Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-27
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ban dwelIers long for gas.

Distinguished arrivals to-day-Mrs.
farley, Little Nell and George.
Candidates are announcing themselves
slowly. Not to be known through the
press argues yourself unknown.
The thermometer marks 9l0, but Mrs.
Jarley's wax figures have not melted.
The St. George Benevolent Society
picnic was we'll attended last evening.
The General Council viii meet in
monthly session next Wednesday. after
noon.
Spring politics are getting warm by
way of preparing for the dog days of
August.
Societa di Unione Fratellanza tall
ana picnic at James Park today and
to night lss
Shooting bnllbats and sweeps form
the amusement of suburban shotgunists
every evening.
Tomorrow the children of st. Bird
gets Sunday school will indulge in
picnic at James Park.
Music is not permitted to languish
here, if we are allowed to judge by the
number of concerts being given.
Mr.. Louis Dallrof commences to day
to canvass for subscribers to the com
plete works of Charles Summer.
The charter members of Ceur de Lion
Lodge, No. 10, X. of P, meet tonight
at their Castle Hall on Adams street.
There are several trick mules attached
to street cars. Their tricks consist in
seeing which can pull the least and kick
the highest over the dash board.
The New Orleans Board of Health has
ordered the water hydrants to be left
open during the day, SO that the street
cutters can be flushed with running
water.
Were Sidney Smith alive and in Mem
phis at present he would repeat his
famous conceit, that it would be a
pleasure to be able to step out of your
flesh and sit in your bones.
No longer will Happy Hollow furnish
items to reporters or epidemics to the
Bluff City. The shanties are to be torn
down and the Hollow drained under the
direction of the Board Of Health.
The cry is now, "let the best men be
nominated for office in the convention"
to be called in this county, under the
Bartlett movement, and the combina-
ton ticket" will be swept from the
bluffs.
Conductor l.. L. Haley, of the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee railroad, was mar
ried to day to Miss Jenny Lake, of
Grenada, Mississippi. Conductor Harry
Childress would have been married long
ago but never could find time to lay
over at any village along the line.
The widest rumors as to the health of
Memphis prevails in other States, and
many railroad travellers avoid our city
by going around on other routes. The
weekly sanitary reports published by the
Board of Health ought to be sufficient
to dispel such an illusion and correct
these unfounded rumors.
Decoration of Federal graves at the
National Cemetery tomorrow. The
custom of decorating graves, originating
in the South, has become popular in the
North. It is a beautiful custom and
worthy of being perpetuated IN every
land. To forget the dead is crime, to
remember them a virtue as well as a
duty, and at the grave ali prejudice and
passion should halt.
Residents on Shelby street complain
that the most offensive odors prevail in
their vicinity at night, caused by night
carts being driven down Shelby. This
is a nuisance which should be remedied
by making these carts alright, as is
done in other cities. The nuisance is
intolerable to all residents on Shelby
street. and the General Council or Board
of Health should invent some remedy.
The citizens of Sardis, Pamela county,
Mississippi, will give dedication ball
at the new courthouse on the night Of
Monday, June 10th. The courthouse is
the finest in the South, its design being
the Italian style of architecture and
built at cost of nearly $4,000. Our
fellow. citizen, James B. Cook, Esq, was
the architect who designed and superin-
tended the building Of the beautiful
structure.
Many of our local politicians who de-
claimed loudly some weeks since against
the Bartlett movement and in favor of
Radical combination ticket for August
are becoming rapidly Conservative and
begin to remark that the Bartlett move
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