Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-21

season. A committee Of excellent and
energetic ladies will take charge of the
refreshments.
Thursday next the parties interested
in the distribution Of the fund created
by the sale Of the steamers A. J.. White,
Illinois and Cheek, will meet at the of.
fee of the United States Court clerk
for the purpose Of taking proof and
arranging for the distribution Of the
fund.
The band Of the Christian Brothers
College will play at the grand steamboat
excursion for St. Patrick's church on
Thursday night. A meeting Of the gen
tlemen Of St. Pstrick's parish is called
this evening at 8 o'clock to hear reports
Of committees and perfect inal arrange
ments.
A telegram from Nashville announces
that Ed Johnson, the Memphis Express
robber, who garroted Express Messenger
Brady in the decoy Office established by
johnson in the basement Of No. Is Mad.
ison street, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to escape from the p~eniteniiary on
yesterday.
Several members Of the general coun.
Gil and the health officer are playing the
farce entitled, Who is responsible 2
Cleanse the streets and alleys, remove
all nuisances such as offensive aud dis.
ease-breeding sinks and slsgnant pools,
and the public will care very little about
the responsibility"
Last Sunday the Riversides, Of Mem.
phis, and the Muscle Shoalers, of Ala.
bama, made the day less sacred by play.
ing a game at Central Park. The score
was OF 30 little importance that it is not
worth recording. The Riversides won
the game aud are entitled to the badge
as champion Sabbath batters.
Yesterday numbers of citizens con-
graduated each other over the announced
presence of an heir to the negroizsd
radicalism and fortune OF Barbour Lewis
who now h%ibernates in the government
land Office in Utah. 1t is to be hoped
that it is girl, for another such a man
in this world would, to say the least OF
it, be s%uperauous.
On Sunday last the Knights Of Honor
celebrated the anniversary Of their order
by a picnic at Duttliuger's grove, lear
Elmwood Cemetery. Rev. Dir. Thomas,
Of the German Protestant church, deliv.
cred the anniversary discourse. Among
the many attractions was the christening
Of thirteen children Of members Of the
German Protestant church.
Two or three s~elf.appointed health
officers, who are common councilmen,
know more about public health aud san
itary measures than forty thousand doc.
tors. Kuowing too much is a weakness
%pardonable in human nature, but the
public health should not be made tc
suffer because a little councilman wants
to cut a figure in ward politics.
The coroner and a score of magis
trAtes are anxiously waiting to hold al
inquest upon the body Of a dead negro
chicken thief. Who will furnish til,
corpsep There are scores Of citizens
who are willing to do it, but then they
cant, you know, because they do not g
on picket with a shotgun and watch fol
those who prey upon their chicken
hotels,
Said q colored citizen to the station.
house keeper, II lost a dog with a chain
last Saturday night, and want you tC
! publish him." The station.house keeper
advised the colored citizen to put an ad
vertisement in the papers under the heat
Of Lost" II will" said the dog man
but the dog is q bull with one tust
broken off, and thought your men could
do N ore execution than the newspapers
The way to get on a jury: PROBES
sional juror to sheriff. just called tC
say that | do not believe a good citizen
has a right to avoid jury duty, either on
the regular panel of petit juries or as a
grand juryman. If summoned l will
serve in either capacity, because I believe
it a duty | owe society" Sheriff to pro.
fessional juror-"Y You are right; those
ara my sentiments exactly" Sheriff to
reporter, when the professional departs
THAT fellow is a professional juror
and dead beat" Reporter" You are
right; those are my sentiments exactly"
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