Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-01
LEDGER LINES.

meets AT o CLOCK this evening
The concert at Estival Park tonight
will be a musical treat, both instrument
ally and v%ocally.
Tho city fathers VIII rally in the city
hall this afternoon and attack city az
fairs in the usual gallant style.
The Mississippi State Democratic cor.
v%entiou is in session at Jackson to-day
for the purpose of nominating State
officers.
The colorei Daughters of Zion, num-
bering some four hundred strong, are in.
dulging in a picnic at the Exposition
building to-day.
The Bluff City Grays were ont drilling
on the streets last night and enjoying
column and line movements. The men
apNeared in undress uniform.
The employees Of the gas company p,
titioned for an increase of wages a few
days since, but the company refuses to
comply with their demands in this
respect.
A Bcal street market woman was
robbed by o NEGRO last evening. He
snatched her pocketbook, which con.
tanned one hundred and sixty dollars,
and escaped.
The brickmakers in many of the yards
are on q strike for higher wages and the
strike is resisted by the employers, who
claim that the wages are sufficiently
high at present.
The lightning, thunder, wind and rain
storm Of this morning had the effect of
cooling off the atmosphere no little. A
little rain storm now and then is relished
by the wisest men.
Mr.. Cary, the treasurer of the late or.
phans' concert, yesterday paid over to
the Sisters Of st. Mary, in charge Of the
Orphans Home, $ll5 90. the net pro.
ceeds Of the concert.
The excursion given by the Ladies
Aid Society Of St. Lazarus Church on
board the steamer Cons Millar last night
was well attended and was both socially
and %pecuDiarily successful.
The Chicago Interior Presbyterian
Organ says, the best protection against
mobs and riots is the Sunday,school and
the church. Employers should remem
} Der this when dealing with striking EN-.
ployes.
The thermometers sank down rapidly
tt lay. and no longer do they aspire to
reach above the ninety point, but are
1 satisfied to flutter around the eighty
notch. "Vaulting ambition often over
leaps itself and falls on the other side"
James Monroe, white, and George
Sparks, negro, we're tried before Esquire
Egaew yesterday afternoon on the charge
of having committed a crime against
nature, and were bound over in the sum
ofs S25OO each to answer before the
Criminal Court.
: Man shall earn his bread by the
, sweat of his brow" does not apply to the
/ chap who works not but yet p~erspires
freely even in the shade, because the
thermometer scars above the ninety
point and the chap drinks freely Of
whisky or lager beer.
, To-day, at the United States Court.
: room, Mr.. Snead, Of the firm Of Myers &
Snead, is hearing a case of reference
with regard to the feesin the bankruptcy
: court. The parties to the controversy
/. are Messrs. J.. NJ. Tomeny VS.. Oscar
Woodbridge, assignee.
Those who return from the springs
and watering places look sad aud de-
jected, but those starting for such places
look smiling and happy. The former are
about TO resume work and the latter have
struck on it. The outgoing and the in
coming tourists can easily be recognized
by the close observer of the phases Of
human nature.
An immense owl was shot and killed
in Court Square Monday afternoon. The
firing Of the gun caused q crowd OF peo'
Pile to repair to the spot, they believing
{ that some man had been shot for somG
real or fancied delinquency, and the
crowd was disappointed at not seeing q
: dead man. The owl visited the Square
, for the purpose Of INDUCING in q squirrel
, feast.
TIC day many o man had to cast his
eagle eye over a billhead whereon his
name was " .itten in elegant style and q
few figures appeared, setting forth his
,, delinquency on the debit side of the ac'
count, The sweet. voiced collector was
heard to say, VIVA time shall | call2'
when he heard the words, II have no
money to day" And then the collector
passed out when informed that his visits
would be appreciated next week; but the
dunned individual was heard to remark