Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-11
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The Chicks continue to drill each
morning and evening, and camp at their
armory nightly.
School children are enjoying vacation
at present and will continue to do so
until September.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblers, cages, ice-cteam freezers, water
coolers and filters is G. N. Erich's.
The number Of deaths which took
place in this city last week was II, Of
which 10 were whites and I blacks
In another column will be found the
tax collectors notice TO merchants as to
the collection of the sundry mandamus
tax on capital.
The Memphis REDS" continue to
swing their war clubs up North in a sue
%cegsiul manner To-day they play at
Delfoili mlcnlgan.
During the present week the Couiede.
rate Relief Association will make ar.
rangementS to complete hat unfinished
monument at Elmwood.
At the Criminal Court three negroes
are on trial on the charge of grand lar.
ceuy, stealing goods from the elevator OF
the Memphis and St. Louis Packet Com
pany.
The Christian Church Sunday school
picnic will take place tomorrow, 18th
inst. Baskets must be sent to the
church by 8 o'clock; will lie v church at
$3.50 promptly.
Tuesday next, the 18th inst, the an.
nual picnic of the Italian society will
come off at James Park. The queens
selected for the occasion are Misses
Vaccaro and Nalatesta.
Quite a number Of ladies' and gentle
men intend going to Huntsville, Alabama,
en- Thursday next, in order to be in at,
tendance at that city on Friday next
during the competitive drill.
Several negro men visited Nonconnah
creek below the city yesterday for the
purpose Of searching for the body of a
negro who was believed to have been
drowned on Saturday in that stream.
A party of gentlemen will indulge in
a fete at the Lsath Orphan Asylum
grounds on Thursday next. 1t will be a
jolly affair OF a most pleasurable cbarac.
ter. None but invited guests viii be
present.
Where hat white man was drowned
on Friday night in Bayou Gayoso, neal
the Orleans street crossing, the bayou
then being a raging food, yesterday
there was not six inches OF water at the
same place.
The Nashville Banner of the 9Th says,
Quite a number of gentlemen in whose
employ are q large number Of the Porter
Rifles have kindly consented to allow
them to quit work at noon and drill dur.
ing the rest of each day."
Officers Of the newly organized chess
club: DR.. d. d. Saunders, president; E.
L. Topp, vice president; j. ]. Peres,
secretary; Thomas 7. Pritchett, financial
secretary and treasurer. The club is
composed Of twenty-eight members.
Regular trains are running over the
Little Rock and the Mississippi and Ten.
nessee railroads to-day. 1t is expected
that a train will run over the Charleston
road tonight, and on tomorrow q train
will 60 out ov the Louisville road.
Numbers of lost children are picked
up aad left at the station house to await
Identification. Wouldn't it be we'll to
put collars on these little wanderers with
the name and residence plainly engraved
thereon2 Some mark should be placed
upon them by their parents.
The grocery store of Charles TrogliO
on Main street, between Market and Elk.
change, was entered and plundored by
thieves on Saturday night. The thieves
bored augur holes through the door,
forced it open, and carried off about
Two hundred dollars worth of goods.
The oue-msn power in police matters
would lead to injustice and tyranny, and
work great Injury to the city, The police
force would then be run in the politica.
groove, out of which it was hoped it hac
been happily taken by the appointment
Of police commissioners under the new
charter.
The standing jokes among peelers a
present are, Are you in harmony2'
! and, when is the next black list to b.
&. publishedY" These jokes are not heart
by the captains, however. The man who
laughs in their presence would be liable
. to have his head cut off before he knew
anything about it.
Wolf river is rising rapidly and is
raging, tearing food. The Mississippi.
river is comparatively low, and VOL.
river tumbles into the Mississippi like
waterfall. The people who reside alonl
its banks or in boats, can repeat Jear