Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-14
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Mercury at noon to-day. 0l'

| Oul mcicnahbo Oohh pioih shot Dee'"N''
is looking up again.
There we're but two interments from
cholera yesterday.
Rumor has il that yellow fever has
broken out in New Orleans.
Dogs delight to bark, Il not to bite, AT
night, from Pinch 70 Pickering.0Q 4
The Boulevard resorts We're crowded
with beer.loving citizens yesterday.
Gold in New York today is 1851.
Cotton is nominally 2Oic for middling.
The Shelby County Probate Court
stands adjourned until next Saturday.
The Register man informs the world
that he struts in the moonlight on the
bluffs.
Bartlett Circuit Court opened up for
the July term this morning, Judge Ray
presiding. T-TmaVg oIgp
Whites Opera House vaudeville Ike
ater) will reopen on the evening Of Au'
gust 23d.
Venus is the morning star at present
the evening stars being Mars Jupiter
and Saturn.
Esquire Miller issued several peace
warrants this morning against belliger-
ent darkies.
Coates, a colored alderman Of Vicks-
burg, has been detected in receiving and
selling stolen goods.
Several dozen Memphians leave for
the Northern lakes this evening per
steamer Belle Memphis.
The prospects for the coming cotton
crop throughout the section Of country
tributary to this market are quite fat
tering.
The Exposition Building is undergo
ing general cleaning up and decorat-
ing, preparatory to the next exposition
this fall.
An unmuzzled mad dog fell victim
to the policeman's bullet yesterday. A
muzzled cur would be a curiosity al
present.
The P. D. continues to prevail in the
country districts on plantations where
cisterns have no existence and where
lime water wells abound
For the benefit of visitors to the bluffs,
it may as well be stated that the moon
rises at lO:43 tonight, and that she will
invest in her last 4quarterP at 1898 thiI
afternoon.
Already numerous candidates for City
Tax Collector and Wharfmaster are
poking their noses to the front. We yet
believe, with Addison, that =" the post o.
honor is private station"
A riding school for young ladies and
gentlemen is very much needed in Mem
phis. This thing of humping up and
down in the saddle may be very gooG
exercise, but, it lacks grace in the yeal
1873.
The Strakosch Opera Troupe, with
Nilsson, Maresi, Torriani, Cary, and Sig
nors Capoul Maurel, Scolari, Evasio
Campanini and other upper and lower
register screaming fends, will appear il
Memphis next season. -
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany received yesterday, and will soon
have in operation, patent telegraphiC
instrument that will transmit and re
ceive message at the same time anG
over the same wire.
The WEEKLY LEDGER will be pub
lished tomorrow morning, and can be
found at the business Office Of the
LEDGER, or at the principal news stands
in the city-at Locke's, Mansford' S
Lieben's and Walkers.
That chronic piece of newspaper
poetry, the !" Burial of the Dead, i
again on its annual rounds through The
press. The Beautiful Snow" the Con
quered Banner" and the Heather
Chinee" will follow in rapid succession
There is a literary chap in the county
Jail who will insist that stone walls dc
not prison make; nor iron bars cage.
This may be true In the abstract, but
stone walls and iron bars, with other re-
straining adjuncts, are usually desig
mated as above.
The first case Of cholera that appear
ed in Memphis was on the 23d of April,
on Monroe street. 1t proved fatal. This
was some days before it broke out with
such virulence among the laborers on
the Paducah railroad, as noticed in the
LEDGER at the time.
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The rumors prevalent in the country
of the cholera in Memphis reminds one
of the Shakspearean definition of ru-
NOR: at doth double, like the voice and
echo, the numbers of the feared, or as
Pope has it, And all who heard it made
enlargement too. In every ear it spread
on every tongue it grew"
Both the Memphis Thester and Green
law Opera House will be reopened IN
September under the joint management
of Messrs. Leffingwell, Greenlaw and
DeBar. The attractions at both houses