Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-17
TEIE CITY.
Tuesday evening, JnIy u, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

nifty from fires.
Mason's depot postofice has been made
a money order office.
Burglars and sneak thieves continue
to make night raids occasionally.
Banks are bursting in st. Louis owing
to heavy runs made by depositors.
This season the blackberry crop has
been a failure throughout the country.
The contract for 800 1000 brick for the
custom-house has been awarded to Mr..
Charles Jones.
The annual picnic of the French So
ciety will be duly celebrated on Sunday
next at Fitzgibbon's grove.
The gentle rains from heaven have
been falling for several days, thereby
making the temperature pleasant and
agreeable of nights.
Planters from the Mi Mississippi bottom
say the late rains added hundreds of
bushels Of corn and hundreds of pounds
OF cotton to their crops.
Esquire Egnew dispenses Justice every
morning at the Police Court, vice Recor.
der Duff who has gone to Hot Springs,
Ark, in search Of health.
The way to 90 to New York or any
other city East at present is by way Of
Little Rock, Ark, If cheap fare is any
consideration or inducement.
The Newspaper Union, or patent out.
side office on Second street, near Adams,
since the strike of the male printers, now
employs female printers at a low rate Of
wages.
Last Sunday afternoon a fierce storm
OF wind and rain swept over the country
south OF this city, neal Horn Lake, Mis-
sissippi, doing considerable damage to
fences and crops.
The b~ase.balIists are very angry at the
LEDGER because it opposes the infamios
connected with Sunday baseball play
ing, Let the CALLED jade vince, our
witheTs are unrung."
A sandboat is anchored over the sand
bar near HopeGeld, and the crew is
seraping sand from the bottom for the
use of the custom.house site, where a
concrete foundation is being laid down.
Numbers Of Memphians are leaving
daily for little retired and shady hooks
in the mountains aud OF springs, where
they will while away the days until the
middle of September, then, like the swal.
lows, they will homeward fly.
The Adams street engine.house bell,
which sounded the midnight hour, was
the public clock listened for eagerly by
hundreds Of people who governed their
retirement to the land of dreams by its
pealings, but it sounds no more.
The national cotton exchange meets
at Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs,
Va, tomorrow, the 18th inst. The fol.
lowing Memphians will be in attendance
as delegates; Messrs. W.. A. Goodwin,
B. F. Phillips, r. Wermley, d. P. Had.
den, John S. Toof and John Steele.
The baseball mines shoald change
front and organize themselves into chess
clubs; they would become intellectually
developed and improved thereby. Mus.
cular development is all very fine, but a
prize-ighter or a corn.ield negro will
always excel them in that particular.
The proposed concert at Estival Park,
for the benefit of the Church Home,
which was TO have come off last night,
was at q late hour postponed until
Wednesday tomorrow night. Many
people went out to the park last evening,
they not being cOgnizant of the change
Of programme.
A king snake, which adorned a bottle
in a saloon in this city, escaped a few
nights since, and now the bar-keepers
are asking, Where are your whenever
they put their hands in a dark drawer or
recess where bottles are stored. Some
day the snake may bite one Of them and
answer, Here am l."
Candidates for the mayoralty have
been announced already. The friends
Of Mr.. John johnson are advocating his
claims to reelection and the friends Of
Mayor Flippin are doing likewise with
their man. Other candidates will no
doubt be in the field. The race will not
be a walk-over for anybody,
Let the Adams street eng:ne-house bell
peal forth the hour of midnight as it has
done for the past eighteen years. A few
nervous people have put the bell under
the ban Of the dog law, and have placed
q muzzle upon it, If these tender-nerved
people don't like the musical sounds of
the midnight bell let them move out into
the suburbs.
Next summer all the county officials
go out of office and a general election
will take place. This has already turned
loose q swarm Of candidates for posi-
lions. You can hear of them in beer
saloons and whisky shops, where the
merits Of the respective candidates are
a