Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-30

Inc vance street Sabbath school PIC
mic, announced for tomorrow, has been
postponed until the Second Saturday in
June.
Honest Joe " will be raffled at the
Overton tomorrow night at eight o clock.
Go everybody who would win a nice
turnout tift,l
Beautiful weather at last. Sunshine
is great dispenser of health, and we
expect to hear but little more talk of an
epidemic.
Paper collars, with dark streak on
the upper edge, are again becoming fash
ionable here since the mercury went up
to the eighties.
The city clerk of Cedar Falls, Iowa,
gets seventy-fve dollars per year, and
the city pays for the washing Of one
shirt per month.
Coon hunting is very good in the out
skirts Of Indianapolis, and city sports
men are trading off their sleeve buttons
for trained coon dogs.
No attempt has been made to cleanse
the city Of the garbage and filth that has
accumulated in alleys and back yards
for the last six months.
The police authorities have first
class sensation that they are working
up" The Ledger Liner will give the
particulars in due time. f.
Alton, Illinois, is going to have
mammoth tannery to neutralize the fra
GRANGE Of the peppermint hair oil used
by high toned society sports.
In Oxford county, Maine, when the
citizens wish to punish male seducer,
they give him free passes to Chicago,
and then burn him in efigy,
A little girl fell into bucket contain
ing less than three inches of water, the
other day. and either drowned or smoth-
cred before she was discovered.
A Pittsburg witness could net give his
own age, but was confident he was
younger than his mother, though she
died early, and he was not certain.
The Gar didn't climb down from his
box to the stage when he presented
Patti with diamond coronet. He went
behind the scenes and walked on.
The cellar under the old postofice
building, the alley bounded by Third and
Fourth and Washington and Adams
streets require the attention of the sani-
tary police.
The South American parasol or
"Chili sun-shade is all the rage in the
city just now, the first of the season
having made their appearance on Main
street to-day.
There were three misdemeanor cases
up for trial before Recorder Winters this
morning which were sandwiched be
tween one plain drank and four drunk
and disoFdsrlies.
Keep your garbage barrels away from
the alleys and streets, and dnmp them
into the river, else the sanitary police
will require from you a small donation
TO the city treasury.
According to the San Francisco
Chronicle, ayoung lady in that city de-
ranges the jaw of gentleman friend
with a derrinser. That is much better
than shooting him in the mouth.
The alleys must be kept free from
garbage and filth. Four arrests for the
noncompliance with this law were made
last evening, the arrested being fined
from ten to twenty-five dollars each,
Rather expensive, but just.
A Georgia editor who seems to possess
to a great extent one Of the principal
ingredients of soft soap, says a hailstone
measuring thirteen inches in circnmfer-
ence by four and one-half in diameter,
fell in his native village last week.
A Northern exchange gives our gas
companies the following puff gratis"
In Memphis the gas meters are Of that
industrious class that work right along /
while the family are in Europe, just the
same as if some one was in the house"
An Illinois editor who was enjoying
himself at San Francisco When Horace
F. Clark stopped issuing passes over the
Union Pacific railroad, writes to bis wife
that be is walking home for bis liVer's
sake, and will arrive in the fall or early
spring. t.h raar
The different cotton and stock 81 well
as the New York gold boards are not in I
session to-day. this being the great Fed
eral national decorztion daJ Ths dif- |
ferent eolored organizations we're out
and paraded the streets here this nom /
ing, headed BY q band, and vent out 10 ]