Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-01
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Memphis girls now discard tiresome
lovers via the postal card.
ST. Peters Orphan Asylum picnic on
Friday next at James Park.
The returned oovingtpn ekcufbionists
complain Of piper "head-sick. y
The venerable association Of Old Folks
will hold a reunion this afternoon.
The WEEKLY LEDGER at the counting
room and at the news stands to-day.
Street cars move under the direction
Of Superintendent Anderson to day.
Like the bucking Texas cAyuse, the
police day and night patrol forces swap
ends to-day.
The thermometer crawled up in the
immediate Vicinity of ninety today in
the shade.
The Grand Jury is not in session to-
day, but will resume the nuisance bust.
ness tomorrow.
Croquet is raging in the suburbs. 1t
is epidemic and not sporadic, and there
fore very Infectious SlIW
This is the first Of July, day chiefly
devoted to the collection of unpaid bills
by the fiends of the period.
The annual election of board Of d.
rectors for the Bluff City Insurance
Company will be held on Monday next.
Tomorrow afternoon the General
Council will assemble for the transaction
of business at the Exchange building.
The playful mosquito continues to sing
the average sleeper into wakofulness at
night as he rests beneath the stars and
bars. .rr..rr t.r.rrfrfr,
Raleigh omnibuses meet all the trains
over the Louisville road at the National
Cemetery and convey all visitors to the
springs.
Quite crop of Memphians has come
up at St. Paul. Nov, by st. Paul, the
work (of fishing and hunting) goes
Ebravely on"
Rabid or ferocious dogs invite the at
tention of the members of the General
Council. The muzzle law should be
turned loose.
Our Ledger Liner offers a reward Of
nickel to the man, woman or child who
sends him the first cotton bloom in the
summer of 1878.
Thursday next the delegates to the
Railroad Convention will assemble for
the transaction of business at the Cham
Der of Commerce.
The Memphis journals never have the
same mortuary report, because the re-
porters have 10 catch the undertakers
on the wing whenever they can.
The next Mayor of Memphis will run
two years and repeat. The contest will
be lively, the nags being already in train
ing and numbering score or more,
Three days mail tumbled into the
LEDGER office from the postoffice to-day.
The mails should be distributed in
smaller doses. Postoffice officials, atten-
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The remains of Walker Wood, who
died yesterday morning at st. Louis,
will arrive on the two p. m. train to-day
on the Louisville railroad Due notice
of the funeral will be given.
The Criminal Court disposed Of thir-
teen nuisance cases this morning, the
fines assessed in several cases ranging
between $50 and $500, while several
offenders were dismissed upon payment
Of costs.
The dandy of Memphis is said to be
member of the press. He even affects
the dandyish style Of writing, a cross
between female love letter and the
correspondence of a watering place
6end.
Next Tuesday the citizens of Sardis,
Pamela county, Miss, will indulge in an
annual moonlight picnic at the Fair
Grounds. Numbers Of pIeasure-seekers
have been invited from Memphis, and
will attend.
Justice Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, has ordered the city of
Memphis to Immediately levy tax and
collect half million Of dollars and pay
the same over to Brown & Co., Nicolson
pavement contractors.
The trap pigeon shooters were out yes
terday and returned laden with dead
birds. The excitementis tame compared
with the excitement of kicking your
birds up on the field and bringing them
down as they dart through thieket.
Our sentimental reporter has observed |
that during sudden shower on Main
street when the bellies are caught on the
ay, female clothing clings to female
figures tighter and more exegetically |
than beseems figures plump and hssom.
The Grand Jury and the Criminal
Court are whacking right AID left With
out fear or favor at the nuisance fends.
Poor, weak human nature looks over the
nuisances on its own premises in order
to spy out the nuisance on its neighbours
property.