Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-11
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the report Of the Board Of Health.
DR.. John II. Erskine has been reap
pointed Jail physician by the County
Court.
Song OF the pAtrolman to the Police
Captain: whistle. and I'll come 10 you
my lad" ~ 90
The Board Of Health win hold a
meeting tonight, and will discuss SAM
tary affairs.
Shelby County at present owes just
1870, 1861. What the one odd cent il
due for does not appear
Court by moonlight in Court Square
is not Inappropriate. II the name of the
Square has any determinate meaning.
The question of textbooks will be de
cided by the Educational Board at O
meeting TO be held next Tuesday even
ing. W. AO4 w o4A
The rate OF county taxation for the
year 1873 has been fixed at one dollar
aud ten cents on the hundred dollars.
Mr.. Will o. Woodson, Associated Press
Agent at this point, was yesterday ap'
pointed notary public by the County
Court. u.s. 8bAUW
The County Court has levied tax Of
fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars
for the purpose of building q court
house.
A little fist fight on Front street, near
Madison, last evening, created a new
subject Of conversation for the curb.stone
brigade. No duel anticipated.
The Court Square fountain project il
in fair way of success. The design Of
the fountain will be selected in few
weeks in New York by Leubrie.
At least Eve hundred sanguine Mem.
phians banked on the Louisville lottery
for European trips. which now have ia
be postponed. So much for building
castles in Spain.
The Memphis society known as the
Children of Israel is represented at the
Cincinnati Jewish Conference by MessrS
A. E. FARMLAND, Adolph Loeb, G. H.
Judah and B. Washer.
We are in the midst of the dull sum-
mer season; yet those who have recently
visited other cities South and North say,
that compared with them, Memphis is
lively in business circles. On A. "a.
1t will cheer those whe clamer for the
eight hour system to recollect that a
day s work sixty years ago was from the
time stars could be seen in the morning
until stars could be seen at night.
Manager Charley White, Of the Jeffer-
son street vaudeville theater, will receive
a complimentary benefit tonight, pre-
paratory to closing the Opera House for
the summer season tomorrow evening.
Mary Murphy was the only person
whose name'was registered at the Adams
street station-house this morning. She
took too much benzine in her coffee at
breakfast and was booty, besides being
disorderly.
A Frenchman named l.. G. LeGrand,
an employe in the planning mill Of Eader
& Mellersh, fell from the second story of
the mill last night and broke his neck.
The deceased came from Oxford, Miss,
where his widow now resides.
And now comes a Lexington, Mis-
souri,, journal and states that the cholera,
"a grim and gripy monster, astraddle Of
his skeleton steed, is marching along
over the land, scattering death, terror
and green apples wherever he comes"
The rumors prevalent yesterday as to
the holding of prize tickets in the Louis
vile lottery by Memphians caused many
creditors to make out past due bills with
alacrity, preparatory to presenting them
for payment when the prizes were paid
over.
At a meeting of the Jewish confer
ence held yesterday in Cincinnati an
Executive Bosrd was elected for the pur-
pose of establishing Jewish Theologi-
cal Institute, etc., and Of which Board
Mr.. A. E. FARMLAND Of our city was
elected member.
1t is said of Memphis belle that in
company she says to her spaniel, Fido,
you have almost crushed my poor foot, "
or Mercy how my foot hurts" But
be the conversation what it will, she is
always sure to put her foot in it, because
she wears No. ! sized boot.
Memphis is about the quietest and
most orderly town on the continent.
The crimes committed from day to day
consist of petit larcenies, and assault
and batteries superinduced by mean
whisky. Can any other city of City
thousand inhabitants say as mucha s
Mr.. Aaron Pickett, the Superintend-
ent elect of our city schools, gets nine
hundred dollars more salary than the
late incumbent, Ar. Slaughter. Mr..
Pickett is at pre- sent at his home up
North, but VIII no doubt be here in time
to put himself where he will do most
good in organizing the schools in Sep