Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-17

the appetite may hcken ana 70 may
deere the dArned thing strikes up
another tune.
Your money or your proving goats,
is the cry in police circles at present, in
obedience TO the city ordinance com
manding festive goats to quit provling
around the city under the pains and
penalties Of arrest imprisonment and
eon6scation.
And now comes q number Of learned
men who insist that the cholera can be
successfully defed IL you carry sulphur
in your socks. Doing the same in the
other world will have like effect. This
paragraph is written expressly for the
benefit Of sinners.
The ordinance creating a Beard Of
Health, to be composed Of Eve physi-
clans and FIVE citizens, has become a
law The Board should publish daily
mortuary reports, instead Of weekly, as
provided by the ordinance. The Board
of Health will be appointed by the
Mayor.
The Appeal scientist has made the
discovery that little white winged in
sect is the germ Of cholera. The only
way to escape the cholera, and TO let the
insects escape, is to keep your mouth
shut; but this is demanding Of thousands
of people what may be called an impos-
sibility.
Last evening the jury in the case Of
the State vs. ex.county undertaken Jack
Walsh, who was indicted for creating a
nuisance for half burying county pau
pers and placing the collins of the un-
forum ate dead in tiers OF three, brought
in verdict Of guilty, and fixed the pen
atty at q fine Of one thousand dollars
Local historians have it that to-day
two hundred years ago (l67S) Marquette
and Joliet discovered the Upper Missis-
sippi and crossed it in a dug-out. The
Lower Mississippi remained unknown
and undiscovered for many years after
ward, although the discoveries Of the
upper section of the stream strongly sus-
pected the existence of the lower section.
The correspondent who has opened up
ten thousand letters to newspapers in
the following formula: Your valuable
Journal" etc, is, we regret to learn,
dead, and died repeating the above
phrase, which for once, instead of being
his first words, became, we are pleased
to state, I" his last Words" he left no
authority to any other correspondent to
make use of them.
Already Memphis fashions are chang
ing, and newspaper paniers are becom-
ing common. The straight redingote
mot being prohibited by the hog and
goat ordinance) is in vogue ON the
streets. The distinctive parts of the
late costume have disappeared which
does away with the female necessity Of
leaning forward in order to preserve the
center of gravity.
The Register man has been interview
ing Leubrie's jackass on the cholera
question. The interview was pleasant.
The grave animal gave an able opinion
to his confrere, and the latter was thereby
edited and Instructed. The meeting
gave mutual pleasure, and the jackass
D romised to accept the invitation and
e,'urn the call, and also to contribute
occasionally readable local articles for
the Register.
Al the annual convention of Memphis
R. A.. Chapter No. So, held at their hall
last uight, the following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing year
w. S. Mathews, NJ. E. H. P; B. X.
Pullen, L. K; P. NJ. Stanley, E. s.; B.
F. Price, C. H.; 3. Creighton, P. s.; E.
Smith, b "a. o.; d. W. Graham, u. M.
third vail; j. %. Barbee, G. M. second
vail; R. R. Catron, G. M. first vail; B.
f. Halter, Treasurer; R. W. Shelton,
Secretary; j. j. Suter, Tiler.
The wild hog ordinance repealed
by the City Fathers last night resulted in
the turning Loose to-day of fourteen or
fifteen of the animals impounded, upon
which the city had paid a scalp premium
of two bits each. The repeal OF the law
has made Happy Hollow, HelFs Half
Acre and other suburban and aristocratic
portions Of the city happy, and the hap
Ply swine may now roam at large. The
boys, however, who have realized from
two to four dollars per day in catching
and penning the animals, to-day wear
wry faces. One declared that twas
COMPOUNDED shame, as he had just got
a start in business, and intended in a
couple of weeks more to emigrate to New
York and become member of the stock
and gold board there" contemplating,
perhaps, a jimfsk or jaygould future.