Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-07
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
THE CITY
MENIPIIIS:
Thursday Evening, Jnne 2, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.


The general council will meet again
to morrow afternoon.
School examinations are progressing
at our city schools OF present.
Next Saturday will be motion day in
the Shelby county Circuit Court.
The body of the late Horace F. Smith
has not as yet been re3overed-,rom the
river. {.
Public examination I night at Z pm
at the German-English School, 81 Wash
ington street.
A few cases Of drunks and disorderlies
we're disposed Of by Gne by the recorder
this morning.
Ice cream freezers, relrigerators and
wAter coolers very cheap at II. Wetter
& Co.'s, 1884 Main.
Mackinaw trout and white fish at
Victor d. Fuchs at his temporary quar-
ters IS Jefferson street.
During last month we had three fires
in the city. The total loss was $2665,
and the insurance sl7,4OO.
The almost forgotten but famous
John Dooly" has come to the surface
once again in police circles.
The graduating class OF the Memphis
city schools, for the scholastic year
1867, numbers twenty-three.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblers, cages, ice.cream freezors, water
coolers and filters is G. N. Erich's.
Writs for seventeen thousand dollars
worth Of mandamuses we're served on
the general council yesterday a.,ernoon.
Alderman Simon W. Green, of the
Fourth ward, sent in his resignation last
night to the board, and Mr.. W. S, Bruce
was elected to fill the vacancy.
The grand jury tt 'ay has been inter
viewing a large number Of the boys with
a view to discover what they know about
o%lfenses committed within the county.
The late rainfall extend cd southwark
below Grenada, Miss, and planters are
asking FOR more, just as poor Oliver
Twist asked for more soup from the
parish beadle.
A tribe Of English Gypsies is en-.
cawped in South Memphis. The men
trade horses and the women beg and
tell fortunes 10 loVt.lorn maidens and
curious and superstitious old people.
A little mora rain is anxiousIy prayed
for at present, but whether the prayers
Of the good, so intermixed on the same
subject with the prayers Of the wicked,
will DO Of any avail remains to be seen.
The Mammoth Compress Company has
been authorized by the city to erect iele.
graph posts and connect the congresses,
cotton sheds and tho cotton exchange
by o line of telegraph wire for the dis
patch Of business.
At the Market street school. house to.
night a dramatic entertainment will be
given by the pupils under the direction
Of Inc principal, Mr.. W, II Foute.
Cinderella will be the piece presented,
with Miss Nellie Rogers in the title role.
Tickets for admission to the com
meneement exercises Of the graduating
class of the city schools can be had on
application at the office Of tho Board Of
Education, at the Odd Fellows building.
The exercises will be held at the Mem.
phis Theator on tomorrow night.
Mayor Flippin and the rest Of the ex-
c~ursionists who took q pleasure trip to
New Orleans, have returned. Mayor
Flippin assumed the mayoralty once
again on yesterday and relieved Mayor
pro TEN. Cochran, who presided as head
Of the commune for several days past.
Tue necessity for establishing a good
FIRE alarm telegraph, with a system Of at
least thirty boxes scattered throughout
the city, is becoming more patent daily.
The special committee of the general
council, Councilman WorshOm, chair
man, will report on the subject at the