Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-18
LEDGER LINES.
Mercury at noon to-day 9O'.

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The boundless continuity of shade is
the place TO hunt just now.
Judge Ray will sit on the Probate
Court bench tomorrow morning.
From Memphis to CoyingtOn, thirty.
seven miles via the Paducah railroad.
The maidens of Memphis, With the
spirit Of AmazOns, dye but never sur
render.
Wind and dust prevailed on the streets
to-day by way OF preparing for a rain
storm.
Total receipts OF cotton to yesterday
noon by the Memphis aud Paducah rail.
road we're 100 bales.
The song Of the bull.frog can be heard
at night in all the bayous, ponds and
pools throughout the city.
Joab Bowling, an Emerald Islander,
was found very booty this morning by
=! the police and locked up.
An enterprising trainer was doing his
best this morning to get up a match
between several roadsters.
In month or two saloon.keepers will
have to put up the sign, Candidates
required to pay in advance" 0 [. D
dead drunk would have been a
proper motto for the escutcheons Of sew
eral Memphians last night.
A well.known police officer wears tan
colored kids as a mark to distinguish
him from the common policeman.
Our magistrates have all been furn-
ished with the new codi6ed laws of the
State, compiled by Thompson 4 Steiger.
A Cincinnati journalist insists that
on account of the prevailing disease
Memphis has only fifteen candidates for
mayor. . ft.f.. f.r.f
The boys who expect to be candidates
at the next municipal election have COM
menced practicing the hand-shaking
business.
A countryman was noticed on Main
street this morning gravely setting his
watch by painted sign in front Of
jewelry store.
Joseph Edmonds, an African, was
arrested by the police this morning on
suspicion of stealing. He will be heard
in the morning by Judge Winters.
Soda water, which cheers but not in
ebriates, is sold in Memphis at ten cents
and in New York at one cent a glass.
Spiked soda is more costly by fifteen
cents.
An editorial is defined to be, shaw
ings from a well worn mind, to be blown
for one brief minute before the wind Of
public opinion and then forgotten for all
eternity"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says of
late voluminous correspondence: 1T
is the latest, the longest and the happi-
est illustration OF the beauties Of the
code.
On the completion of the Raleigh road
there will be sixteen narrow-gauge rail-
roads in the United States, with the ag-
gregate length Of four hundred and
eighty-fve miles.
The lost boy mentioned in yesterdays
LEDGER turned out to be the son Of
Captain Taylor, who does business ON
Front street. The lost plead was restoi-
ed to his parents.
A little rain now and then would be
relished by men and women at present.
The days and nights are oppressively hot
and sultry, producing a most relaxing
effect upon the system.
There wasn't the first case before the
Recorder this morning worth mention
ing. A few DRINKS and an assault
and battery constituted the list punished
by fines by the Recorder. fittW
The custom of the average Chelsean
now is to sit in his cottage door and
read the morning literature while his
wife saws the wood in the backyard, with
which she prepares breakfast.
The Avalanche proposes to revert to
its original size and type in September.
If the proposition is intended in a Oar
winian sense the suggestion becomes
most interesting to the public.
Rumor has it that couple of distin-
guished Founders will make Presidents
Island, or some other point below this
city on the river, the scene of first
class mill before many weeks.
There are a multitude of young men
idly waiting for vacant clerkships and
untitled offices, while mechanical work
much more remunerative invites them
on all sides to abandon the paths of idle
ness.
The Board of Directors of the Shelby
County Agricultural Association held a
meeting this morning, and will in few
days announce the programme for the
next County Fair, which commences on
October l4th.
The mortuary reports published by
the Board of Health show that Mem
phis is entirely free from cholera. There
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