Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-25
LEDGER LINES.
Police circles are dull.
Go to church tomorrow.


the river every evening.
The mercurial thermometer assembled
into the nineties to-day.
The election of the Bartlett ticket will
come off on next Thursday week.
That fraudulent comet no longer
lodges around in the northern heavens.
Hundreds of people take daily siesta
and sponge bath during this hot sea-
son.
There we're horse trots and slow time
at the Trotting Park Association course
yesterday.
A negro while bathing in the river last
evening, above Adams street, was
drowned
The County Quarterly Court was in
session yesterday winding up unfinished
business.
Short serm ons tomorrow would suit
those citizens who are affected by the
heat OF : the weather.
Negro civil rights meeting every
night, at which nominees netherside "
with the colored brother.
The First Circuit Court will be in ses-
sion for several days for the purpose of
condemning land sold for taxas due and
unpaid.
A brilliant party of young gentlemen
and ladies went out to Raleigh last
night and INDUCED in country supper
and moonlight dance.
The newspaper reporter of Memphis
fishes for items as he floats in a sea of
perspiration. The Adamic and Eveic
costumes would suit this climate to fig
leaf.
Nine persons were arrested in South
Memphis last night, and on being carried
to the Causey street station-hous put
up forfeits rather than sleep in that
sweat box all night.
A party Of young ladies enjoyed them
selves no little last evening bathing in
spring branch on the Raleigh road.
They looked like mermaids to several
gentlemen who were passing at the time.
Tomatoes are the vegetable luxuries
at present. Some people eat them with
sugar; others with vinegar, salt and pep
per, while not few get up mixture of
tomatoes olive oil, catsup, vinegar, salt
and pepper.
B. f. G. Brooks, who prowled around
Memphis some years since, and had
strange affection for wearing soiled
shirt and dirty linen duster, is said TO
be the workingmen's nominee for Gov
ernor of Tennessee.
Coggia's comet has put its tail between
its legs and has run away below the
horizon. 1t either got frightened at the
Great Bear, or intends to slip around
and collide with Plymouth church SO as
to break up nesthiding."
1t is rumored that one or more of the
white civil rights nominees will retire
from the contest so that their places can
be filed by negroes, that race not liking
the idea of having but one nominee, and
that for small Office which may be abol-
ished next winter,
The largest retail cigar business new
done in this city is by Sol Coleman, of
" Rosa Concha fame, at 200 Main
street, near Washington. He sells over
1000 Rosas per day at retail, and other
fine goods in great quantities We
recommend him highly as a straightfor-
ward and honorable tradesman.
The phrase too thin, SO commonly |
used in Memphis, and which has been
put down as slang, is yet classical Eng
lish expression occurring in Shaks-
pears Henry VIII, act g. scene 2, when
the King says to Gardiner: But know
come not to hear such aattery now and
in my presence, they are too thin and
base to hide offense," etc.
The negroes make their white nomi-
nees, Davis, Mulvihill, Smith, Winters,
jr., and others, come down to the level,
and the nigs take pleasure in eating,
hack.Iiding and INDUCING in
other social pleasures with their own
nominees. The white men do not like
this, but they are afraid to kick, fearing
10 lose the negro vote. Give them full
lose of it, Mr.. Negro.
For days hundreds of Memphians
have been examining dictionaries and
,ther works of reference in order to dis
cover the origin or derivation of the
3eecherism, nethersiding or "nethe-
Iiding." But alas laundering tele-
graphic operator made a mistake, and
he word used by Beecher was the poeti-
al one, nest.hiding. The word has an