Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-01
BREyITIEs.

Lake, Arkansas. A large number Of
Memphians are at the fishing grounds
enjoying the sport
Joe Locke, the greatest living news
man, has daily papers, illustrated week
lies, monthly magazines, foreign period
calls, papers, ETC., at 1864 Main street.
A white wife-whipper contributed ten
dollars to the city treasury this forenoon
at the request of Recorder Scales.
Where is our Bergh and the society for
preventing cruelty to animals?
The best of water-melons are kept on
ice at Bohlen, Huse & Co.'S City Ice
House, on Main street. To eat an ice
cold watermelon during the intense heat
of the day is a luxury almost unequaled.
Go to Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monroe, for late news goods, month
ly magazines from all points, illustrated
weeklies and daily newspapers from all
points North, South, East and West.
The remains Of John j. Worsham will
arrive in the city on this afternoon
train from Little Rock. The Knights
Templar will receive and escort the re-
mains from the ferryboat, at the foot of
Union street. at four o'clock.
Mr.. Dutchy, after making few at
tempts to scuttle ship and leave the
world, still survives to read his own
obituaries. Shielding has ceased 10 be
sensational in Memphis, and unsuccess-
full attempts are regarded as criminal by
reporters.
A humane society is to be established
in Memphis to prevent cruelty to ami
mails of the brute creation by the brutes
of the animal kingdom. Cannot Mem
phis produce Bergh of some descrip-
ton who will earn the appellation of
the friend of the brute2
Emmons & Son, newsdealers at 10
Jefferson and 4l0 Main, has English,
Irish, German and French papers; pic
torials from all points, the latest monthly,
fashion and literary magazines and daily
papers from New York, New Orleans,
Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, St.
Louis and other cities.
The number of candidates in the field
for the Office of Magistrate in the Fifth
District amounts to fifteen, which before
election day in August next will run up
to at least twenty. Electioneering goes
on lively in the old Fifth, but it is to be
regretted that out of twenty aspirants
but one will be selected There ought
to be more offices or fewer candidates.
Mosquitoes have taken possession of
the city. AS presenters of bills they can
discount the most persistent collector in
Memphis. When kept at bay by mos
quito bar, they seat themselves on the
d-posts and serenade the slumberer all
night long, in vain effort to induce the
victim to come forth to the attack.
Messrs. Doris & Owen, at 264 Second
street, have placed on our table the
Metropolitan for August, published by
Butterick 4 Co., of New York. Doris
& Owen are the general agents of this
sterling fashion monthly, and will be
pleased to furnish it to the public.
They can also furnish Butterick & Co. S
celebrated patterns of new styles.
The General Council meets tomorrow
afternoon at the City Building to con-
slider the important elevator question,
which has been dragging along at slow
pace for several months. The business
community of Memphis demands eleva-
tors and other public improvements, yet
our City Fathers fail to discover the i'm
portance Of the subject or the signif-
canoe Of the popular demand.
A heather Chinee, yclept John, paid
the LEDGER Office visit this morning.
He was anxious to be interviewed, and ex-
press ed his opinion on coolie labor, new
departures, scandals, local sensations,
etc; but our enterprising reporter not
being at home, John was 10th to remain,
so he sailed forth to hunt up the sensa-
tional chaps on the morning journals,
in order to pour into their ears new
revelations in tale of horror that would
their souls and make them feel
like the wedding guest so fascinated by
the Ancient Mariner. In tomorrow
journals the Chinamans tale
will probably appear, in the shape of an
between our local and the
intelligent child of the East.
In Washington recently, police judge
ruled that there was no law against
using profane language in the streets
unless the language used was English or
American. 1t being proven that an
oath was garnished in American, a fine of
five dollars was imposed. The amount
of swearing done on the street corners
in Memphis, to the great disgust of pc
destrians, would put to shame the army
in Flanders that stood deservedly high |
in the profane art. Why do not our
make an effort to suppress
this obnoxious habit? A FIVE dollar fine
would work cure or drive the profanely |
inclined into the study of foreign Ian
guages wherewith to give vent to pro
family.