Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-06
LEDGER LINES.
General Council meeting this after
noon Al The EXCHANGE building.

The Raleigh ball on Friday evening
next will attract the light fantastic toe
people from Memphis.
The Circuit aud Criminal Courts will
open up the next term in September. aud
the Chancery Courts in October.
The citizens who nightly throw Stops
out of upper story windows are objects
Of attention to the sanitary officers.
The humorous Register man insists
thai good fitting shirt is a Ct compan'
ion for lord, and yet he is not lord.
A prize fight in the vicinity Of Mem
phls, between two st. Louis pugilisiic
roughs, is one OF the propositions for fall
amusements.
Reports Of city officials are now pub
lished in advance Of their production
before the General Council, thereby fore
stalling the news market.
But few small lires lighted up Mem
phis during the past month. The total
cost of the Fire Department during the
month OF July was 1922 5s.
There will be a basket picnic at the
Ripley Male Academy tomorrow, for an
invitation to which we have to thank the
Committee on Invitations.
A ghost at the head Of Vance street
creates CONSERVATION nightly in the gro.
Gerry wherein James Aste beat James
Garibaldi to death with mallet some
months since.
The nindoos teach a lesson to the wife
whipping Modocs of Memphis in the
precept; "Strike not, even with bios.
som, a wife, though she be guilty OF a
hundred faults.
People who abandon Memphis home
life for the springs should not leave half
n dozen hungry cats and dogs at home to
the great annoyance of their can'tget-
away neighbors.
The fire alarm yesterday afternoon
was caused by touching lighted match
to leaky gas main in the store Of
Cook 4 Norton, on Front street. The
gas jet was soon smothcred out Of ex-
istence by the workmen.
When the average Memphian gets
robbed his whole desire is to have his
returned instead Of prosecuting
the thief Compromising q felony,
penitentary offense, does not seem
much of crime TO him.
The Old Folks officers for the ensuing
year, selected yesterday, are: President,
VIM. B. Waldron; Vice President, John
T. Stratton Recording Secretary, j. P.
Prescott; Financial Secretary, B. Rich
mond; Treasurer, R. A. Parker.
The Old Folks meeting yesterday in.
a stormy debate over the
selection of the place wherein to hold
the next picnic. Raleigh and the Fair
Grounds were the bones of contention,
and the important question is not yet
settled.
In the new game called "chivalrie," "
which is supplanting croquet," the
paraphernalia costs about twenty dol
lars. 1t takes two days to learn the
technical terms, and the game is pro-
nounced by experts to be an easy path
way to matrimonY.
There is a spring at Raleigh on the
side of the hill which is visited by hun
dreds of men; the ladies, however, do
not patronze it much. 1t is strong, but
palatable TO the taste, and its effect is to
unhinge the tongue and tangle the legs.
Don Raleigh round that spring boys.
A bran.dance and barbecue will be
the Terpsichorean and gourmandic at
traction at the sale of Lucy town lots,
on the Paducah railroad on Friday next.
Our dancing reporter will, in all proba-
bility, be on hand and get his foot in it
not in the barbecue, but the dance.
From all that is reported by the dwell
ers on Aatboats lying below the elevator,
it would seem that the nude boys who
battle in the river at that point should
not only be presented with bathing
costume, but should also be muzzled.
The police must attend to this imniodest
nuisance Immediately.
DR.. Hoerner, the Memphis chemist,
after Analysing the Wolf river water
supplied to citizens by the Water Com
pany, pronounces the waters Of old Mesh.
oba to be purer article than can be
found anywhere along the banks of the
Mississippi, which latter stream has
more organic matter in its bosom than
the Wolf
DR.. Tucker, of Big Creek, returned
from a three months tour TO Europe,
He visited the hospitals at
London, Berlin and Paris, saw the
Shah, took shoe fly" with a number
Of Memphians at Vienna, and returned
home improved in health and increased
in weight, He pronouhces the United
States the best country in the world, and
next 20 Paris, Memphis suits him best.
NOticei
Having taken a large Main treetstore,
No. 1872, and having to 90 to New York
TO- n frash sfock nv store No DIG Front