Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-02
ledger Lines.


to the narrow-gauge track. Whoever
gets along in this age Of the church and
world, and gives away only one-tenth Of
his income, must have very small
income or smaller religious expe'
rience. A well.known Memphian speaks
five languages, besides the profane,
which is his mother tongue. A sta
tistician insists that the debt Of Ten
nessee is increasing at the rate of one
million two hundred thousand dollars
per anuum. A Memphis street must
clan says doleful tunes on the organ
bring more money than lively airs. The
Mississippi river at Memphis is two hun
dred and thirty-one feet above the level
of the gulf at its utmost source. The
Grand Jury and Criminal Court are in
vestigating the beauties of gambling.
Deputy sheriffs interrupt the cogitations
Of merchants and street corner FREE
quenters by inviting them to sit as ju-
rors for two dollars per diem. Saturday
eve is called " foot washing night'--a fact
that prevents social visiting by the beaux.
How to go West-turn your back to
the East and march. Next Thursday
the Hebrew festival, called "Yom
Tseuah," the day of blowing the trum-
pet, or "Yom Hankorom," the day of
judgment, will be celebrated the world
over. Spiritualists are increasing in
number in this city. Nashville has
elected Radical Mayor; cause, John
sonism. A young and adventurous
American recently entered the crater of
Mount Vesuyius, bu. did not return.
2" Too attenuated" is the fashionable way
of saying too thin" Little Rock jour
mails don't like the way Memphis papers
treat Arkansas politics; some people are
hard to suit. A whisky churn is the
latest invention to take the fiery taste
from fre-water. A number of the back
ers of A. j. are candidates for Office the
milk in the cocoanut,P you know.
Oliver Doud Byron at the theater again
tonight. Fancy female life insurance
agent and pity the jewellers in Mississippi.
1t is said a Russian prince cuts hair
and shayes in Memphis barber-shop.
Weather delightful. Promenaders thick
on Main street. Politicians continue to
frequent the corner of Main and Madison
and talk both nonsense and wisdom.
The Johnsonian proscriptionists are
playing out; Cheatham stock is quoted
in political circles as above par. John
Manchester Englishmen are ohm Bulling
the cotton market at this point; New
England spinners have to take back seats
A friend of ours shook the hand Of A. j.
after his Court Square speech and re-
marked to the Commoner. ave do not
approve Of your policy and don't intend
to vote for you, Mr.. Johnson, but we
think you made did slick speech
Clark & Co. are receiving daily true me-
ridian time by telegraph from Washing
ton. Oysters on the half shell are gulphed
down daily by fsh-loving Memphians.
" Wanted, small boy" appeared in
the LEDGER yesterday, and the adver-
tiser received sixty.two applications.
Politicians swing gracefully around tele-
graph poles and awning posts while de.
claiming in Ciceronian style to idiotic
audiences ON Main street. Fashion
says long dress on the street this win
ter will be thing unknown. The city
" daddies hold high carnival this after
noon. Coats of arms of new and origi-
nal design are breaking out with great
on visiting and wedding cards.
Edward About has been released from
prison and is about. Reticent is the
word among candidates in the Cheat
ham.J ohnson middle. Quite a number |
Of our best citizens have returned in |
good health after having been boiled for
rheumatism at the Hot Springs. A dog
with a mineralogistic turn of mind, and |
residing in the suburbs, swallows peb-
Dles innumerable, and what is more
wonderful, digests them. Kate Field
says women without tact should die,
while Susan B. Anthony says they
should die intact A young idiot of the
fashionable female persuasion wears six
rings on one finger while at
lending one of our fashionable churches.
Evervbody reads the LEDGER