Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-09
THE CITY.
Monaay Evenlng. JUNO .. Is70
LEDGER E


No street sprinklers needed to-day.
A goodly number of strangers are
in the city to-day.
Shoes of every grade and price at
Big Boot shoe store, 344 Main.
Three-quarsers Of an inch in depth
of rain fell yesterday afternoon.
Elmwood lots attended to by Male
& Lamb, florists, 1856 Main street.
Crowds who went to Raleigh and on
picnic trips yesterday got duckings.
The gas Office has removed to the
Masonic Temple building, on Madison
treet.
The grand drawing Of the Louisiana
Lottery takes place on the 18th. The
capital prize is 100000.
Fresh bananas from the West
midas arrived to. day, and sell at from
one to three dollars a bunch.
n. Williams 4 Co, g79 Main, lead
the trade, because they keep what you
want to read, new and cheap.
The law class will meet tonight,
Judge Pierce will lecture. Business
Of importance is to be transacted.
influences are at work to secure i
postponement of the custOm-hOust
corner stone laying ceremony unit.
the 9Th of July.
During the past six weeks eleven
| thousand cart-loads of scraps and filth
have been removed and dumped into
the river by the authorities.
The picnic Of the German Protest.
ant Sunday-school takes place to-day
at Estival Park. 1t will be a very
pleasant and enjoyable affair.
Temperature at sunrise ~ with tn,
air close. the sky overcast and porten
tious of rain, and thewind, what ltd,
there was, from the southeast.
The game Of baseball between thu
Riyersides and Haymakers that wa
to have taken place yesterday is post
poned until next next Sunday.
Miss Fannie May will open a sum
mer school in Court street building
beginning tomorrow, June 10th
Pupils of all grades received.
Miss Grace Llewellyn will teacl
during the vacation in the Cour
street building-will be prepared t.
receive pupils tomorrow, June 10th
The assessors meet this afternoon a
the court house to hear complaint
regarding excessive valuations. The.
hold every afternoon until Frida.
next.
Now hal the public schools hav
closed several private e are abou
to open for the summer. "No res
for the weary" say the untutore,
children.
A movement is on foot to transfe
a set of floating docks to repai
steamers from Cairo to this port. |
is an enterprise that should be en-
couraged by maratime and mercantil
interests.
Freights now reach this city direC
r from New York inside of six days, b
several different lines. In the near
: time the Southern Express Compan
continues to supply this Office wit
fresh New York papers, only hire
: days after date.
= NJ. Mclaughlin was arrested ic
keeping a vicious dog this mornin,
. but was afterwards let off. 1t may
well for Mr.. Nc to know that for an
human hurts inflicted by a vicior
dog the owner is responsible for III
damages, according to decisions Of I'll
Supreme Court.
IL is now well known that 70,
persons, all darkies, murdered Nh
w. G. G. Foster, near the fair ground
a little over three months ago. ~
four are also identified, but the cha
Of evidence necessary to convict the
is yet incomplete.
Total deaths last week in this CT
, p, of which IA we're white and
colored nine were infants, and
ranged from 30 to 78 years Of az
: Three died Of cholera infantum,
were still born and 1 of pulmou
disorders. Not a single case of a
kind Of fever is reported.
An inquest was held on Q decay
Chinaman found floating in the riy