Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-09
LEDGER LINES.

rived. Look out for Il.
The Hebrew picnic at James Park
will come OF tomorrow.
Moonlight picnies on the bosom Of the
Mississippi will soon be in vogue.
Fly time" is upon the city, and bus
mess is rather dull, except in fans.
More cholera has broken out in the
papers than in any locality Of the city.
The very, very hot weather is the
theme Of general conversation at pres
ent.
The Thermometer rose TO the dignity
Of $50 at the signal service observatory
yesterday.
The Educational Board will assemble
this evening, and dispose Of monthly
business.
Leopold Meyers was drowned near the
elevator last evening while bathing.
BODY not found.
The practice Of medicine hasincreased
rapidly since the cholera morbus made
raid on the city.
Shelby street, south Of Union, is in u
horrid condition, and needs the attention
OF the sanitary chaps.
The body Of W. P. Brooks, an old citi-
zen, was brought TO the city to-day from
Napoleon by steamer.
Why do not our municipal fathers
place seats on the bluffs for the accom-
mediation Of sunset admiring IoversH
Memphis has greater number OF
pretty girls under wide-rimmed straw
hats than any city on the continent.
A waggish fellow says our county Off
cials are not happy, because they can't
realize over $4,000 or $4,000 year.
Ten shares Of the Home Insurance
Company stock sold to-day at public
auction at $22 80 per share of $50 each.
On the 4th instant the Pittsburg and
Wheeling nail manufacturers reduced
their card rates from IS rs to 81 IS per
key.
A French panorama of sacred paint
ings will soon be exhibited in this city
under the management of Mr.. Peter
Tracy.
The rafting mania has broken out in
Memphis, and the ticket selling fiendS
are as numerous as mosquitoes and quite
as affectionate.
The Appeal man wants historian to
write up the annals of Memphis. The
chap should be advertised for in the
want column"
"This engine won't work" said a
Memphis fireman to Chief Anderson.
mo wonder" was the reply, :" it was
made to play"
Quite a number of people went out to
Raleigh Springs yesterday in order to
enjoy the rural air and assist in destroy
ing rural fodder"
The Memphians who are doing" Eu-
rope are beginning to write back to our
city journals. Each tourist promised to
act as a special correspondent.
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.
If you are under the impression that
a postage stamp cannot be used twice,
try it. The first time it will cost you
three cents, the second fifty dollars.
Tomorrow the Young Mems Christian
Association and its friends will take a
river picnic, and at night moonlight
excursion around the islands will be en-
joyed.
Messrs. Jukes, Moyston and Russell
will leave tomorrow evening for Jack
son, Tenn, for the purpose of org anizinl
lodge of Knights of Pythias in tina
burg on Wednesday.
There are two distinct forms of canine
'pess-hydrophobia and distempel
mau' T. The former is rare and dan
mauneS or latter frequent but the re
gerous; tn dreaded.
Narkably broad in thu
otra" na.S rel 'ailing Main stree
fashion at present " dina IN sb;r
Memphian. Business is
sleeves throughout the city. -.
And now comes the Dyersbur, a~an !,
and insists that the tree of he with
a regular cholera breeder etc. ~,
out making any particular issue on
statement, we mildly call for the proof
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the counting.room tomorrow morning
Single copy in wrapper, ready for mail
ing, five cents; yearly subscription, ~
per annum; clubs of FIVE or more, 81 90.
1t is currently rumored about the city
that "local" item-snatcher on one OF
our morning cotemporariss is an excel
lent "tenor" singer What p ity it is
that he doesn't attach himself to some
choir
The usual semi-weekly sale of i'm