Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-25
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
MOndaS Evening, Jano rs, 1877.
LEDGER

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Catalogues, wstermelons, peaches
and figs have arrived in market.
Thanks to the Southern Express Com
pany for the latest New York papers
daily.
This morning detective Pryde arrested
Charley Bell (negro) on the charge of
larceny.
Ike grand lodge Of colored Masons OF
Tennessee will meet at Knoxville on the
Dist Of July.
Improper characters, both men and
women, who frequent Court Square after
dark will be arrested by the police,
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblers, cages, ice'cream freezers, water
coolers and filters is c. N. Erich's.
At the Criminal Court to day in the
ReeSnover-Ellis murder case witnesses
for the defense are being examined.
Hundreds CT people visited the
churches, the bluff Court Square, Elm.
wood Cemetery and Estival Park yestei-
day.
Last week closed out the school com.
menc0ments, very much TO the satislac.
ton of newspaper reporters and many
others.
On Saturday the Reds beat the Spring
feld, Ill, home club by a score OF IL
to 0. The game was not a good one, the
Springfield club being weak indeed.
Let usgo a fishing" is a popular in.
v%itation at present. When a fishing party
is organized the commissary department
is not ignored from an ice standpoint.
The ladies and gentlemen engaged in
the complimentary concsrt to be tender
ed Miss Hattie Trezeyant will meet at
the rooms Of Mr.. Emile Levy, at 7:3O
this evening.
Mr.. Thompson, Of the Avalanche, who
was the lucky man who drew the post.
office in the Hayes lottery, will take pos
session of the thing on the LIST of Jslyf
Sunday next.
Mejor Ben. X Pullen, deputy sheriff,
has returned from Port Gibson, Miss. at
which point he, as Deputy Supreme Die.
tator, organized a Lodge OF knights Of
Honor on Thursday last.
Numbers of people are arranging for
movements to the nOrthward, to springs
and other shady resorts. Those who
have no money will hold the fort until
fall, when the absentees will return to
the bluff.
The receipts Of cotton in the city last
week was 5l9 bales; receipts for the sea.
son, 38O,7S4 Shipments for the week,
1868; for the season, 81, sos. Stock on
hand, 1873, Sales for the week, $500
all taken by %spinners.
Tom Harris, alias the Chicken " me
gro) who killed old man Meade some
months ago with q brick on Second
street, near Beal. and who was SEN
fenced to the pe%nitentiary for the crime,
has escaped from the coal mines and is
now at large.
Arrangements have been made for a
grard Fourth of July excursion train
from Irrelevant, Atwood aud Milan to
Memphis, tickets at reduced prices to be
good on any train returning on the 9th.
We will be glad to see a big crowd of the
worthy and intelligent people of that
section. Ial
AT the Shelby County Circuit Court
the case of Sommers vs.. the Mississippi
aud Tennessee Railroad Company for
damages, caused by the accidental killing
Of a son of Mr.. Somners at the depot
some time since, is on hearing before
Judge Heiskell and a jury.
AT Horn Lake Depot, Miss, on Wed.
nesday night next, q dramatic entertain
ment for the benefit Of a church organ
fund will be given. In the dramatis per.
soma Of the plays to be presented several
young gentlemen and ladies Of this city
will figure.
The opening of the exposition in Mem
phis is discussed. If it could not be
conducted in q more business style than
heretofore a loss Of money would result
to stockholders, 1t would hardly pay to
open it again. A county fair held at
Memphis would be much more in keep
ing with the times and the temper Of the
people.
The police should visit Court Square
about dark or u little after and make a
few arrests of the lewd men and women
who trequent that beautiful place for vile
purposes, and to the great annoyance of
the better class of citizens. At present
Court Sqaare after dark is a place of as
signation with scores of vile people.
Judge Trigg, Of the United States
Court, left for Nashville on yesterday, at
which point he will hold court one week,
The United States Court here adjourned
over to the fourth Monday in September
next. 10 about two weeks Judge Trigg