Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-01

newspapers and who wish to make a
handsome book, should call at the
LEDGER bindery and see how cheap
they can get a library together.
Soldiers and their friends have q
picnic at Estival this evening, and the
greenbackers also meet to work up
sympathy for the old flag and an APP
preparation.
Fresh grown watermelOns, large,
fine and luscious, are on the market,
said to have been brought from Geor-
gia or Florida. Home growth will
not be ripe for several weeks to come.
Fireworks, a grand concert by
Handwerker's band, followed by a
hop, will be the attractions at Estival
park on Saturday night and will prob
ably draw a large crowd Of our best
people.
The young men Of the city are man
ifesting considerable interest in poll
tics. The Garfield and Arthur club
is swelling its numbers, and the Han
cock boys have started the ball on a
vigorous roll.
During July, winds most likely to
cause rain come from the northwest
and the southwest, or points between.
Winds from other directions are least
likely to be followed by rain, so says
the signal service.
Next Monday will be a holiday in
New York, and the cotton exchange
is to be closed on that occasion. No
dispatches will be received or sent on
that day, says a telegram to the cot
ton exchange here.
The river here is fifteen feet or
more below extreme high water mark,
and while it is swelling some, yet the
rise in upper rivers does not warrant
a belief that we are to have big water
here during the summer.
Geo. Jones, who carved John Banks
into strips with a sharp barlow knife,
near the Beal street market, has been
sent to Jail by Esquire Spellman.
Both men were somewhat injured in
the row, but Banks made a narrow
escape from death. They fused
about a female.
"Never saw finer crops in my life"
said a traveller this forenoon, who has
just come home from an extended
tour through Arkansas. Save here and
there, where a planter has been indo-
lent and has allowed the grass to get
a start in his fields, the situation
could not be improved.
No statute or legislative enactment
is to be found among the law books of
Tennessee whereby railroads are COM
to keep stock from running
through titled fields crossed by their
A case came up before Judge
Hammond in the u. S. court here
yesterday and no case could be made
out for lack Of a suitable law.
Local politics is stirring the hearts
Of many, and those who expect emol-
uments of Office large or small, are
especially worked up. The proposed
ward primary meetings next Saturday
night are from appearances likely to
be largely attended. Delegates to the
convention are to be chosen,
md they ought all to be good men. p,
Professor j. S. JOYRes, of the Uni
of Tennessee, at Knoxville, is :
1t Little Rock in attendance upon the
State Teachers association, and viii !
De in this city, at the Peabody hotel, !
lext Sunday. He is an eminent edu- :
,ator, a finished scholar. and in the +,
,rime of his usefulness. In early life f,
lie spent some years abroad, and since :
he war has been connected with the
Washington, Lee and Vanderbilt uni :
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The LEDGER Office book bindery, .
3 Madison street, is in the same
building as the newspaper and job :
establishment is owned by !,
he same proprietor, embraces all !
machines and material used in a first :
lass book bindery, and is conducted :
" competent workmen capable of ,
Executing work in as good and sub :
tantial a style as can be done any