterday at eleven o'clock, from
exposure 10 the hot Gun. II had been a
Leubrie's cigar store several days snC
visited by hundreds Of people. BeinI
left out crrelessly in the hot sun a few
hour Iin its wirebox it succumbed to tn,
heat and died. The r%atiles, numbering
thirteea and a button, are in the posses
sion Sf our river EDITOR, Captain Durff
TO whom it was originally sent.