Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-05
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the public wish at present.
The Old Folks meeting this afternoon
at the Chamber Of Commerce.
The General Council will dispose Of
monthly business tomorrow afternoon.
The Register has a ubiquitous re-
porter" What a wicked man he must
be.
Money is sold on the streets OF Mem
phis at from two to five per cent. per
month.
The Raleigh Springs ball on next Fri
day night win be largely attended by
Memphians.
Next Friday the sale Of lots at the
new city Of Lucy, on the Paducah rail.
road, will come of.
There ore two public laundries in Che
city, presided over respectively by the
Monaghan and the Caucasian.
The amateur pigeon shooters intend
organizing a club for the purpose Of ad-
vancing the science Of trap shooting.
The School Visitors will hold an edu.
cational feast next Monday night, by
way Of preparing for the opening Of the
city schools next month.
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Billiardistic business has loomed up
since the advent Of the coon" who
discounts all amateurs at the Peabody
billiard rooms.
There is a geographical rooster on
the Nashville Union and American who
daily sets on and crows over the intel.
lectual eggs laid by other bipeds.
The new City Schools Superintendent
has returned to the city from his home
in Ashtabula county, Ohio 1.-THE wicked
est place in that State), and has entered
upon the duties of his Office.
1t is reported that the Memphis mar
keters agree upon price list every
morning, and unless things move of
slowly they get up a close corner in
vegetables, eggs, butter, etc.
West India emancipation was duly
celebrated by the colered people of Mem
phis yesterday. The memory of the
West India island hero, Toussant
L0verture, was properly toasted.
The weather by night and by day in
Memphis has been so delightfully."- cool
during the past two weeks that the stay
at home brigade think they have had the
best of it. The refugees will soon re-
turn.
The boy of the period, in Atlantic cos
tune, is worrying the inhabitants Of fiat
boats below the elevator, by plunging
into the river as the sun goes down, to
the great annoyance Of modesty. The
hoy" should be presented with bath
ing costume.
A Nashville paper insists that the
Blowing Cave and the untamed Mem
phian are two of the great curiosites Of
the West Tennessee Springs. The blow
ing Nashvillain is the wonder at the
Middle and East Tennessee water.cures.
1t is gradually becoming question Of
magnitude whether professions or street
railroad cars have the right to the
streets. In q legal point Of view the cars
have the right of way, all street process
sions being permitted, not of right, but
by sufferance.
L. j. DuPre, Esq, of the Appeal, has
been selected to deliver the anniversary
address before the alumni of the Uni
versity of Alabama No better selec-
ton could have been made, Colopel
DuPre being ripe scholar and gen.
tleman OF varied and most curious in
formation.
Mr.. John W. Coon's billiard playing
and exhibition fancy shots at the Pea
body Hotel last evening we're witnessed
by q crowd of amateur billiardists.
There will be another exhibition to-
night, Sid Cook having engaged Mr..
Coon's services for the amusement of all
lovers of the cue.
A comet is said to have put in an ap-
pearance in the Northern heavens, but
it is, as usual invisible to the naked
eye, and nothing but an observatory
glass of the greatest power can discern
it, This leaves the comet outside the
range Of vision Of the average man; but,
then, it is said to be backing down tail
foremost upon this terrestrial world.
"Shall the Board of Health be con-
tinued2' will be one of the vexed conun-
drums to be brought before the General
Council tomorrow afternoon. Sanitary
Sergeant Rogers actions in suppressing
nuisances are entirely independent of
the Board, and all the nuisances sop
pressed must be charged up to the Grand
Jury, the Criminal Court and the SAM
tary officer. 1t would be wise, however,
to continue the Health Board for a
month at least.
nfsftnxutsbed Women.