Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-07
LEDGER LINES.

Papers are beginning to record death
from sun-stroke.
The cholera morbus excitement is sui
siding and the disease is abating.-
Linen suits are becoming Fashionable
with those who are able to purchase them
The thermometer is very ambitious a
present. Its motto is, upward and on
ward.
The Criminal Court. after hearing
few unimportant cases this morning, ad
journed until Monday.
Iced tea is a popular yet harmless
beverage, and is much used by Mem
phians during the summer months.
A woman may put of writing letter
for six months, but when it is written
she is frantic to have it put in the post
Office.
The cases Of Griswold and Waddy
Bachus, for shooting at each other some
time since, have been sent to the Grim.
inal Court.
The annual concert Of the young la
dies Of st. Josephs Academy will take
place at the Assembly Hall on next
Thursday evening.
All around in the suburbs and through
out the city new buildings are going up,
a sign Of prosperity even in the midst
Of the dull season.
The green fruit and cucumber cholic
has commenced its ravages, and the
family lamp CLEANS suddenly through
the midnight darkness.
Our exchanges insist that their re.
spective cities are disgustingly dirty"
Memphis has not reached that point Of
filthy perfection as yet.
At eight o'clock this evening, at
Duffy's saloon on Adams street, the rattle
for a splendid turnout, horse, buggy and
harness. A few chances left.
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum-
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
to them for seventy.fve cents per month,
or two dollars for three months.
The Associated Press agent at this
point has sent sensational kilograms all
over the country about the cholera in
Memphis. The agent is badly scattered
Fred Douglass will deliver the annual
address before the Tennessee Colored
Agricultural and Mechanical Associa
ton at Nashville during the fair in Sep.
TENDER next.
Fire Chief Anderson left to-day on
trip to East Tennessee. During his abb
sence Captain Cleary of the DeSots No.
3 will be in command of the Fire De-
partment.
That confederate flower, the magnolia,
is blooming to perfection all over the
city. 1t is touch me not" and turns
black and decays when handled with too
much freedom.
Penurious penmen Of ample leisure
are trying to see how many words a
postal card will carry without stopping
over. One thousand have been already
put on card.
The pigeon-shooting match yesterday
between Messrs. Woodward and Merri-
man-ten double birds each-resulted in
a tie, each killing eleven birds out Of
twenty. Poor shooting.
The engines on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad are draped in mourn
ing for engineer Jack Radley, who was
murdered at fernando last Tuesday by
roadmaster j. 7. Salter.
Monday next the Supreme Court will
take up the Memphis criminal docket
This will be Of some interest to those
condemned to death in Shelby county, as
we'll as to those who delight in witnessing
a public hanging.
The croaking of frogs and the singing
of mosquitoes in the Arkansas swamp
can be distinctly heard at night from
his side of the river, especially when
all join in the refrain or chorus.
--Memphian and notorious char
o.a-nou,o 4 Fanny Mobley suicided with
-, rro;n. of morphine at Little
- ~ wodr. ,sday last. She had
,any so.called frien- IS in this city
All nuisances SHOULD be prevented
he throwing of slops and q, 9cayeo Vege-
able matter in the streets al~ a'leyS
hould be prohibited, and the parties 30
uilty should be arrested and punish'Fu
Why are there not Turkish baths in
Iemphis2 This question has been
sked sundry times, yet no answer comes
,rth. Turkish baths are in extensive
Sc in other cities, and are not only re-
arded as Injuries but as necessities.
It will be of interest to our Irish fell
,w-citizens to know that the magistrates
f the city of Belfast, Ireland, have for
idden professions on the LIST and 18th
{ July, anniversaries of the battles of
he Boyne and Aughrim respectively.
The number of amateur musicians who
lightly make the air resonant with So
allied musical sounds cannot be aceu-
IL. o..;r,atad but there is at least an