Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-09
Omce, Is Madison street.
Saturday evening. june Q. 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

SPoHs'cAi olO maiu otIetti nus
all the latest papers and periodicals.
The general council will assemble
again on next Wednesday afternoon.
Pull up and wade" has been the
motto Of pedestrians for several days.
Maennerchor picnic at F~tzgibbon's
Park is postponed till Sunday, June "a.
Ice cream freezers, refrigerators and
water coolers very cheap at d. wetter
& Co.'s, 1884 Main.
The rains washed out the display of
the black Knights Templar, tat the
show will take place next Monday.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblers, cages, ice.cream freezers, water
coolers and filters is C. N. Erich's.
Many bridges have been washed away
along the rivers and streams by the
freshet, which is still raging in this sec.
ton o! country.
The ladies Of Grace (Episcopal) church
will engage in q sociable on Tuesday
evening next at the residence Of Mr.. j.
]. Murphy, on Beal street.
Mr.. Bruce having declined to serve as
alderman Of the Fourth ward, the board
at it's meeting on yesterday elected Mr..
Il. A. Allison to fill the vacancy.
Magistrates blanks, summons, letter
and bill heads aud envelopes for sale at
this Office, cheap. Call and examine our
prices before purchasing elsewhere.
The Memphis Reds defeated the Roch-
esters yesterday at Rochester, N. Y, by
a score Of 7 to O. Decentralization
s, Reds 81; base hits Rochester 3,
Reds IL.
Several bets have been made as to the
result Of the drill contest at Huntsville,
Alabama, on the 10Th instant, between
the Chicks" and the Porter Rifles, oil
Nashville.
We regret to learn that Mr.. John Zent
lost ten thousand dollars worth Of saw
logs from Wolf river by the freshet yes
terday. Other saw-mill men lost proper
t%ionate amounts.
Drift and log-catchers are having g
busy time Of It at present. Immense nun
bers of logs have been swept out of Vol
river by the floods, which caused heavy
losses to saw-mill owners.
On Madison street, between Main and
Front, to day, the NICHOLSON pavement
is being taken up so that the sewers and
pipes can be repaired, the latter having
been damaged by the heavy rains.
What's one mans meat is another
mans poison. One man likes the
LEDGER because 1t does not devote all it,
columns to baseball news, while another
prefers another paper because it does so
Mr.. Mike Dea, of South Memphis, ye.
terday received the melancholy intell..
gence hat his daughter, aged about ff
teen years, just budding into woman,
hood, died suddenly near Hot Springs,
Ark.
The Junior Reds defeated the Young
Americas, juniors, yesterday, by a score
of 10 to g.. These baseball clubs are
composed Of distinguished young citi
zens in the bud, ranging from seven to
ten years old.
All tie log RATS belonging to the saw
mill owners On Wolf river have been
washed out into and down the Mississip,
pi river. The aggregate loss is estimated
at $50, 900. The mill owners have started
log catchers down the river to catch the
drifting RATS if possible between here
and Helena.
Two or three small %trestles or culverts
washed out on the Little Rock railroad
yesterday, and 10 consequence the train
due at 1880 last night failed to come
through. Repairs will be made to-day,
and trains are expected to run regularly
as usual from this time forward.
The street bridges spanning Bayou
Gayoso are all right with the exception
of two or three, which have been slightly
damaged by the raging waters. The ap'
proaches, sidewalks, etc, at the bridges
have sunk and dangerous holes have been
formed. The city engineer and his as
%sistsnt, Mr., Murray, are attending to
these matters closely.
Bayou Gayoso is putting on the airs Of
a big river, 1t has risen over twenty
feet aud threatens destruction to houses
and bridges that obstruct its turbid
course into Wolf and fr~om'theace to the
sea via the Mississippi river. An ocean
steamer could now ascend Bayou Gayoso
from its mouth to within ten inches Of
its source were The bridges removed.
The board of couucilmen at the meet.
ing held yesterday afternoon refused to
appoint a joint committee to investigate
the notorious police troubles which now
exist, and which have the effect of rem,
dering the police force very inefficient
The politicians on the police force will
ruin the force yet in order to subserve
their own interests or greed for holding