Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-13
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The yearly death rate Of Memphis Is
l6 10 1000 inhabitants.
The sun rose At 4:5l this morning aud
will set at 7:0s this evening.
The Police Board will hold inquests
on patrolmen this afternoon.
! Carriers with monogram clasps are the
prevailing fashion in Memphis.
The grass is running away with the
cotton In this and adjoining counties.
The concert by the pupils Of the
Gaines Institute comes of this evening.
Cotton buyers were hungry for the
staple yesterday when the sales were
nearly 2400 bales.
The average Memphian, IL he is not
death on a pale horse" just now, is
death on pale brandy.
Come into the garden, Maud, and
pick your own vegetables; you can then
bid defiance to cholera morbus.
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
TO them for seventy.fve cents per month,
or two dollars for three months
Attend the theatricals Of the Philo-
Thespian Club al the Greenlaw Opera
House tonight. Purchase a ticket and
help the Church Home orphans. 4
Next Wednesday evening, the 18th
instant, the commencement exercises Of
the Memphis Ladies Institute, will take
place at GoepeIs piano rooms, on Main
street.
The exercises by the pupils of St.
Joseph's Academy, at the Assembly Hall
last evening, were largely attended, and
were most creditable to the school man
agement.
There are many FIRE worshipers in
Memphis who have never heard of the
Parsees OF India. They are the chaps
who have heavy fire insurance policies
on nothing.
When a West Point candidate fails to
pass his examination he is said to be
busted" but when an Annapolis naval
chap fails he is obliged "a bursted
gun and bilged vessel.
The case of R. W. Berry, charged with
larceny from the person, was being heard
by the Judge and jury of the Criminal
Court this morning, and had not at
noon been given to the jury.
Wedding notices and clippings of local
interest are now sent, posted on the
backs of postal cards, from friend to
friend at the cost of one cent, from one
end of the country to the other.
Every man or woman can be an author
or newspaper correspondent that can
write, for they have by law liberty, not
only of saying what they please, but OF
also being as dull as they please.
The General Council will again as
semble in mass meeting on Monday
next, and again discuss the Board Of
Health question, and again probably
refer it to committee, and so on ad
inGnitum.
The cholera what? is advancing north
ward from the Mississippi Valley like
great tidal wave, and has already invaded
the Northwestern, Middle and Eastern
States 1t might be said to be backing
nerthward.
The children Of the Vance street
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Sun
day school will picnic tomorrow on the
fernando road. Omn:buses will be in
attendance at the church at u am. to
convey the children to the grounds.
Lessee F. G. Lefingwell has made
arrangements to put new scenery, stage
effects and furniture in the Memphis
Theater and open out next season witt
a frst-class stock company and lead
ing "star" in the dramatic armament
& Was it envy that caused a Memphis
lady en returning from church to de
clare that when she saw the shawls O
those Smiths, and then thought of the
things her own poor girls had to wear
if it wasn't for the consolation OF reli
gion she did not know what she would
do" .e.-.s.',..r al
Rev. Mr.. Mcdowell, Scotch Presby'
terrain, said lately in temperance meet
ing at Edinburg, that in recent journey
of five thousand miles in the United
States, he only saw two men drunk, anc
one of them looked very much like one
of his own countrymen. This sight was
seen in Memphis.
The theatrical critic of the Appea
calls Mile Marie Aimee a "can-can
danseuse. For shame to so denomi
nate the sprightliest, most talented and
most popular artistic ON the French
opera bouffe stage, one who has immor
talized herself in the roles of Genevievt
de Brabant and La Grand Duchesse.
Safeguarding pigeons as they pitet
out from trap is the summer amuse
ment of Memphis sportsmen. To watch
the pug of smoke and the flirting o
feathers high in the air, and listen to the
heavy thud as the dead bird strikes the
earth, or indeed to view the pigeon as i
i -. 40 Loads IF shot and