Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31
LEDGER LINES.

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Memphis is becoming a city Of Build.
ing and Loan Associations, especially in
the suburbs.
The picnic given at Estival Park by
the German Casino Climb last night was
largely attended.
This afternoon the general council will
meet al the City Hall and engage in the
regular monthly business.
Grapes and peaches are coming into
market in quantities. The fruit crop
this year has been very prolific.
Street cars will be in wpiting for Beal
and Poplar streets to take the Cons
Millar excursionists home tonight.
The days at present are fourteen hours
IN length; the breadth or thickness of
the days is not stated in any almanac
within our reach.
The st. Lazarus church river excur.
sion, under the supervision of the Ladies'
Aid Society, will take place tonight on
board the steamer Cons Millar.
Estival Park Concert to morrow night
will be more than usually attractive.
Mile Salvotti will make her debut in
Memphis as d concert room vocalist.
Absentees read the LEDGER daily Just
as they did when at home. The daily
LEDGER will be mPilod regularly to any
address for seventy.fve cents per month.
Captain Jim Glass company Of col
ored men, the Mcclellan Guards, was
out drilling last night. The men will be
taught the skirmish drill and the bayonet
exercise.
Several delegates from the river coun.
ties, en- route for the Mississippi State
Convention, which will assemble at Jack.
son tomorrow, passed through our city
yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon WIN. Crosby, o
brick mason at work on the burned down
building, 23O Main street, slipped end
fell into the alley, receiving serious in.
juries, but breaking no bones.
1t is almost impossible to keep chick
ems in the suburbs Of the city or on the
more remote streets. The chicken
thieves are out nightly and generally
succeed in scooping in the birds.
The Chickasaw Guards and the Bluff
City Grays indulge in weekly drills and
other military exercises at their armories.
Both companies are rapidly approaching
a high state of military discipline.
Moneyed Memphians continue TO slip
away TO the mountains and springs loca.
ted in more northern ATTITUDES, where
they will kill time until the September
days come and the business season com.
mences.
The scarcity Of money in Memphis is
generally remarked. The banks claim
TO have plenty Of the filthy lucre in their
vaults, but they are not giving it away or
l%oOning it out promiscuously without gilt
edge security or plenty of collateral.
In these days many a married Mem
phian gets home late at night aud pre-
Seuts himself before his vile with the
bottoms of his trouser legs trinEed with
sawdust, yet he would be willing to swear
that he had not been dancing at a picnic
with other mems wives.
A young bear domiciled at the Adams
street station'house affords au infinite
amount Of amusement to the louugers
who hang around the place by day and
by night. Among those who amuse
themselves with youthful bruin can BIO
numbered many newspaper reporters.
A aweet-sixteen city lady, spending her
first summer in the country, ~innocently
inquired Of her rustic host while viewing
hestock yarl early one morning, Which
of those cow gives the buttermilkY p BE
pointed out the bovine, for which she ex-
pressed her thanks. Chris Steinkuhl is
now the owner of this wonderful AMI.
NAL.
Captain Reudelhuber's artillery com.
pany received two l~2.pounder howitzers
yesterday AMI had them out on parade
through the principal streets. With
these two guns and Steinkuhl's 10
FOUNDER Parrott gun Memphis could
stand a siege for a few days and could
keep off The enemy by Smelling the
woods.
Last evening Mr., E. d. V lite, son Of
the Rev. DR.. White, Of our city, fell from
the fourth story of the jackson block, on
the orner Of Main and Gayoso streets,
down through the skylight trap into the
cellar, q distance Of about fifty feet. No
homes we're broken, but internal and ex.
teruul injuries we're r. eeived, which may
yet develop fatally.
Last night officer Holman a,sested jim
Monroe, a well known Monroe street
gambler and ex.barkeeper, and q negro
named George Sparks, on a charge o
committing q crime against nature Of