Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-21
LEDGER LINES.

AAN" NANNJ DNtiOA 0N NhA'Sii !
ME & Co.'s.
For a perfect fitting shirt go to May,
the shirt tailor.
Concert at Joe Emmerich's saloon,
343 Adams street, tonight.
Another concert will be given at Esti-
val Park on tomorrow night.
The hog cholera prevails in several
portions Of Middle and East Tennesses
This is good chill and fever weather, es.
p%ecially for those who sit out of doors at
night.
About five hundred dogs have been
poisoned to death within the past Two
weeks by the police authorities.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblers, cages, ice-creRm freezers, water
c%)olers and 6ltersis c. N. Erich's.
The Asiatic cholera has appeared at
New York city, a letter carrier named
Peter Van Keuren being the victim.
R. Il. SpanCler, news dealer, 376 Main
street, has all the late periodicals and
Library series, Call and get good re TAD.
ing cheap.
Professor Arnold received to-day from
Europe new music, some of which will
De produced OF the concert to- morrow
night at Estival Park.
Quite a number Of both young and old
Memphians are considering the propriety
of going to Texas to settle down and
grow up with the county.
Esquire Elliott to-day was hearing a
case wherein a negro man was arrested
on the charge of violating the person of
a colOrsd child, aged ten years.
Memphis will soon have a section ci O
battery-two twelve pound howitzers
Then we car lombard Rustchuk, or
Hopefeld over the river, if necessary.
Ere long the startling announcement
that the frat bale Of cotton has been re.
ceived in Memphis will be made. Already
the first Texas bale has been received at
Galveston.
The moral picked nine Of The LEDGER
played a nineteen inning game With the
Memphis Reds. The game lasted a
weak, every day except Sunday, and re.
suited as follows; Ledgers, l; Reds, 0
What's the matter with the weather.
is an inquiry often made at present and
since the cool night season set in. Last
night at IL o'clock four reporter never
Its up later the thermometer indicated
seventy degrees.
Associated Press Agent Major Will O
Wocdson has returned from Detroit,
whittier he had been attending the an.
lual meeting Of the Western Press Asso.
citation. Colonel Kellar, of the Ava.
lauche, who also attended, vent east
ward from Detroit to Washington.
A young man who rooms in the cen.
trail portion Of the city has been in the
habit of firing off a pistol at midnight
out of his back window, which opens out
on an alley. This he did for the pur.
pose OF creating a sensation in the vicin.
ity and fooling the police. He will do
it no more.
Baseball clubs are ~disbanding all over
the country. The game is on its last
legs, and next year will see its funeral
Whenever any game gets into the hands
of professionals who play for money
and make it a business, it ceases to be a
national or popular game, becomes a
gambling affair and les death warrant is
sealed from that time.
The Estival Park concert given last
night for the benefit Of the Church Or
phans Home was most successful both
socially and pecuniarily. Between one
and two thousand people we're in attend
ance. The music by Arnold's band vas
very fine, the band rendering difficult