Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-05
BREvITIEs.

BREvITIES.
Our genial friend Chas. McComas
will please accept our thanks for late
Australia papers.
There will be several first class trotting
matches at the race course in a few
weeks. Purses are being made up for
two days sport. W
Paper shirt-collars are again going
out Of fashion, having retired in wilted
and pulpy state from fashionable circles
until the thermometer roosts lower.
Joe Locke, the world-renowned and
lightning newsman, at 1864 Main, has
the latest illustrated weeklies, daily
newspapers and monthly magazines
for August Sunday reading in vast
quantities.
We are under obligations to Col. VIM.
l.. Duff for late London and Liverpool
papers. Col. Duff reached Liverpool
on the goth ult., and will return to this
city in October next after making a tour
through England, France, Germany and
Italy.
| Judge Foute is announced as a can
didate for Magistrate in the Fifth Civil
District. He was for year Judge of
the Municipal Court, is a good lawyer, a
good citizen, and, of course, perfectly
qualified for the Office of Justice of the
Peace.
| The interesting ceremony of bap-
tizing the bell will take place at St.
Bridgets Church, corner of Third and
Overton streets, at FIVE o'clock to-mor-
row evening. Rev. T. M. O'Donoghue,
Vice President of st. Vincent College,
Cape Girardeau, will deliver an address.
Go to Mansford's news depot, corner
of Second and Monroe, for foreign
newspapers of latest dates, pictorials
from everywhere, fashion, scientific, re-
ligious and literary magazines, and the
latest daily newspapers from all points
of the country.
The Memphis Guards will picnic at
James Park to-day. A delightful time
may be expected by all visitors. At
night the calcium lights and a splendid
band will be brought into requisition,
for the benefit of all lovers of the light
fantastic.
There are hundreds of young men in
this city who go to sleep at night and
leave their bedroom doors open, as if to
invite sneak-thieves, which invitation is
often accepted by the thieves, who leave
the occupants in condition to appre-
ciate the poem, Nothing to Wear"
DR.. M. Samfeld, the new Rabbi of the
Congregation of Children of Israel, was
duly installed with appropriate ceremo-
MES last evening, at the Temple ON
Main street. Dr. Samfeld succeeds the
much admired and lamented Rabbi
| Tuska.
A correspondent to morning journal
recommends cream and clabber as a
cure for love. This is suggested as a
cure in Burton's Anatomy of Melan-
choly." In view Of this announcement
the butter-milk dealers in this city will
keep cream and clabber at their saloons,
ready to be served up to the afflicted.
Emmons g. Son, newsdealers at 10
Jefferson and 40 Main, have received
the latest daily papers from st. Louis,
Cincinnati, New York, New Orleans,
Chicago, Louisville, Nashville and other
cities. Magazines from all points, illus
trated weeklies of every description, and
foreign papers and periodicals received
regularly.
The intense heat of the weather yes
terday was so suggestive of bathing that
about an acre of land slid into the river
at the foot of Washington street. Two
Aatboats came very near being swamped
by the frolicksome slide. This slide
ought to have been arrested by the police,
as it is a violation of the bathing ordi-
nance.
The fast drivers are again coming to
the front. The Recorders Court is
hereafter to be made the winning-post,
and the first driver passing under the
string wins the race but forfeits five dol
lars. This is in strict accordance with
the latest rules of the Long Island Trot-
ting Association as revised by the Chief
of Police and Recorder.
The Salisbury Ku-Kluxers were dis
charged from custody yesterday by Com
missioner Garrett, there being no evil
dence against them to connect them
with the crime of hanging, shooting and
cutting the throat of the unfortunate
Garrett A clear case Of alb was
proven by the defendants, Bowden, Red,
Smalley and Chapman. 1t is feared
there will be more hanging at Salisbury.
Fifty Chancery bills were filed to-day
in the Second Chancery Court against
property-holders by VIM. Morrow, State
Treasurer, as State Superintendent of
Public Instruction The State of Ten
nessee and the County of Shelby The
bills are filed to enforce lien and quit
file on nronertv sold to the State for