Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-26
PUBLIC LEDGER.
once: Is Madison Street.
TEN CENTS Pc WE X.
THE CITY.
Thursday Evening. June 20, 1879
LEDGER LINES.

SnOeS OF all styleS anu prices AT ID.
Boot shoe store, 344 Main.
Salty" is the word regarding tn,
grand jurys special report.
The rainfall yesterday and last nigh.
was 50 hundredths of an inch.
The recent showers have refreshed
the crops in all sections of the South
Wanted, a good man for notion apd
furnishing goods. Address B. ]. S. &
Co, this Office.
First class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing Office, Il
Madison street.
The promise of an abundant harvest
in the West and South is the cause Of
good cheer ia all hearts.
The Southern Express Company
sent another batch Of New York pa
pers to this Office this morning. Many
thanks.
The moon sets at half-past eleven
o'clock tonight. II changes and en-
tiers its first quarter near one 0 clock
in the morning.
The condition Of the house at No.
Is Poplar street is reported bad, and
the authorities are after the owner to
straighten it up.
The LEDGER job printing Office, Il
Madison. executes everything in the
Job printing line rs neat aud cheap as
any house ia this city,
Court Square is to have a fresh lat Of
flowers placed in the vases around the
fountain. The legislative council
yesterday appropriated five dollars to
purchase them.
This city has its full share Of young
fogies, old fogies, carpers, grumblers
aud sticklers on diminutive points Of
etiquette. Such topics are literally
discussed in maHy circles.
An attache Of the State P%eElten-
tiary was expected here to-day to
take charge Of fourteen convicts who
are roady to do the State some service
under their farms Of sentence.
The Bluff City Grays, i is said, go
70 Chattanooga on the 4th prox., 20
participate in a match drill where
three hundred dollars is the prize, to
Be given to the Winning company.
The sanitary association faiiad to
get a quorum together yesterday. Sir.
Az. Davis has presented the society
with a newly painted sign, so that the
members will have no trouble about a
beaCQa ~ guide their way in the flu
tare.
The fitting and excellent ADDRESS Of
Colonel Patterson, delivered Vt the
theater to the graduates Of the Chris
tan Brothers College, a few evenings
since, has been printed in circular
fora, and the friends Of the institu-
ton have scared copies.
Several punches M drift wood, IN
ciudi0g tree tops wearing green leaves,
and every Imaginable character Of
debris, aoated ny on The surface Of the
river yesterday and today The
waters have been swelling recently,
and more is to come from a booming
June rise now running out of the
Missouri.
Mr.. Overton has beeR ssSqIqted a
committee of one to fnd out VINO
owns No, II Causey street aud to have
She 9Th thGreab0nts cleaned up, free
of cost to the city, Tbs legislative
council on yesterday made ths Agggipt.
ment, and also caused a notice 10 be
served on w. A. Wheatly to have
serlain premises under his control
properly cleaned.
A yellow boy Of thirteen years old,
known as Dink," the dryer of DR..
Wins buggy. was thrown tbis fore.
noon near the cotaer Of Court aud
Main streets. He knocked down a
.sign post or two but escaped with only
3 bruised thigh. The horse started
for a run vhiie Tie boys vigilance was
less guarded than il should have been.
The animal was stopped IN his mad
career and no other harm resulted.
The present grand jury have a way
of doing business that is worthy Of
commendation. They go quietly about
their WORK Of inspection without
parade, flourish ca previous notice.
aud now and then pounce dGzg % a
public officer unawares. The other
day they vent through the Jail from
stem to stem, in sailor %vernacular
and the situation was pleasing. The
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