Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-17
LEDGER LINES.

to-day.
Will there be Court Square concert
this summer2
The stores Of Memphis are closed
early each afternoon.
General Council adjourned to next
Wednesday afternoon.
Buttermilk is rapidly becoming one of
the popular beverages of Memphis.
Not a Memphis poet or poetess has as
yet thrown off poem on the comet.
Many people are departing the city to
remain away until the September rains
fall
Flirting on Main street is called act
ing on the square-Court Square, of
course.
There is quite demand for small,
comfortable suburban dwellings, wherein
mosquitoes are not found.
Boiled Memphians just from Hot
Springs Arkansas, look like boiled lob
sters on their return to the bluffs.
You can now see our friends, the Irish
Radical nominees, in alleys engaged in
serious conversation with the Africans
of the day.
Amusements of dramatic nature
will be dead here until September, when
Manager Davey win open up the theater
with fine attractions.
Barbecue and public speaking at Bart
lett next Tuesday. This will be the first
of series of meetings to be held
throughout the county.
Every hand cart is now used to trans
port dead dogs to the left bank of the
river Styx, where they can howl for old
Charon to carry them . er the ferry.
In the Second Chancery Court Sabina
Kunholz filed petition for divorce
against Charles Kunholz on the grounds
of failure to support, abandonment, etc.
Colonel NJ. D. L. Stewart and family
left on the City Of Chester last evening
on trip to a cooler cline. Mr.. Benson,
the we'll known music man, did likewise
Councilman Jack Walsh's seat has
been declared vacant, he being County
Undertaken, and the City Attorney has
been called upon for an opinion in the
matter.
Sheriff Jack Doyle left for Nashville
to. day with batch of couvicts number
ing twelve persons, whose aggregate
terms of State service amount to fifty
nine years.
The breastworks around Fort Picker
ing are to be leveled by the Vandals
who have no respect for these war relics
from behind which hostile gun has
never been fired.
The Clerk of the County Court is
getting rich on marriage licenses. Doz-
ems of these billet doux have been issued
within the past few days at cost OF
So so each, retail,
Two fremen promoted and appointed
by the Fire Chief to ELL vacancies were
at once suspended, they not being of the
necessary appliance " complexion or
proper shade of politics.
Othello, the Moor of Venice, could
unfold "a plain unvarnished tale, meas
uring three stickfuls in length, but in
this he is discounted by the comet by at
least three millions of miles.
People have commenced complaining
about the heat. Yesterday some one
remarked to a we'll knewn Judge 1t is
very hot weather, SIR" F." No, sir" was
the curt answer, no hotter than it is
every summer"
One of the prettiest blondes of our city
is writing novel which will be published
in blue and gold ere long. The story
will take in Memphis society, which will
be treated after the style o. Thackeray,
or in other words, "riddled.
When you accost Councilman sud-
denly on the street he pulls out an in
junction and commences reading it, so
as to prevent his suspension or removal
from the Council Board by reason of
that city charter on contracts"
The Milan (Tenn.) Exchange desires
to know why it is that the Memphis pa
pers are always one day behind the
Louisville journals in telegraph news.
This eonundrum is respectfully referred
for solution to the Associated Press men.
The Investigating Committee of the
Common Council, will meet next Mon
day, and will continue in session until
all charges against Councilmen and city
officers, as to inelegibility, are disposed
of. This is right, and right wrongs no
man.
Councilman John Roush, of the Fourth
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