Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12
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The river is within few feet of low
water mark.
Tomorrow, one year ago, the yellow
fever was declared an epidemic in this
city.
H. Casey Young is the workingman' s
candidate as well as the candidate Of
other sections.
The newly elected county officials are
fixing up their bonds and are being in
Quoted into Office.
IL you want to see human nature in
chunks visit the Adams street station
house at midnight.
Memphis has greater number OF
popular orators to the square inch than
any city in christendom.
On Monday, the 28th instant, an cleo
ton for officers will be held by the
Chamber of Commerce.
The Bluff City Minstrels will give per-
formances at the Greenlaw Opera House
on next Friday and Saturday evenings.
Sol Coleman Rosa Concha emporium
is closed to-day on account of the Jewish
holiday, but opens tonight at six o clock.
The LEDGER is the only daily paper
published in Memphis on Mondays, of
which advertisers and others will take
due notice.
The acme of an urchin's happiness at
present is to sit on some doorstep and
bury his head in the excavated end of a
watermelon.
The new schedule of the Charleston
railroad appears in to.day's LEDGER, to
which the attention OF the travelling
public is called.
Tuesday next the roar of tigers and
the believing of sea cows will be heard
on the bluff, and the clown will hand
the young lady the banners.
Several horse trots took place at the
Trotting Park course yesterday. The
sport was good, Notwithstanding the
dust, heavy track and slow time,
Green oranges from Florida and
Louisiana are exhibited at the fruit
stands by way of advertising the golden
crop which will be in next month.
Cotton pickers are wanted in the
country at good wages, and there is no
possible excuse for the presence of so
many black and white Migrants in the
city. -
The Texas delegation Of editors will
reach here to morrow, and will leave
on an excursion to Chattanooga and
Lookout Mountain, over the Charleston
railway.
A number of suspicious characters
have been drifting into the city for sew
eral days. Lock your doors and fasteu
your windows, and keep your firearms
convenient.
A slight shower yesterday gave prom
Use of heavy rain, but the clerk of tn
weather is as unreliable in promises as
the most impecunious and creditor
hunted debtor.
The police got months pay to-day
which was the only thing that prevented
the entire force from being arrested on
the charge of vagrancy and having nc
visible means Of support.
See communication from Democratic
and Conservative Executive Committee
of Upton county in another column
They desire to get through with business
and return home on the evening train.
The city authorities are repairing the
Nicolson pavement. Yesterday wit
pronounced the authorities to be nymphs
du pave, and commended them for the
work now progressing on Main street.
The Chamber of Commerce, at its
meeting yesterday decided that the ar
rangement made with all railroads to
move Gotten and deliver it at warehouses
sheuld be continued until September l,
1875.
The Avalanchian wit insists that it
does not follow that the naming of a
trotting horse Henry Ward Beecher will
make him fast" No; but if you bet
against his fastest time, you may "be.
sure" he will beat your" fastest stock.
The bellies who have been off at the
springs are returning rapidly, and will
once again gladden. the hearts of the
stay.at home beauI whose impecuni-
osity or business relations prevented
them from leaving the bluff daring the
summer months.
TIE new Mayor OF VicksbHrg is en-.
forcing the ordinance against profane
swearing on the streeCs, so that the ex.
cited citizen has to express himself
soto roce or retire to a private place
and r;,a wont IN his thoughts