Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-16
PU BLIC LEDGER.
Once, ID Madison street.
LARG EST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Monday Evening, Jury 10, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

son IS approaching.
B%ondholders can exchange old bonds
for new at the City Hall.
A thing unknown to religious children
"a Sunday school vacation.
Cantaloupes from Now Orleans are
found in the markets by opicures.
Oatmeal, Graham -four and cracked
wheat, fresh, at Oliver, Fiunie & Co.'s.
By inspecting show = windows and
clothes.lines the average Memphian a
keep posted on fashions.
If the holes in the sidewalks are not
re aired the city will find itself the de
PENDANT in damage suits.
Dogs are poisoned in Memphis for
fear they will 90 mad, but when poisoned
the owners of the dogs get mad.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblers, cages, ice.cream freezers, water
coolers and filters is C. N. Erich's.
AT Estival Park tonight the concert
for the benefit Of the Church Orphan
Home will take place. Admission, Csc.
Owing to the rains last evening no
concert was hal at Estivsl Park. The
next concert will come of on Wednes
day night next.
The mortuary report Of Memphis Tor
the past week shows the number of
deaths to have been %, Of which l6 we're
whites and IL blacks.
The rains yesterday evening interfered
materially with the pleasure of those who
attended the picnic given at Fitzgibbon's
grove by the French society.
The rains last night had a foe effect
upon the growing crops in the country
surrounding Memphis, as we'll as upon
the sanitary condition Of the streets and
alleys.
Recorder Duff has gone to Hot
Springs, Ark, on account of an attack
Of rheumatism. The recorders bench,
during his absence, will be graced by a
justice Of the peace.
The Washington street variety show
opened up on Saturday night before a
large audience. 1t will be open nightly
for the entertainment of the admirers of
that style Of theatricals.
But one arrest was made by the police
on Saturday, and only one Saturday
night. Since that time and up to II
o'clock last night but one unfortunate
was locked up at the station house.
The boys of the baseball clubs could
take care of hundreds Of acres of corn
and cotton this year if they only would,
but they prefer to pound an old leather
ball with a club every Sunday afternoon
Another funeral procession had to
pass by Central Park yesterday during
the progress Of the baseball game. If
this Sunday base ball playing is not a
nuisance to the public we know not
what is.
The Clarksville Chronicle says OF base.
ball: "As sure as the game is made a
matter Of winning and losing money, it
will fall into the hands Of gamblers and
black.legs, and then it will be time for
gentlemen to drop it."
The unmuzzled dog is seen prowliDg
around occasionally, but here every dog
has bis night instead Of day, SO when he
picks up the poisoned meat he passes
over to the land Of dreams, and is carted
to and dumped into the river next morn.
Ing.
The Memphis milkman drives up in
front OF your residence and pings his bell
ust as if he had tackled q deaf and
dumb asylum, Milk bells are a nuisance
to people who sleep in the early morn.
Every milkmsn should be provided with
a te,':snhone.
Yesterday afternoon a heavy sign
board in front Of the store Of Il. M.
Drake & Co., No. 267 Main street, fell
and struck Mrs. MoGatt, who unfortu-
uatsly happened to be passing under it
at the time The sign struck her on the
head, inaicting a severe but not danger.
Gus wound.
James Kelly. a member Of the police
force, died yesterday at his residence in
the suburbs Of the city. he had been
on the force about two years aud was an
efficient officer. For several months he
has been in bad health. His funeral will
take place this afternoon from "a Robin
son street.
At the Shelby County Circuit Court to-