Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-22

The Whitenore House, on Adams
street, closed its doors to guests yester-
day afternoon owing to financial EN-
barrassment.
Rabbi Sam6eld will %letcure tonight at
the Synagogue Of the Reformed Hebrews
on the subject of Modern Prejudices
Against the Jews"
The steamer 6af will take out a lot
of excursionists tonight for the benefit
Of the Helping Hand association Of the
First Baptist church.
Lyle & Shields, grscers, 3lS Main
street, are erecting one of the best,
largest and most convenient coffee roast
ers manufactured in America.
Chief of Police Athy has obtained a
leave of absence aud has gone to Gin
~c;nuati for a few days, Captain Arrata
is acting as chief pro TEN. al present.
Lovers Of music have q treat in store
for them in the fine concert to be given
at the Memphis Theatre next Wednes-
day night, in compliment to Miss Hattie
Trezevant.
Failure 10 provide and support
causes most of the divorces in Memphis.
When the grocer, the ice mar aud the
baker refuse to trust, love flies out Of the
kitchen and parlor windows.
A rumor prevailed on the streets yes
terday to the effect that the body of tbt
late Mr.. Smith had been found floating
in the river some fifty miles below here
Our reporter upon investigation founC
the report to be without any reliabl
foundation in fact.
The Senatobia Tidal Wave says; "0n
week Q we had ansther rain and ovel
Cow. The waters we're again very high
and farming operations were brought
a standstill. Great depression now pre-
walls in the planting interest"
At the United States Court House tC
day the argument Of Mr.. Hamilton, {
Mobile, Alabama, was heard by judy
Trigg, 10 the Mobile aud Ohio railroa
case. Mr.. Hamilton concluded b
speech, and Mr.. Lehman, Of this cit,
commenced his argument.
The summer season began ~yesterds.
the 2lst instant. The warm season
the year includes, astronomically, Ii
. time between the vernal and autumnI
equinoxes, or, from June 2lst till Sci
TENDER 22d, The calendar summer COZ
\ prises the months of June, July al
August.
: A street railroad official aud a Men
3 phis belle are among the prospecti'
\ wedding people reported by MADAM
r Rumor. 1t is also rumored that one
Z our fairest and sweetest amateur vocI
lists will also embark upon the cea
matrimouy in company with a we
Z known Memphian ere long.
At a Monroe street beer saloon yestt
E day afternoon a party Of young mt
drank o dollars worth Of beer and tn,
= gave the bartender the usual sign
charge, but the bartender failed to recc
nize the collateral as good. A row q
sued, during which a fight took plaC
No arrests were made by the police,
James Perrymau and John Cree
herse and cattle traders, engaged in
6st fight on tho corner OF Second Al
Monroe streets yesterday afternoon, d.
ing which Green got whipped, but SOL
!. af,erward the fight was renewed by hi
:. and in the second combat Green drew
!, pocket knife and gave Perrymau sevei
cuts and gasheS about the arms, head q
face. Green was arrested, and Perrym
D. was conveyed to his home in South Me
u phis.
Abandoning babies to the tend or m
cies of the world seems to have becoi
fashionable in Memphis. The news
goRe abroad that waits are taken care
K. and are adopted in Memphis, aud
long u city will become a vast fouI
y. ling hospital, unless some means are
vised 10 stop The business. By send
r the vile aud unnatural parents down
the Presidents Island work house TO
~ few months a remedy would be disc
all cred.
1t has become a common habit
IN Madison street for clerks to carry pa
ages OF money openly in their hands
he and frem the b..nks. Some day q loI
thieves will jostle Que of these moi
Sss %; toters, aud his employers will be OF
few hundred or a few thousand doll
1t is a careless practice and offers an
LCs ducement to thieves to commit a
- berry. In other cities such a plan
3. carrying money is not iu use, it
1: being considered quite safe oc prud'
4 II there are two John Smiths
Town aud one Of them is Locked U