Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-03
LEDGER LINES.

among the things OF the present
Picnic Of St. Georges Benevolent AS
ISOLATION at James Park to-day.
The grand saehsms Of the County
Court will meet again on the FIRST Mon
day in July.
II our Chief Of Police wishes TO detect
loafers he must tar the lAmp.posts and
telegraph poles.
The cotton receipts are falling of, yet
there are nearly thirty thousand bales Of
the heecy staple in our sheds.
The Board Of School Visitors will meet
next Monday afternoon at their sane
tam in the Odd Fellows building.
People always wishing for something
new should try the cholera morbus, or
the five hundred remedies in vogue.
How is your stomach2 has superseded
the time honored social questions,
How dyer" or whats the newsf'
The General Council will assemble at
the Exchange Building tomorrow after
noon and dispose Of monthly business.
The Modoes of Memphis will regret to
learn that their chief scalper, Captain
Jack, has been captured in his lava bed.
The oldest and best grange" in Ten
nessee was formed before railroads trav-
ersed the State, and was called La
Grange.
A fine bank building is to succeed the
present old rookery known as the Mem
phis Bank, on the northwest corner Of
Main and Madison.
The children Of the German Protestant
church enjoyed the picnic at James
Park yesterday as only children can en-
joy such suburban fetes.
Cholera morbus and cholera infantum
are the prevailing diseases in Memphis
at present. They appear in a sporadic
instead of epidemic form.
The suicidal mania has again broken
out. Morphine and laudanum, so freely
used in cholera prescriptions, are
strangely selected to destroy life.
The venerable citizens known by the
appellation of Old Folks, or Twenty
year Buffers" will hold solemn con-
clave in the Appeal building this after
noon.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the counting-room to-day, neatly done
up in wrappers and ready for mailing;
single copy, five cents. Send the Weekly
to your friends in the country.
Detective Cranmer, who has been con-
fined to his room for several days on
account of the prevailing complaint
cholera something's again out on the
war.path after thieves and Modocs.
oad-gauged corporate authorities
are opposed to narrow-gauge railroads,
yet they suffer from narrow-gauged
views Of the subject-a paradox of no
little interest to the general public.
The man who walked into the river on
Friday last and dived under fatboats
until the amusement resulted in death,
was inquested yesterday by Esquire
Spelman. Insanity was the result of the
deliberations of the jury; that is, it was
the verdict as to the cause of death.
The Swedenborgian National Conven-
ton is in session at Cincinnati. There
are quite number of believers in the
Swedenborgian faith residing in Mem
phis. The Swedenborgians are distinct
from the sect known as Spiritualists,
and do not believe the same doctrines Of
salvation.
The Ledger Liner" having become
convalescent is again at his post. He
thanks his confreres of the press for
dead.head notices of rather compli-
mentary character, and will take pleas
ure in reciprocating the same under
similar yet reversed circumstances.
The ordinance prohibiting steamboats,
to or from the port of Memphis, from
keeping passengers for more than six
hours before departure, and for more
than three hours in daylight after arrival
in port without taking out hotel license,
is to be strictly enforced by the harbor
police force.
The hydraulic man, known as the street
water squirt, is receiving the attention
and compliments of the press for the
reckless manner in which he sings
water on pedestrians, but the philippics,
so far, have had no more effect on the
sprinkler than would castor oil have on
a craven image.
Patrolman W. S. Rogers, Of the sani-
tary police force, is indefstigable in his
efforts to remove nuisances. Instead of
complaining through newspapers, as is
the custom, the better plan is to leave
note at the Office of the Chief of Police
or Adams street station-house, with ref
erence to any nuisance, where it will
receive prompt attention from the sani-
tary officers.
Even Bolivar, Tennessee, has erected
a monument to the memory Of the Con-
federate dead, yet Memphis has been
eight years erecting the bare foundation
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