Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-02
LEDGER LINES.

the unreliabllity OF Hervantgalism.
The Criminal Court is engaged to-day
in the investigation Of nuisance cases.
Who will subscribe literally 20 the
Court Square fountain. pro Memphis
lpublico.
The Grand Jury is winding mp bust
ness rapidly; the present is a working
Grand Jury.
The Recorder had fifteen cases to At
tend to this morning, principally DRINKS
aud disorderlieS.
These beautiful moonlight nights are
enjoyed by sylvan lovers who bid Good
night on the porch"
Major Anderson, the new street rail.
way Superintendent, Is turning persons
and things over generally.
A ffty.dollar game Of ball will be in
dulged in by amateurs at the Poplar
street alley this afternoon.
On Friday an immense crowd Of citi-
zens will attend the St. Peters Orphan
Asylum picnic at James Park.
A female rural correspondent has
written home TO her friends in Memphis
that the crops look too sweet to live. "
The Miami University, at Oxford,
Ohio, at which several old Memphisns
graduated, has closed for want of funds
and support.
Market gardeners complain that the
p. d. has ruined their business; mis-
fortune, however, that can't be cured
but must be endured.
1t was P. J. Kelly instead Of II. j.,
who telegraphed to the LEDGER, from
Dubuque, Iowa, with reference to the
death of Mike Burke.
The Criminal Court is yet giving its
attention to city nuisance offenders.
Several cases were disposed of in the
usual way this merning.
A buggy and coal wagon collided
this forenoon on the corner Of Second
and Union; the advantageous results
were all in favor Of the coal cart.
The indebtedness of the County Of
Shelby on the LIST of January, 1871, was
$3.50, SIG. SO; on the LIST Of January, 1872,
$576, $3.50, and on the lst Of January,
1873, $597, 596.Sl.
Five thousand men signed petition
asking Mayor johnson to serve the city
a second term, and now as many hun
dred men are anxious to succeed him in
Office. Such is political life.
At an election held last night in Mem
phis Lodge No. G, I.O.0.F., Mr.. John W.
Waynesburg was elected representative
to the Grand Lodge, which holds its ses-
sion at Nashville in October next.
} Jim Willett, an African, another
"peeping Tom, was fined fifty dollars
this morning by Judge Winters for ply
ing his vocation from under the platform
at the Little Rock railroad depot.
John Pickett, countryman, had his
name registered on the police docket
this morning for an assault with pistol.
He was fined $50 and required to give
a $4,000 bond for his future appearance.
The auction sale of unclaimed express
matter at George Shields & Co. this
morning, caused some little stir; each
buyer, of course, expecting to get prize
in his purchase of a box or carpet-bag.
In the opinion Of many unfortunate
citizens who have been dragged through
the Grand Jury and the Criminal Court,
there is one word in the dictionary which
should be erased, and that is" NUS
ance."
The Register man. in gush Of enthu-
sasm, caused by surfeit of good things
in these cholera times, exclaims in the
style of Sardanapalus, Take, oh, take
those lips away" but the question is left
-" whose lips2"
Our Acknowledgements are due to
Grand Juror j. H. Smith and Constable
George Williams, the officer of the
Grand Jury, for favors which have
enabled us to lay the Grand Jury report
before our readers to-day.
Bethers new bank building, on the /
corner of Main and Madison, is rising
into fair proportions, and when finished
will be an ornament on two streets and
a standing rebuke to the shanties over
the way, on the northeast corner.
After rushing into print some people
regret it and desire to rush out, but the
latter is not so easily accomplished, be-
cause after the first rush " is made
people become public property until the
matter, whatever it may be, is finally
In the East Indies, according to DR..
Benjamin Clark, warm milk in cases of
violent diarrhea, stomach ache, incipient
cholera and dysentery is regarded in the
light of a specific. A pint every four
hours has been known to check the most
violent cases.
A six footer weighing nearly two hun
lred pounds and playing a game Of
croquet presents about as COM
cal an appearance as was ever beheld