Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-26
LEDGER LINES.

More rains do not bling more rest in
these striking times.
Patronize home industry aud buy your
shirts at Mays, 237 Main street.
There are more blowers than strikers
in Memphis, especially in political cir
cles.
The Memphis delegates to the Vir-
ginia cotton convention have returned
home.
We noticed the first choice home
grown watermelons of the season at the
Main street market, 326 Main.
The United States troops are being
sent North through Memphis to pre-
serve order" What q change Of pro.
grammel
Ex.Sherif A. P. Curry and ex-Police
Commissioners S. B. Beaumont, fomerly
Of this city but o of Arkansas, are
mere en- route ior theN North.
The employees of the Raleigh narrow
gauge railroad are contented and salts
fed with their wages, and have no inten.
ton of joining the big strike.
A white farmer, about thirty years old,
too drunk TO give his name, ives arrested
by the police this forenoon on the charge
Of being drunk and disorderly.
The city officers are moving their FIX
lures from the courthouse to the city
hall to-day and by the end OF the weel
will be safely ensconced at their ole
quarters.
If you have a good sister, love anC
cherish her with all your heart; if yor
have none, why then love and cherish
the good sister Of some other man will
all your heart.
The young man Of the Appeal admit'
that he knew not the difference between
a cystique tumor and elephautasus, whel
the difference is we'll known by ever,
other man in the city.
The Estiyal Park concert given for tn,
benefit Of the Church Orphans HON
Melted one hundred dollars and fv
cents, with q number of tickets givel
cut for sale not as yet accounted for
A company Of the Thirteenth regular
passed through the city last night, sl
route to Louisville. Captain Pratt, VIII,
was selected by the Chickasaw Guards t
act as judge at the Huntsville competi
tive drill, commanded the company.
No arrest was made by the day patro
force yesterday and but one arrest wa
made last night, Julius Stein, charged
with committing an assault and battery
and for which he had the pleasure 0
paying s. at the recorders matinee to
day.
If worst IN to worst, the country
can arm the baseball clubs. Their
would be deep and universal grief, o
course, If any of the brave base-balleri
should be swept away, but in all deSpt
rate situations sacrifices have to b.
made.
How to ferment q malt liquor which
shall combine the Notwithstanding char
acter Of the German lager beer with th,
incompatible flavor of English pale ale,'
writes an English brewer to the Londor
Times, "is what he and his brethren
have got to learn"
The employees or the Little Rock anC
Mississippi and Tennessee railroads dis
play no disposition to engage in thu
strike, On the Louisville rond the EN-
ployes are quiet and reticent, awaiting
the development of the troubles at Lou
isville and Nashville.
A sick woman, with four sick children
is at the station-house in q deplorably
destitute condition, unable to proceed OF
her journey to Keokuk, Iowa. The La
dies' Christian Association will in thi.
case find honesty and virtue in distress
and most worthy Of assistance.
The man who secured the incorpora
tios of the Bulls Gap Male and Femal,
Academy Of Tennessee, must have nj
ear for the harmony Of sweet sounds ant
must be entirely ignorant Of euphonism
The name is well calculated to cause re
fined graduates to 60 back on aud den,
their alma mater.
Owing to repeated complaints mad,
by respectable citizens the night patrol
men have bcen instructed to enforc.
more strictly the ordinance prohibiting
lewd women from street-walkiDg at nigh
and visiting SALOONS for the purpose o
drinking aud o~aroGsing with their NAL,
associates. This is a move in favor o
good order deceney and morality an,
should be enforced throughout the cit,
by the night police patrol force.
No through freight is received by thI
Little Rock railroad, the strike on tn,
Iron Mountain placing an embargo OF
fra;vhk trotog Dn,roooo.. L- .