Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-24
THE CITY.
Tuesday Evening, July "a, 1877.
LEBHER LINES.

LUG SASlho picnic Is postponed.
Tomorrow night another concert will
be given at Estival Parr
The time is arriving for the new bales
of cotton TO come in from Mississippi
and Arkansas.
The strike Of the Memphis base ball
players is over, the boys having struck
out long since. %
A writer who has scanned the late
style Of street dress says: Female
beauty can now be seen and measured
The police commissioners, at a meet.
ing held yesterday afternoon, appointed
as patrolman John Jenny, vice Henry
Hemple, removed,
A pleasant excursion on the river will
be given on the Vint Shinkle tonight
under the management Of Mr.. Jake
PfSter and a club of young gentlemen.
The employees Of the Charleston rail-
road held a meeting last night for the
purpose of considering the big strike Of
their fellOw.workingmen north Of the
Ohio river.
An entertainment will be given at the
Bethel place" tonight for the benefit
of the "Cliosophic Literary Society" OF
Buutyn Station, Music, dancing end
refreshments. Admission, 25c.
The cool and pleasant nights at this
seOson of the year are not understood by
the weather-wise of this latitude. 1t is
by far pleasanter weather than people
are enjoying further north at springs.
A lodge of Knights of Honor was in.
stituted at Helena, Ark, on Friday last,
by Ben X. Pullen, D. S. D, with thirty.
eight charter members. Henry Finch,
P. D.; Judge John E. Bennett, Dictator,
are the principal officers.
The courts of record rot being in SEES.
sion at present, the court. house presents
a desert like appearance to the news.
paper news hunters, who daily climb the
stairways With agility aud with a hope
and faith worthy of a better cause.
Last night Heid's Olympic Varieties
on Washington, suceumbed to a number
Of warm attachments held by couslablel
and sheriffs. The vocalists, dancers ani
speciality performers engaged in a strike
for wages. The place presented a darl
and lonely appearance last night.
II don't want my name to appear il
the papers" is the song yet sung by PER
sons arrested by the police for violation
Of law. They should learn some new
tune or do nothing unlawful, then thei
names will never appear in the paper
except when they appear in a compli
mentary manner.
A house full Of lewd women in Cente
alley, back Of the Washington street Va
%rieties, and another in the alley running
from Main street to Center alley, between
Washington and Poplar streets, furnisI
the squads Of street-walkers who, wit
their male friends, make the vicinity
pandemonium at night. The polio
should suppress these vile establish
ments.
Saloons known to DO publicly fire.
quented by notorious prostitutes an
their male friends after dark should al
tract the attention of the police authori
ties. Many such places exist in the cit
and yet the police authorities pretend t
know it not. Do not the reports mad
to their officers by the men on the beat
develop the existence Of such places
and if not, why not2
When the Street Car Company wa
forced to come down to five cents fare
the company at once cut down the wage
of its employees ten or more per cent
The five cent fare brings in more shekel
to the purses of the three owners Of th
road than did the ten.cents rate, and yC
the employees wages remain cut down t
a starvation rate for eighteen hours
work per day. Nh NM