Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-23
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mic will come of tomorrow.
The School Board meets tonight to
consider educational matters, etc.
During the hot season it is more pleas
ant to fiirt fan than 70 fan q Airt. Y q
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the countng.room tomorrow morning.
Twelve thousand people have fed frsm
Nashville as they would have done from
the wrath to come.
The weekly meetings Of the Irish Lit
erary Association have been postponed
until next September.
It is the opinion of the leading physi'
clans in America that the cholera is
somewhat contagious.
Evelyn Wilson and other attractions
by the PhiIo.Thespian Club atthe Green
law Opera House tonight.
Society smiles and rascality. grins
through veneering," which latter is the
synonym of deceit, hypocrisy, 6attery,
etc.
There were no arrests reported yester-
day at the lower district station.house.
Surely, South Memphis is becoming
hugely moral.
The Avalanchian cries out, 20, that
there was Bergh among US" Yes, an
iceberg would be a pleasant neighbor
during the heated term tail
Tickling curb stones and pavement
blocks with streams Of water is not put
ting water where it will do most good.
Turn your hose into the dirty alleys.
Under the sanitary rules adopted by
the proprietors of Castle Athy on Ad-
ans street, there hasn't been the first
case of serious illness from the so-cslled
cholera yet
Several Nashvillians have abandoned
their plague.struck city and have come
to Memphis to enjoy health. We ad-
wise all the Nashville people. to migrate
to Memphis. 1t will be money in their
pockets.
Bullfrogs can be heard croaking, like
Cassandra, from all the pools throughout
the city; two old residents, with deep
basso voices, sing nightly from the base
ment of the Masonic Temple on Second
street.
The gentleman spoken of and being
written about as the imported candidate
for School SUPERB ntendent is said to be a
Mr.. Pickett, OF whose history, etc., we
are not advised at present.
, Ex-city detective Cranmer has &C
cepted deputyship under Sheriff Doyle,
and will attend to the detective depart
ment of the office. Cranmer is the only
first-class detective that has been on
duty in Memphis for many years.
Hand-ball matches at the Boule'
ward ball-alley are the Sunday afternoon
amusements with many of our foreign
born residents. The game is an excit-
ing one, and requires skill and muscular
ability in its development toward perfsc-
ton.
The examinations in the public schools
were resumehto-day and will be con-
tinued tomorrow, Wednesday and Fri
day on which latter evening the gradu-
ating class of the high schools will hold
interesting public exercises at the Mem
phis Theater.
The different societies attending the
Masonic celebration tomorrow will as
semble at their respective halls early to-
morrow morning-the Odd Fellows at
their hall at eight o'clock, and the
Knights of Pythias at Gayoso House
hall at u o'clock.
Early yesterday morning four average
Memphians lay basking beneath the
shade of the trees in Court Square and
enjoying a matutinal nap. The iron
seats make nice bedsteads, and the effect
of the landscape, as seen from Main
street, was decidedly of the lava-bed
order. s s1fG 0e
Somebody here forwarded to President
Grant, at Long Branch, for his son Jesse,
a live alligator, four feet long. Jesse
declined the present, and the President
paid the express charges, $l4, leaving
the alligator with the baggageman. The
monster soon afterward became detected
and died.
Only three deaths from cholera yester.
day in Memphis. The fine weather
caused by the occurrence of the summer
solstice has driven the disease from our
midst. The summer solstice is the time
when the sun, in its annual revolution,
arrives at the extreme point north of the |
equator 1.-THE 22d inst when it is said |
that the sun stands still, or scarcely
changes its inclination for several days.
If lawyer engages in conversation on
the street and is casually asked his
opinion on some legal point, the ques-
ton is, after giving it in a converse
tional tone, can he of right claim fee7
or is he entitled to retainer for the de-
tainer2 If every man who talked
shop" and bored his auditors about his
private affairs and business charged for
the same they should be regarded in the