Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-27
LEDGER LINES.

Items dull throughout the city.
Squads of people are leaving town.
Police circles are proyokingly dull.
Nothing new in the courts Of record.
Thermometer still up among the nine
ties.
General Council meeting this after
noon.
Give us rain and rest from the hot
weather.
The Hopefeld sand bar is stretching
across the river again.
Memphians are SOLDERING over water
melons in their abundance.
Memphis is one of the healthiest cities
in the United States at present.
All kinds of vegetables and fruits APP
pear in abundance at the markets.
The churches were crowded last even
ing, notwithstanding the intense heat.
Thank heaven Memphis has no Eliza
beth Heloise or Henry Ward Abelardl
This kind Of weather comes, within
human comprehension, Of one section of
the hereafter.
1t has been noticed that when bald
headed Memphians attend church they
90 in late and take back seats.
Every white man should vote the en-
tire white ticket on Thursday week and
give the civil rights Radicals passes up
Salt river.
An elegant bathing place would have
become popular this season. but Mem
pits never has such requisites to clean
illness and health.
Mulvihill and other Radical nominees
have perfect contempt for newspapers.
My boys, the feeling is reciprocated with
interest and effect.
The mortuary report for the past week
as reported by the Board of Health was;
whites, II; negroes, IA; total, 81. No
special disease prevailing.
A hot fight took place in Main street
ice house at II o'clock to-day between
two citizens. Several rounds we're fought
which resulted in draw OF claret.
These are the days in, which would be
office holders are button-holing and
treating the men, hattering the women
and kissing the babies with zeal and as
siduity.
The transit of the walking Venuses on
the streets after nine o'clock should be
observed by the patrolman, even if he
has to look through glasses of the beer
saloon pattern.
The negroized white Radical candi-
dates are getting nervous over their
prospects. They find out that they can
carry no strength to the negroes, and the
latter have made the same discovery.
The crops of would.be Governors con-
tinue to increase in West Tennessee, yet
we see no reference to it made in the
able statistical reports of crops pre-
sented by the Chamber OF Commerce to
the world.
The base ballers we're out in force on
the Pigeon Roost road yesterday, and
made the vicinity of Humboldt Park
most disagreeable by their yells and
profanity. Is there no remedy for this
Sunday nuisauce2
To-day seven years ago, (lS66), the
Atlantic cable squadron arrived off
Hearts Content, Trinity Bay, New
Foundland, the distance run being 1869
miles. and the cable paid out being 1864
miles from Valentia Bay, Ireland.
A good joke is told on an Irish Radi-
cal nominee. His sweetheart is Demo-
cratic to the core and is for the Bartlett
consequently the negFoized
nominee is threatened with ruin and
kicking" if he hangs on to the Radi-
cal party
The soft, sweet strains of music by the
bands we're whirled aloft from suburban
beer gardens last night, and we're
floated into neighborhood easements for
the delectation of youths and maidens,
who sat in ghostly habiliments musing
and listening
This morning Frank Mcbride, a ma
chinist residing in North Memphis, was
found dead at his boarding house. he
had been drinking little yesterday, and
Of feeling badly when he
reached home late. 1t was clear case
of congestion or sun stroke.
Some years since a feeling Of disgust
pervaded the masculine mind when
Dame Fashion ordered all women to
pile yellow hair on the tops of their
heads, but now the edict has gone forth
from Paris and the rubbish has to be re-