Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-31
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The English custom Of driving horses
in tandem has broken loose among
the young bloods of Memphis
Charlie Howard won the Gne horse
and buggy at tho rattle last night II
cost him four dollars and thirty cents.
The cry, 100 much rainl is begin.
ming TO reyerberate in hills and hoIlows.
the echo being awakened by the irAie
plantera
Parties desiring TO visit Raleigh
Springs can leave Memphis at niue
o'clock am, and returning leave Raj.
eigh at 63Opm.
The Mississippi State Fair will be- held
at jackson on the 18th OF October The
premium list has been issued by Secre-
tary Powers.
Chief Ed. Anderson, Of the Fire De.
partment, returned from trip to the
East Tennessee mountains yesterday.
and resumed duty today
The return OF the street railroad com
pany to the five cents fare syslem would
be most popular movement The ten
cent single fare or four tickets for a dol
lar is nuisance.
A bibulous Memphian has a queer
way of associating things. Whenever
referred to as TO some doubtful point, he
learnedly asks, inquisitorially' WAS it
before or after the beer gave out2"
The new Masonic Temple on Madison
street begins to chow signs of its fair
proportions The iron columns for the
first story having arrived will be placed
in position Immediately.
When daylight breaks through the
portals Of the East dead dog can be
discovered at almesG every street cor
ner. Cannot some Memphis poet I'M
timber his fancy, and publish doggerel2
Chief Of Police Athy interviewed sew
eral important gentlemen at his office
this morning, and doubtless obtained
much information in regard TO several
horses that have been stolen lately from
the country.
The annual State Fair Of the Tennessee
Colored Agricultural and Mechanical
Association will commence at Nashville
on the 10Th of September Fred Doug
lass has accepted an invitation to deliver
the address.
The lakes in the Easements of build
ings are being pumped dry with porta
BILE steam engine, for the purpose Of
catching the frogs that croak all the
night long and answer each other from
cellar to cellar.
In the postal card business, il any
additional matter other than the address
is added it renders the card unavailable
except at letter rates of postage. On
the blank side of the card you can write
as much as you please.
Not delegate from Memphis put in
an appearance atthe New State Conven
ton at jackson. The movement has
but few supporters in this city. Old
Tennessee as it is, is good enough for the
average Memphian or for any other man.
Bartlett Circuit Court was the scene of
a rough-and-tumble fight yesterday be-
tween Memphis attorney and deputy
sheriff. Judge Ray promptly brought
order ont Of chaos, and enforced respect
for his court by fining the parties.
Detective McCune captured this morn
ing Messrs. Tom Webb and Joe Giles,
who are charged with stealing several
bales of cotton from point thirty miles
above here and floating it down to this
market in a skifi, where it was disposed
of by the thieves at figure far below
the market rates.
The Register man is responsible for
the story that FoIt Pickering fisher
man recently caught catfish, and in
its stomach was found plated fork and
gold locket, both of which are believed
to have belonged to the officers of the
John Simonds, boat plying on the
Mississippi before the war. Neither the
smoke stacks nor the boilers Of the
Simonds were found on board the fish
The water supplied by the Water Com
pany from Wolf river is at present clear
and palatable. Should the Mississippi
or Wolf river rise the water supplied
would no doubt become muddy again.
Memphis people have been accustomed
to drinking well and cistern water, and
will not kindly take to such as is dis
colored with mud. A filteringreservoir
however, is used by the company to
overcome this objection.
Dead-head passes will be refused and
rejected by railroads west of the Missis-
sippi on and after tomorrow, August
lst Colonel Tate, of the Little Rock
road, has written to st. Louis that his
road will issue no passes after August
LIST. The present effort to destroy the
dead-head business will result in wise
discrimination on the part Of railroad
managers, by which only persons legiti-
mately entitled to favors shall receive
them.