Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-16
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Cotton rates TO Liverpool have de.
clned from 7sd to 75d.
Three arrests up 10 noon at the upper
district station this morning.
Trotting nAgs are all the 20 with the
young bucks Of the bluffs at present.
The felony docket Of the Bartlett Cir
cult Court will be called % next Mon
Iday!OI Uli1t0J-OL q
VIM. Clark, a stout negro, was arrested
by the police this morning on half doz.
en- different charges.
A well.known railroad man insists that
the cholera left Memphis on its trip
northward via the airline route.
A New Orleans lady has opened a
swimming school for ladies, and some Of
her pupils can swim a quarter Of n mile.
Memphis should have a humane soci-
ETY. Cor the pgpishment'of human brutes
who are guilty Of the crime Of cruelty to
animals.
Work on the Masonic Temple building
will be commenced Immediately and
will be continued until the beautiful
structure is finished.
"All aboard for Raleigh will soon
.
be the cry 6f the conductor at the head
of Main street, when Donovan's narrow
gauge road is finished.
II Palmerston's definition Of dirt be
correct" Matter in the wrong plaee" -
there is considerable amount Of the
raw material in Memphis.
Memphis people do not take kindly to
the muddy Wolf river water. They have
been spoiled in beverage way by both
clear we'll and cistern waters.
Fashion, Irritation, frivolty, folly and
fishing are fully inaugurated at the fash
ionable springs and watering places
throughout this land Of ours. u 4
David West and ALI Walker, two
brawny freedmen, were fined fifty dol
lars each this morning by Recorder
Winters for assault and battery.
Notaries public are as thick in Mem
phis as any other class Of professional
citizens, and still they are being manu-
featured daily by the County Court.
1t is the matured opinion of we'll
matured Memphis belle that it is per
fectly absurd to think of dressing at less
cost than six hundred dollars a year.
The Old Folks at Home will hold an
annual reunion some time in September
next at either Raleigh or the Fair
Grounds, and at night will indulge in a
dance at the Exposition building.
Stage Manager Davey, of the Memphis
Theater, has succeeded in securing the
services of frst-class stock company
for the ensuing season. The theater
will open about the first of October next.
A streetsweeping machine is used in
the principal cities of the land. II
should be introduced in Memphis as soor
as possible. The chain-gang system is
too slow and primitive to meet the re
quirements of the age.
A middle-aged hen with four legs as
tonishes the residents ON Union street
near Third. The natural wonder walks
on two legs, or whichever two are most
convenient at the time the hen resolves
on pedestrian exercise.
There is a mutual admiration society
in Memphis, the cardinal rule of which
is for each member to lavish praise upon
any other member, but then there il
such thing as tanning with faint
praise.
Thirty laborers left the city this morn
ing to work on the Raleigh railroad
which Colonel Donovan promises (anC
he is a man of his word) to have com
pleted from the Cemetery to Raleigh by
Sunday next 1aUhIlgesiM
I 1t seems that the extension of Adams
street, from Manassas to Dunlap, is to bC
crooked, the angle being at least thirty
degrees. That will spoil the street, and
the extension might as we'll be let alone
if it cannot be straight.
The building Of the addition to the
Exposition is progressing rapidly. The
new building will be covered by Satur
day next. During the holding of the
Exposition it will be used as the power
and floral departments.
At the Boulevard pigeon shooting
match yesterday afternoon the winner
succeeded in Strengthening nine out oil
ten birds as they tumbled in pairs from
the traps. The wild blue whistler pigeon
is not the bird they shoot at in Memphis.
Sergeant Rogers started out to serve a
warrant this morning upon a certain
mercantile firm, and was somewhat sur
prised to learn that one Of the firm was
in Europe and the other at Long Branch.
He won't serve the warrant for day or
two.
And now comes the wise man and
says that the much abused atlantis or
tree of heaven is the copal tree, from
which gum copal for varnish is OBJ
tanned. We suspected that the tree of
heaven was Of some use in this world