Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-22
LEDGER LINES.

NJ James fark to-uhy'
The time has come to pack your fur
and wooden goods in camphor.
Doctor Grasiy adyertises his choler
morbus antidote in another column.
The "hired man" is not the cominI
man this season. SO say the planters
City letters require a two cent stamp
unless you write the letter on posta
card.
The Italian society picnic yesIerda,
was largely attended, and was n most de
lightful fete.
A quarter Of a dollar judiciously ex
pended will purchase any amount o
cholera morbus.
A Cincinnati man is in the city fol
the purpose Of establishing a chair fac
tory at this point.
Spring fights seem 10 be in order al
present, and spring up almost without
cause or provocAtion.
A locomotive, baggage, mail and pas
seHger cars for the narrow gauge Raj
eigh railroad have arrived.
Baby show, promenade concert and
chop" at the Exposition building to-
morrow afternoon and night.
Warm weather, saltwater, ice.cream,
lemonade and book beer are enjoyed by
the average Memphian at present.
Early this morning the FIRE bells rang
out an alarm, caused by the burning of a
small grocery store on Poplar street.
The bellies of Memphis present the
charming appearance Of pouter pigeons,
in ruiis Of dimensions truly Elizabeth
ian.
Tennessee should have a Bureau OF
Immigration like Texas. and forward all
immigrants to the interior of the State
by railway at half price.
The hogs and goats have been driven
from the streets and alleys by the fierce
and vindictive but successful assaults of
Chief Athy's city hog catchers.
Tomorrow the Police Beard will set
tie the Adams street station-house
keeper question. One man will be Sc
lected and thirty-nine will be disap-
pointed.
Postal cards are floating throughout
the city via the mails. They will not do
for love letters, unless cipher is
used and understood by both males and
females.
Bibles can now be had for nothing,
but in the days of Edward l. of England
the price of Bible, fairly written, was
thirty-fve dollars, and the hire of Ia
boring man was three half pence a day.
Silvan Comerzier, the ex-Memphian
who suicided at Little Rock last Mon
day, was well known here as a tonsorial
artist. He came to Memphis from
Louisiana, of which. State he was ma
tive.
This is Ascension Day, and the Knights
Templar will parade this afternoon and
afterward assemble in the Cumberland
Presbyterian church in order to listen to
discourse from their prelate, Sir Knight
White.
Reverends DR.. Moses Hull and W. P.
Harrison are whacking away at each
other in Nashville over the vexed ques
ton of modern Spiritualism. The in.
tellectual tournament attracts large au-
diences.
The waters OF the great Mississippi
which flow beneath our bluffs is most
valued at sea, and remains pure longest
that of the Amazon lasts next longest,
and the waters Of the James comes third
in the list.
The average juryman on a coroner's
inquest has a weakness just now for
bringing in verdict of congestion when
the true cause of death is unknown.
Congestion is too general verdict to be
strictly accurate.
1t will be of interest to our cotton
men to learn that the Egyptian cotton
crop this year is estimated at two hun
bred millions OF pounds, and that the
cultivation of cotton is aided and fos-
tered by the government.
Attend the Central Methodist church
festival at Rocco Hall; the Church Or
phans' Home festival, at No. 267 Main
street, opposite Court Square; and the
Central Baptist church festival, at the
church on Second, near Beal-and be
happy.
Among the vexed questions left for
settlement to posterity, "Who burned
Columbian" will cut no small figure. In
a hundred years from now it will stand
side by side, in Importance aud magni-
tude, with that other grand interroga-
tory, Who struck Billy Patterson
There is a cosmopolite in Memphis
10 oon ha aeen in every procession
English. Irish, German, Swiss, Italian,