Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-15
LEDGER LINES.

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next.
The School Board and the Genera
Counci will meet next Monday,
Shopping has again become the fash
ionable amusement with the fair sex.
The selfsatisfed exquisite and ogler
can once more be seen on Main street.
Matinee at the theater this afternoon
when the Marble Heart will be the at
traction.
Wild geese "honk" in high heaven
every night as they wing their way
southwark.
How to repair and preserve the decay
ing Ncolson pavement is one of the
questions Of the day.
The Memphis favorite, Mrs. Bowers,
will commence an engagement at the
theater next Monday evening,
The Citizens Relief Committee will
meet next Tuesday afternoon at the
Planters Insurance Company.
Nothing Of public interest appeared
on the Recorders docket to-day. The
DRINKS we're disposed Of by fine.
Our religious man advises all persons
to attend church tomorrow, and return
thanks for the disappearance of the
plague.
Jimmy Corwin, in the new Bethel
block, has received full q les of the lead
ing dailies, weeklies and monthlies due
to date.
Mr.. Chandler, of Pullman Palace Car
Line on the Louisville road, has again
furnished us the latest Nashville and
Louisville papers ahead Of the mails.
To-day Esquire Miller and other mem
bers of the Special Committee went
down to inspect the pest house recently
erected one and half miles below the
city.
The smoky appearance of the Arkan-
sas woods has given rise to the report
that we are now enjoying Indian sum-
mer, which will be followed by squaw
winter.
please don't shoot the COW" is sign
in the vicinity of this city, intended as
a warning to ambitious sportsmen who
chase the whirring partridge with I'M
firing energy but with little success.
The murder of American citizens by
the Spanish authorities of Cuba was the
subject of much comment throughout
the city to-day. The horrible massacre
excites the greatest indignation among
all classes of our citizens.
To-day Esquire Miller sent W. J.
Wooten, youth, to Jail without bail to
await an examination on the charge of
attempting to dispose of mule sup
posed to have been stolen. The investi-
cation will be had on Monday.
The proprietor of the LEDGER will
put up two presses at the Exposition,
from which the daily edition of the
paper will be thrown off. Last year the
LEDGER department was quite an at
traction to strangers who had no idea as
to how newspapers we're printed.
A shooting match at double birds and
for prize of 5000 in gold, will be gotten
up by the Bluff City Shooting Club du.
ring the Exposition. The club will ar
range the match at its meeting next
Tuesday evening. The contest will
bring out many of the best shots in this
and adjoining States.
The bayou Gayoso is by nature adapted
for the purpose of sewerage. 1t should
be made the great main duct through
which the filth of the city may be dis
posed of. The title to the land lying
between the banks of the bayou Gayoso
10 III buO City VI III thC OilStHdi plOpliO'
tors. The value of the land reclaimed
by making the sewer would be almost
equal to the necessary outlay at least
so insists correspondent.
As linguists the editorial fraternity Of
our city can claim high position. An
Avalanchian representative chats and
writes in French, German, Italian and
Hebrew-in fact, in all the modern
languages except the English. The
Appeal man makes love in Spanish,
writes the German and whispers in
Chocktaw. The Register worthy has a
smattering of FIVE modern and two an
cient lingos, which he sandwiches to-
gether most mysteriously, yet charm
ingly.
Kahn 4 Fre1berg,
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