Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-06
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there is an active movement in fans.
The Confederate Relief Association
meets tonight to organize for the annual
picnic.
Numbers Of our citizens are skipping
of northward to lakes. springs and sea
coasts.
Among religious people this is known
as Ember week. Today and tomorrow
are fast days.
The only place Of public amusement
open in the city is Whites Opera House
on Jefferson street.
Do not forget the Echol Academy Elk
hibition and Concert at the Greenlaw
Opera House tonight.
I" Pony brandy" is the precautionary
beverage Of the cholera.morbus fearing
Memphian at present.
The man without a bottle OF cholera
morbus preventive close at hand is not
to be found on the bluffs.
Joseph Tagg, the wall paper and
painters supply man, at S43 Main street,
has our thanks for favors. Ms
The raziDg of the Memphis Bank build
ing is going on, preparatory TO raising a
finer building on the ruins.
Nashville does not wish to appear too
boastful, but really thinks it has had a
genuine case Of Asiatic cholera.
Mosquitoes of the most sanguinary
disposition make it lively at night for
those counting sleep without bars"
On the 9th of June, 1862, Memphis was
captured by the Federal troops. To-day
is the eleventh anniversary of that little
episode Of the war.
Banking and commercial circles gen.
orally were somewhat dull this morning,
all engaged therein being occupied in
trying to keep cool.
The June number of the Southern
Farm and Home, VIM. M. Browne edi-
tor, is out. 1t is valuable repository
of agricultural knowledge.
In front of the south gate of Court
Square two piles of bricks obstruct the
pavement. The city authorities should
lay down the bricks or remove them.
Just eleven years ago to-day the Fed
eral flag was run up on a hickory pole
planted on the Court street bluff. How
many persons are there in the city who
remember the day2
A pigeon shooting match between
amateurs will come off tomorrow out
side the city walls for 500 side. 1t
will be Witnessed and enjoyed by the
sportsmen, invited guests, and the sur
viving birds
The best preventive against sunstroke
is said to be a sponge in the hat. There
are few hundred people in Memphis to
whom the remedy would be like carry
ing Goals to Newcastle.
Singing an octagonal outside No. 2
Faber in these tropical days is not the
most delightful amusement in the world,
but such is the daily business of the
members of the reportorial corps.
The alarm of fire last night was caused
by the burning of negro shanty on the
corner of Georgia and Orleans streets.
1t was empty at the time, the occupants
having died Of the prevailing disease.
The Knights of Pythias were drilled
on ice last night, tie use of an ice-vault
having been rendered by prominent
and jealous member. The boys did
well, but occasionally sat down in order
to keep cool.
Chronic tea drinkers will rejoice to
learn that Letherby, of London, has dis
covered that forty-three per cent. Of the
tea in the bonded warehouses is COM
posed of iron filings and nineteen per
cent of silica.
A number of our Irish fellow-citizens
are in favor of making Marshal Nc
Mahon King of ireland, he being de-
scended from Brian Boru, the famous
monarch of Ulster, who repealed the
Danish invasion few years ago.
The assessor calls upon all persons
having real estate or personal property
in the Fourth ward to call upon him at
43 Madison street, and make the lawful
return thereof on or before the 10th
instant otherwise penalty of twenty
five per cent. is to be added.
The city bells rang out an alarm of
fire last night and brought hundreds of
people to upper story windows, all of
which gave the city a ghostly or mas
querading appearance. The usual CUES
ton, "Wheres the fre2 was replied to
with the well-known answer, II don't
know"
The centennialites met yesterday at
the Chamber OF Commerce and ap-
pointed an Executive Committee. The
address to the citizens of West Tennes
see presented by Judge Swayne is too
for newspaper publication,
and will, no doubt, be issued in pam
phlet form for general circulation.
A curious discovery has been made.