Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-12
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The Tennessee dog tax Is one DOLLAR
per pup. \
Never mind the hot days, so the nights
keep cool.
The Educational Board will meet again
on Monday evening.
The Board Of Health failed to report
a single case Of cholera yesterday. The
panic lH oyer 0mlIl0,) 3g e.
Many Of our merchants are away Sc
Letting their fall stocks for the forth
coming business season.
Judge Ray, Of our Probate Court. will
open up the July term Of the Bartlett
Circuit Court on Monday morning.
1t cost The county 1882 to inocu.
late smallpox fearing Memphians with
vaccine virus during the spring months
There was no quorum Of the County
Court to-day, consequently an adjourn
ment was had 70 next Monday morning.
The County Court yesterday resolved
to abate some nuisance in the vicinity Of
the Chancery Courts provided any such
exists.
Yesterday the City and County AS.
SCISSORS we're allowed their accounts for
making assessments BY the Quarterly
Court. " ~ VI - ~ y y d.
The cotton crop looks up again above
the grass, and planters are beginning to
cease growing against Providence or the
laws Of nature.
Two.forty on the boulevard, behind a
two horse team, and "shoo. fly" glass
of beer at the Poplar street hostelries, is
the thing just now after shutdown.
The incendiary has been absent from
Memphis for many weeks, very much to
the satisfaction of insurance agents,
property owners and the fire boys.
3 An exchange insists that the demand
of the Memphis policemen for back
pay" is not censurable, because they
have not seen any pay for several months.
The Labor Congress meets at Cleve-
land Ohio, on Tuesday next. j. W.
Wheeler, of the Coopers Union, has
been selected as the Memphis delegate
The morning locals" have sunk into
dependency on account of the dearth
of news, but Micawber like, they are
desperately waiting for something to
turn up"
Correspondence from Memphis in the
interest Of the Nicolson pavement con-
tractors, Brown & Co., appear occasion
ally in Eastern journals; but the object
is too thin to fool anybody.
Those who are drinking straight and
mixed waters at the springs are begin
ming to write back accounts of the local
advantages and biographies of the polite
clerks, bar-keepers and gentlemanly pro-
prietors.
Notwithstanding the hard times, Mem
phis invested over twenty thousand dol
lars in the Louisville lottery. Those
who failed to draw prize can find solace
in the motto: Isl fortuna me tormenta,
spero me contents."
1t is very amusing to read the denun-
Citations of dueling written by editors
who, when invited, will take the field
and stand with scrupulous nicely on the
most trivial point raised by the code as
to the meaning of words.
The school children appear to be hav-
ing a pleasant time of it during vaca-
ton. The little urchins are recovering
from the effects of the examining pro-
cess, which forgets everything in the
laudable effort to secure high percent
age.
The mortality from cholera in the
country between Wolf river and Raleigh
is attributed to the reckless manner of
interring dead smallpox patients in that
| vicinity last winter which was com
mented upon and condemned by the
press at the time.
The Sanitary Sergeant Rogers inves-
tigation yesterday turned out to be a
fasco, no one appearing to prosecute
and the charges of expressing nuisance
citizens were dismissed Let the nui-
sances be abated and let all officers do
ing their duty be sustained.
Whites Opera House closes for the
summer season tonight, and Jefferson
street will be involved in darkness, since
Chinese lanterns and stained-glass
globes will be retired, yet the little game
of faro square and brsced will be
INDUCED in ENTHUSIASTICALLY by JEFF
ferson street faneurS.
The Orangemen of New York will
march in procession to-day by way of
celebrating the victory of William,
Prince of Orange, over King James, at
the battle of the Boyne, which was
fought in Ireland many hundreds Of
years ago. In Memphis no such long
range memories have existence.
Chairman Bleckley of the County
Court is authorized to borrow money at
II per cent. per annum to pay Of the
appropriations made during the year
and remaining unpaid. He had better