Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-30
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deeds.
A Memphian owns pair Of horses
forty years old; he calls them 2;4Os
Gave canem" is the motto with the
man who meets the unmuzzled dog at
present.
The season has arrived when the little
lady Of the period trundles a hoop on
the sidewalk.
The clerks Of our different courts are
preparing dockets aud records for the
September terms Of courts.
The fashionable name for driving q
pair of horsse to a wagon is tooling. ="
1t is of English origin and rhymes with
fooling.
sunstrokes dispose Of people in st.
Louis and other Northern cities. Not 4
case Of sunstroke has occurred in Mem
phis this season.
Unsayory smells and we'll defined
stenches reach the nostrils Of reporters
as they perambulate the city in search
OF items at night
There is street corner talker in
Memphis of whom Sidney Smith would
say that he not only overhowed with
learning, but he stood in the slop,
Sanitary Sergeant Rogers last evening
arrested Amelia Daley, a child about
fourteen years Of age, for committing a
nuisance in emptying bucket Of slops
on Front street.
The hoarse voice of the "katydid v
and the whr Of the locusts are heerd in
suburban localities by the youth and
maiden, who sit and smile out in the
moonlight.
County and city legislators have II
we'll defined weakness for discussing par
liamentary rules, but it is generally the
play of Cushing's Manual, with the
manual left out.
II is the determination of the police
authorities that the assassin OF Frank
Moore must and shall be brought to
i-stice. 1t will never do TO let this
crime remain mystery.
Judge Halsey heard half dozen
habeas corpus cases this morning, and
remanded the culprits back to Jail. The
habeas corpus business is lucrative to
the law gers but rather expensive to the
county.
Since the P. d. disappeared red
handed murder is threatening TO become
an epidemic in Shelby county. Two
assassiHations in half week is threat
ening commencement for murder sea-
son.
The heavy rain storm last night mate
rally aided the Sanitary Sergeant and
the Board of Health in removing nui-
sances from the streets and alleys We
do not mean the fellows who won't go
home till morning.
One of the Raleigh Springs possesses
such extraordinary virtues that the thin
nest woman, after drinking its water for
few months, has no further use for
padding of any sort. 1t is known as the
anti cotton and hustle spring.
The Appeal man is after the boys who
are armed with India rubber sings and
calls Justify upon the police for the sup
preston of the sling business. The sling
business that needs attention is the
whisky, brandy and gin sling.
Brewer, the witty and wise man OF the
Avalanche, has packed his valise and
gone Northward in search of items. He
goes to the great lakes, and ere long his
mental cogitations and poetic fancy
will break loose through the columns OF
his beloved Avalanche.
An unmusical Memphian who faith
fully Listened to the great Russian plan
list for two mortal hours says: l boldly
declare, in the face OF the musical and
fashionable world, that to me Rubinstein
was a bore. But what was he to
Rube2
A petition is in circulation throughout
the city praying to Governor Brown for
the reprieve or Communication of the sen
tence of Early j. Eason, who is under
sentence to be hung next Friday week
in the Jail yard. The mother of the
doomed man is carrying around the pc
tition.
The habeas corpus business is looming
up into grand proportions in the courts
of this city. Every thief believes in the
efficacious virtues of that writ which
the Baronsof England .wrung from King
John, but somehow or other the modern
writ fails to relieve Memphis jail-birds
from imprisonment.
A we'll known and sociable Colonel
entered Gaston's restaurant yesterday,
and seeiuga pyramid of fine tomatoes
inquired, We'll, John, what are you go
ing to do with all these tomatoes2
Feed them to the hogs" responded the
restaurateur, and then politely added,
take seat and have some"
The Ledger Liner would suggest to
the individual that has the contract for
he