Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-01

~ the paving contractor, ana are
getting up a petition about IL.
The Land League picnic takes place
to-day at Estival Park and a very
enjoyable time is anticipated by the
immense crowd who will be there.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills of lading, cards and all kinds Of
commercial printing done as we'll and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
as anywherei in the United States.
An unknown darby went into
Thompson's drugstore at Germantown
on Tuesday last, drank some strange
mixture and died. BE was buried
yesterday.
Hand bills Of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three-sheet poster, done
with neatncss and dispatch at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
A couple Of onions, one 14l inches,
the other 16! inches in circumference,
grown from the seed by VIM. Mclean,
of the Evergreen Nursery, are on
exhibition at the Cotton Exchange.
Ameeting Of those interested about
grave dissertations at Elmwood GENE.
terry is to be held at the County Court,
room tonight, and expressions Of
Indignation at the course pursued by
the Elmwood managers will, doubtless,
be ventilated.
The relatives and friends of those
buried in single graves at ElmwOod
Cemetery are requested to meet at the
County Court room tonight to organ
ize an opposition to the recent order
by the cemetery authorities to level
all such graves.
Sol Coleman's cigar establishment
last night presented a magnificent ap
pearauce through the medium
of the electric light. A visit
to his establishment tonight will
satisfy the aesthetic tastes Of all lovers
of the beautiful. :
A fine Of from FIVE to fifty dollars is
the penalty for those guilty of shoot
ing guns about the public highways.
The barbarous and dangerous practice
indulgedin by a few persons, should not
be tolerated by their neighbors with
out invoking the arm Of the law to
stop it.
The wind blew twelve miles an hour
from the north this morning, and the
temperature was down to 590, a drop
of 14o from yesterday, when the range
was from c6 to 79e. 1t was from 10
to 16o cooler to-day than yesterday all
around the area taking in st. Louis,
Little Rock and Louisville. A twenty
mile norther swept over Southern
Texas this morning.
Tomorrow Sandy Matthews is to
suffer the penalty for having murdered
Essiah Polk in his cabin on the farm
of MI. W. w. Coleman, near Lucy
Station, in October last. The girl
Bette Matthews, step daughter, who
witnessed the horrible deed, now re-
sides in the city on South street with
her mother, and on yesterday morning
she shattered one of her hands while
carelessly handling a pistol.
A Measure is before the City School
Board to appoint an attorney, at
5000 per annum, to collect poll taxes,
and a rumor goes abroad that a cat is
under the meal somewhere. AS the
County Attorney receives a salary to
attend to legal business for the county
and the City Attorney the same for
the city, and both Offices are now very
we'll filed. while there is no law
known to exist authorizing such an
Office as the School Board proposes to
make, their action is creating consid-
cradle gossip.
1t was raining up about Pittsburg
and down at Port Eads early this
morning, but no where else in the Vi
cinity Of the thirty odd stations from
which kilograms are received by the
Signal Officer here. Rain fell yester.
day in all the districts Of the country
except New England, and this morn
ing a storm moved essterly over the
lakes. The highest barometical area
was down in Texas. Fair weather il
promised 10 the West Gulf States to,
day, and local rains in the Missouri
and Ohio valley districts.