Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-26
LEDGER LINES.

taken out corpse.
The rural hustle is made out OF patent
medicine almanacs, reinforced by the
local weekly journal
The only two names registered at the
Adams street station-house this morning
were T.. Grant for drunk and Theo. Lott
for larceny.
Parties can now leave for Raleigh
daily Sundays excepted) at 3 o'clock
am, and leave Raleigh on return trip
at $50 pm.
The Probate Court. Judge Ray pre-
siding, adjourned today over TO the
next term, commencing on the first
Monday in August.
The lawyer who places his hoofs on a
courtroom table in this city is fined V
or an X, but the great difficulty is in
collecting the amount.
The Register chap intimates that a
LEDGER man was mon est inventus I"
yesterday when people were looking for
him. Business hours Of the LEDGER
men, between am. and 2 pm.
The question with those who expect to
visit the Raleigh Springs tomorrow is,
"Will we get a good dinner2" We think
it would be safe TO give an affirmative
answer to the question.
During the present heated term the
night editors of the morning journals
do their editorial work dressed in an nm.
dress costume semi-Adamic, and COM
Portable even if not pleasing to the by
percritical eye.
Libel suits against newspapers by ex-
posed frauds, are becoming prevalent in
the South. The Declaration Of indie
pendence was a libel on chap named
George the Third, but it happily accom-
plished the best of objects by giving
George a good send eff.
City Tax Collector Robertson an
nounces that the books for 1873 have
been turned over to him, and that tax
payers will be allowed discount of two
and half per cent. per month up to the
LIST of January. If payment is made by
the LIST Of August discount Of twelve
per cent. off will be allowed.
The Supreme Court OF illinois has de-
cided that lay over" tickets issued by
the conductor to the passenger at the
request of the latter, must be used within
the time specified on the ticket-the
company not being bound togive LAY
over" ticket, and when they do SO it is
upon the terms specified.
John Mitchell "a negro confidence oper-
ator, snatched fifty dollar bill from a
countryman at the Mississippi and Ten
nessee railroad depot last evening, and
detective McCune snatched him from a
low den in South Memphis at three
o'clock this morning. Johns "pard =
in the transaction will be in before
night, and both of them will have a
hearing Monday.
A Connecticut politician recently told
his fellow legislators that four-6fths of
them owed their places to men who
mixed drinks. The men who mix drinks
in Memphis often elect persons to Office
on the same principle. Verify, their
power is great. and it is correspondingly
respected by candidates. There is a
most unaccountable affinity between
drinks and votes.
A good story is told on the citizens of
two adjacent neighborhoods in North
Mississippi In one locality the people
met in church on Sunday and prayed
for rain. In the other locality they met
and prayed for drouth. Neither prayer
was granted, and now the citizens are
at loggerheads about the matter, al
though neither have been able to quote
to the other the words, "The prayers Of
the righteous availeth much.
A Tennessee Indian mound digger re-
Gently sunk shaft from the top of one
Of these mounds, and at ten feet below
the surface he found bed of charcoal,
and underneath remains Of bones that
crumbled beneath the touch. Taking a
long sight at the past, the speculative
mound scratcher concluded that the
bones belonged to the Toltee race, which
existed about three thousand years ago.
He could just as we'll have compromised
on fifty thousand years.
1t has become practice in this city
among those who own stores with iron
bars and ratings in front Of the lower
windows, to have iron spikes placed in
the ratings so that no man, woman or
child can take a comfortable seat
thereon even for a second OF time.
Gentlemen like their saltwater and
coat tails spiked, but to have their seats
spiked is too much to bear in hot
weather without indulging in a host Of
adjectives to which is closely coupled
the name Of the surly and unsocial chap
who went into the iron spike business
for the benefit of his neighbor.
New state Convention.
At meeting held yesterday afternoon