Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-30
LEDGER LINES.


ed to assemble in this city on Thursday
next, the Bird prox.
Plain soda is said to be a most health
full drink and one that will aid in keep
ing off the up. d." q
Next Friday will be the glorious
Fourth Of July, Of which we have read
so much in history.
On dit, that the Garrick Club will
present'the Ticketof.Leave.Man at the
Greenlaw Opera House sometime next
week.
1t is possible to live on half dollar
per day by breakfasting and dining with
friends, aud keeping the half dollar for
cigars.
The cotton bloom 6end has appeared
at last on the bluffs. The first, second
and third bale fellows will appear in q
few months.
A Chinese laundry is the latest thing in
Memphis. As washers, starchers and
ironers, the Celestial children beat the
civilized world.
People residing in adjoining counties
in Mississippi are revealing in roasting
ears, all kinds of vegetables, buttermilk
and blackberries.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the coupting-room tomorrow morning
and in wrappers ready for mailing,
Single copies, FIVE cents.
Harry T. Brown and Stephen V. Nor
ris, two runaway boys from Jersey City,
are wanted there by fond parents.
Captain Athy is looking for them.
The Appeal complains that its aesthetic
editor has not received bouquet for
three days. Send him bouquet and
let him be disinfected Immediately.
We heard Memphian give utterance
to Persian imprecation to-day: MAY
your face be turned upside down, and
may jackasses sit on your uncle's grave.
The planters in this and adjoining
counties state that unless the rains cease
neither corn nor cotton will be made.
Already the blades o grass only. can be
seen on plantations,
To-morrowthe new Superintendent of
the street railway, Mr.. c. l.. Anderson,
late of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, will take charge of track, cars,
mules, drivers and passengers.
They say" and that is most reliable
authority, that the Cole-Lucas-Wiuter-
smith difficulty has been settled by
friends, and that the voluminous CORE
spondence is ready for publication.
Nuisances, or those who create them,
are being indicted right and left by the
Grand Jury. In few months it will
become unnecessary for the ladies to
sweep the sidewalks with trailing dresses.
Five railroads center in Memphis at
present. Five other railroads would be
no special disadvantage. We should
have the Raleigh, Selma Shreveport and
Kansas City roads also centering on the
BLUES.
The day was when people turned up
their aristocratic or plebeian noses at
mud holes, but now they poke their
noses into them from a sanitary stand
point. So much for the changes Of
fashion.
Miss Louisa More, that very charm
ing actress who appeared in Memphis
with the Wyndhams, is now Mrs. W. H.
Cook Of London, and to her, according
to the London journals, son was born
on the 9th ultimo.
The Covingtonites of old Upton
county are as joyful over the railroad
connection with Memphis, via the Padu-
cab railroad, as if they each had been
presented with the prize ticket in the
next Memphis baby show.
The Board of Health has gone to
work energetically cleansing up the city
1t is a dirty job, equal to that of the
Augean stables, so ably performed by
Mr.. Hercules, who was selEappointed
Board of Health-of one.
An auction sale of diamonds on the
corner of Madison and Main streets,
attracted considerable attention at noon
to-day. The entire lot was purchased at
low figures by one of our wealthiest citi-
zens of the Eighth ward.
The city public schools are closed, and
the wornout teachers are leaving rapidly
for the country, where school boards ex-
ist not, and where hundreds of children
have not as yet made their appearance
for any purpose, wise or otherwise.
Our table was adorned to-day with a
cotton bloom picked on the 25th inst. on
the plantation of James Oliver, Missis-
sippi county, Arkansas, and sent as a
specimen bloom to the cotton house Of
Howes & Woodbridge, Front street.
A special telegram received by the
LEDGER to-day from H. j. Kelly, Du-
buque, Iowa, gives information that at
two o'clock yesterday, Mike Burke, a
weil-known Memphian, and formerly
gas filter in this city, died at that point.
Tho n;.ht and dar nafrols of the no