Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-23
SUNDAY LOCALS IN BRIEF.

are 10 nave DaSkeI picnic at plJ zgtD"
bon's grove next Wednesday.
The Boys Literary Association had
a picnic at Fitzgibbon's Grove, 4 miles
east Of the city, Sunday afternoon.
Freight agent Ed R. Hart has gone
to Virginia, to attend meeting OF
agents, and will be back in a week or
30.
Miss Viola Simms, Of this city, was
married to Dir. J. 7, Ferguson at
Lancaster, Ark, By the Rev. Mr..
Arnold on the 18th inst.
The Big Hstchie Baptist AssoCis-
ton met at Ripley Sunday, and forty
people, including several preachers,
went from this city to participate.
A lot of 500 SKIS of oats arrived from
james f Stokes plantation in Missis-
sippi by the steamer Kate Adams Sat
urday night, and are on the market
here to-day.
The Memphis Commandery No. A
Knights Templar, meet at their hall
Monday evening. The Euphrates
Lodge, |. o. B. B and Blacksmiths'
Association met yesterday.
Martha Ann Chambers, deceased,
of the Eighth districth, has willed her
realty to Martha H, Crenshaw, a
niece, and her personal property to
another niece, and 0. H. Crenshaw
is executor of the estate.
Freight trains now come from New
Orleans over the Mississippi and Ten
nessee railway in 81 hours. Melons
and fruit can arrive here and be deliV
cred fresh from the fields they have
grown in even by freight train.
The funeral of fallen sister, from
Market Square, by way of Main
street to Elmwood Saturday evening,
Occasioned articles of comment in
both of Sundays daily papers, because
the ballbearers were all of her own sex
and vocation.
The condition of Geo. N. Fletcher,
shot some months ago by a darky
named Kennedy, for which he goes 10
the penitentiary, is reported to be very
critical He took a sudden turn tor
the worse a day or two since and it is
expected he will die.
There will be an earnest talk next
winter in Congress about the tele-
graphic system being managed by the
government, after the style in England
and similar to the postal system. The
feeling is strong in its favor, and it has
been steadily increasing.
The funeral of Peter G. Cuneo was
largely attended yesterday afternoon
and tie Societa di Unione Q Fratel-
lama ltaliana and the Diamond Lodge
Knights of Honor, both of which the
deceased was a member, were con-
spicuous in the procession.
The teleQraphic operator at Warrior
north of Birmingham, Ala, made q
mistake Saturday and caused a co.
lision. Two locomotives, a baggag &c
and freight car were wrecked. En-
pineer Dresser was badly hurt, and
Fireman Logan was killed.
Causey street has been leveled with
broken brick from the reconverted
Jackson block, and will be spread
with Tishomingo gravel so as to make
a smooth road bed and nice drive
for people going out Rayburn avenue
and in other southerly directions.
They call incompetent telegraphiC
men plugs" the term given by stable
men to inferior and clumsy horses
A good many plugs are at work just
now all around the country, judging
from the unreliable character of the
figures in the market reports received
for several days past.
| Last Wednesday night there was a
light frost up about Davenport and
other places in the upper Mississippi
valley. Next day the thermometer at
| New Orleans assembled to 500 and at
Mobile l0t'. Many head of horses and
mules succumbed to the excessive
heat in that vicinity,
| Besides Bob Wilson two others were
legally hung last Friday. One was ar
ugly black darby named Dan Timble-
lake, at Lexington, KY, and the Other
q man named Nc MILAN, in Ohio. The
latter murdered his wife and the Other
perpetrated an outrage on a little nine
year old colored girl.
| We have had no rain here for two
weeks and the crops in the immediate
vicinity, as we'll as further south, are
thirsting for moisture. The extreme
heat of the sun causes the leaves o.
corn, melons and other vegetables t
turn up into small rolls during these
J afternoons, and moisture is wanted fol
ali classes Of tillable stuff, or the yielC
will be light.
1t is claimed that John L. Hichme
of Cincinnati, ex treasurer of tn,
Catholic knights Of America, is onL
$1,000 short, instead Of $4,000, as ha
been announced, and that his bond i
, good for the deialcatiOn. There ar
about 800 members of the society il
this city. 1t had its origin at Nash
,, vile in May, u, and the membership
is now about $4,000.
r The Eastern newspapers are chocI
? full of the telegraphic strike. Fro1
( four to ten columns appear in man
+ Of them and the general tone
expressive Of sympathy for the opera
r toys. There is no question but tina
t for the labor they have performed tn
T pay is meager aud the operators, as
class, have been dissatisfied with
# TOR seven or eight years past.
The mortuary list in this city la.
J week was "a, of which 20 we're CO.
ored. AS usual, consumption head
|. the list Of paladies and claimed fiv
Is victims. Other causes include four {
4 congestion, three of spasms, three {
q marasmus, two of malarial fever, on
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