Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-06
LEDGER LINES.

Quite refreshing rain fell around
Grenada, Mississippi on the Fourth.
Now that the Bartlett ticket is nomi-
mated the next thing is to elect it in Au-
gust.
Thirty-four misdemeanor cases were
disposed Of by fine at the Recorders
Court to day.
Independent candidates are beginning
to turn up in opposition to the white
mans ticket
Chief Of Police A;hy has recovered
gold and coral breastpin, which now
awaits an owner.
The Quarterly County Court opened
to-day and organized for the transaction
Of regular business.
Not one white or colored person was
killed either on purpose or accidentally
in this city on the Fourth.
Mosquitoes are numerous and revenge
full in the city, but in the suburbs they
exist not. They are not Changers.
The Bluff City Battalion organization
is progressing favorably. A dress par
ade will soon be of one of the popular
attractions.
In the country adjacent to Memphis
quietude reigned on Saturday last. All
the negroes took passage on excursion
trains for Memphis.
The infantry and cavalry companies
meet at the Criminal Court room tonight
and the Bluff City battalion meets at the
Exposition building at the same hour.
Beer saloons and suburban gardens
were without the usual number of can
didates yesterday; consequently the flow
or overflow of lager was not so clearly
perceptible as of yore.
In the advertising column appears the
Police order with reference to unmuz-
zled dogs. On and after next Thursday
dogs running at large without muzzles
will be poisoned or shot by the patrol
men.
The male and female young Mem
phians now make excuses to leave the
parlor and sit on the front porch by af
fecting 10 love the study of astronomy,
and to be deeply interested in the tail
of the comet, which is unfolded nightly.
Never was there'more money in the city
and never was it more difficult to get a
dollar. You have to put up five times
its value in collateral and then pay all
the interest asked, which demand is only
limited by the conscience of the money
lender.
Every Sunday gang Of negroes play
bass ball near Humboldt Park. Their
yells and profanity make base ball a
nuisance which should be abated in this
locality. The police have no jurisdic-
ton iu this vicinity, it being outside the
corporation,
To the naked eye the tail of the comet
measures about one foot When OBJ
served through a glass it measures six
feet. When observed through five or
more glasses it measures equal to the
" milky way" and extends clear across
the heavens.
1t was observed that one of the fairest
bellies of the city has had her finger nails
up to point, which is sign
that she intends to commit matrimony
ere long and leave the world according
to the Persian style of scratching out of
single blessedness.
Fatty" Maginnis, who was lately
pardoned out Of the penitentiary by
Governor Brown, engaged in drunken
row with some boon companions on the
Fourth and received several stabs with
a pocket knife in consequence, but the
wounds are not dangerous.
A delegate is now no more popular
than any other citizen. For few days
they were famous, feted, treated, slapped
on the back aud introduced into society,
but now the delegate takes back seat
in some beer saloon, and mourns for the
lost past. when mugs of beer danced
around him without costing him a
nickel.
Thompson, the commercial editor of
the Avalanche, is rowing" throughout
the country adjacent and tributary to
Memphis, and is engaged in writing up
crops. politics, fashions, persons and
things. He slings his lead pencil over
and under everything, and gives his
journal the results of his wanderings
and lueurbrations.
A lady who signs herself " Requeisoat
in Pace has written a communication
to the Ledger which must be declined
for many reasons; among others, be-
cause the name Of the writer does not