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

Inc best croquet player IN mehphin N
said to be widower and the next best
a widow.
John Dolan, wife-whipper, was fined
fifty dollars by the police judge this
morning
Advice TO those going abroad have
plenty Of money and get a passport be-
fore starting. liiiiVN 'h
The p. D. is rapidly disappearing from
Memphis, aud has gone on its Northern
summer tour.
The exodus Of summer tourists is
about over, unless more money reaches
the city for distribution.
The thermometer ranges daily among
the nineties in the shade. In the sun
it mounts TO the hundreds.
The stockholders OF the Planters Fire
aud Marine Insurance Company elected
board Of directors to-day.
Not a sunstroke has occurred in this
city as yet, although such things are
quite common in New York.
1t has been announced by authority
that the travelling Shah of Persia will
not visit Memphis this season.
The Appeal man takes an hour or two
occasionally to add q stanza to LEDGER
Line without improving the text.
The different assessors throughout the
county are returning their assessment
books rapidly to the County Clerk.
Two deaths from drowning in Wolf
river since Saturday. Wolf is a most
dangerous river FOR boys to battle in.
The Fourth was celebrated at Raleigh
by hop and feast, which we're enjoyed
by large number of Memphians.
The Honorable Quarterly Court, with
tolerably full bench Of magistrates,
went to work this morning on county
affairs.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that the
yellow fever will not follow in the wake
of the cholera up the Mississippi Valley
A well-known Memphian, now abroad,
writes back that the sensation produced
by sea-sickness is very sickish sensa-
ton.
Hundreds of watermelons and cante-
lopes are ripe and ready for our citi-
zens, but the P. d. has placed an EN-
barge upon the sale or use.
The deadliest enemy that Memphis
ever had, we're he to arrive on the bluffs
just now, would be warmly received
either in or out of the shade.
Rev. DR.. John T. Wheat, rector of st.
Lazarus Church, delivered most i'm.
pressive farewell sermon yesterday on
his retirement from the ministry.
At an informal meeting of the shoe
makers, held in this city, resolution
was passed favoring Hhoeing all the
women and booting all the men in the
county.
The School Board will meet tonight
and settle the vexed question Of the nexi
school Superintendent by electing one
Each candidate is cheerful and sanguint
of success.
In an adjoining county paper a lady
advertises for her lost husband describ
ing him as having a Roman nose, etc
How could she ever expect such a nose
to turn up?
| The corn and cotton crops in this anC
adjoining counties look much better
than they did a week ago. and planters
are already beginning to look CORE
spondingly cheerful.
William Jones, member of the col
ored portion of the Jones family
pounded his wife numerically yester
day, and paid fifty dollar fine for hi
fun this morning. ~
John Cosgrove and Pat Walsh we're
fined five dollars each this morning by
Judge Winters for INDUCING in stand
up and knock-down argument in sa
loon on Adams street.
Local papers insist that West Tennes
see idiots are climbing the hills of Eas
Tennessee this summer, in order to gel
view of the COWS pasturing in the
meadows of the valleys.
Browning makes a long love story
short in his description Of the hasty
marriage business:
they metz
COurtship was brief, marriage came quick,
But quicker -impecuniosity!
Even croquet has invaded the rural
districts, and the bucolic swain and
maiden may be seen INDUCING in the
mallet and ball business with zest equal
to that displayed by the best croquetists
Of Memphis.
Mary Jones and Allen Wilkes, the no
torious body snatchers, whose last ex'
plot in their line was chronicled in last
Saturdays LEDGER, we're this morning
sent to jail without bail by Recorder
Winters for kidnapping.
The moonlight picnic at Sardis, Mis-
sissippi, comes off tomorrow evening,
on which occasion one fare for the round
trip will be charged over the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad from Memphis