Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-16

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Physicians recommend daily bath,
plunge or sponge, during the summer
months.
Since the cholera scare is over, what
viii be the absorbing topic Of conversa-
ton during the summerY
The General Council will meet 10 ad.
journed session this Afternoon and dis
pose Of unfinished business.
The Second Circuit Court, Judge
HAlsey presiding, will adjourn for the
June term on Wednesday next.
The Probate Court, Jidge Ray pre-
siding, adjourned to-day over to the next
term--the first Monday in July.
Thirty.one impounded hogs and goats
we're sold this morning, realizing TWEEN
ty.eght dollars TO the city treasury.
John Frick was sworn in asa grand
juryman this morning IN place Of Geo.
Mellersh, who is absent from the city.
On Wednesday next the Hebrew Or
phan Asylum picnic, so unfortunately
interrupted by the rains last week, will
come of at James Park.
Excursion tickets 70 Raleigh Springs
and return, via the louisville railroad
and omnibus connection, only one dol
lar and twenty-five cents.
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
to them for seventy.6ve cents per month,
or two dollars for three months.
The Register chap wants to sell a few
hundred old patent Office reports in or
der 70 raise sufficient funds to enable
him to visit Raleigh on Sunday next.
Tomorrow week, the oath instant, the
Masonic picnic will come off at James
Park and the corner stone Of the Masonic
Temple will be laid with appropriate
ceremonies.
The members of the Typographical
Union will take part in the procession
and incidents attendant upon laying the
corner stone of the Masonic Temple on
the oath inst.
The hegira Of boarders from the Over
ton Hotel, on its closing last Saturday,
resembled the fight OF the Prophet and
his followers from Mecca in search Of
some Medina.
The individual who borrowed the
thermometer from the editorial rooms of
this office will please return it to its
place and save being presented with a
bill for the same.
The Christian Brothers College exer-
cises on next Wednesday and Friday
evenings, at the Memphis Theater, will
attract large attendance of citizens in.
terested in educational matters.
The commencement exercises of Mrs.
McGehee's school, the Memphis Ladies
Institute, will be held at Goepels piano
rooms this evening, in the presence Of a
large number of invited guests.
The Appeal local says that usually
there is but one jackass in front of Leu
brie's dollar store, but last evening he
saw two there, yet he forgot to state that
the slandered animal recognized him.
About the most productive cotton
plantation in the world is the few acres
comprising the bluffs. More cotton to
the acre is raised there each year than
on any hundred plantations in the South.
John T. Candley, who forgot to eat his
breakfast this morning and took too
much benzine on board, which caused
him to reel like a sailor up Second street.
was locked up at the Adams street sta
tion.house at noon to sober of.
At the recent Swedenborgian ConVen-
ton the Hon. j. p. Smith, Of McMinn-
Vile, formerly Circuit Judge, received
the appointment as missionary to Ten
nessee, to travel and preach and teach
the Swedenborgian doctrines to our peo-
pie.
The Fourth of July is drawing near.
Cannot an old.fashioned celebration be
gotten up, with spread eagle orator to
deliver the oration2 Such thing hasn't
been seen in Memphis since ante-bellum
days, ard we fear will never be seen on
the bluffs again.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be had at
the counting-room tomorrow morning.
Single copy, five cents; subscription, ~
per annum in advance; clubs of five or
more, 81 so. AS a newsy and readable
journal, the WEEKLY LEDGER has no SUI
perior in the Southwest. iifa 20 500
The Southern portion of the United
States and France, both republics, are
the only lands where dueling or the code
of honor is recognized as the gentle
mans method Of settling all personal
matters. The code has been frowned out
of existence in England, Prussia, Aus
tria, Ireland, Russia, Italy; in fact,
throughout the civilized world. sa ~
Plain white note-paper, very thick and
heavy, with crest in black outline, is
the proper thing in the fashionable world
~ rrs,ant IL YOU have no crest, get