Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-29
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Lexington is the only horse that ever
beat 1913 Lecompte's four-mile time
was T.2G.
The Modoo style Of warfare Is conia
gious. 1t has broken out among our
police force.
r.. A. Williams and Winn Boyd were
doeketed at the Adams street station
house to-day for fighting
This is the way the Raleigh Springs
bellies talk Amt il hot. Daisy2' Yen
bet, it's regular old rooster"
Captain Athy, Chief Of Police, con.
templates trip North as soon as he fer
rets out the murderer OF Frank Moore.
Sanitary Sergeant Rogers has been
the means Of suppressing over Eve hun
bred chronic instances within the corpo.
ration
A new kind OF stone mug for lager
beer has been introduced into Memphis.
II is SO thick that il keeps very cool, but
It does not hold much beer.
The negroes I. W. and Ed. Williams,
arrested on suspicion Of being connected
with the Moore assassination, were re-
leased this morning
Tennessee Bill and Frank Dibble. two
noted river thieves, tried to burn the
Jail at Cairo last Thursday. Now they
get State transportation to Joliet.
A paragraph is going the rounds that
the cultivation Of white poppy for the
production of opium is being success
fully prosecuted in West Tennessee.
Sneak thieves are becoming holder in
their depredations throughout the city.
Keep your doors and windows locked.
and keep your firearms freshly capped,
Patrolman Phil Athy arrested two OBJ
streperous farmers at noon to-day for
having on board too much benzine to
safely navigate their two-horse wagon.
The bay mare Rosalind trotted last
year first heat in 2:2l2, beating Amer.
lean Girl and George Palmer, the Girl
winning the first three heats and race
Dead dogs attract the eye, and the
effluvia arising from defunct CANNES
greet the nasal organ of the promenad-
ing Memphian in all the wards of the
city.
The king of the trOtting turf, Dexter
was failed in 1858, and is, therefore, 6f
teen years old Goldsmith Maid is six
teen years old. Lucy is seventeen years
old
That was first class race out at the
park yesterday even if 3:ll was the best
time made. Another match is made for
next Tuesday, when a fifty dollar purse
will be trotted for.
The Chamber of Commerce finds it.
self in debt to the amount of nearly
seven hundred dollars, and at meeting
yesterday it was resolved to proceed le1
gally against delinquent members.
The best time made in harness by
trotting stations mile is Startle' 8,
|2:l9, at Fleetwood Park; George
Wilkes, 2.22, at Providence, Rhode
Island, and Jay Gould's, 2;2l4, at
Buffalo.
Who assassinated Frank Moorel is
the conundrum that the police authori-
ties have to wrestle with at present The
murderer cannot possibly escape the
vigilance of an intelligent and sharp de-
tective.
A trottng race between scrub horses
over the trotting course yesterday re-
suited in the winner taking the purse on
making the average time of 3;l6. The
horses were Nicolson pavement road
sters, and not professionals.
Manufacturing copy for the compost
tor, when the thermometer indicates 90'
in the shade is warm business. Mr..
Whipple used to say that he never read
newspaper in the summer without a
suspicion that it is made out of fried
brains.
A Chinaman was arrested yesterday
for bouncing an inebriated American
out of the laundry When asked what
was the matter, the Celestial replied,
Mclean man gettee tight, foolee round
me; me put head on him; no go to jail
dollar a dozen"
Johnny Stake, a little three year old
lad with light hair and blue eyes, ran
away this morning from his home at
No. 90 Madison street he had on when
he left brown and white striped calico
sack and waist. Up to noon no trace of
him had been found.
Court Square attracts, morning aud
evening, the chap who stretches himself
out on an iron seat and sleeps the weary
hours away. The fellow should be sup
piled with station-house bed, and the
placard posted in the square with refer
ence to dogs being prohibited from visit
ing the grounds, should be amended by
adding the words "or loafers
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Chamber of Commerce is composed os
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