Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-22
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Business is beginning to look up a
little In mercantile circles.
The Quarterly Court stands adjourned
over TO the next October term.
There we're but four arrests At the up
per aud lower district stations up 10 noon
to-day,
The absence of moonlight does not
deter lovers from frequenting the bluffs
after dark.
There will be another pigeon shooting
match on Thursday next at the shooting
park on the boulevard.
Sleeping on the bluffs at night is a
misdemeanor, for which parties are liza
BILE to arrest and punishment.
Several trotting matches between well
known roadsters will come OF at the
Trotting Park on Thursday next.
Watermelons and cantaloupes are
plentiful in the market and sell rapidly,
now that the cholera has disappeared.
The Quarterly Court has again refused
to issue the third series Of one hundred
thousand dollars county scrip TO the
Selma railroad.
The water.works being a labor.saving
affair, enable the African porter Of the
period to wash out a spittoon in fifteen
minutes with hose and nozzle.
Two trains, containing about one
thousand " saints" passed through
Omaha the other day, checked for Brig
ham Youngs kingdom.
The scarcity Of money is the chronic
complaint at present. Bill collectors
look astonished when they succeed in
collecting ten dollars in as many days.
A large amount Of building is pro-
crossing throughout the city. In the
suburbs improvements are going up in
all directions. This speaks well for the
progress of Memphis.
Hereafter no post norton examina-
ton fees will be paid by the county I'M
less on the certificate of the foreman Of
the jury of inquest that such examina-
ton was required by the jury.
The once cheerful and popular game
of keno" has ceased to exist in Mem
phis. Faro languishes, and poker"
has but few moneyed admirers just now
The members of the Christian Broth
ers' College band will rusticate at Raj
eigh tomorrow. Those visiting the
springs will hear some sweet music dur
ing the afternoon.
Mike McDermott was found chuck
full of shotgun whisky this morning by
the police and carried to the Hotel de
Athy, Featherstons and Garvey propri-
etors, to cool off.
The appropriations made by the
County Court during the present term
just closed are SAL ,499 90. The term of
Court lasted eleven days, the magistrates
receiving for their per diem at So, the
sum of $4O6.
The city scavenger's carts report three
or four times daily to the Adams and
Causey streets station-h houses for orders,
so that now all that is necessary for the
prompt removal of dead animals, is to
leave an order at either station.house.
George Williams, a colored hack
driver, and Ann DeKnight, the notori-
Gus, we're taken in charge by the upper
district police, this morning for rather
too intimate relationship, such as is not
recognized in the eyes of the law.
The Quarterly Court yesterday put its
foot down on the holding of inquests by
magistrates when the Coroner or his
deputy is in the city. The Court refuses
to pay a justice for inquesting the dead,
and insists that the Coroner's rights
shall be respected.
Many Voters" are calling on citi-
zens to become Mayoralty candidates.
Many Citizens" Taxpayers" and
other well-known campaign writers, will
soon be discovered in the papers calling
Justify upon their favorites to accept
office and save the country.
There are numbers of houses in Mem
phis which are unsafe from q conhagra-
ton standpoint. Our fire chief should
take hint from the Boston Inspector
of Buildings, who places in front of an
unsafe house the following notice:
This building will be dangerous in case
of fire" vi
Miss Lewis, the sculptures, told a
Graphic reporter that one Of her parents
was negro and the other an Indian,
and that she felt very strange when she
first put on a dress. "You see" she
said, 81 had been accustomed to wear
ing nothing but a blanket" and then
added, laughingly, e had capital oPpor-
tunities for studying the nude"
Duelling in France is mere child's
play compared to the system unfortq-
nately so popular in this country. The
rapier is the favorite weapon with the
Partisan duellist and seldom does death
ensue from the contests. in the recent
passage of arms between Paul de Cas-
sagnoc and M Ranc. after a few passes,