Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-11
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ing is nearly finished,
Work upon tho new Masonic Temple
is being pushed forward rapidly.
The incendiary seems TO be at work
again. Keep sharp look out for him.
Drinking punches through straw is
said by physicians to produce lock jaw.
No clue yet to the assassin Of DIR. r.
T. Dunn, who was killed at Corinth
early on Saturday morning.
Why does not some enterprising Mem
phian keep few dozen Of chairs on the
bluffs TO rent out to visitors during the
moonlight nghts2
There will be free lunch and dance
at Raleigh on Friday next. The lunch
and terpsichorean tends will govern
themselves accordingly.
Eight hundred people visited Raleigh
Springs yesterday and drank of the
waters, diluting such with decoctions
poured from TASKS and bottles.
Showers and rainbows in the eastern
heavens were prevalent yesterday after
noon. The showers we're appreciated
by the overheated and painting Mem
phian.
There will be a pigeon match this
evening at 3 o'clock, between b. f. Dun
can and j. W. Alley at the shooting
park, on the Poplar street boulevard, for
5000 a side.
The General Council will assemble on
next Wednesday afternoon, when the
water works contract with the city will
no doubt be accepted, the tests made
having been satisfactory.
The Hope6eld sandbar is rising rapid
ly above the surface of the Mississippi.
The bar is steadily advancing toward
the Tennessee shore, which causes the
river to dig into the landing at rapid
rate.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, one of the
largest and most readable journals pub
liShed in the South, can be found at the
and at the leading news
stands throughout the city tomorrow
The Memphis Dry Docks we're sold on
Saturday by Chancery Clerk and Mas
ter M. D. L. Stewart for the sum of
$4,000, to Captain William Hambleton,
of Mound City. The docks cost origi-
nally about $4,000.
The monthly report of the Chief of
The Bureau of Statistics Treasury De-
partment (for March,, is published. The
,otal value of foreign commodities ware.
housed in Memphis during the month of
March was $lO5,34O.
William Rummell, the German who
was so terribly shot yesterday, render
ng the amputation of his arm neces-
'ary, was suffering considerably at noon
.o-day, but will, it is thought recover,
notwithstanding the great loss Of blood.
The long.necked Memphian now
wears the English standing collar, while
he low-necked worthy sports the low
Byron collar. Such is fashion on the
Bluffs. The independent average Mem
,hian during hot weather wears no col
ar at all.
AS general rule more marriage Ii
lenses are issued by the County Clerk
IN Monday than on any other day of the
yeek-the result of young people going
o church in pairs and affectionately lin
,ering on the paternal door steps ere
,ood-by is repeated several times if not
,ftener.
Since the horse-whipping of that gay
Jincinnatian, NJ. Lowenstine, by j. A.
Hartman on Saturday last, the horse
whip has risen in the estimation of the
public as corrector of morals. Let all
'ascals be dashed by horse-whips and by
he public press; it will mend their
morals, never mind the pain"
No races this fall in Memphis. Moth
ng but the usual horse trots during the
holding of the county fair. Why can
lot the Agricultural Association offer
ew good purses for running horses2 A
lash of two miles and repeat, or one mile,
,est three in FIVE, is worth all the horse
rots that have taken place on this earth
ince the days of Adam.
The July monthly report of the De-
,artment of Agriculture has the follow
ng: The total area in cotton in 1872,
IS estimated by this department from
he most accurate information attaiRa-
lie, was 100000 acres. The returns
or this year Qs73) indicated an in
rease of about twelve per cent, and the
,readth planted was quite enough to tax
o the utmost all available labor under
he most favorable circumstances.
MAYsFoRD has Tribune lecture sheets
ind all the August magazines, papers
-, al ,,o;nts of tho counaca aha latest |