Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-31
LEDGER LINES.


Annie Raverly, colored, indicted for
infAnticide, is on trial in the Criminal
Court.
The extraordinary drawing Of the Lou.
isisna State Lottery comes off o
Procure tickets 10 time.
FOrty.thres persons signed tho total
abstinence pledge last night at the
Greenlaw Opera House meeting.
The warm weather continues, much to
the Inconvenience of persons who have
10 do out door work or perambulate the
streets.
Alpbonse Bryant, accused of stealing
his partners valise and clothing on the
steamer Sherlock, was arrested this
morning.
There is more s%anctity in the dec ora.
ton of a dead soldiers grave than in
the ~high.souRding mAnifestoes of techni.
cal religion.
Last night 7. Avery Lamb, R. Il.
Baker, N. 7. Perkins aud G. NJ. Patton,
we're elected active members of the
Chickasaw Guards.
Deputy Sheriff Bradley this morning
arrested q crazy woman named Lucy
Isabel, near Elmwood Cemetery, and
lodged her in Jail.
The annual picnic of the Societa di
Unione e Italiana will he given at Esti-
val Park next Tuesday. 1t will be a
grand entertainment.
Messrs. Prosser, Ennis and Leaven.
worth, the total abstinence lecturers, are
operating along the line of the Missis'
sippi and Tennessee railroad.
The Democratic executive committee
has resolved TO call a gubernatorial con.
%vention August 10th. The convention
will Of course be held at Nashville.
George G. Read, sheriff of Putnam
county, Illinois, has informed Chief Atby
that be would be here soon for William
ZenOr, the defaulting tax collector.
We are indebted to the committee for
an Invitation to a hop to be given in
honor of the Kentucky Press Associa-
ton, which meets in HOpkinsville June
9TH.
The delegates who went to Nashville
to avenge that old political score are
somewhat crestfallen, and SO is the iusti
gator whose home is in the middle divis'
ion Of the State.
The Shelby county delegates to the
East and Middle Tennessee Democratic
convention have returned. They had
Spartan vaIor, equalled only by the M
just action of the convention.
The call for a meeting of the Exon
federates who oppose any day but Sue
day for the unwilling of the Confederate
monument and the decoration of sol.
diers' graves is meeting with general in.
dorsement.
The Memphis and Ohio River Packet
Company, through It's agent, Captain r.
W. L%ightburne, has donated fifty dollars
to the Fourth of July fireworks fund,
General Peter Tracy aud aide, Colone,
Leidy, are moving the column"
The desire on the part of the public to
have the Confederate monument un'
yelled on Sunday instead of any other
day is unalterable. The committee can
not satisfy the friends of the noble dead
by anything short Of a compliance with
this reasonable and just dem aud.
The case Of B. h. Eddins, indicted fol-
alleged fraud at the Bartlett precinct in
the election of 1876, is on trial in The
United States Court. A short band
writer has been engaged by Colonel VIM.
Randolph, the defeated RepublicSn can
didate for congress, to take down the
evidence.
Wednesday, June 9th. is not q holiday.
Rich men, especially those who we're the
first to clamor for war and the FIRST to
leave the army, can attend the decora.
ton and unwilling exercises Wednesday,
June 9th. Their poor employees, who
did the fighting, will have to stay within
doors and attend to business.
1, is q matter of r%eproach that the
Federal graves, uea this city, yesterday
we're neglected aud received no flowers.
This neglect is due to government Off
Gals and the superintendent. The PEG.
pie Of other cities in the Union yester.
day decorated the graveT 10 the national
cemeteries. 1t might be well to inquire
the cause of this neglect.
We have received an invitation to the
farewell bop to be given the graduates
by the 70 class Of East Tennessee Uni.
versity, at the Lamar House. June 10th.
Messrs. H. W. Whitaker, 7. h. Hicks
and NJ. Dsgrafenried constitute the ex-
ecutive committee. The committee Of
reception is composed Of Mesdames S.
H. Lockstt, Armstrong aud Blackwell,
Colonel S. II. Lockett and Professor
Alexander.
Memphis a. last has a ministerial