Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-08
LEDgRR LINES.
The cool north wind made the Chick
asaw bluffs inhabitable to-day.

night.
Dogs running at large from and after
to-day will have to dodge policemen and
bullets.
A cold water bath is anything but good
for person who is threatened with the
sporadic. ~ fAA .t' ~
This is the last week OF the summer
season at Whites Opera House, which
will close on Saturday night.
The remains OF Mr.. George A. Clark
left the city to-day on the noon train for
Illinois, where they will be inferred.
The funeral OF Mr.. Il. Meyer will take
place at five o'clock this afternoon from
Holsts undertaking establishment on
Main street.
The Wolf river water served BY the
Water Company is TO be analysed by
practical chemists who will report as to
its purity, etc.
The closed session system adopted by
the Educational Board is not popular
with the people. 1t never was and it
never should be popular. caeamrr
Mr.. Aaron Pickett, Of Wisconsin, was
elected Superintendent of the city
schools by the Educational Board. Sal
airy, three thousand per annum.
Acting Coroner Spellman held an in
quest this morning upon the remains of
an old negro, who died last night from
old age at No 200 Madison street.
The city undertakers are now required
by law to make their interment reports
daily, under penalty of fine, to the
Secretary Of the Board Of Health, by
pm.
Nothing was done in the Quarterly
Court this forenoon, except settling
some questions presented by the County
Assessors, and reducing certain assess
ments.
Colonel f. A. Tyler, editor-in-ehief of
the Register, has been elected County
Superintendent of schools by the Quar-
terly Court. Salary, twelve hundred per
annum.
The funeral of W. B. knight has been
postponed until tomorrow wednesday,
morning, at ten o'clock am, when the
ceremonies will be performed under
Masonic auspices. % q
Cushings Manual, or School for Par
Humanitarian, recently adopted by the
Aldermanic Board, was Indignantly
pitched on the table by the Common
Council yesterday.
The Selma railroad matter with refer
ence to the report of the engineer Sc
lected by the County Court on work and
labor expended, etc., will be taken up by
the Quarterly Court this afternoon.
Horse and buggy men now avoid dri-
wing on the Nicolson pavement when.
ever and wherever possible. The holes
and ruts in the pavement jolt one so,
that a case of the P. d. becomes immi-
nent.
Colonel Tyler, County School Super
intendent elect, retires from the editorial
chair of the Register, and surrenders
the same to General Marcus j. Wright,
who will from this out be seated on the
tripod
The P. d. having dwindled down to a
few cases per day, has passed from be-
meath the notice OF. newspaper report
ers, who heretofore have been in the
habit OF visiting undertakers in search
of items.
The largest valley in the world is the
valley Of the Mississippi, in which Mem
phis is centrally located. The valley
contains 100000 square miles Of terri
tory, and is one Of the most fertile re-
gions of the globe.
The WEEKLY LEDGER, a mammoth
sized and most readable journal, can be
found at the counting-room and at the
principal news stands Of the city to-day. |
Single copy, 5 cents; subscription, ~ |
per annum; clubs of five or more, 81 so.
We can appreciate the philosophy and
correct logic of that physician who ad-
vises all persons afraid of the cholera to
stand on their heads for one minute
three times a day. He argues that this
arrests the abdominal depression, and
would be healthful gymnastic exercise
at any time.
Sanitary Sergeant Rogers, whose SER
vices in seeming out nuisances for the
ate Grand Jury received so many COM
is to be brought before the
Police Board on the charge of expressing
,itizens by having them indicted for
nuisance. When Rogers
S suppressed the nuisances will be legal
zed.
The Raleigh road is graded, bridged
Ind crosstied from Memphis to Raleigh.
The company has locomotive and three
,ars, and now desires to dispose of the
irst mortgage bonds $50, OOO), Endorsed
" the county, at the price of seventy
i've cents on the dollar. Who will in
-est in these bonds, which have fifteen
ears TO run and bearing eight per cent.