Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-17
LEDGER LINES.
No cholera cases yesterday.

among the nineties at present.
The Memphian who now wears paper
collar must join the willing brigade.
Raleigh Springs is said 70 be a good
brandy and watering place for inyalids.
The Mississippi Valley cholera is raid
ing through the Northern and Eastern
States.
A few drops Of rain rom nimbus
cloud fell on Memphis yesterday after
noon.
There are not few in Memphis whose
iavorite exercise is walking for health
and running for Office.
A jefferson street Modoc entered the
postofiice to-day and asked for deck
Of them postal keerds."
There is chap in this city who calls
himself an intestinal taxidermist. He
is stuiTer Of sausages.
Lock your doors, and close your wia-
dows at night. The sneak thieves are
on the lookout for plumber
There are at least two thousand
hoodlums A" in Memphis. This class
Of bad boys needs a workhouse.
The. Magistrates are requested to as
semble in Quarterly Court precisely at
9 o'clock on Monday morning next.
The last Modoc of the Lava Beds has
been captured. Would that the same
could be said OF the last Memphis Modoc.
The Persian hat adorns the heads Of
working mules and horses in Memphis,
by way ola preventive against sunstroke.
At least one thousand wealthy Mem
phians are non-residents at present;
they are scattered from Raleigh Springs
to Vienna.
Every local editor in Memphis is an
honorary member of temperance soci-
ETY.. We could add more to this para
graph, but we iorbear.
Checkers, ten cent ante poker, and
sell out seven up" are the games which
occupy the attention Of the average
Memphian just now.
Among the most remarkable things on
record may be mentioned as the objec-
tons of citizens to having the pest
houses located in their vicinity.
There will be social hop at the Frank
lin Hotel, Raleigh, this evening for the
benefit of Memphians who are worship
pers at the shrine of Terpsichors,
Ten cart loads of dirt will gil up that
huge hole on Beal street, twenty or
thirty rods east of Wellington, and ena-
BILE vehicles to use that side of the street.
The European demand for oil cake is
good again, and nearly every boat that
passes here adds some for New Orleans,
from whence it is sent lover the pond.
On the 9Th of August next Early j.
Eason will be hung in the jail-yard for
the murder of Edward Lyles, unless the
Governor sends a reprieve to Sheriff
Doyle.
A well known Memphis barister not
long since eloquently stated, "And if
the coort PLACE, if l am wrong in all
this, I've another pint that's equally con-
elusive"
Unmuzzled dogs will be declared out
lawed on and after Monday next The
Chief of Police has declared war on the
quadrupeds, and on Monday the patrol
men will commence firing.
A drove of sheep paraded through
Second street this morning en- route for
the shambles. The sight reminded the
educated Memphian of the saying,
Revenons nos moutons." s.NtH
The battle of the Boyne, the anniver-
saiy of which was celebrated by few
hundred silly people in New York on
the 18th inst, was fought in the year
1890, or 1873 three years ago.
The sanitary condition of the city is
comparatively good at present, thanks
to the press and the Criminal Court
Grand Jury, but there are dozens Of we'll
defined nuisances yet existing.
The sanitary man says he "despises
one of them nuisances," but each one Of
them nuisances returns the compliment
with compound interest when he is ar
raigned before the City or Criminal
Courts.
A man by the name of Houk and an
other named Johnson are spoken Of as
the East Tennessee candidates for Gov
ernor. West Tennessee, and probably
Memphis, will furnish the next guberna-
torial rooster.
The colored boot-black of the period
has an income OF from seventy-five
cents to one dollar and half per day.
Those who work on Sunday and fail to
attend Sunday school have more re-
spectacle income.
1t is rumored that a well-known ex-
Confederate cavalry officer intends open
ing a riding school for young ladies in
this city ere long, by way OF adding zest
to equestrian exercises now so popular
on moonlight nights.
1t has been sensibly suggested by those
Nh, ha,,. ,,arnsad The foreign disnatches