Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-10
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
Tuesday Evening, July 10, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

on Friday next.
The thermometer ranges downward
again among the eighties. .
The Bartlett Circuit Court stands ad-
journed over TO Monday next.
Mandamusesi in coupon suits continue
to be served on the city government.
Going to Hot Springs, Arkansas, is
quite fashionable at this dull season of
the year.
The County Quarterly Court is still in
session engaged in passing on accounts
for various purposes,
A new whari-boat is to be placed at
the landing by Messrs. Ely & Bradford
by permission of the City Fathers.
To-day the dog.muzzlins law goes into
effect throughout the city. The un.
muzzled dogs will be slaughtered on and
after to-day,
Lady Audley'o Secret, by Miss II. E.
Braddon, zoe per copy; Old Middleton's
Money, lOc per copy, at Spangler's news
depot, 976 Main street.
The Odd Fellows give a social excur.
sion tonight on the steamer J. W. Gaf,
which will afford an excellent opportu.
nifty to escape for q few hours from the
heated city.
The Bartlett Circuit Court is truly a
G%ranger's court, it having adjourned over
Tor one week in order to giyethe farmers
a chance to kill the grass which is en-.
dangering their crops.
The jail report to-day shows SO per.
sons confined in prison, of whom l5 have
been coveted of crimes and misde.
meanors, 2 are lunatics aud 2 are triabls
before the Bartlett Circuit Court.
The LEDGER never claims that it is
endorsed again and again, but it claims
that it is read by the public, who admire
its independent spirit and toae. 1t has
no street.car, baseball or other ring
muzzle upon it.
The following officers were installed
for the ensuing year by Penn Royal
Arch Chapter No. 22, last night: r.
Galloway, H. p; A. Spiro, E. K; W.
NJ. Brooks, E. S D .C.Trader, treasurer;
John Beamisb, secretary.
Next Friday night the ladies' Of Ala
bama street church and their friends will
indulge in a moonlight excursion on
board the steamer Cons Millar. Persons
making donations for the excursion will
please send such to No. 249 Poplar street.
AT the Criminal Court to-day the fol.
lowing classes of cases we're up for hear
ing: Keeping houses of illfame, selling
liquor on Sundays, renting houses for
purposes Of prostitution, violating reve-
nue. laws and failing to settle as admins.
traitors.
The leather punehers and their back
ers swear by all that is holy that they
will play baseball on Sunday at Central
Park, law or no law. They defy the law,
and dare the officers Of the law to inter.
fere with them. Wherei is Sheriff Ander-
SOD and his deputies2
Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out
at the residence of Mr.. William Bingham,
on Monroe street, near Third, but through
the exertions of Mr.. Bingham and his
neighbors the fire was suppressed before
much damage resulted The cause of
the fire was a defective Hue.
Last night a negro burglar entered the
residence and bedroom of Colonel John
Donovan on Washington street, near
Third, and carried off the clothing of
Colonel Donovan without detection. The
colonel lost a coat, vest, pants, shirt, etc =,
and had to come out in q new suit to-
day. tl 'pl
The Battle Of the Boyne Water will
not be fought over again in this city on
Thursday next by our Irish and English
isllow.citizens Of different religious and
national procliyities, Itrequires a long.
range memory to pierce through nearly
two hundred years OF national fog and
mist.
Last Saturday was the seventh day of
the week, also the seventh day of the
month, which is the seventh month OF
the year, the year being the seventh Of
The decade, and the decade the seventh
og The century, This is a remarkable
coincidence, not likely to occur again
for a century or mera.
The O'Connor ZOuaves and Dickinson
Light Guards, of Knoxville, have con-
solidated under the name Of Knoxville
Bites, under Captain Alex Allison, The
consolidated company bas decided to
participate in the drill at Huntsville next
October, preparatory to WHICH it will
drill three timeH a week
School Superintendent Leath protests
to the board of education against the
present system in vogue, that Of permit
ting the school rooms to be nurseries fol
infants by lbe mothers Of the babies who
send then 10 the school rooms in order
70 he relieved Of their presence al home