Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-31
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Military ball and concert ct Estival
Park tonight.
To-day is the last day of the CONNER
cial year ls77-7S.
Newspaper life has its shysiers as we'll
as the law business.
May, the shirt tailor, has new styles in
shirts and fuishiugs.
The peelers will swap day and night
duty at noon on tomorrow.
Fresh oysters, red snapper and Mack.
NAV trout at Victor D, Fuchs.
The boat races on the river will come
off on Monday, the 10th of September.
Tomorrow night another meeting OF
workingmen will be held at Cochran
Halt
The next term Of the United States
Courts will convene on the 24.h of Sep.
TENDER.
The grand steamboat excursion for
the benefit Of St. Patrick's church i'll
come off on Monday night. l
The LEDGER on tomorrow will present.
a picture Of the past commercial year,
and will be filled with interesting news.
Hunting up, or hunting down, local
items is warm work at present. The
hunting is very fine, but the game is
scarce.
Tonight at Estivsl Park the great
military ball AID concert will come off.
i vii! be largely attended by our best
citizens.
1t is impossible to state whether The
fat or the lean man suffers most from
heat. No man knows how to decline the
verb to perspire.
Miss Susie Miller, formerly of this city,
Is singing before large audiences at the
Gem Theater, Black Hills City. So says
the Black Hills Times.
Next Wednesday, it is said, the mai,
riAse bells will ring out over the depar.
ture Of q street railroad official on n trim
over the matrimonial sea.
An effort will be made 10 induce Judge
Trigg, of the United States Court, to
modify his recent order or ~mandamus
with reference to the Nicolson pavement
tax.
The great attraction e day is the bar.
becue at Estival Park, given by the
Seventh Tennessee cavalry association.
To nisht a military ball and concert will
be given at the Park.
This forenoon Robert Harris was al
rested by the police on the charge Of
larceny. Belle Saunders was arrested
on tue charge Of using abusive language
and committing a nuisance.
Do not forget to visit Eslival Park 10.
night. The concert aud military ball
will be the attractions. Every arrange.
ment has been made by Mr, Meiater Tor
the entertainment Of all visitors.
Last night the Bluff City Grays drilled
On the streets under command of Lieut.
Edmondsop, The boys p%erspired freely,
marched well aud displayed great i'm
provement in all the movements.
Last night was excessively hot, The
mercury at midnight indicated SO OF
heat and rising, People are again pray
ing for rain or anything to create q cool.
ness between this earth and the sun.
The Memphis oyster season will com.
meuce on or about the 18th of Septem'
Der. Then you can have your bivalves
stewed, tried, roasted, steamed, broiled or
raw. Men can then live on the halt
shell
There was a meeting Of Il e old Con-
federates at Water Valley, Miss, last
Wednesday to witness the unwilling Of
he monument erected there 10 honor OF
he Confederate dead, Colonel Van II.
Manning was the orator Of the day.
Are you a w~orkingman2 Show me
your hand, is the street question at
present, In polit G. showing your hand
is not re1arde as wise in dyanca Of an
electiou. In attempting to conceal the
hand the Radicll closeu loot often comes
into view.
TNe surviving n embers OF the Hum
dred and Fifty fourth AID Thirteenth
Tennessee (%0ohfederaie) regiments Of
inf .irv nurnn o. upit. u,f nm r~annion