Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-15
LEDGER LINES.

machine Is needed badly. 'iA
The high.heeled shoe mania is wearing
out on Main street. and larger under
standing is observable In femaledom.
Not single candidate for the mayor.
atty has as yet been officially an
nounced. Modesty and eoyness seem
to prevail in Office hunting circles.
An enterprising city bootblaek shines
up, furnishes fan, chair. n looking
glass and toothpick, all for FIVE
cents. That boy will have to 20 into
bankruptcy.
For sale or TO rent is not posted on
many houses in this city. The demand
is always greater than the supply when
the landlord asks not too much rent for
his wood or brick work.
A correspondent writing on the sub
ject Of pardoning murderers, insists that
there is a grave hiatus in our criminal
law. What pity that the murderer is
not permitted to occupy that grave.
Cotton bolls have taken the place Of
cotton bales in Memphis. Every man
has cotton boil, and from that small
beginning speculates as to the prospect
i've yield Of the cotton crop Of 1873.
A number of gentlemen, lovers Of the
dog and gun, will meet at the County
Courtroom tonight for the purpose of
organizing a sportsman's shooting club,
and adopting rules and regulations for
pigeon shooting matches.
Those of our young men whe fell in
love with Lydia Thompson, the burlesque
blonde, last season will regret to learn
that Lydia will be married in London on
the 2sth inst. to Alexander Henderson,
her business manager.
A we'll known French gentleman
while out driving last evening undertook
to address the team with get up"
but hic-up" was as near as he could
come to it. His companions attributed
his failure to the effects of King Gam
brinus mixed with Krug.
Those Of our young ladies who fell in
love with Alexis will not rejoice to learn
that he has been permitted at last to in
dulge in Morganatic marriage with his
old love, lie Jonvoski, the daughter of
the Cars former tutor. But such an
alliance does not prevent the Grand
Dukes espousal Of Princess for polit-
ical or State purposes.
Messrs. George W. Jones & Co., drug
gists, this morning sent, with their COM
plments, to the Adams street station
house, dozen bottles Of simon pure dis
infectants, for which Messrs. Feather
stone and Garvey return their thanks,
and will explain its benefits and use to
Messers. Forrest and uncle Jim Torrey
when they come on duty this evening.
The Louisville Courier ournal edi-
torially states that 1.-THE gospel is dis
pensed with to such an extent in the re-
gion round about Memphis that when a
clergyman assumes q serious counte
nance, and asks man if he is pre-
pared to die, in the majority of cases
the person so questioned gives an un-
earthly yell and breaks into run.
Even in Memphis we are within one
mile OF the most delightful climate in the
universe, but this climate being directly
overhead, the only means of reaching it
is by balloon. An enthusiastic Calves
tonian predicts that ere long balloon
boarding houses and hotels will rise all
around us, and that you can then sleep
O nights" cut of reach of the ferocious
mosquito.
In West Tennessee there is q great
sect of protesting Christians known as
the Thomasites, whose distinguishing
belief is the humiliation of the wicked
after Christ shall make his second ad-
vent to reign over the earth thousand
years. This second coming they believe
will take place in 1880 or 1881. The
wicked of the Bluff City. now that they
know their fate several years in advance,
had better govern themselves accord
ingly.
The last Mississippi Legislature passed
a temperance law providing that every
person holding office in the State, who
shall be found drunk shall, upon convic-
ton, be deemed guilty of high INSIDE
meanor, and shall, by the judgment Of
the court and sentence, be removed |
from Office" This is tight document,
but truthfully pronounces drunkenness
to be a high misdemeanor. Certainly |
any person found drunk in Mississippi |
or elsewhere should be removed from his
office to his sleeping apartment.
The propriety of committing suicide,
and the right to do so by person, when
life becomes burden either through |
age, inGrmity, misfortune or sorrow are
gravely discussed in European scientific |
circles. In Memphis the suicidist gen.
orally takes water when considering the
subject, and the Mississippi takes him
or her without discussion. Strychnine
and the pistol are the favorite means of
exit with men, while the CLASSY bosom