Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-11
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Subscribe to the Court Square foun-
tain. Take a little stock in water just
one time.
There will be fashionable marriage
at Grace (EpiscOpaD Church this even
ing at 81 o'clock.
Lolita is to return from Europe at the
close Of summer, and will make South
ern theatrical tour next season. v uo
There is not a public bathing estab-
lishment in Memphis sanitary neces-
sity that but few large cities are without
A number of residents found their
cellars filled with water last night, there.
by aGording them fine bathing and fish
ing privileges.
In Switzerland paupers are auctioned
of every year to the highest bidder
This rule would settle the pauper ques-
ton in Memphis.
Persons leaving Memphis fortho sum
mer can have the DAILY LEDGER mailed
TO them for seventy-fve cents per month,
or two dollars for three months.
Choleric newspaper men in Nashville
Indignantly deny the existence of chol.
era in the City of Rocks, but the citi-
zens indulge in daily hegiras from the
doomed village.
Evelyn Wilson and A Silent Protector,
by the Philo. Thespian Club at the Green
law Opera House next Friday evening,
for the benefit Of the Episcopal Church
Home.
Nearly three inches of water to the
square foot fell during the storm last
night. Five-sixths OF the amount fell in
fifty minutes-the heaviest rain fall here
in years.
If the code duello settles anything OF
anybody, except the thing called salts
faction and the person who gets killed,
what is it2 1t never settles the original
question in dispute.
A well-known cotton buyer Travelled
the market over to day to fll an order
for twenty-five bales of strict middling
cotton, and out of stock of over 24OC
bales could not find the desired lot.
DR.. Herring says if you wish to escape
cholera put sulphur in your socks, which
will charge your system with sulphu
reted hydrogen. This is a sulphureted
sock-dologer that you cannot escape
from if you get your foot in it. Gf
There are hundreds Of persons in ouI
city who take their matutinal whisky
cocktail three hundred and sixty-fve
times year and who take their night
caps of whisky punch about the same
number of times,
Considerable excitement was occa
stoned on Madison street this morning
by double runaway and the almost to
tai demolition of one or two buggie'
owned by Mr.. H. A. Montgomery anC
Colonel Enoch Ensley. Nobody hurt
The pigeon shooters are to indulge in
the harmless amusement of killing oil
missing trapped birds to-day out on the
Poplar street boulevard. Every Ninlrod
in the city will be on the bloody Fl ED
armed with his trusty and deadly shot
gun, ss-sn,s
The heavy and continuous rains last
evening interfered materially with picnic
and steamboat excursion pleasures, but
the rains washed out the streets and
alleys, and no doubt improved materially
the sanitary condition of the city; all OF
which is conducive to health.
The reckless young man of the Regis
ter calls upon the sanitary force to teal
down the street railway depot on Vance
street, but the enthusiast forgets that
private property cannot be destroyed in
this high handed manner, either by tht
sanitary force or by newspaper reporters
An improvised dog fight on Adams
street, near the bayou, attracted two
scores of citizens this morning. 1t is
astonishing how much humanity becomes
interested in dog fights. If men became
so much interested in monkeys it would
be strong link in the chain supporting
the Darwin theory as to the origin Of
man.
Midnight concerts, with badly tuned
instruments played upon by chaps with.
out any musical auricular developments,
are the latest agony in many of our bus
mess blocks. The musical maniacs muir
der sleep as effectually as did Macbeth
nay, it is a double murder for music is
also slaughtered and cat-gutted.
The notorious mackerel Jake Acker-
man has been annoying the Little Rock
authorities for over month, and at last
had to be ordered to leave the city,
which he did, and arrived in Memphis
yesterday, but Jake was gobbled up by
our police, and will be invited, la Doc
Wright, to shove out and rob elsewhere.
The newspaper stats of Memphis
journals is composed of about eighteen
worthless, but six Of whom enjoy single
blessedness, and these six, with but one
execution, run the local and river ends