Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-23

on the river as soon as possible. 1t
would be popular affair. Gentlemen,
organize your clubs.
Memphis needs swimming park, or
some place either within or without Wolf
river, where death does not invariably
follow plunge bath.
We learned at noon to-day that Mr.
John Harvey who has charge of the
city scavenger boat, was lying danger.
ously i'll with the sporadic.
Every policeman in the city has been
instructed to act as sanitary officer.
This is right, and is an evidence Of good
sense on the part of Chief Athy.
Jackson, Tenn, was destroyed by fire,
owing TO the penny-wise policy of fail
ing to expend money in creating an ef-
fective fire department.
The city magistrates insist that they
will hold inquests, pay or no pay, when
ever they are called upon, the County
Court to the contrary Notwithstanding.
An exchange has it that the cholera
attacked Andy Johnson, but it found
him altogether too obstinate and obdu-
rate to yield, consequently it backed out
from the contest.
Memphis needs thorough system of
sewerage more than any city in the
Union. At present there is not pub
lie sewer in the city outside of that open
one, the Bayou Gayoso.
Watering place letters are very dull
and stupid this year. The regular cor
respondents seem to be somewhere else,
and the Bohemians have evidently had
their hotel supplies considerably re-
duced.
A State Convention of editors from
Western Kentucky, West Tennessee and
North Mississippi will convene at Jack
son, Tenn, On the 29th, for the purpose
Of creating new State by resolutions
on paper.
There is q considerable amount of
chagrin felt in this country because the
Shah refuse to grin on this side of the
salt sea. He should by all means visit
Hopefeld and Raleigh before returning
to Persia.
The Arkansas river, says an exchange,
one Of the longest in the Union, in its
winding course, measures nearly two
thousand miles. Its source is in the
Rocky Mountains, at an altitude OF
about ten thousand feet.
A convention of ogling 6ends and
those exquisites who part their hair in
the middle for the purpose Of striking a
balance sheet of their brains, will be
held in Nashville on the Both instant.
Quite large delegation will 60 from
Memphis
Tobacco smoke, says Carlyle is one
of the elements in European manners
in which men can sit silent together
without embarrassment, and where no
man is bound to speak one word more
than he has actually and vertically got
to say.
Mr.. |. H. Keath, of Kingston, Mass,
held the lucky ticket in the Louisville
Library lottery, and on Monday last ar
rived in Louisville with coupon 20,S93
for which he received the prize, $780,
900, from Governor Bramlette and other
directors of the great scheme. So says
the Louisville Courier-Journal.
There are quite number of young
ladies' in this city who, owing to the i'm
proved system of education in force in
Northern schools, are now the picture Of
health, and boast Of their ability to row
a boat, go through lesson in gymnastic
exercises and swim half a mile, and
Rithal this their minds have been prop
srly trained and cultivated. They are
not " fair flowers hanging on a fragile
stalk not much
Five thousand dogs in town., re-
marked Mr. Anti-dogrean, as he eontem-
plated from the sidewalk canine pro
,ession in the wake ofthe abstract dog;
FIVE thousand dogs, and all unmuz-
lied, said he, as if slowly revolving
within his mind a grand problem of
political economy; but then," he added
slowly, " have no doubt fifty dogs could
10 all the business Of biting persons.
Charles Wyndham, Of the Wyndham
Comedy Company. so we'll known in
Memphis, was recently garroted in
Sheffield, England. He was gagged,
,ound, and thrown into a coal cart, in
which, smothered with empty sacks, be
vas driven of TO the suburbs Of the city,
where he was afterwards found insensi-
lie. be was mistaken by his captors
or fooi race champion, and this means
vas used to keep him out Of the race.
Itis unfortunate that the city charter I
provide, that those distinguished oiti-
ems hslding the positions Of Council
men or Aldermen cannot announce
bemselyes IS candidates FOR the mayor
.iiy without rssigning their municipal
lasoss but such is the memorable Law