Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-23
ONCE. 10 Madison Street.
CITY CIRCULATION.
MEMPHIS:
saturaay kvsuinw, July FL, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

Ahe irving OiuD Will not meet tO-nlRnt.
Mempbians continue to leave the city
on summer tours.
In Mississippi the hog cholera is trav-
cling about the country.
Qoite a large audience attended Esti-
val Park concert last night.
The Shelby County Probate Court will
convene on next Saturday.
Are you on a striker is the familiar
Jest on Main street to-day.
The Bartlett Circuit Court, Judge Ray
presiding, commenced to-day,
Is this spring or fall weather. is the
pleasing conundrum of the hour.
The big strike will not probably reach
the street railroad of Memphis this sum-
mer,
Three fires occupied the attention of
the fremen on Saturday night and yes
terday morning.
Tomorrow will be an anniversary Of
the death Of Andrew johnson, of Ten.
nessee, which event took place in 1876.
The number of deaths which occurred
in the city during the past week was %,
of which IL were whites and l6 blacks.
Scribner, St. Melodies, Bow Bells,
Young Lady's Journal aud all the latest
magazines at R. II. Spaugler's, 376 Main
street.
Next Friday an excursion on board
the steamer James W.. GAIT will be given
for the benefit of the Sisters Of the Good
Shepherd.
Hiss Grace Lewellyu, Of our city, is
preparing for the dramatic stage by u n
dergoing a course of training at the
hands of competent teachers.
The society known as the Old Folks of
Shelby county has become a chartered
corporation, and will sometime pext
month give a grand annual barbecue.
Male quartette singing at night on the
street, and harmouica blowing at all
hours by ambitious youths, both whites
and blacks, form the musical nuieances
of the hour in this city.
Owing to the railroad and labor riots at
Pittsburg and other points IN yesterday,
the Appeal and Avalanche came out
with extras this morning, giving the
latest news up to late last night.
The German Casino will give a grand
moonlight picnic to morrow (Tuesday)
night, to which uore but members will
be admitted. Arnold's band will furnish
the music, and a gala time % eatici-
pated.
Sang of the M~emphian: 20, | loves
mein lager; nix can stronger be; Hove
him better as good-better as good can
be. And when l drinks mein lager. /
feels sthrong once more; and then |
drinks | love him better than before"
This week the wanderers and absen-
tees, known as the city hall gang, will
return from the courthouse to the city
hall, and will give a house warming when
they get fairly ensconsed in their new
quarters. The bill of fare has not as yet
been published.
1t is rumsred that the employees on the
Short Line, between Louisville and Gin
%cinuati, have Joined the great strike,
and that the troubles may possibly reach
Memphis. The order reducing wages,
issued by the Louisville Railroad Com.
pany, has been revoked in order to meet
the impending crisis,
Steamboat excursions are all the rage
at present in Memphis. Public picnics
have fallen into dislavor from some cause
or other, the chief cause being the evil
effect such affairs have had upon society
from a standpoint OF morality aud virtue,
owing to the fact that everybody was
usually admitted to p%icnics. 1t is a ne
torious fact, susceptible of proof, that
within the past three ye RS female virtue
has suffered no little at midnight picnics.
None but negro clubs engaged in base
ball yesterday and violated the Sabbath
day. The citizen who takes down the
names Of the eighteen players and has
them arrested on a warrant sworn out
before a magistrate for playing q game
on Sunday will make twentY.seven dol
lars by the transaction, the fine being
three dollars for each person so violating
the Sabbath day, and onthalt the Gne
goes to the informer or prosecuting wit
ness.